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Sebi has proposed two pathways for scheme selection, recognising that many recipients will be first-time investors.In the first pathway, the card purchaser — the person gifting the card — may suggest a mutual fund scheme at the time of purchase. However, this suggestion is not binding.

₹15,000, convinced it’s fair because it served you well. Then the offers arrive: ₹5,000, ₹6,000. You feel insulted.

Sebi) found that nine out of ten individual traders in the futures and options (F&O) segment lose money.It is a structural reality of a zero-sum game. When someone wins, someone else loses by exactly that amount, minus the fees extracted by brokers and exchanges on every single transaction.All that activity—the charts, the terminals, the WhatsApp tips, the YouTube gurus – produces nothing new. It merely redistributes money from the many to the few, while extracting fees along the way.This is the dung economy of personal finance.

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On 19 March, SBI Funds Management Ltd, the company that runs SBI Mutual Fund, filed papers with the capital markets regulator to offer its shares to the public for the first time. If it follows through with that plan, as expected in the second half of 2026, all the top four mutual funds in India by assets under management (AUM) will be listed on the stock market. SBI Mutual Fund is the largest of the lot, a position it has achieved over the past decade.

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₹5 crore from savings, friends, and family. Its philosophy was announced through the one-rupee ticket (a base fare of ₹1, with taxes bringing the total to around ₹222). It was both a marketing stunt and a statement that air travel belonged to everyone.By 2006, Air Deccan operated from seven base airports, with a fleet of 43 aircraft making 350 flights daily, and connected more than 60 destinations at roughly half the price of rivals.

AI do such a thing? Unfortunately, there are a number of such incidents in which AI seems to turn against its ‘owner’. And we’ve only just begun with Agentic AI. Even if you swear not to touch an AI agent, they’re being almost forced on us by being built into software that we use daily.

BPCL) signed a long-term contract to procure 12 million barrels of crude in 2026-27 from Petrobras in January this year, renewing a previous contract signed in 2025.While Brazil is largely self-sufficient in crude oil production, it has one “vulnerability”, according to Nóbrega. “One vulnerability is that we are self-sufficient in crude oil production, but we are not self-sufficient in refined oil,” he said, adding that diesel is required for a bulk of the freight transport in the country by road and rail.“India also could install refineries in Brazil because you are one of the largest countries in terms of oil refining,” he said, noting that one of India’s biggest exports to the largest country in South America is refined oils, including diesel.India has a refining capacity of 258 million tonnes per year and has helped countries such as Nigeria and Mongolia develop refineries.

India’s petroleum reserves have come under scrutiny since the outbreak of the West Asia war, with concerns intensifying as government data showed India’s current capacity in strategic reserves can only cover roughly five-six days of total consumption.Now, this is not as alarming as it seems, as India’s overall capacity is much higher. However, the current crisis has put a spotlight on India’s limited ability in the face of severe shocks to oil, gas and petroleum product supply.India currently has three strategic petroleum reserves (SPRs)—buried in underground caverns—in Visakhapatnam, Mangaluru, and Padur.

Reserve Bank of India had adopted the inflation-targeting regime in 2016. While some have argued for raising the target or shifting focus from headline to core inflation, the dominant view is that the framework has broadly worked.Data shows inflation breached the band in only three of the past 10 years—two instances (2020–21 and 2022–23) driven by the pandemic and the Russia–Ukraine war.

Tejas Networks Ltd designs and manufactures high-performance wireline and wireless networking products for telecommunications service providers, internet service providers, utilities, defence, and government entities in over 75 countries.The company is a part of the Tata group, with Panatone Finvest (a subsidiary of Tata Sons Pvt. Ltd) being the majority shareholder.In the last month, the stock price has rallied from ₹317.5 on 24 February 2026 to ₹422.4 on 24 March.In the editorial, we examine some factors that would determine the direction of the stock.Read on…The company has been systematically diversifying.