Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Cars in India – Times are changing

Driving the most luxurious car has been made possible by the stiff competition in the automobile industry in India, with overseas players gathering the same momentum as the domestic participants. Every other day, we have been hearing about some new launches, some low cost cars – all customized in a manner such that the common… Read More »

RBI – Introspect and plan the way forward

As a fall out of the financial crisis the RBI came up with the idea of a Financial Stability Unit to monitor the economy and carry out regular stress testing and creating related reports. The current report has mentioned that the first FSR has indicated concerns relating to rising inflation, government borrowing and capital flows.… Read More »

Holiday for the adventurous – Trekking!

Flights are available from Delhi which ranges from Rs 6500-13000. Flights from Chennai to Leh costs around Rs 9000-13500, from Mumbai to Leh costs around Rs 8500-12000, and flights from Kolkata to Leh costs around Rs 9500-11000. From Delhi, taxis are also available which cost –  Indica (4 people) 12,000 and Qualis (6 people) 15,000.

Selling your property? Know your rights

You should be ready to hand over all the paperwork related to the property to the buyer, whenever asked. But you are exempted from this rule under 2 circumstances: either you have clarified in the agreement with the buyer that you’ll retain a portion of the property or you have sold the property to various… Read More »

And the winner is – The 5 L income earner

This piece will try to look at the numbers post budget 2010 and compare it with the tax laws prevailing in 2009-2010 to see which part of the Indian junta will laugh its way to the bank in 2010-11. There have been countless discussions on how the budget is pro-middle-middle class (the repetition of middle… Read More »

The Budget – Promises kept and not…

Reams of paper and millions of words are used to discuss the budget every year, but, by the time the next budget has come many of these experts are more involved about thinking of what should be done in the upcoming budget rather than what has been done that was promised in the last year.

What can change for whom post budget 2010!

The exemption of customs duty on gold ores and concentrates for its manufacture will show a definite reduction in the cost of gold production which will be highly beneficial to the manufacturers. Gold bars other than tola bars will have a rise in price. The cost of export of plain gold and silver jewelry is… Read More »