KEY TRENDS • Oxfam India's 2023 India Supplement report on poverty and inequality in India reveals that the gap between the rich and the poor is widening. Following the pandemic in 2019, the bottom 50 per cent of the population have continued to see their wealth chipped away. By 2020, their income share was estimated to have fallen to only 13 per cent of the national income and have less than 3...
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Rupee Co-operative Bank’s collapse leaves many depositors in distress -Siddhi Nayak
-Moneycontrol.com Rupee Co-operative Bank's depositors are dealing with financial hardships and navigating family emergencies as they struggle to access their own money In the 1990s, Virendra Kumar Joping’s father, a small-time carpenter, came to Pune from Rajasthan to earn a living. Over the years, he saved his hard-earned money by opening a fixed deposit in Rupee Co-operative Bank. Rupee Co-operative Bank was among the trusted names in Pune. Little did the Joping family...
More »Modi’s net worth ₹3.07 crore, rises by ₹22 lakh, as per his latest declaration -Saubhadra Chatterji
-Hindustan Times PM Modi, like many ministers, doesn’t have any stock market exposure and his investments continue to be in the form of National Savings Certificate ( ₹8.9 lakh), life insurance policies ( ₹1.5 lakh) and L&T infrastructure bonds, which he bought in 2012 for ₹20,000 Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s net worth is ₹3.07 crore as per his latest declaration, a rise of ₹22 lakh from last year’s ₹2.85 crore, according to...
More »Rural term deposits fall for first time in eight years -Vivek Kaul
-Livemint.com As of 31 March, the total outstanding term deposits with banks in rural India contracted by 1.05% to ₹6.99 trillion from a year earlier Every three months, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) declares region wise data for term deposits. As of 31 March, the total term deposits of commercial banks in India rose 8.42% to ₹86.4 trillion from a year earlier. Term deposits are money that depositors keep in a bank...
More »Assured return offers by realtors and jewellers to be treated as Ponzi -Sidhartha
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The proposed law to crack down on Ponzi schemes will bar real estate developers that offer fixed returns till possession as well as schemes from jewellers as the government believes that they are “unregulated deposits”. The clampdown on realtors, jewellers and other deposit-seeking entities is part of the Banning of Unregulated Deposit Schemes Bill, which was cleared by the Cabinet on Wednesday and is expected to...
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