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Reserve Bank has reportedly proposed floating inflation-linked bonds as a savings option for investors in debt markets. This is welcome on several counts. First, there are few varieties of instruments in the debt market for investors to park their funds.

Kolkata: Seher Atwal, carded 3-over 75 to take a one- shot first round lead in the 15th and final leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour at the Royal Calcutta Golf Club here on Wednesday.

The Wholesale Price Index based inflation rose to the highest in the present series that begun in 2011-12 to 14.23 per cent in November 2021, simply put, it is 12 years high. The figures are even highest since April 2005 if we compare it to the older price series. All these are indicative of both the price and inflation going beyond the control of Modi government or they have willingly allowed it to happen for the benefit of certain group of people, though it could prove to be spine breaking for common people who have lost their jobs and the means of survival.

The Reserve Bank of India has been cautioning public about the risk of falling victims to ‘one-click-loans’ of fancy amounts promised by apps. Email and text messages to this effect have been proliferating, especially during and post-pandemic phase, which has seen family budgets as well as finances of small business owners go for a toss. A number of people have ended up losing money already and many more seem to be destined to suffer the same fate.

Comparing whether Rahul Gandhi got his Hindu and Hindutva right or did Yoga guru Baba Ramdev laugh too soon at Rahul’s distinction is an exercise in futility. Neither can claim expertise in semantics, let alone in Hindu and in Hindutva. But leave aside all that and it will dawn on most everybody that there is a churning taking place.

New Delhi: Eight franchises picked up 40 players including top players like Saket Myneni, Prerna Bhambri, Ramkumar Ramanathan, and Vishnu Vardhan at the auction of the third edition of the Pro Tennis League here on Tuesday.

New Delhi: The All India Chess Federation (AICF) on Tuesday unveiled a 6-team Indian Chess league, to be held in June 2022.

Kolkata: Ridhima Dilawari, winner of the 14th Leg at Tollygunge Club, will be back in action this week at the Royal Calcutta Golf Club to try and close 2021 with back-to-back wins. She had also won the first leg of the year.

The Gauhati High Court has set aside multiple orders of Foreigners’ Tribunals in the span of one month. The tribunals had declared individuals to be foreigners in all of these cases in an erratic manner, with little substantiation of its process, indicating the need for a systemic overhaul. The Leaflet has accessed the following cases from November and December, which are illustrative of the rot in the system.

The Narendra Modi government seems to be caught in a dilemma over the crypto bill that is scheduled to be introduced during the ongoing winter session of parliament. It has maintained a rigid posture throughout the current year by letting out that a ban on cryptocurrencies is actively under consideration.