Eggs: Are they the healthiest food on the planet, as some say, or cholesterol-laden harbingers of cardiovascular doom? A new study published in JAMA argues for the latter, though it’s likely to add fuel to the fire rather than settle the debate. The study, conducted by a team of more than...
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March 20, 2019 Rakesh Sashmal
Health
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday made a case for setting up GST Council-like federal institutions to promote healthcare, rural development and agriculture sectors by optimally utilising resources of the centre and states. The successful experiment of GST Council, which is a constitutional body for making recommendations to...
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March 20, 2019 Rakesh Sashmal
Economy
With spring just a few weeks away, you’d think flu activity would begin dwindling. But from the looks of it, flu season will continue well into April and even May this year. Flu activity remains elevated, and widespread activity was reported in 48 states and Puerto Rico last...
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March 12, 2019 Rakesh Sashmal
Health
A popular job site recently released a new advertisement that has an employee walking out of the office after finishing his work. His colleagues taunt him for ‘taking a half day’ from work. This was despite the individual finishing the day’s assignments. Staying longer at the workplace, unfortunately,...
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March 9, 2019 Rakesh Sashmal
Economy
Time and again we are reminded of constantly depreciating characteristic of ‘Options’. While the certainty of it makes this rather a straight forward feature to trade. We can mix it with directional moves and its impact that is the premiums of options become more complicated than the...
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March 9, 2019 Rakesh Sashmal
Market
The December quarter earnings were largely in line with estimates. Financials led the earnings growth in Q3 due to rise in credit yield and improvement in credit cost along with industrials, while energy sector was among the laggards largely on account of lower GRMs due to inventory losses,...
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March 5, 2019 Rakesh Sashmal
Market
In 2017, Sarthak Langde (23), residing in Mumbai, graduated from college and shifted to Bengaluru with a job. At the time, he didn’t imagine his monthly expenses will be beyond his limit. While studying, his discretionary and lifestyle expenses were Rs 20,000-30,000 a month. However, during college days...
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March 5, 2019 Rakesh Sashmal
Finance
To become a professional online poker player, is an easy step but for it some necessary tips are necessary for becoming best online winning poker player. To Play poker online is crucial to learn if someone wants to become successful and professional Online Poker player as it is...
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February 27, 2019 Anindita Ghosh
Business
Serial investor and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett recently released his latest letter to shareholders with interesting takeaways for everyone from shareholders, to management professionals, to students. Speaking on predicting stock patterns for next week or year, Buffett said, “My expectation of more stock purchases is not a market...
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February 26, 2019 Rakesh Sashmal
Finance
Nearly 2 crore jobs were created in 16 months to December 2018, according to the payroll data of the Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC). The ESIC data is one of payroll numbers released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) in its reports based on people joining various social...
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February 26, 2019 Rakesh Sashmal
Economy
