Asset for its own sake is meaningless
I sold a few shares on February 17, 1999. Thereafter, I invested the total sale proceeds in ICICI Tax Saving Bonds u/s 54EA. I submitted the application through a demand draft on July 31, 1999, and was allotted the

The complexities of property-tax valuation
My friends own a commercial apartment in a prestigious building of Connaught Place measuring 1,000 sq. ft. They purchased the apartment in 1996 for Rs 1 crore by borrowing Rs 40 lakh from Citibank at 19 per cent rate of interest.

Fat wallets and slim grades don't work here
Nieves Dinora graduated from high school in Nicaragua with good grades and no prospects. Since her father, a farmer, had no money to send her to college, she figured marriage and motherhood were her only options,


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