India’s Possible Electricity Export to Pakistan

I was surprised to read that Pakistan is contemplating importing 1,000 MW of electricity from India as I wasn’t aware that this has been discussed once earlier in 2012 as well. Pakistan faces shortage of electricity regularly, and needs some short term measures to bridge the gap between demand and supply, but the surprising part [...]

India – China Trade Imbalance

May 21, 2013

India and China have a very skewed trade relationship in terms of relative importance of one to the other. China is by far India’s largest trading partner with a total trade of $75 billion between the two countries in 2012, but India doesn’t feature very high in China’s list. I was curious to see how [...]

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Just Dial IPO Review

May 20, 2013

Justdial offers local search services where you can search for a service around you using your cellphone, SMS, or just the internet. In fiscal 2012 they addressed 254.3 million searches on their platform, and that shows that it is a fairly big platform. I don’t think there is another local search engine in India that has [...]

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Understanding Inflation Indexed Bonds

May 17, 2013

This post is written by Shiv Kukreja, who is a Certified Financial Planner and runs a financial planning firm, Ojas Capital in Delhi/NCR. He can be reached at skukreja@investitude.co.in Budget 2013 had “next to none” changes for the Indian taxpayers, investors or savers. As far as the investment options are concerned, some minor changes were [...]

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How to prepare for parents coming from India to USA?

May 15, 2013

I’ve often seen that when your parents first decide to vist you in the USA – a lot of time and energy goes into preparing for the visa, but once that is done, you don’t prepare as much for what they are going to do when they reach the country. As a result, parents get [...]

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Free Download: Excel RD Calculator

May 14, 2013

Reader Pattu had developed a great retirement calculator and shared it for free here on OneMint about two years ago, and several people have downloaded and benefitted from that calculator. Since then he has developed a few other calculators, and the latest is an Excel based RD calculator. You can download it here. Comprehensive RD [...]

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What is the meaning of premium waiver benefit?

May 7, 2013

One of the key things that insurance companies want to highlight in their child insurance plans is the premium waiver benefit, and Pankaj Parashar left a comment about this being the key feature of child insurances plans, and the need to look at it more closely. When I was going through the plans, it did [...]

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Comprehensive list of child insurance plans in India

May 6, 2013

One of the most common questions I get is about children insurance plans, and usually the comment is accompanied with the name of a plan and a request to review it. I am not too familiar with child insurance plans, and the problem with following this approach is that I don’t know if there are [...]

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Single Malt Elephants drive 3 million miles on Cadillac to meet complex cannibals

May 4, 2013

Let’s start this week with a very interesting story that appeared in the NYT about a AComplaintFreeWorld.org. The idea is that you wear a bracelet and every time you complain, you take the bracelet from one hand and move it to another. This way you are conscious of when and how much you complain and as [...]

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How to watch Indian TV Channels Online in the USA?

May 3, 2013

In the last few years, there have been vast improvements in the quality, pricing and availability of Indian TV channels in the US. A lot of these have been made possible with the ability to stream Indian TV channels online, and I feel the online options are the best in terms of price and quality. [...]

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What is dividend yield?

May 2, 2013

A shareholder is a part owner in a company, and therefore has a certain share in the profits of the company. Many companies return this profit to their shareholders in the form of a dividend. Usually, the companies that regularly declare dividends, do it multiple times a year. If the dividend is declared before the [...]

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