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Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar pays tribute to former Prime Minister Chaudhary Charan Singh on his death anniversary, in New Delhi, on May 29, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Thursday (May 27, 2025) asserted that the income of people has to increase eightfold to define Viksit Bharat and urged farmers to look beyond…
Image used for representational purposes. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/istockphoto Investing in passion assets can be exciting, but it needs a large investment. Also, maintaining passion assets such as art and wine requires special care involving a huge cost. Here, we discuss how you should, if you want to, move investments to passion assets. Reverse…
Image used for representational purposes. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Retirement planning is a crucial aspect of personal finance. Rising life expectancy, growing prevalence of nuclear families and lack of social security for the elderly have further increased its importance. Here are some suggestions to avoid common retirement planning errors. Underestimating needs Many investors wrongly…
Representational picture only Enjoy riding bicycles? Did you know the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has come up with a specific standard for helmets for cyclists, skate boarders and roller skaters — for the first time, and it is coded “IS 18808”. The move by BIS to nudge all stakeholders to promote ISI-marked helmet is…
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A squirrel has scooped out a tiny hole in an Imam Pasand mango that farmer K Baskar has set aside. “I had left the box outside just a few minutes ago!” he chuckles. Animals and birds make away with a lot of the produce at his 40-acre organic farm that borders Dindigul district. But he…
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The Organic Shandy, Mylapore Native mango varieties reign this year says organic farmer and co-founder of Organic Shandy, PB Murali. He adds that the mango season in Tamil Nadu has been quite the disaster so far, with farmers managing only about 20% of the expected yield. However, as they are all discovering, the heritage varieties…
Rice grains being winnowed on a paddy field. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Cultivation of paddy, pulses, coarse grains and oilseeds has expanded this kharif season, said the Agriculture Ministry in New Delhi on Monday (May 12, 2025), after a meeting chaired by Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. As on May 2, sowing of paddy…
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Small Savings Schemes, kown as Post Office Savings Schemes, are a popular and useful means for people for channelising savings. Credit quality is top-notch as it is run by the government, and interest rates are competitive. Interest rates are fixed by the government every quarter e.g. the rates for the current quarter, April to June…
Image used for representational purposes. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Not long ago, a ₹10 lakh health insurance plan was deemed adequate. But no longer is it the case. Times have changed, and how! According to industry data, a kidney transplant that cost about ₹5 lakh in 2013 is now more than ₹18 lakh. A…