Low interest rates and volatility in stock market is creating new interest in FDs

Bank fixed deposits are back. With interest rates slowly snaking upwards and stock markets turning hugely volatile, a steady flow of interest income has suddenly become very attractive. Banks are falling over each other in advertising their schemes. Indeed, the days of competitive and aggressive...

Be careful about having blind faith in Systematic Investment Plan

Tata Mutual Fund is launching a scheme based on the idea of Systematic Investment Plan called Tata SIP equity fund. SIPs, as any investor knows, are one of the better ways to create a winning portfolio. The idea is simple. Instead of putting large lumps of your money into the market, invest that money in drips. The advantage...

Here is the story of a unique commune that converted an arid area into a green and fertile zone

At a time when suicides by farmers have gradually been reduced to cold statistics reported by the media everyday, the Timbaktu Collective in Anantapur District is an astonishing story of how an arid desert was transformed by a rare gathering of visionaries.
Anantapur, located in the Rayalaseema...