senior citizen savings scheme

Fixed income options for senior citizens

With bank FD rates falling, post office senior citizen savings scheme offers better returns

Big Story | The three best small savings schemes

With interest rates heading lower, savers are left with only a handful of attractive fixed-income options that also carry low risk. Here, we highlight

Give the seniors more time

Deadline to invest in PM Vaya Vandana Yojana must be extended

Why small savings schemes are a big attraction

Rates on these schemes have been left unchanged in latest review

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How inflation can affect your retirement portfolio

Rising prices can reduce the purchasing power of money sharply over the years

Govt needs to exempt tax on interest earned under senior citizens scheme: SBI study

Now’s the time for small savings schemes

Lock into attractive rates before the Centre moderates the rates on these schemes

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