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State Bank of India Fixed Deposits: SBI has revised interest rates for its fixed deposits (FDs), including ‘Sarvottam’, for various tenures. With the latest revision, the interest rates now are ranging from 3.5% to 7.9% for tenures of up to 10 years. The new FD interest rates are effective from May 15, 2024, according to the SBI website.

«I think the entire sugar, ethanol, etc, story and the ecosystem around it that is where I think we could see significant wealth creation again over the next couple of years,» says Sandip Sabharwal, asksandipsabharwal.com. What is the best way now to take advantage of the current setup? Best way is to hold on to your horses and not try to do much, not try to go all in if you have some cash today itself because contrary to what was the expectation of a few and that is what I said over the last couple of months, people seem to be unnecessarily bearish, my view was not bearish in the sense that the view was not that the governments suddenly going to change and some new dispensation is going to come up.

₹80,000, making them an unaffordable proposition. LSEVs, on the other hand, offer an affordable and sustainable solution. Insistence on high-speed EVs makes policy compliance a burden for platform businesses and also reduces the scope of ground-level autonomy, thus making it harder for the market to attain its own efficiency.

Himanta Biswa Sarma has said that the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi shaves or grows his beard based on his advice. Sarma, who switched to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from the Congress in 2025, also questioned the ‘red’ book that Rahul Gandhi carried during election campaigns.In an interview with News Nation channel, Biswa recalled when he commented on Rahul Gandhi's long beard, during the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ in 2022 by comparing his looks with former Iraqi dictators Saddam Hussein.

Brandolini formulated this insight after reading Daniel Kahneman’s book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, and watching a heated political debate on Italian TV. Having watched many TV debates in India, I fully sympathise with Brandolini. The nonsense does tend to flow freely in political debates on TV. However, that’s not what I want to discuss. Apart from TV, the rise of social media and its army of finfluencers have made this principle more relevant than ever. These influencers often peddle bad personal finance advice with little accountability, leading many to make poor financial decisions based on dubious recommendations. In investing, the problem is exacerbated by an industry that actively encourages people to deceive themselves. This issue has become so pervasive that Sebi is starting to take serious action against it.

Jeremy Coller Foundation and Tel Aviv University for anyone who can crack the code of inter-species two-way communication using generative AI. Which means being able to understand your dog or cat when she tells you that she wants her tug-toy, and not the ball to play with. For those of you able to comprehend inter-human communication, the Babel fish in Douglas Adams' novel, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, should be familiar as the small, yellow fish that, when placed in an ear, will allow the 'wearer' to hear any language translated into their first language.

NEW DELHI:Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), in consultation with the Union Ayush ministry, has drafted licensing and logistics norms for businesses that can manufacture and sell food products under the Ayurveda Aahara category, and will shortly release the guidelines, two topofficials said.Ayurveda Aahara (diet) food products don't contain drugs or medicinal products, but have ingredients that are believed to promote health. Ayurveda Aahara was notified in 2022 and includes five categories and around 800 ayurvedic recipes, and the norms governing their manufacture will be launched post elections, one of the officials said.The regulations define “Ayurveda Aahara" as food prepared in accordance with the recipes or ingredients or processes as per methods described in the authoritative books of Ayurveda, and listed under ‘Schedule A’ of the FSSAI regulations.“Ayurveda is now a global matter and there’s huge value to it. We must look at it from the commerce perspective.

Stock Market News: The domestic benchmark indices, bonds and the rupee are expected to rise during Monday's trading session following exit polls that projected Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party had won fairly in the general elections that ended on Saturday.The majority of polls estimate the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led alliance will win between 350 and 400 seats overall, which is far more than the 272 seats needed for a majority in the 543-seat lower house of parliament. The alliance took home 352 in 2019.

New Yorker profiles. In 2009, a year before he left his home in Shillong to pursue a media degree in Pune, he discovered the New Yorker. In 2015, when he began a freelancing career in Mumbai, he came across Hura’s photobook, Life is Elsewhere (2015).

geopolitical events, currency fluctuations, and trade agreements can have profound effects on profit-booking behaviour in Indian gold, silver, and rupee markets, shaping subsequent reinvestment strategies for investors.

Shardlake, we get a meet-cute that’s well-written and tells us something meaningful about the two lead characters’ dynamic. Set in 1537 during the reign of Henry VIII, the miniseries sees the king’s chief minister Thomas Cromwell (Sean Bean) ordering the intrepid, hunchbacked attorney Matthew Shardlake (Arthur Hughes) to investigate a murder-via-decapitation at a Tudor monastery at Scarnsea. In the meet-cute, Shardlake strikes a conversation with Cromwell’s man Friday Jack Barak (Anthony Boyle) moments after the two of them witness a Peruvian parrot called Tabitha at a local market, uttering lines like, “Death to the Pope" and “Death to the bishop in Rome".

One way to irritate writers is to ask them what they are working on next. But somehow I heard myself ask this in an airport lounge when I bumped into a British historian, even though I liked him. He looked pained, but that was only because he wanted to answer the question earnestly, and it had evoked a private misery.

screenshot of the LiveMint story, Kerala Congress asked, “Couple of months ago, online travel aggregator @EaseMyTrip made a nationalistic move by removing Maldives as a destination from their flight and hotel booking platform to support Modi. Now they have quietly resumed booking to Maldives.

Matilda, Roald Dahl’s tale of an extraordinary young girl who seeks refuge in books, gave many of us the taste of rebellion as children. Rereading the book as an adult is as much of a rush, giving one unabashed joy in Matilda’s eventual victory. The book is truly for everyone.Its 1996 film adaptation, directed and produced by Danny DeVito, brought to its viewers a young Mara Wilson as Matilda with mischief in her.

Imtiaz Ali recently opened up about how reading the Rig Veda and Bhagavad Gita at a young age deeply influenced his understanding of life and people. In an interview with Ranveer Allahbadia, Ali discussed how these sacred texts became a significant part of his early reading experiences. Ali recalled being profoundly moved by the hymn of creation from the Rig Veda, which he encountered in a book.

stock market, undoubtedly, this week would be the outcome of the Lok Sabha election results on June 4, investors would be eyeing other key triggers too after last week's profit booking. A typical election week is full of heightened volatility and wild swings. «The Indian market is currently trading at a premium, having largely discounted the growing likelihood of the continuation of the Modi era. Consequently, we cannot rule out the possibility of profit booking in the second half of the trading session following an initial upward movement,» said Arvinder Singh Nanda of Master Capital Services.

₹130.15 crores, consisting entirely of an offer for sale of 0.96 crore shares.The IPO price band has been set at ₹129 to ₹136 per share. Pantomath Capital Advisors Pvt Ltd serves as the book-running lead manager for the Kronox Lab Sciences IPO, with Kfin Technologies Limited acting as the registrar for the offering.Magenta Lifecare IPO opens for subscription on June 5, 2024 and closes on June 7, 2024.

Pennywise from Stephen King's book "It" will make a reappearance in the upcoming television series "Welcome to Derry." Bill Skarsgard will return to the role, serving as both the show's producer and actor.

10 Downing Street after their tenure, it is impossible to take 10 Downing Street from their consciousness. It is in this regard that former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson may campaign in the upcoming elections to the House of Commons. While he may have stepped down as the Prime Minister during the COVID phase in Britain, many in the UK Conservatives feel that he still commands a great amount of support from the public. Many think that he will be able to swing the votes in favor of the UK Conservatives who are trailing behind the Labour Party in various pre-poll survey numbers.

Helsinki library was returned in May — 84 years overdue, a librarian told AFP on Wednesday.

Helsinki returned a book after more than 84 years. He borrowed the book in the year 1939 from one of the public libraries. This was the year the Second World War broke out in Europe before it spread to the rest of the world.