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Business Standard brings you a snapshot of average current rates and unit sizes in localities that offer property in the price range of Rs 1.5 crore-2 crore. If you are looking at buying real estate, an idea about prevailing rates would come in handy

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The Reserve Bank of India has surprisingly remained silent on the issue

Letters: A futile exercise

Re-examine gender equity in all personal laws

Beyond triple talaq

Treaty to phase out harmful refrigerant gases is timed well

Kigali shows the way

The real challenge before Ashwani Lohani, AI's incumbent chairperson, is to reduce rising debts and servicing thereof

Letters: Taking flight

Prime Minister Narendra Modi roared that Pakistan is the "mother ship of terror"

Letters: Coexistence is key

The $13-billion deal between Indian conglomerate Essar and Russian oil major Rosneft made headlines

How times have changed

The land was bought for a mega steel and power plant

Keeping locals happy

Politics gets the better of economics in India, rued a former secretary to the central government after a discussion with his successors

Blame game is universal

Legal provisions have been misused to muzzle free speech

Decriminalise defamation

It is as fallacious as to say that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Vishwa Hindu Parishad stand for all Hindus

Letters: False claims

So it is an anxious time for Samsung, which literally wiped out one-time mobile market leader Nokia and has been at the top leader since then

Letters: Brand hit

The "plea" of Amar Sinha, India's chief negotiator at the BRICS, that "India couldn't get a consensus on naming Pakistan-based terrorist outfits since it doesn't concern all the BRICS countries" is untenable

Letters: Failure on home turf

The question paper offered the following options from which students could pick one: Priyanka, Anushka, Dipika

Who is Virat Kohli's fiancee?

The Facebook page of state-owned gas utility GAIL shared the "news" that the famous Amrik Sukhdev Dhaba in Murthal (Haryana) was shifting to piped natural gas

First things first

The Maratha community plans to organise similar marches in other US states including California, Florida, Colorado, Wisconsin and Washington

Maratha rally goes to New York

Grouping risks relevance as it fails to conclude significant pacts

BRICS without substance

Market speak: Janakiraman R

With category average returns of 16 per cent in the past year, mid-cap funds are the favourites of small investors today. But, you need to pick the right fund. As data show,  the best-performing fund has returned 26.75 per cent  and the worst-performing one has gained  a measly 2.3 per cent. Investors should aim at picking a consistent performerRelative to large-caps, the mid-cap universe also has a higher degree of variation in quality of business. Mid-cap companies offer better growth opportunities but are also characterised by a higher degree of volatility in performance. This leads to commensurate volatility in their asset prices as well.A long-term investment horizon and a disciplined and consistent investment philosophy using the systematic route help in exploiting this combination of better growth, higher volatility and a more heterogenous mix.Understand the risk-return trade-off. Invest through time-tested funds that have shown consistency in their investment style.

Amitabh Kant was caught on the wrong foot on social media, when he gave out a Google email ID instead of one from a government domain

Everything official about it

Samsung's failure can dent the industry's image

A 'Note'-worthy fiasco

Akhilesh Yadav hopes the distributed mobile phones would help his party connect with the electorate and spread the message of the developmental work carried out during his tenure as CM

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