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Consumers can lose if complaints are delayed

Limitations, decided the State & National Commissions, begin from the date of possession

Maiming the net?

Can you think of buying a product online without getting to compare the prices on Flipkart, Amazon, Snapdeal and others?

Inflation data point to more rate cuts

Given a reasonable monsoon, food inflation should remain moderate

Car owners may see faster claim settlement

With Irdai proposing to increase the limit for appointing external surveyors to Rs 50,000, things should get simpler for smaller claims

For marriages not made in heaven

When seeking alimony, a woman should opt for lump sum payment rather than monthly as it is more tax-efficient

Case study

Taxation: Kuldip Kumar

Good connectivity, infra make for an attractive investment destination

The game of sweaters and air-cooled shirts

Investors bet big on conventional energy

While looking at these stocks, you should bear in mind cyclical nature of fuel supply-demand matrix

Choose listed companies over new offerings

With a majority of stocks in the past decade quoting below their issue price after listing, the secondary market might be a better bet for investors

Declare foreign assets and income to avoid penalty

Declare shares of foreign companies, money in foreign banks, paintings or jewellery purchased abroad as foreign assets and not under Income Tax, to avoid prosecution under the proposed 'black money' l

Debt Counselling: Sanjay Agarwal

Consumer court grants relief to ATM fraud victim

Case study

Realty check

budget: Rs 3-3.5 crore

Contra calls to the rescue?

You need conviction in your bets and a stop-loss as a defence mechanism to curtail losses

Auto sector has turned the corner

However, the recovery is patchy, with 7 of the top 12 four-wheeler manufacturers seeing sales decline

How to grow your retirement corpus

Bucketing is effective as investment is aligned with short- and long-term needs, with some portion kept in equities

Sticking to an indebted company's stock isn't easy

While the terms of restructuring might aid the company, there is always the risk that the firm won't come out of the mess