Categories like essentials, at-home entertainment, health and insurance continue to show greater resiliency.

If rulers can change the law to suit themselves, the rule of law does not exist, even if the laws are applied uniformly to the rest of society.

Major shifts in the composition of the S&P 500 since the mid-1990s have led to a higher aggregate profit margin for the index.

A second general lesson is that critical mistakes in any phase can have a devastating impact, slowing momentum and negating hard-won gains.

The brain gives us two ways to evaluate experiences like suffering — how we apprehend such experiences in the moment and how we look at them afterward.

The first step to implementing a better system is to out the stateless income gamers, whether US or foreign-based.

Such animosity explains why most executives believe that any significant innovation initiative requires a team separate and isolated.

While the free flow of international capital has many benefits such as reducing the cost of capital, increasing investment and economic growth

Global enterprises will be able to use big data sets to generate business hypotheses around innovation and new value creation.

Great managers know and value the unique abilities and even the eccentricities of their employees.

The smart, connected products — made possible by vast improvements in processing power and device miniaturisation and by the network benefits of ubiquitous wireless connectivity — have unleashed a new era of competition.

Despite all the interest in eye-catching designs, cognitive science suggests most opportunities for the IoT will arise by creating useful offerings.

“It is information,” he wrote, “that enables knowledge workers to do their job.” This is especially true for executives.

Most of us are a lot like those monkeys. On the upside, we learn from one another, we don’t let down our mates, and we get along.

Architectural capabilities are an important subset of dynamic capabilities that enable managers to see a complex technical system in an abstract way.

It’s incumbent upon every married woman to quickly bear a son.… She could be dismissed as a dokhtar zai, or ‘she who only brings daughters’.

Apart from Paranjpe, HN Motiwalla, Rammohan N Bhave and Thomas Panamthanath are other independent directors of the company while TC Suseel Kumar is a nominee director on the board of LIC Mutual Fund Trustee.

A law requiring 120 days' stay in India to claim Non-Resident Indian (NRI) status needs to be changed, an association representing NRIs has demanded, citing economic disruptions due to the coronavirus pandemic.

In official emails to permanent residents who have enquired about the availability of these flights, the high commission has indicated that at this point, the flights are available only to Canadian citizens and their immediate family members who are permanent residents and accompanying them on the flights.

Khanna, 43, is the only Indian-American lawmaker to be named to the White House's Opening Up America Again Congressional Group which comprises Congressmen from both the Republican and the Democratic parties.

Indian-American Dr Madhvi Aya, who contracted the coronavirus in the line of duty in New York, the country's COVID-19 epicentre, could only exchange text messages with her husband and daughter from her hospital bed before she lost the battle to the deadly virus.

Trump's plan to temporarily suspend immigration in view of the Covid-19 pandemic and to protect American jobs, has shocked Indian IT companies and technology professionals. As they anxiously await how the restrictions will pan out, New York-based immigration lawyer Cyrus D Mehta explained its likely impact.

Figures released this week by the National Health Service England show that of the 13,918 patients who died in hospitals till April 17 after testing positive for the novel coronavirus, 16.2 per cent were of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) background and those identifying with Indian ethnicity made up 3 per cent of that.

Seema Nanda has announced her decision to step down as the CEO of the Democratic National Committee, the top administrative position in the main Opposition party, ahead of the presidential elections in November.

Renu Khator, an Indian-American university chancellor, has been elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences for her contributions in the fields of education and academic leadership.

BR Shetty landed in Abu Dhabi with $8 in 1973 and turned his sweat into a personal fortune worth billions.

New York is the epicentre of the pandemic in the US and currently has 295,106 COVID-19 cases with over 17,000 deaths.On Tuesday, 337 people died of the disease in the state.

"Indian men are 150 per cent more likely to work in health or social care roles than their white British counterparts," according to the report.

The Indian embassy in Abu Dhabi and the Indian Consulate in Dubai started e-registrations on Wednesday night to form a database of those wanting to return to India. Over 50% of the applicants are from Kerala. Malayalees comprise more than 1 million of the 3.4 million Indians in the UAE.

Ashok Michael Pinto, who has worked as a Special Assistant and Associate Counsel to former president George W Bush, was on Monday nominated as US Alternate Executive Director of IBRD for a term of two years.

Indian-American NASA astronaut Sunita Williams has advised Indian students stranded in the US due to the coronavirus-linked global travel restrictions to use the occasion to think how they could be a productive and positive addition to the society.

The committee will consist of four Democrat and three Republican senators. Democratic senators include David Frockt, Manka Dhingra, Christine Rolfes and Rebecca Saldana and Republicans include senators Randi Becker, Tim Sheldon, while one member is yet to be named.

​​ET Wealth studies the quality of papers held by the five largest schemes of different debt fund categories to see if investors should be worried.

The unabated volatility is intensifying downside risks in investments. Under these conditions, it is worth looking at statistics that can predict the potential loss a stock or a portfolio can suffer.

Investors will receive whatever amount the fund house is able to recover by liquidating the underlying investments in proportion of their holdings in the respective schemes.

Events such as losses, layoffs, unpaid leaves and salary cuts also affect us mentally, particularly in case of business shutdown. Layoffs or unpaid leaves for a long time can leave us extremely demotivated. This is where our self-belief matters the most; our belief in our self, our attitude and our capabilities.

You should explore the `pause your SIP’ option offered by mutual funds before finalising to stop your mutual fund investments through SIPs.

While investing a debt mutual fund, one should make sure the category suits your time frame.

The current slump in the stock market presents an opportunity to accumulate more mutual fund units.

It is important that your correct bank account with IFSC is linked to your Universal Account Number (UAN) to receive the credit of EPF funds timely.

The global economy is already in recession. Travel and tourism, restaurants, movie theatres and scores of other businesses have suddenly come to a standstill.

Investors and advisors alike have been very unkind to this Thirteen Lakh Crore category of Mutual Funds, because of one of its sub categories: Credit Risk Funds, managed by Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund.

Many individuals have become extremely careful about their personal finance in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic and mounting concerns about possible job and pay cuts. Many of them have suddenly turned enthusiastic investors.

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The PFRDA, in a circular dated April 9, 2020, has declared coronavirus infection as a critical illness that is life-threatening in nature. Accordingly, partial withdrawal from NPS has been allowed for covering expenses related to the treatment of COVID-19.

Credit risk funds have always been vulnerable to its investments of up to 65% (and more) in the lower-rated instruments. To earn higher returns than the rest of the debt categories, the fund manager buys high-yielding, low credit quality bonds.

Knowing and following the fundamentals takes much of the risk out of investing.

The Kohli and Kumble partnership has played a crucial role in team’s recent success. But to become India’s best captain-coach combo ever, they need to pass tougher tests.

From buying mobile phones to placing orders for grocery items Indians are getting hooked on online shopping in a big way.