Hardlook | UPSC students’ death : Why everyone loves a basement | Long Reads News

On a muggy July day, in a swanky lawyer’s chamber, the senior summons his junior with great urgency. “Quick! Hurry, I should get an OTP,” he says, handing over his phone. The junior exits the hall, steps outside the basement of the newly built building in posh Jangpura Extension to catch the cellular network signal. As soon as he hears the familiar sound of the notification, he rushes back to his senior. Delhi’s ubiquitous basement offices — often in upscale residential neighbourhoods — are some of the most sought-after real…

Sindhu on playing at LA Olympics in 2028: ‘4 years is long time away, I’ll take break, come back, see what’s in store’ | Sport-others News

After PV Sindhu’s Paris Olympics campaign was cut short in the round of 16 by China’s He Bing Jiao, the two-time Olympic medallist didn’t want to look too far into the future and comment about her playing at the Los Angeles Games in 2028. At the Rio Olympics, Sindhu had claimed a silver medal while she had won bronze in the deferred Olympics hosted by Tokyo three years ago. A medal at Paris would have made her the first individual medallist from India to have three Olympic medals. However, that…

Market watchers slam hike in long term capital gains tax, say will discourage savings, investments | Pune News

Market watchers said Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s move to hike long term capital gains (LTCG) tax from 10 per cent to 12.5 per cent will discourage savings and investments. “Just when the stock market has been having a good run for a long time, the news dampened the spirits… It is an unnecessary move,” Gaurav Bora of Laksh Financial Solutions told The Indian Express. “By making taxation change in long term capital gain from 10% to 12.5% and in short term capital gain from 15% to 20%, the government…

In the city of diamonds and dhandho, two gems aim for gold in Paris | Long Reads News

Nothing about Surat screams ‘sport’. Around the railway station, one can overhear people talking about bulls and bears, minutes before stock markets open. As one drives further into the city, past the textile mills and the bazaars full of sparkling diamond shops, two young men in this city of dhandho and diamonds have been obsessing over gold. And they will get their first shot at it later this month in Paris. Surat, a city with practically zero Olympic sports history and negligible infrastructure, will now boast of two Olympians —…

Last week, SC declared Rahim Ali a citizen; what nobody knew: he died over two years ago branded ‘foreigner’ | Long Reads News

Only, The Indian Express has found that Ali died over two-and-a-half years before the verdict, carrying the heavy tag of a “foreigner” and “illegal immigrant from Bangladesh” to his grave. Ali, a resident of Kashimpur village in Assam’s Nalbari district, died in his village on December 28, 2021 at the age of 58, even as the apex court continued to hear his case. This was after the Tribunal had delivered an ex-parte order in 2012 declaring him a foreigner since he had not appeared before it, stating that he “had…

In Bhopal, rule book in a malkhana and a race against time as new criminal laws kick in | Long Reads News

[ad_1] AS THE deadline for implementing India’s three new criminal laws approached, the station head of the Kotwali Police Station, Bhopal’s oldest, stayed up until 3 a.m. on Saturday – to supervise three teams tracking a chain snatcher. Starting July 1, the new laws will replace the three colonial-era criminal laws that have for over a century formed the foundation of India’s criminal justice system – the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) comee in place of the IPC, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) for the CrPC, and the Bharatiya Sakshya…

Stock to Buy: Go Green! 3 power stock ideas for your long term portfolio

[ad_1] The theme ‘Grey to Green’ is gaining momentum in India as the renewable energy sector is set to grow four times by 2030. As India aims to meet 50 percent of its energy requirement from renewable energy by 2030 and reduce its carbon emissions by 45. Percentage, domestic brokerage firm Securities finds opportunities for long-term investors to make money in three power stocks. As a part of its transition to become an integrated power company, state-run power producer NTPC is striving to increase the pie of its capacity mix…

Adani: Neither Tata nor Adani, the latest multibagger is a long forgotten Birla stock

[ad_1] A long forgotten auto stock from the stable of CK Birla Group Not only is it defying the ongoing sell-off on Dalal Street, it has also reversed multibagger, Iconic Hindustan Motors stock ambassador carhas increased by 125 percent in just 3 weeks when Sensex There was a loss of about 3 percent. Since May 25, Smallcap has been regularly hitting the upper circuits to reach new 52-week highs every day. On Monday too, the stock was trading at Rs 24.35, touching the upper circuit limit of 5 per cent.…

Ready for a long budget drive

[ad_1] House adopts $1.6 trillion discretionary spending cap for fiscal year 2023. This sets the stage Next week for appropriations subcommittees to start marking up spending bills. House leaders are expected to pass their version of a spending package before the August recess. The Senate is likely to proceed … more slowly. Will EV Tax Credits Make Their Way into the Budget Bill? Joe Manchin hit the brakes on a $7,500 tax exemption for electric vehicle buyers included in the house-passed version of the Build Back Better Act. Other Democrats…