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Words to help you decode Budget 2021
From fiscal deficit to budgetary estimates, and more—brush up on your budget glossary to make sense of the budget 2021 speech
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Digital Budget 2021: No briefcase, no bahikhata, an embellished tablet cover this year
Amid the coronavirus outbreak, the budget speech by FM Nirmala Sitharaman will be digital, and without the traditional briefcase or bahikhata. Here are other budget-related facts
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We're going rural everywhere (in the World): Sridhar Vembu
Zoho founder and CEO Sridhar Vembu on being honoured with the Padma Shri, launching a new instant messaging app and his experience of starting a school in a village in Tamil Nadu
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Ten interesting things we read this week
Some of the most fascinating topics covered this week are: Investing (Mastery through deliberate practice), Technology (Why your bank's systems keep failing), Business (Secrets of successful listening), and Obituary (Katharine Whitehorn and Mahinder Watsa - Counsels of imperfection)
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GameStop: Everything you need to know about the wild surge and the aftermath
How a Reddit average-joe market community jacked up the price of GameStop scrip, sending cosseted hedge funds into a tailspin. Market experts are divided. Some call it the revolt of the masses; some say it is dangerous nihilism
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Post the lockdown, big solitaires have vanished: Sachin Jain
Forevermark India managing director Sachin Jain on why people have been buying bigger, better and simpler jewellery, and the trends that will continue into this year
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The GameStop reckoning was a long time coming
The entire saga is either a cautionary story about a bunch of reckless nerds destabilising the stock market for laughs or a morality tale about a fearless band of retail investors taking on corrupt financial elites
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Trading curbs reverse GameStop rally, angering upstart traders
Small groups of investors protested outside the New York Stock Exchange and at the Menlo Park, California, headquarters of Robinhood, a company that popularised the notion of commission-free trading
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Mobile internet services suspended in most of Haryana until January 30
17 of 22 districts of the state will not have mobile internet and SMS services until 5 pm on January 30
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Why disinvestments will be key for growth of the post-pandemic economy
While the pandemic derailed plans, the government needs to meet its targets next year to bridge fiscal deficit
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GM Will Only Sell Zero-Emission Vehicles by 2035
The announcement is likely to put pressure on automakers around the world to make similar commitments and embolden President Joe Biden and other elected officials to push for even more aggressive policies to fight climate change.