With financial year 2024-25 soon coming to an end, only three weeks are remaining before the taxpayers can invest in the tax-saving instruments such as PPF, NSC, KVP, SSY and SCSS. Taxpayers who wish to claim income tax deduction must invest in these instruments before March 31. Where can taxpayers invest to claim income tax … Read more
On International Women’s Day, a number of financial institutions have rolled out special discounts and offers on loans meant exclusively for women. Aditya Birla Housing Finance launched Khushia customised home loan offering for women borrowers to help them on their path to home ownership while State Bank of India (SBI) has rolled out collateral-free loans … Read more
One of the key pillars of wealth generation is compounding. This means a humble investment on a regular basis can lead to massive growth over a long period of time. Veteran wealth advisors tend to assert that it is not the timing of investment but the time period for which the investment remains locked which … Read more
Income Tax (I-T) department has released the latest list of banks which are mapped to e-Pay tax service at e-Filing Portal as you file your income tax return. The two banks which were lately added to the list are Tamilnad Mercantile Bank (included on March 5, 2025) and IDFC First Bank (added on Nov 27, … Read more
When you are planning to open a fixed deposit, it is recommended to compare the interest rates offered by different banks so that you can choose the one which offers the highest one. Typically, a long tenure fixed deposit offers a higher interest rate. We list out the interest rates offered on 3-year term deposits … Read more
International Women’s Day is just as good a day as any to provide strength to women and enable them to be the torchbearers of their own financial destiny. This can be done through proper planning, effective money management and thoughtful fund allocation. Now, it is a given that investing appears to be a difficult task … Read more
Many banks have savings accounts tailored to the needs of specific individuals. These include savings accounts for women, senior citizens, children or youngsters in a particular age bracket. Recently, Bank of Baroda has introduced a credit card that is tailored to the specific needs of women with the BOB Tiara Credit Card. In this article, … Read more
Several different forms of debt such as credit cards demand personal loans and medical expenses become complicated to handle at once. You can simplify debt repayment through debt consolidation loans which also help you decrease both interest costs and payment complexity. Understanding this choice requires specific information for potential applicants. What is debt consolidation? Debt … Read more
Long queues, time-consuming documentation, rejections in requests, and constant delays, these are typically the images that come to mind when one considers taking advantage of your Employees’ Provident Fund (EPFO) corpus in India. All of this could be a thing of the past soon. Union Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya made the announcement of the imminent … Read more
Netflix released this beautiful period drama about a revolution most of us did not learn in high school: the great unification which is said to have started in Turin (called ‘The Cradle of Italian liberty’ for having been the political and intellectual centre of the Risorgimento that led to that unification of Italy). Even if … Read more