Month: April 2015
Below are all the posts archived for the month.
Ola and Uber: Win – Win For Everyone
in Personal Technology
I’m a fairly heavy user of Ola Cabs and Uber; I really like their service, and often feel that they are currently under pricing and making a loss to gain a lead on each other in the taxi aggregator business. This is a very interesting business where Ola or Uber don’t own taxis on their own, but
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UFO Moviez IPO Review – Subscribe or Not?
in IPO/NFO
This post is written by Shiv Kukreja, who is a Certified Financial Planner and runs a financial planning firm, Ojas Capital in Delhi/NCR. He can be reached at skukreja@investitude.co.in Investment sentiment in the markets has changed dramatically in the last 15 days or so, as it is becoming more and more difficult for the Modi
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How do you get anything done?
in Economy
Reading and writing about the land acquisition bill has made me somewhat gloomy, and question how you can get anything done in a Democracy like India? Congress is intent on blind opposition to whatever the government proposes instead of educated debate, and since the government doesn’t have enough seats in the Rajya Sabha, it can’t pass
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Do States have large amounts of unused land already?
in Economy
I wrote about some of the sticking points in the Land Acquisition Amendment yesterday, and a related question to that is of course how important is this act itself? Is it really stopping progress? Don’t state governments already have large land banks that they aren’t able to use? I think it is important to first
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Thoughts on the Land Acquisition Bill
in Economy
The unfortunate incident of a farmer committing suicide in the AAP rally has polarized the debate on the Land Acquisition Act even more, and it has become virtually impossible to get to know the factual details of the act, and the amendment, and learn for yourself whether it is good or bad. I spent a few
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Punjab National Bank (PNB) Branches to Open a Sukanya Samriddhi Account (SSA) & PNB’s Centralised Contact Number
in Investments
This post is written by Shiv Kukreja, who is a Certified Financial Planner and runs a financial planning firm, Ojas Capital in Delhi/NCR. He can be reached at skukreja@investitude.co.in The Government of India notified the rules for Sukanya Samriddhi Account (SSA) on December 2, 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched this scheme on January 22
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Chinese strippers deliver mammoth to the trunk of your car
in Links
Let’s start this week with a very interesting article about Chinese scientists editing the genomes of human embryos. There has been a lot of debate about whether this should be tried out or not, and it was inevitable that someone did try it out. The current experiment has failed, but it is only a matter of time
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Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana Calculator, Toll-Free Number & List of Post Offices in Mumbai to Open an Account
in Investments
This post is written by Shiv Kukreja, who is a Certified Financial Planner and runs a financial planning firm, Ojas Capital in Delhi/NCR. He can be reached at skukreja@investitude.co.in Mumbai’s Postal Department has recently launched a new website www.sukanyaaccountmumbai.in for the investors in the Mumbai region to guide and help them open accounts under its
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Will the Make In India campaign succeed?
in Economy
The Make in India Concept I don’t think there are many Indians today who haven’t heard of the Make in India campaign that was launched last September by the Modi government. The idea behind it is rather simple – increase the share of manufacturing in the GDP, and the reason for that is rather simple as well.
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Net Neutrality in India
in Personal Technology
Ever since Airtel launched the ‘Airtel Zero‘ program, there has been a lot of anger against this program by netizens, and the anger is not going unnoticed either. In fact, Flipkart which was one of the partners of the Airtel Zero program not only pulled out of it day before yesterday but said that they will take
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