Eesh! I’m so put off darlings? Me thinks Sanjay Leela Bhansali needs to see a shrink fast. He’s such a sadist that even his close pals are fed up with him.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi said on Saturday that the Congress was not offering a bouquet of promises to voters because he knew that change could not be brought about overnight.

Q My son is a salaried employee, with a monthly salary of `60,000. He wants to take a Rs 15-lakh car loan from me. Kindly advise if it is a better option than taking a bank loan from the perspective of both myself and my son.

Seven persons, including a CRPF trooper and an old woman, were killed on Saturday when militants opened fire at a polling booth in Manipur’s Chandel district. The CRPF personnel retaliated and shot dead the militants’ commander.
The state, however, recorded 82 per cent voter turnout with people exercising their franchise as late as 8 pm in some areas.

What was your very first investment and how did you get into it?

I recently invested in an apartment on Convent Road, which is in the heart of Bengaluru’s Central Business District. I am considering renting it out and toying with the idea of investing in a bigger place on the outskirts of Bengaluru, where I can live comfortably with my dogs. I am also putting my money in banks for a fixed period, which gives me fixed returns.

R. Balakrishnan

As the Budget Day comes near, infrastructure beco-mes the buzzword for analysts, industry capitals and economists.
Though India has a long way to go in terms of building infrastructure, the government can’t afford to spend on its own as these projects take a long time to make money by themsel-ves. Often, the benefits that the project generates do not accrue to the project itself.

Adhil Shetty

The days of waiting in a queue for foreign exchange is over, with technology making global travel a lot easier for you. All that you need is a credit card. However, any technology would have some loopholes that might burn a hole in your pocket at times. So it is wise to keep yourself updated about such loopholes to ensure that your liability does not shoot up. This homework may also give some extra leverage for your spending budget on your foreign trip.
One of such major drawbacks in the use of the international credit card is the dynamic currency conversion (DCC) or cardholder Preferred Currency (CPC) service. Let’s understand the problem and try to figure out a strategy to avoid it.

While defending the action against former Isro chief Madhavan Nair and three others, minister of state in the PMO, V. Narayanasamy tells Rashme Sehgal the final word hasn’t been said on the issue. Dr Nair is free to appeal to the PM.

Former Isro chief Madhavan Nair tells B.R. Srikanth he will release a ‘white paper’ on the Antrix-Devas deal to counter the government’s charges and action against him and three former Isro colleagues.

Behind the veil of secrecy that obfuscates the Indian government’s unprecedented action against a celebrated space scientist, Gopalan Madhavan Nair, and his former colleagues, are a plethora of questions that beg answers. The main question is this: Is there a scam at all in the allotment of satellite transponder capacity — not spectrum, as is being commonly misinterpreted and misunderstood to equate it to the 2G telecom scam — by ISRO’s commercial arm, Antrix Corporation, to a private company, Devas Multimedia Pvt Ltd? Or, are Dr Nair and the others being hung out to dry in a hurry over a perfectly legitimate affair, admittedly suffering from procedural lapses, because the UPA-II, already reeling under a series of scams, does not want to be hit by allegations of inaction on yet another one?