Shun foreign holidays, weddings abroad, buy gold only if needed: PM Modi’s ‘vocal for local’ pitch

PM Modi hailed India’s 7.8% GDP growth, says youth dreams need sustained effort NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday urged Indians to embrace the ‘vocal for local’ mantra, asking people to avoid foreign holidays, hosting weddings abroad and buying gold unless necessary, while hailing the country’s robust GDP growth. He linked the appeal…

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Start with Rs 25,000 basic salary, end with Rs 1 crore corpus: How EPF compounding math can make you a crorepati at 8.25% interest in less than 30 years with 6% annual increment

Over time, the interest earned on the accumulated balance earns interest, allowing compounding to steadily increase your retirement savings. Being a crorepati and accumulating a corpus of over Rs 1 crore is often a financial goal for money. But when you are thinking of SIPs, mutual funds, stock markets, ETFs, gold, silver, one quiet savings…

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India’s tech workforce gets another jolt: Oracle is cutting around 3,000 jobs while Microsoft puts about 500 employees on PIPs as companies shift budgets towards newer skills

India’s IT hiring landscape is undergoing a significant change. Layoffs have headlined the global tech landscape for over a year now and the trend continues as the industry faces one its biggest disruptions in recent years. In India too the tech hiring and firing situation is evolving fast.Global tech giant Microsoft has put around 500…

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India’s PMI slips to 52.8 as factory growth loses steam, hits five-year low

India Manufacturing PMI falls to 52.8 in August India’s manufacturing sector lost further momentum in August, with slower output and new orders dragging factory activity to its weakest level in five years. Employment also fell for the first time in two-and-a-half years, marking a broader slowdown in the sector.The seasonally adjusted HSBC India Manufacturing Purchasing…

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