Issue of 10th Aug-16th Aug 2018
LEAD ARTICLE
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Is GIFT City Gujarat’s Gift to IL&FS through One-sided Deals?
Gujarat International Finance Tec-City—GIFT City for short, a showpiece project of the Gujarat government, faces an extraordinary public interest litigation (PIL) filed by DC Anjaria, Gift City’s first independent director and former audit committee chairman. The petition alleges that this Rs70,000-crore project has virtually been gifted... Read More
STOCKS
Since its listing on 30 May 2007, the stock of Insecticides India Ltd (IIL), a pesticides company, has compounded @19.06% annually. Its market-capitalisation currently is about Rs1,640 crore. IIL generates revenues from two streams: formulations (87.40% of operating revenue as of FY16-17) and...
Moneylife Digital Team
MUTUAL FUNDS
Equity mutual fund (MF) schemes are now becoming the investment of choice for many retail investors. Every month, inflows of Rs6,000 crore to Rs7,000 crore come into equity schemes through the popular systematic investment plans (SIPs). Only four years ago, the quantum of inflows through SIPs...
Clinton Fernandes
SMART MONEY
In the first part of this article, I had prepared a checklist of questions that would help us understand a company and its business. In this second part, I will take you through a detailed questionnaire based on the annual report. I must confess that this will call for some hard work and some...
FINANCIAL PLANNING
The market regulator, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has made it mandatory for all classes of investors that, except in case of transmission or transposition, requests for transfer of physical shares will be accepted only if the securities are held in demat form. SEBI has given...
Moneylife Digital Team
TECHNOLOGY
ProtonMail is the world’s largest encrypted email service with over two million users. The ProtonMail secure email app for Android brings easy-to-use email encryption to your mobile device by seamlessly integrating PGP end-to-end encryption. ProtonMail also provides a modern user interface...
U-Dictionary is an app which translates English to 38 languages directly. Once you download the offline pack, you can use the dictionary even when you are not connected online.   The unique Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology in this app allows you to just click a sentence...
HEALTH
A new study has uncovered a higher rate of dementia among older patients after the start of hemodialysis. Mara McAdams-DeMarco, PhD (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) and her colleagues analyzed information on 356,668 US hemodialysis patients aged around 66. The 1- and 5-year...
Moneylife Digital Team
In today’s world, children spend an excessive amount of time glued to screens; there has been an increasing concern about the potential harm it can cause to their visual development. Ophthalmologists, physicians who specialise in medical and surgical eye-care are finding a marked increase in...
Akshay Naik
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