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India loves a good debate. Towards the end of 2015, this debate centred around Facebook’s “Free Basics”, a facility through which a limited offering of the Social Network, as well as some other internet websites (selected by Facebook) would be made available free of cost. The debate became a conversation about the nature of the internet itself. Whether it should...

The biggest mover in the markets in March are likely to not be the usual Banking or bluechip stocks, but a relatively less glamorous part of the market – Bonds. Both NABARD (National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development) and IRFC (Indian Railway Finance Corporation) are coming out with an issue of tax-free Bonds during March 2016 to meet their...

Gold has been a part of the Indian investor’s portfolio since before we had portfolio’s to invest in. Even today, many communities prefer to park their money in gold, and gold only. The wealth of the family is stored in the form of jewellery, and the amount of gold ornaments displayed on the neck and arms of the women...

The reading of the Union Budget is an annual ritual that has acquired a near-mythical status among educated Indians. Though we have moved away from the ‘Command-and-control’ economy of the pre-liberalisation era, the Union Budget is still the primary policy document of the Government. But apart from broader economic policies, what the common man looks to the Budget for is...