After Chartered Accountant and Certified Financial Analysts, now comes the Certified Financial Planner. CAs have traditionally helped wealthy individuals manage their money, mainly from the tax angle while CFAs apply sophisticated techniques to analysing stocks for big financial firms. CFPs are for the individuals. They help manage money for those who have a nest egg or are creating one....

Startling revelations following from consumer complaints, proves how your friendly neighbourhood jeweller may be cheating you, reports Sucheta Dalal

Indians are the world's biggest gold lovers. We account for one-fifth of world gold sales and nearly 70% of this goes into gold jewellery. But the gold jewellery market is so fraught with unfair trade practices that even a sympathetic National...

Babur authored a unique document in history, titled the Babur Nama, Journal of Babur where he has recorded events and noted down his assessment of the potentates and artists and poets he encountered. The Babur Nama(Penguin Books, India, Rs. 350) is the earliest example of autobiographical writing and one of the finest, unrivalled for more than five centuries, until a diary maintained by Queen...