Indian Telecom Industry – Is it a Success Story?
While surfing on the internet recently, I came across an old report, dated 2006, about the Indian Telecom Industry. The most notable part of the report was the prediction about the number of subscribers in 2010. The 2006 report had predicted that the estimated number of mobile phone subscribers would reach 27.5 [...]
Wealth Tax Basics
Wealth tax is a direct tax (that is, the tax is paid by the person on who it is levied), just like Income Tax. In India, wealth tax is managed and regulated under the Wealth Tax Act, 1957. Similar to income tax, the wealth tax is also assessed on an annual basis. As the [...]
Top 10 Tips for Real Estate Investment
Real estate investment is one of the most popular investment avenues all over the world. Real estate investment – whether for a residential home, or simply as an investment option – continues to retain its charm despite periodic setbacks to the property market. As with all other investment options, investing in real estate also [...]
IPO (Initial Public Offer) Know How
Financial capital is one of the most important components of a business. The need for financial capital grows with a growth in the business. At a certain stage, it becomes imperative to raise a large amount of financial capital to expand and sustain the business, and at an affordable cost to the company. An IPO [...]
Bombay Stock Exchange – Profile, History and Functionality
Bombay Stock Exchange – Origins
Bombay Stock Exchange, originally named as “The Native Share & Stock Brokers’ Association”, was established in 1875. This makes BSE the oldest stock exchange in the Asian economic region. It is also the biggest South Asian stock exchange in terms of market capitalization (NSE is the second largest!), and the 11th [...]
Top 10 Financial Scams in India
Financial scams have a habit of cropping up with an alarming regularity in the Indian financial system. We have reconciled to financial irregularities to such an extent that we simply do not pay heed to smaller scams that take place around us on a daily basis. I am, or rather was, a [...]
Retirement Benefits in Indian Tax System
Income tax incidence is a major factor that affects the financial aspects of retirement planning. Financial security and stability is a chief concern post retirement, and the income taxes have a major impact on these aspects. Fortunately, the government and authorities have provided for a number of provisions that provide a [...]
Key to Success in Competitive Exams….
Everyone wants Success. Majority start their journey towards success by cracking professional exams like IIT/Engineering entrance, CAT, IPS, PSC, IAS, IFS etc. The seats are limited and the numbers of applicants are almost 10 times the vacancy. As a result, these competitive exams have become strict norms for selection into any of the professional course. [...]
How Important is it for Children learning to be Independent??
As a baby grow up, all parents become possessive about the kid and try to guide the kid to a better future. Parents want to secure their child’s future and make every effort to protect them from getting spoilt or getting swayed away by wrong things. Being protective about the child is good but sometimes [...]
Coaching Centers – Boon or Bane????
Now a days, one of the most colorful and attractive part of most newspaper are the advertisements for coaching centers. You can hate them at there exaggerated display, but you cannot ignore them. I was first surprised to see the ads for coaching for Class XI students, as the classes generally start from the [...]
My Name is Khan!!
In today’s world writing a review about a movie which was released more than a week back would be labelled as laid back approach. But the fact is this is a movie which had such a bi-polar reaction that it amazed me and many a times I was almost about to question my reaction to [...]
IP Television – Basics, Facts and Future
IPTV, an acronym for Internet Protocol Television, is a system which delivers digital television to subscribers over the internet, or more specifically, over the broadband. Thus, it is different from the conventional delivery methods, wherein the TV service is delivered through radio waves, satellite signals or cable.
IPTV service, just like your [...]
How to Unlock a Cell Phone
Cell phones available in the market can be either of the two types – locked and unlocked. So, what is the difference between a locked cellphone and an unlocked cellphone, and how is the locking/unlocking done?
A locked cellphone is is provided by a particular carrier, and the SIM of the mobile phone [...]
Role of Youth in Indian Politics – Perceptions, Reality and Future
“Youth in politics” has been frequently touted as the perfect pill to cure all the ills that plague the Indian political system. A number of debates, especially if they involve the ‘younger’ and ‘urbanized’ crowd, will frequently propose “youth in politics” as the perfect antidote to everything that is wrong with [...]
Egg Salad Sandwich
Egg Salad Sandwich is the most extensively made sandwich at home. The basic ingredient for egg salad sandwich are a few pieces of hard boiled egg, chopped onion, tomato & a dressing. This may not be the best Egg Salad Sandwich as I used did not like very much. But later when I stayed outside [...]
How to Teach a Child to Read
Once a baby is born, the parents start thinking about the education of their child. They start dreaming about a successful career of their child. The first step towards success can be started by teaching the baby to read.
Earlier children were sent to school with a conception that reading and writing will be taught at [...]
How to Improve Reading Habits
“The greatest gift is the passion for reading.
It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,
it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.
It is a moral illumination.” — Elizabeth Hardwick
Reading is a passion. Reading is a hobby. Reading is a habit. Reading is a skill. Once you get hooked [...]
How to e-train Kids…
Today the world has changed a lot since the days we were growing up. Today when you see kids playing with the mouse and keyboard of the computer at a very small age, sometimes you feel a sense of awe! But the truth is that, internet has become a reality which we cannot live without. [...]
Importance of Cultivating Reading as a Habit in Children
Reading is one of the finest habits that a person can have. Previously when there were no televisions people used to spend their time by reading books. It was through books that people used to try knowing the world outside. They used to become members of libraries so that they can read more books. But [...]
Indian Telecom Industry
While surfing on the internet recently, I came across an old report, dated 2006, about the Indian Telecom Industry. The most notable part of the report was the prediction about the number of subscribers in 2010. The 2006 report had predicted that the estimated number of mobile phone subscribers would reach 27.5 crores by 2010. The actual number of cell phone subscribers in India, as of now, is around 60 crores.
That sums up the success of the Indian telecom sector in a nutshell. But then one can understand why the report went so haywire in its prediction – in 2006, the total number of mobile subscribers was...
Love- a beautiful way of nature due to which this universe still exists; be it parental love, or love for plants and animals or love for friends and neighbors.
The natural attraction between the opposite sexes blossoming into love and procreation has been conditioned by the norms of society as human civilization evolved and changed. Love and lust are two different things. Indian social norms and philosophy have always been guided by the teachings of sages passed on through generations through scriptures like the Vedas. Because our ancient knowledge always aimed at the purification of the soul and finally attaining nirvana by controlling our...
Retirement planning is an integral part of the financial planning process. A proper approach to retirement planning becomes all the more imperative, when we consider that post retirement, a person...
Wealth tax is a direct tax (that is, the tax is paid by the person on who it is levied), just like Income Tax. In India, wealth tax is managed and regulated under the Wealth Tax Act, 1957. Similar...
All over the world, many languages are becoming extinct. And with language the history of the race too becomes extinct.
Unfortunately the mother tongue is being conveniently forgotten by today’s generation....
Real estate investment is one of the most popular investment avenues all over the world. Real estate investment – whether for a residential home, or simply as an investment option – continues...
Financial capital is one of the most important components of a business. The need for financial capital grows with a growth in the business. At a certain stage, it becomes imperative to raise a large...
Bombay Stock Exchange – Origins
Bombay Stock Exchange, originally named as “The Native Share & Stock Brokers’ Association”, was established in 1875. This makes BSE the oldest stock...
Madam Mayawati is certainly living up to her name!
This world is Maya! How will we remember this until there are giant statues of our Maya on every road crossing? She reduced the work of future generation,...
You live in a nuclear family, your parents and in-laws live in another city, you have a baby and you have a job which you cannot afford to leave! So, now the big question. Who will look after the child,...
Financial scams have a habit of cropping up with an alarming regularity in the Indian financial system. We have reconciled to financial irregularities to such an extent that we simply do not pay heed...
Young maids carrying bags or kids, quietly strutting behind their smiling & laughing employers, is a very common scene now-a days. Most homes hire a full time maid for domestic jobs starting from...
Hyderabad, once the city of Nizams, has a certain old world elegance interwoven firmly in the fabric of the modern metro city. The sprawling city of Hyderabad, along with Secunderabad offers a different...
Income tax incidence is a major factor that affects the financial aspects of retirement planning. Financial security and stability is a chief concern post retirement, and the income taxes have a major...
Yes! It certainly is shining in the malls, in the PVRs, in the pubs & nightclubs, in the flyovers and high-rises of the metros. It is shining in the glitz and glamour of the high income class living...
It’s a boy! So nothing to worry!…. This is the common perception when a child is born. Even I felt somewhat similarly before my son was born. I thought the worries, fear and anxiety for daughters...
33% reservation for women, 33% for OBC, 33% for minority community, 33% for the disabled, 33% for this and 33% for that. Do such reservations really help? How can a 33% reservation empower women or anyone...
Theatre is an all encompassing art form. It involves not just acting and orating, but dance, music, crafts everything.
A theatre workshop as a summer vacation hobby class is a very good option for children....
Spiritualism is often used as a garb. But it is not the fault of people who use it as a garb.
Spiritualism in reality is a garb.
For a Swamiji selling spiritualism there are many tools. Hindu mythology,...
Arranged or Love marriage, post marriage, marriage is just marriage!
Way back in 1969, a British friend of my father once lamented- “I wish my children would realize the importance of parents’ guidance...
