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Women formed 26% of MF investors in FY25; know how much AUM came from Mumbai alone

Kolkata: Women are increasingly accounting for a bigger share of the mutual fund pie in the country, the recently published annual report of AMFI...

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EPFO: The power of a missed call and SMS; know how to get their benefit

Kolkata: The Employee’s Provident Fund (EPF) is the earliest social security scheme for the employees of India. It was legislated in 1952 in a young...

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US Fed holds rates steady: How can it impact the Indian stock market?

Kolkata: The US Federal Reserve concluded a two-day has meting to announce that it is holding the key interest rates steady at 4.25%-4.5%, attributing...

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Gold loans dazzle in FY25; power personal loan growth, know the reason

Kolkata: The price of gold has surged to hitherto unimaginable levels. With the surge in the price of gold, the value of gold loans disbursed in the...

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DSP Silver ETF Fund of Fund NFO: Is the shine of gains for you?

Kolkata: Experts are bullish on silver prices. Prices of this white precious metal is going up on persistent demand from both traditional users and...

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Gold price surges again in spot and futures market after one-day breather

Kolkata: Just a day after suffering a dip, gold prices rebounded on Thursday, April 24. The spot demand for the yellow metal also pushed up prices in...

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HCL Tech: Why are brokerages bullish on this stock amid tariff concerns

Kolkata: HCL Technologies, one of the major Information Technology companies from India and a major exporter, has generated enthusiasm among...

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Banks to pay 8% interest to retired govt employees for pension delay: RBI

Kolkata: Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is not ready to tolerate delay in pension payment by banks anymore. The RBI has directed “agency banks” that...

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Is copper the next gold? Anil Agarwal of Vedanta thinks so: Here's why

Kolkata: If you are attracted by gold, be prepared for the a different gold in future. Anil Agarwal, chairman of Vedanta believes that copper is the...

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Old vs New Tax Regime: FY26 kicks in; which tax system should you choose?

Kolkata: Ravi Agarwal, chairman of Central Board of Direct Taxes recently told the media that currently about 75% of the taxpayers have already...

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Foreclosing personal loans: Know the pros and cons

Kolkata: A personal loan, like any other loan, comes with a repayment schedule. One has to complete repayment of the EMIs (equated monthly...

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How can you get a loan pledging your insurance policy: Know details

Kolkata: Secured loans can be taken by offering an asset as a collateral to a lending institution like a bank or an NBFC (non-banking financial...

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Bank FD rates set to come down: Lock in long tenure interest rates now

Kolkata: After a gap of five years, the Reserve bank of India has flagged off the declining interest rate cycle in the country with a view to making...

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Money9 Financial Freedom Summit 2025: Ignore short term volatility and gyrations, say experts

Kolkata: “If you check the price of equities in the market every day, you will end up raising your blood pressure and achieve little else. Invest...

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Surge in health insurance premium since Covid-19, total sum assured zooms too

Kolkata: The Covid 19 pandemic has driven home the scare of debilitation and death into the masses like no other events on the past few decades. Since...

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Investment in silver: Closing in on the Rs 1 lakh mark; outlook for 2025

Kolkata: After receding for several weeks, gold prices are again setting new records. But peeping from behind the headlines that gold is hogging, its...

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Stocks in news today: RVNL, Rel Infra, L&T, Patel Engg, Remedium Lifecare

Kolkata: For different factors, which are corporate developments, the stocks of RVNL, Rel Infrastructure, L&T, Patel Engineering, Remedium Lifecare...

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Credit cards: Can you link your credit card with your UPI account? Know here

Kolkata: Unified Payments Interface, or UPI transactions, is recording galloping transactions every month. In January 2025, UPI transactions rose to...

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Hexaware Technologies IPO: Subscription status, low GMP, allotment date | See all details

Kolkata: Hexaware Technologies IPO, the biggest public issue to be floated this calendar year so far, intends to raise as much as Rs 8,750.00 crore,...

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Chamunda Electricals IPO: See subscription on day one; rising GMP, should you bid?

Kolkata: Chamunda Electricals IPO has triggered big investor response on the very first day of bidding which began on Tuesday, February 4. The SME...

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Sensex, Nifty open in the green: Know which stocks are the early gainers

Kolkata: Both Sensex and Nifty rebounded sharply — and by a massive close-to 2% on February 4 — which was in line with a broad recovery in Asian...

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Railway Budget 2025: Modernisation funds scaled back a bit; railway stocks lose morning steam

Kolkata: Was the Railways sector a tad disappointed after the budget speech of FM Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday? It doesn’t seem unlikely after the...

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TDS rationalisation Budget 2025 Announcements: TDS rationalisation a key objective, says FM

Kolkata: Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has announced that the government intends to rationalise Tax Deduction at Source or TDS. It will be...

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Economic Survey 2024-25: Industry to grow by 6.2% this year; focus on MSME to continue

The Economic Survey 2024-25 has stated that the industrial sector is likely to grow at a clip of 6.2% according to the first advance estimates of GDP....

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8th Pay Commission: Govt salary hike to push private sector pay too, says economist

Kolkata: The recommendations of the 8th Pay Commission, for which Prime Minister Narendra Modi has already given the green light, will be effective...

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Did Trump drop TRUMP meme coin days before taking charge? Value zooms immediately

Fewer than 100 hours before he will be sworn in as the US President, Donald Trump sprang a big surprise on the evening of January 17, when his social...

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8th Pay Commission: When was 1st Commission set up? Revisiting all Pay Commissions

As the name implies, a Pay Commission advises the government on how to set up the structure of the employees of the vast machinery of the Government...

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Gratuity: How much gratuity can you get after 5 or 10 years? Check calculation

As the name implies, a company pays gratuity to its employees in recognition of their continuous service and hard work. The government attaches the...

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Stocks in News Today: TCS, IREDA, Tata Elxsi, Lupin Laboratories

Kolkata: Indian stock market continued on its downward journey on Thursday, January 9, 2025 with unabated selling pressure from Foreign Institutional...

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Axis Max Life Sustainable Wealth 50 Index Fund NFO: Based on unique index | Details

Axis Max Life Insurance has floated an NFO (New Fund Offer) of Axis Max Life Sustainable Wealth 50 Index Fund. A significant point is that this...

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Tap the stock market in 2025: How to open a demat account online; step by step guide

The year 2024 has been one of delight for investors in the Indian stock markets. The investors shrugged off Lok Sabha polls and geostrategic...

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Record by micro-insurance: Premiums sail past Rs 10k crore in FY for first time

In a first, the premiums collected in the life micro-insurance sector sailed past Rs 10,000 crore for in FY24, industry data has revealed. Micro...

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NPA piled up in UPA regime; clean-up began under Modi: Raghuram Rajan

Former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan has lashed out at the UPA government for being responsible for the pile of NPA (non-...

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PLI booster: Scheme delivers Rs 1.97 trillion thrust to 'Atmanirbhar Bharat'

The Production Linked Incentive scheme has delivered a close to Rs 2 lakh crore thrust to the vision of self-reliant India. It has enhanced the...

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Year of cheer 2024: As mutual fund SIPs hit the sky, product diversity lights it up

Kolkata: The calendar year of 2024 has so far brought almost unalloyed cheer in the mutual fund industry. The sheer weight of figures as reported...

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Markets this week can be shaped by US Fed decision, inflation data

In the week beginning December 9, 2024 benchmark BSE index Sensex 30 gained 623.07 points (or 0.76%) and Nifty rose by 90.5 points (or 0.36%). How...

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Buying a house: How to prepare the help of mutual fund SIP

Buying a house if perhaps the biggest financial transaction that a common person does in his/her life. The price of an apartment that can easily...

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Semicon chips the new oil: India can be a hub; what the new landscape implies

A joint report of India Electronics & Semiconductor Association and global technology market research firm Counterpoint Research has stated that...

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Gold ETF: Check how investment is rising every month; suitable for you?

Gold prices have grabbed headlines almost throughout the calendar year of 2024. Rarely have gold prices rallied so sharply in recent years both in...

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EPF: How the good old Provident Fund account can create a pool of Rs 2.5 cr

While you work at office, or elsewhere, your Employees’ Provident Fund account, or EPF, works silently for you. The EPF, the earliest social...

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Mutual Fund SIP Calculator: How to create Rs 1 cr corpus in 10, 12, 15 years

Systematic investment plan, or SIP, is becoming the investment instrument of choice for the average middle-class Indian. According to data released...

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ICICI Prudential Multi-Asset Fund turned Rs 10 lakh into 7 crore | Know how

ICICI Prudential Multi-Asset Fund is one of the earliest funds in its category. Its NAV stood at Rs 696.08 on November 12, 2024. It was launched on...

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Why Stock Market is falling? Which factors are preventing Sensex, Nifty freefall

After an unprecedented bull run, the mood in the Indian stock markets have suddenly grown sullen. While the Chinese economic stimulus package of...

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Tesla shares defy gravity: market cap breach $1 trillion; how to invest from India

Elon Musk’s decision to throw his weight behind Republican candidate Donald Trump for his bid for re-election as the US president has paid off...

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Personal loans: Check what interest rates are being charged by major NBFCs

Whether it is for an unforeseen medical emergency, or going on a vacation, or urgent repair work at home or even getting married, personal loans are...

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The Gold Rush: Global demand created third quarter growth record, says WCG

Powered by what analysts indicated was the FOMO (fear of missing out) factor, the global demand for gold rose to 1,313 tonnes in the July-September...

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PPF: How youngsters can use it to get an early start and become multi-crorepatis

New Delhi: Though rooted in the controlled economy, Public Provident Fund, or PPF, has defied the widely changing dynamics of the investment world...

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NPS: How and when can you prematurely withdraw funds? Know the rules

NPS, or National Pension System, which was introduced on January 1, 2004 was thrown open to everybody in 2009. It is regulated by the Pension Fund...

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Health insurance: Difference between network and non-network hospitals

A health insurance policy is a necessary financial instrument for everyone. The significance of health insurance has been amply driven home during...

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EPF calculator: How salary increments can help build Rs 3 crore corpus

Fortune favours the brave, is an old saying. EPF, or Employees’ Provident Fund, on the other hand, certainly favours the “performers”. That...

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