On April 18, 2025, at the time of writing this article, gold prices in India have breached the Rs 96,000 per 10 grams, driven by a host of domestic and global factors. In the international market, gold prices have crossed USD 3,300 an ounce level. There are many big reasons behind this unprecedented rise at
The Income Tax Return (ITR) filing for the financial year 2024-25 will kick in soon once the tax department makes available online and offline forms and utilities on the e-filing portal of the Income Tax Department. Taxpayers, including salaried individuals, keenly await the tax department to upload the necessary utilities to facilitate ITR filing so
If you bought Sovereign Gold Bond (SGB) 2019-20 Series V in October 2019 and are planning to sell it prematurely, i.e., before the completion of 8 years, you can do it now. From 15 April 2025, the facility for premature redemption of bonds of this series is available. The government has fixed the redemption price
The high interest rate regime seems to be over in the country with the RBI slashing its repo rate, at which it lends to commercial banks, by 50 basis points (bps) this year. The key benchmark lending rate of the central bank now stands at 6% after last 25 bps cut on April 9, 2025.
The new financial year has started and now taxpayers want to know when they can file their Income Tax Return (ITR) for the assessment year 2025-26. However, for this, first the Income Tax Department will have to notify the ITR forms for the current assessment year. Seven different ITR forms were notified in April last
There is an important news for the employees of the central government. The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has clarified that if monthly contribution is being deducted regularly from the salary of an employee under CGHS (Central Government Health Scheme), then it is mandatory to give him CGHS service card, even if he has
Unified Payments Interface (UPI) services experienced a major disruption across India, marking the third major outage in a month. Users are facing widespread issues on digital payment platforms like Paytm, Google Pay and PhonePe. (More details are awaited.) » Read More
The systematic investment plans, better known as SIP, have dropped marginally by 0.28% sequentially to Rs 25,926 crore in March, according to data shared by AMFI. Investors bought SIPs worth Rs 25,999 crore in February 2025. AMFI stands for Association of Mutual Funds in India. It is an Indian trade association for all the asset
Prices of real estate in the surrounding areas of Jewar airport in Noida have nearly doubled in the last three years with property developers vying with one another to pick up land parcels. About 390 acres of land near the Noida International airport, along the Yamuna Expressway, has been snapped up in last 12 months, according
Reliance Jio continued to lead the monthly mobile subscriber additions for the second month in a row, registering 2.17 million new users in March, according to the data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai). Bharti Airtel, country’s second largest telco, added 1.25 million subscribers during the month. After losing 20,720 subscribers in
Tension between India and Pakistan continues to grow in the aftermath of Operation Sindoor. However, the markets have shown a significantly mature reaction to the uncertainties across the border. The indices are in wait and watch mode but that doesn’t mean that the market is short of bargain buys. Leading brokerage house, Motilal Oswal has
Taxpayers can now file their returns for the recently concluded financial year using several forms notified recently by the Central Board of Direct Taxes. The Income Tax Department has officially released ITR Forms 1 to 5 over the past fortnight — with the other documents expected in the coming days. Several changes have been introduced
KFC, Pizza Hut operator Sapphire Foods on Wednesday released its fiscal fourth quarter earnings report wherein profit remained flat at Rs 2.02 crore. It posted revenue from operations at Rs 711.34 crore. This was 12.61 per cent higher in comparison to Rs 631.70 crore recorded during the corresponding quarter of FY24. The company EBITDA stood
