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More borrowings, slow transmission: Despite rate-cuts, large firms’ interest spend surged in Q1

Increased borrowing, slow transmission of rate cuts push trend

Bumper listing for Chemcon Speciality Chemicals

Stock lists at 116% premium to the upper end of the price band

UltraTech Cement Q2 results indicate healthy volumes

However, realisations drop in a seasonally weak quarter and may continue to be under pressure in the near-term

Listing gains peg up valuation for Antony Waste Handling Cell

But long-term investors with an appetite for risk can continue to hold the stock

Muhurat day picks don’t always make for good long-term bets

In only two of out the last five years, have at least 5 out of the top 10 Muhurat picks of investors given positive returns till date.

A roll call of leaders and laggards

Only half the Sensex stocks have bettered the index’s return in the last 10,000-point journey

Investors, beware the ‘rude shock’ from pledged promoter shares

In a falling market, these shares bear the brunt of selling and suffer deeper losses

Covid-19: Force majeure provides some relief for road construction companies, but only just

The road ahead seems quite bumpy

TDS/TCS cuts: Advantage self-employed

Will Akasa Air’s contra bet on Boeing 737 Max instead of Airbus pay off?

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala’s Akasa airline has gone against the tide, placing its bets on Boeing aircrafts; it now needs to carve out a niche for itself

Breastfeeding, a responsibility, not choice

Rate of initiation of breastfeeding within an hour of birth has declined in 5 years

Blockchain: Piloting the future of aviation

Enables effective solutions that positively impact industry players and end consumers

Q1 FY23: OMCs bleed due to marketing losses

Prices of motor fuels were kept at levels equivalent to $75-80 per barrel of crude

Bharti Airtel Q1: Inline results and stable operating metrics

Results reflect consistent progress made in recent quarters

IRB beats estimates in Q1FY23, but the stock is expensive

The company is trading at a one year forward P/E of 26.6 times against its historical average (5 year average) of 11.8 times

Auroville: An utopian search for a better world

Akash Kapur’s ‘Better to Have Gone’ traces what happens when we believe deeply in a quest and give up everything in its pursuit

Lady doctors and the rocky path to healing

A handbook on India’s first women doctors holds up a mirror to the social and political realities of the 19th and early 20th century

Conquering Everest: A compelling account of how an impossible dream was achieved

Jim Davidson dwells in detail on the failure to make it in the first attempt and the harrowing return to physically and emotionally draining climb up