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I am 38 years old, married and planning for a child. I started saving at the age of 32, but all my savings were in Post office RDs, NSCs and PPF. On the advice of a mutual fund seller, I started three mutual fund SIPs three years ago with almost negligible knowledge about them:ICICI Prudential Value Discovery Fund- Regular (Rs. 2000 per month)Aditya Birla Sun Life Focused Equity Fund - Regular (Rs. 1000 per month)Nippon India Large Cap Fund - Regular (Rs. 2000 per month)I have also invested in debt fund: ICICI Prudential. I invested Rs 1 lakh in it.I also invested Rs 20,000 in Gold ETFs last year.My goals were to buy a new car in five years and a house in 10 years. Also, to plan for my child's education.Now after educating myself for three years, I realise I've invested only in large cap funds. I plan to be slightly more aggressive and plan to start one SIP in LIC India Large and Midcap Fund (Rs 2,000 per month) and one SIP in Invesco India Contra Fund (Rs 2,000 per month).Will this … [Read more...] about Can I add Invesco India Contra Fund to my mutual fund portfolio?

LOS ANGELES: "Glee" star Naya Rivera is believed to have accidentally drowned in a California lake, authorities said Thursday, after a search involving divers, patrol boats and helicopters found no trace of the US actress. The operation to locate the 33-year-old at Lake Piru, about an hour's drive northwest of Los Angeles, "has turned into a recovery mission," said a Ventura County Sheriff's Office statement. "Investigators believe Rivera drowned in what appears to be a tragic accident," it said. Rivera, best known for her role as high school cheerleader Santana Lopez in "Glee," disappeared Wednesday after renting a boat at the camping and recreational hotspot with her four-year-old son. The child was found in the boat around three hours later by another person out on the lake "asleep and with his life vest on," Ventura County Sheriff's Office spokesman Eric Buschow told AFP. "Rivera's son told investigators that he and his mother had been swimming in the lake, and he got back in … [Read more...] about ‘Glee’ star Naya Rivera believed to be dead at US lake as search teams find no trace of the actress

We were able to keep the markets open due to support from all the stakeholders, says the MD & CEO. Let us talk about how the trading volumes have been through the lockdown. Has the functioning been smooth despite these tough times?On March 23 when lockdown was announced, it was very clear that we will have to keep the markets open because the rest of the world was also keeping the markets open. Initially everyone was confused about how to move but eventually with the help of all the state governments, central ministries and the regulator, all the brokers settled down. There was some degradation of services towards the client level as the banks had to pitch in because exchanges are ecosystems on their own. They may have a thousand people or two thousand people working but overall there are millions working across the country. So we have taken everyone along. It took a lot of coordination but we never had to stop trading at BSE even for a moment. No settlements got delayed or no … [Read more...] about Technological progress in remote areas helped in BSE’s smooth functioning: Ashishkumar Chauhan

Samsung also unveiled the Galaxy Home, its smart speaker with Bixby, at the event. The speaker delivers high quality sound, has eight microphones to be able to pick up voice commands from across the room. It comes with Bixby and smartthings hub built-in for home automation. … [Read more...] about Samsung debuts Galaxy Home speaker with Bixby to take on Apple’s HomePod

Sonowal cited the approval for setting up Multimodal Logistics Parks at Jogighopa by the state government with a project cost of three thousand crore rupees and covering an area of 200 acres as a major step to develop logistical infrastructure. Development of an International Industrial Park to provide world class plug and play facilities for quick setting up industries in the state along with existence of Food Park, Plastic Park, Bamboo Technology Park.He underlined measures such as double tracking and electrification of railway lines, opening of India’s longest rail cum road Bogibeel Bridge and country’s longest bridge connecting Dhola-Sadiya, dredging of Barak and Brahmaputra rivers for connecting to Chattogram and Mongla ports in Bangladesh for cost affective water transport, new integrated terminal building at Guwahati Airport and launching of air cargo facilities, operating flights between cities of ASEAN and BBIN countries from Guwahati etc as historic initiatives to … [Read more...] about Unless innovative transportation models are executed, high logistic management cost will remain: Nitin Gadkari