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Topic: Gold

Watch CutTheClutter: Kannada actor Ranya Rao’s arrest & India’s growing gold smuggling crisis

In Episode 1618, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta explains how government policies and gold smuggling are connected, and why the smuggling curse is back.

How daily changes in gold prices can impact your financial decisions

The gold price today in Mysore isn’t just a plain number, it’s an opportunity to maximise your investments. Learn how to make informed buying, selling, and borrowing decisions based on the gold rate today

Inter-state gold jewellery theft gang busted in Odisha’s Rourkela, 9 arrested

Rourkela: The Odisha police have busted an inter-state gang, which was duping gullible persons of their gold in the name of cleaning those valuables...

Why govt’s likely to scale back on issuing sovereign gold bonds despite savings of Rs 165 cr this yr

Analysis of Union Budget shows govt expects nearly 40% lower inflows in FY25 from sovereign gold bonds than it earlier estimated, likely because of the high fiscal burden they impose.

India’s gold industry to create 25,000 jobs, attract Rs 15,000 crore by 2030, says sector report

Report by the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry says domestic gold production is expected to rise from 16 tonnes to 100 tonnes by 2030, eliminating the need for imports.

Who’s snatching your gold, mangalsutras? RBI data says it’s Modi

As per RBI data, Indians mortgaged their gold jewellery to borrow more than Rs 1 lakh crore in 2023-24, nearly five times more than they did in 2018-19.

Central banks on buying spree, strong retail demand — what’s fuelling the big gold price rally

Gold’s ability to hold value in times of political and economic uncertainty makes it a favoured asset in central bank reserves. It is considered a long-term hedge against inflation.

Gujarat’s true crime drama—flying gold coins, fleeing labourers, police chase, & an alert ASI

240 British-era gold coins, found by Adivasi labourers hired to demolish an NRI's house, travelled from Gujarat to Madhya Pradesh, setting off an inter-state hunt. The question everyone's asking is: who gets the gold?

Dubai’s gold king Joy Alukkas started his rise with a revenge plan

In ‘Spreading Joy’, Joy Alukkas tells the story of how he became India’s richest jeweller. From spreading his wings under his brothers’ watchful eyes to setting up shop in Dubai.

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From Vedanta, India turned to Nehruvian socialism and buried its liberal roots: Sharad Joshi

An Indian Hitler will have to be exceptionally lucky to survive for any length of time. This much hope ought to be enough for seekers of liberty and equality, wrote Sharad Anantrao Joshi, president of Swatantra Bharat Paksh party, in 1995.

Easy loans, uneasy ‘debt traps’. Women harassed by private lenders ask ‘who will restore lost dignity?’

A public meeting, where the women voiced their protest, took place this month in Delhi, grounded on the findings of an AIDWA survey, covering 9,000 women borrowers.

Ahead of SCO meet, Russia & China stage maiden joint submarine patrol in Sea of Japan, East China Sea

Joint submarine patrol ‘covered more than 2,000 nautical miles’ and was joined by Russian support vessels. Beijing maintains exercise ‘not directed against any third party’.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.