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He also highlights the fact that despite the sharp rise in the indices (FY21 year-to-date returns for the BSE Midcap and the BSE SmallCap stood at 72 and 90 per cent respectively), valuations are still below the long-period averages. … [Read more...] about Small and mid-caps for big gains in 2021

The expert group has looked at one vaccine's performance in the UK and the data available in India and has decided that they will bend over backwards and accept their data as they are brothers (developed using the same formula). … [Read more...] about ‘Vaccine is far safer than getting Covid’

Coming back to the video of the stone-pelter tied to the vehicle, reports now indicate that this radical measure was perhaps what averted a bloody confrontation between the armed forces and a 400-strong mob of stone-pelters who were marching to attack a polling station at Budgam. … [Read more...] about The Half Truth

Newspapers and television channels are full of articles and interviews both supporting and criticising the newly passed farm laws. The supporters feel the country has been waiting for decades for these laws which were deliberately delayed by previous regimes and will now result in milk and honey for the farmers. Those who are against the bills feel that the farmers have little to gain, but a lot to lose. … [Read more...] about Let ex-servicemen partner farmers in agri cooperatives

However, again from the point of view of the Budget, this decline to Rs 195 lakh crore will help in projecting a number of 15 per cent growth in nominal terms (10 per cent real and 5 per cent inflation) which will bring the level to Rs 224 lakh cr which is what was projected for FY21. … [Read more...] about Economy to bounce back next year!