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AHMEDABAD: A regulatory tweak by Sebi has opened the door to sizable tax savings for millions of mutual fund (MF) investors, simply by making it easier to gift their units. Tax experts say the reform, which now allows transfer of even statement of account (SOA)-based MF units and not just demat units, removes the biggest…
Disagreement essays in elite Ivy Leagues Preparing for Ivy League colleges always included Advanced Placement courses, varsity leadership roles, prestigious extracurriculars, or even mastery of Latin. But how about learning to disagree? Yes, it is no longer just a skill for your personal life but also for your professional life. American colleges are chronicling a…
Sweet potatoes are a versatile and nutrient-packed vegetable, celebrated not only for their natural sweetness and vibrant colour but also for their impressive health benefits. While roasting, baking, and frying are popular ways to prepare them, boiling is often overlooked, but it can be one of the healthiest methods. Boiling sweet potatoes helps preserve their…
Image used for representative purposes NEW DELHI: Amid attempts to link the deaths or alleged suicides by booth-level officers (BLOs), particularly in West Bengal, to “pressure” of work related to the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, election-related officials pointed out that Phase-2 of the exercise was progressing at a much more relaxed pace…
Shubhanshu Shukla says commute to reach tech summit took 3x his speech duration BENGALURU: Astronaut and IAF group captain Shubhanshu Shukla opened his session at Bengaluru Tech Summit 2025 Thursday with a wry comment about the city’s infamous traffic: “I travelled from the other side of Bengaluru – Marathahalli – and spent three times the…
In an interview with the BBC, Google’s Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai sketched out a future in which artificial intelligence is not simply an industry tool but a workplace presence capable of taking over “complex” tasks on behalf of users. The acceleration, he said, will be visible within the next 12 months.“That’s where it gets…
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, celebrating his 60th birthday, hinted at a potential sequel to his 2011 sci-fi film ‘Ra.One’. He expressed a desire to revive the project with director Anubhav Sinha, believing the current audience would be more receptive to the superhero genre. Khan also revealed his ambition to inspire new trends in Indian…
Aadhaar update gets easier from November 1 The Aadhaar programme is undergoing a major update in its service procedures as the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) sets to implement new rules effective from November 1, 2025. Under the new system, for many demographic changes such as name, address, date of birth and mobile number,…
NEW DELHI: The Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) on Monday eased the rules for partial withdrawal of the corpus, while insisting that at least 25% should be retained as “minimum balance” so that the over seven crore subscribers can build a significant retirement corpus and gain from compounding returns over their working life.“The liberalisation of…
Easing investment procedures for non-resident Indians (NRIs) is an “urgent goal” for Sebi, Chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey said on Saturday, highlighting plans to simplify compliance and expand participation in Indian capital markets. Speaking at an event organised by the Bombay Stock Exchange Brokers’ Forum, Pandey emphasised the need for NRIs to complete know-your-customer (KYC) formalities…
