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Processed foods typically mention saturated and transfat per serving. But how will you know whether, say, 20 gram of saturated fat per 100 gram serving is too much? You could face a similar situation with investment products. In this article, we discuss whether asset management companies (AMCs) can disclose risk associated with their mutual funds…
Q I am a retired bank officer aged 70. I have a health insurance policy with a coverage of ₹4 lakh under a special scheme of IBA (Indian Bankers Association). The maximum coverage for family is ₹4 lakh under the scheme. Top-up to a maximum of ₹5 lakh is available. I want to have a…
In the span of a few days, Himachal Pradesh was battered by over 20 flash floods, series of landslides, and cloudbursts, events that upended daily life and damaged critical infrastructure in the State. Events like these are now part of an unsettling pattern. The return period for such catastrophic weather events is shortening, making them…
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The vagus nerve can be stimulated to manage epilepsy. | Photo Credit: Manu5 (CC BY-SA) Deep-brain stimulation (DBS) is a medical technique where doctors implant electrodes deep inside specific areas of the brain to treat certain disorders. These electrodes are connected by wires to a small device, similar to a heart’s pacemaker, which is usually…
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More than a century ago, a 26-year-old Albert Einstein explained Brownian motion in one of four papers he published in his annus mirabilis, the miraculous year, called because these papers shot him to fame. Brownian motion is the random jittering of small particles in a fluid, caused because they’re constantly colliding with molecules around them….
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Where it all began… Did you know that a rough conservative estimate of India’s tiger population at the start of the 20the Century was around 40,000? The top end of the estimates even placed the number of tigers in the Indian subcontinent in 1900 at around 1,00,000! That number, however, nosedived to a mere 1,827…
Reliance Group firms Reliance Infrastructure (RInfra) and Reliance Power (RPower) on Sunday (July 27, 2025) said the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had concluded searches on their premises and that the companies would continue to cooperate with the agency. Both the Anil Ambani-led group’s companies said they, including their officials, would continue to fully cooperate with the…
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The Indian economy is growing at a robust pace and will not face any challenge in achieving a growth rate upwards of 6.5% in the current financial year, RBI Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) member Nagesh Kumar said on Sunday (July 27, 2025). Mr. Kumar, in an interview with PTI Videos, further said that the Indian…
“The valuation of Reliance Industries tumbled ₹1,14,687.7 crore to ₹18,83,855.52 crore,” the most among the top-10 firms. | Photo Credit: Reuters The combined market valuation of six of the ten most valued firms diminished by ₹2.22 lakh crore last week, with Reliance Industries taking the biggest hit, in-line with a bearish trend in equities. Last…
The story so far: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to launch the NISAR satellite from Sriharikota on July 30 onboard a GSLV Mk-II rocket. ‘NISAR’ stands for NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar and is a joint mission of the two space agencies. It is a sophisticated earth-observation satellite designed to study changes on…
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