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  • Top 5 Indian brands to look out for in 2010Top 5 Indian brands to look out for in 2010

    India's largest dairy co-operative, Amul is eyeing a big leap with Rs 10, 000 crore turnover next fiscal. Then there are other Indian brands such as Bharat Electronics, Mahindra Group, Bharti Airtel and Dabur who have established themselves as frontrunners across the sectors. Some of them are fast emerging as the face of India Inc in markets across the world. A quick glance at the top five brands of India to look out for in 2010. These are the names who are either likely to hit Rs 10,000 crore turnover in the near future or they have already surpassed this figure in terms of sales.

  • Seven bidders in fray for Mumbai terminal market

    Mumbai: Seven bidders, including Voltas, Deepak Fertilizers and Bharat Hotels have submitted requests for qualification (RFQ) to build a Rs 250-crore terminal market in Thane district near Mumbai.

  • ABN Amro gets re-branding nod

    Mumbai: ABN Amro has initiated the process of re-branding its retail branches as RBS after receiving the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) approval for the same.

  • How Nasscom made the software sector a superpower

    Mumbai: Way back in 1991, when a successful chartered accountant (CA) named Dewang Mehta was offered the charge of a small software body called Nasscom, little did anyone imagine that he would become a legend – unfortunately, not a living one – in the software sector. Nor did anyone believe that a sector with a mere $100-million (Rs 466-crore) overall revenue would rake in $50 billion (Rs 2.33 lakh crore) over the next two decades.

  • Rangarajan makes strong case for stimulus withdrawal

    New Delhi: A day after advanced estimates by the Central Statistical Organisation pegged growth at 7.2 per cent for 2009-10, Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) Chairman C Rangarajan on Wednesday made a strong case for withdrawal of fiscal measures by the government to stimulate the economy.

  • Sensex rises 94 points to end above 16K

    Mumbai: A benchmark index of Indian equities Tuesday shut shop 94 points higher than its last close to close above the 16,000-mark.

  • Maoists blast rail tracks in Bihar, Jharkhand

    Patna/Ranchi: Train traffic was disrupted in several places in Bihar and Jharkhand when Maoists blew up rail tracks Tuesday morning, day three of their 72-hour shutdown to protest the proposed offensive against them.

  • Rising milk prices may fuel inflation - Citi

    Mumbai: Rising prices of milk and dairy products are a potential pressure point for food inflation, Citigroup said in a recent note.

  • Nothing political about Pawar-Thackery meeting: NCP

    New Delhi: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Monday sought to play down party president and union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar's meeting with Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray, saying it was about the IPL and had 'no political meaning'.

  • Tata Consultancy Services website hacked

    Mumbai: India’s largest information technology services company, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), has become the latest target of hackers. The company has restored its website, after hackers changed its domain name and put it up for sale.

  • Amul to be a Rs 10,000-cr brand next fiscal

    New Delhi: The country's largest dairy cooperative, the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), better known as Amul, today said it is expecting to cross the Rs 10,000-crore-mark in turnover next fiscal.

  • PepsiCo India goes lime 'n lemoney

    Mumbai: With an alternative to carbonated cola drinks in lemon-flavoured beverages, PepsiCo India is not cutting any slack. Its non-carbonated lemon juice-based 7-Up Nimbooz already on the shelves, the company has started sprucing up the parent brand, 7-Up, with a simpler and single-minded positioning. A new campaign and new packaging would take the brand closer to India’s small towns.

  • Jobs heading for boom time again, senior level hiring picking up

    Job scene brightens a year after senior-level hiring went down 20% from the boom of 2007-08.

  • Tata leads the way to innovation and how

    New Delhi: The Tata Group has instituted a number of mechanisms to encourage its large workforce to innovate.

  • TRAI starts process for 4G spectrum

    New Delhi: Even as the government debates as to when the auction of spectrum for the third generation telephony will take place, telecom regulator TRAI today started consultation for the next level of telecom services.

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    EMI facility helps the borrower plan his budget. The EMI is calculated taking into account the loan amount, the time frame for repaying the loan and the interest rate on the borrowed sum.

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  • Discover the dark side of Fixed Maturity Plans!

    The reason investors choose FMPs is for their high returns which are also guaranteed. In order to give assured returns, FMPs opt for very secure investment options like AAA rated corporate bonds whose maturity tenure matches the maturity tenure of FMP. However in the recent times, some of these FMPs started investing in commercial paper from real estate and finance companies, in order to give higher returns o their investors.

  • What is CIBIL?

    CIBIL acts as weeding mechanism, that helps identify poor repayment track records. It helps protect lenders from giving credit to people and establishments who are unlikely to repay what is lent. Even if credit is provided, it is done so at a very high rate of interest, thereby ensuring that the bank is able to recover a considerable sum of money even if a default happens some time into the loan tenure.

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  • 3 easy steps to filing your income tax returns

    If you file your returns after the last date, you will be charged a penal interest at the rate of 1% per month of delay. However, if such a return is filed after March 31, 2010, apart from the penal interest, you will also be liable for a penalty of Rs 5,000. Remember that having tax deducted at source if you are employed is only half the journey. You need to file your returns to complete the process. The point is to avoid hassles for you and your tax professional, so prepare to file your returns as early as possible instead of waiting for the due date to arrive.

  • A look at investments that can help you save tax

    ULIPs basically work like a mutual fund with a life cover thrown in. They invest the premium in market-linked instruments like stocks, corporate bonds and government securities. Investments in ULIPs attract tax benefits under Section 80C. The returns and the lock-in period depend on the plan chosen.

  • In favour of a reducing balance loan

    At any given point in time, an X% flat rate is always more expensive than an X% annual reducing balance rate. The effective total interest paid out is also influenced by the time periods the reducing balance is recalculated, which could be monthly, daily, yearly, quaterly or half yearly. These time periods are known as rests.  At a flat rate , the interest rates are calculated keeping the outstanding amount (i.e. the amount on which interest is calculated) constant throughout the loan tenure while in a reducing balance loan the interest rate is recalculated on a periodic basis based on the reducing outstanding loan amount.

  • When you first start to save

    Be regular with your investment. It is best to allocate a portion of your funds from your monthly income and make arrangements to transfer it immediately to another account, from where you can plan your fund allocation for each investment. Do not use the bank account that you utilise for your day to day expenses, draw money at the ATMs  etc. for this purpose. Use a different account. This will help you organise your funds and quell the temptation to overspend.

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