Santosh Joseph, founder at Germinate Investor Services, cautioned, “The core product being sold across all these platforms is convenience, whether it is virtual gym access, pet food boxes, home salon services, or automated grocery deliveries. While some of these conveniences originated out of genuine necessity, we are now conflating essentials with luxuries, absorbing recurring convenience fees along the way.”
The Delhi government is set to formally launch the Delhi Lakshmi Yojana on Wednesday, August 26, with Chief Minister Rekha Gupta scheduled to hand over sanction letters to around 4,000 eligible women at Talkatora Stadium. The monthly financial assistance under the scheme is scheduled to start from September 1. According to the latest government figures…
Iran’s currency hit a new record low Monday, with the rial dropping to 2.02 million to the US dollar as markets opened, as the economy has been battered by ongoing sanctions and an American naval blockade. The drop on Iran’s informal currency markets came as Washington prepared to announce even more extensive sanctions that it…
Quant Small Cap Fund has added SBI Funds Management, Caliber Mining and 11 other stocks in the month of July, according to the monthly portfolio disclosed by Quant Mutual Fund. The small cap fund added 22,792 shares of SBI Funds Management and 44,988 shares of Caliber Mining and Logistics in its portfolio in July. Among…
For most salaried employees, the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) is one of the largest financial assets they build over the course of their working lives. Every month, a portion of their salary flows into the retirement account, earns interest and eventually becomes a sizeable corpus that can support them after retirement. The tax advantages attached…
Currency markets paused for breath on Wednesday as pressure on the Japanese yen eased following recent bouts of intervention and a forceful show of U.S. support, while the dollar held near six-week lows on fresh optimism over the Middle East. The yen was slightly firmer at 157.60 per U.S. dollar, after easing about 0.4% from…
Taxpayers with business or professional income often face a key question while filing their income tax return: should they use ITR-3 or ITR-4? The Income Tax Department has shared a quick checklist on X explaining how taxpayers can select the right form for AY 2026-27. With the deadline for filing non-audit income tax returns set…