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Third wave: Vaccine hesitancy can be suicidal
All stakeholders in the fight against Covid should marshal all their resources to overcome vaccine hesitancy
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Mint Street espouses financial literacy
Though the Jan-Dhan programme has given a big push to the cause of financial inclusion, there are crucial gaps that need to be plugged.
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Farm loan waiver: An economic pollutant
Farm loan waivers have always been criticised for its purely narrow political and no economic merit
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Go for refinance; reduce home loan burden
It is always prudent to try and negotiate it with your existing lender first.
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Vaccine production: End the data fog
The government should maintain a dashboard that would give updates of production and imports of vaccines
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Time for relook at allotment of IPO shares
The regulator must devise some way of allotting shares to retail investors who have to depend on luck to get shares from oversubscribed IPOs.
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Himachal Pradesh floods show why insurance is important
A lot more needs to be done to expand insurance coverage in the country for keeping financial worries away
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Financial education: Consider it for school curriculum
A financially responsible student can be an asset to any family and to the larger society too.
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People’s Padma — By we, the people
The recent suggestion to select Padma awardees through popular nomination might help to democratise a process that was crying for change
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Consumers continue to draw the short straw
The government must step in to ensure prices don’t spiral further. Battling lower income and health hazards, Indian consumers deserve better.
