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The safe keepers: Inside India's booming locker economyIndia’s locker economy is booming amid rising gold prices and household wealth. While banks remain the preferred repository, private vault ...- Insurance mis-selling in India: How banks and agents push mis-sold policiesFinancial year-end targets fuel aggressive sales tactics in insurance. Customers are being sold policies they do not need, often through co...
- Rising digital frauds, mounting consumer grievances a growing concern for banks, RBI saysDespite service improvements, rising consumer grievances remain a concern for India's banking system, according to the RBI's Trend and Prog...
- When insurance reforms met reality: Hospitals, insurers and patients2025 marked a watershed year for Indian insurance, with the Sabka Bima Sabki Raksha Bill significantly boosting FDI to 100% and empowering ...
- Untaxing days ahead for Indians?India's new direct tax law in 2025 simplifies income tax. It introduces a uniform tax year and consolidates salary exemptions. Optional joi...
- 5 common mis-selling traps: How banks profit at your expense and how to fight backMis-selling of financial products in India is rampant, with customers often misled by agents and relationship managers pushing unsuitable p...
- Kazakhstan ready to be hub for Indian investments in region, says Kazakh envoy to IndiaKazakhstan has ranked 25th in the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business Report. The country aims to enter the top 10 countries within 5 years...
- Life certificate submission at any branch, online deposit claim settlement: RBI committee's major recommendationsThe Reserve Bank of India (RBI) organised a committee last year to investigate the customer services provided by RBI-regulated enterprises ...
- Govindacharya emerges as an unlikely influencer of India’s tech policies late in his careerA former pracharak of the RSS and once a powerful general secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Govindacharya was a strident criti...
- Supreme Court seeks reasons from 11-states for not appointing Lokayukta12 states are Jammu and Kashmir, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, Delh...
- RBI cuts SLR by 0.5 per cent; frees Rs 57K cr for lendingNoting that trading on electronic platforms is being encouraged across the world, it said, it enhances pricing transparency, processing eff...
- RBI to soon instruct banks on facilities for senior citizens and differently abled personsThe regulator said that it would instruct banks to put in place explicit mechanisms for meeting the needs of such customers so that they do...
- Means to empower common man: Protect him from bribery demandsWe may shortly see revival of efforts to tackle corruption. Unfortunately, we the common people are also entangled in this corruption mesh.
- No plan to amend RTI Act: V NarayanasamyThere was a need to protect whistle blowers exposing corruption in governance, Narayanasamy said.
- Ombudsman proposed to deal with doctor-drug firm nexusDrug companies plan to appoint an ombudsman to address allegations that these firms offer gifts and incentives to doctors to prescribe thei...
- Are banks really following banking guidelines in the right spirit?Banks have to abide by a banking code while dealing with customers. But if some problems still arise, customers can approach the redressal ...
- Corruption, scandals top concerns for Indians; jobs for othersAccording to the study conducted by global research firm Ipsos, 71 per cent of Indian surveyed said that corruption and financial or politi...
- Lokpal logjam: UPA hardens stand, Anna Hazare calls for jail bharo agitationAnna Hazare on Wednesday night asked his supporters to start a jail bharo agitation by gheraoing Parliament and residences of MPs and getti...
- State appoints Ombudsmen for rural job schemeThe Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) has ushered in a revolution of sorts in rural India by providing employm...
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