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Wednesday, July 23, 2025
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Topic: Gold

Modi & his top ministers are risk-averse, invest their money in gold, FDs and land

An analysis of ministers’ declarations shows most of them don’t invest in equities and mutual funds, except Amit Shah and Piyush Goyal.

Fool’s gold – Pakistan could have made big money from gold mines, now it’s paying penalties

The $5.8 billion penalty in the Reko Diq case should make Pakistanis reconsider the military’s overwhelming presence in their lives.

Giant asteroid has gold worth $700 quintillion. But it won’t make us richer

Asteroid 16 Psyche has enough gold to give everyone on Earth $93 billion. But it won’t remain precious if it hits the markets in large quantities.

Gold jewellers count on discounts and Akshaya Tritiya to boost business

Gold demand in India is picking after slow sales in the last couple of years as higher prices and Modi govt's demonetisation hit the sector.

India joins world’s central banks in increasing gold bullion reserves

Experts say the RBI’s gold purchases are part of a wider picture developing across economies that is looking at de-dollarizing their forex reserves.

No one knows who discovered gold, but it is quietly shaping our world

Gold was always considered to be chemically “inert” – but in recent decades it has found a variety of interesting applications.

Indians are buying gold for as little as one rupee

Online sellers are trying to boost sales by selling gold in bite-sized portions.

Economists find new measuring tools for hard-to-predict Indian economy

Indicators such as rainfall, auto sales and foreign tourist arrivals, co-relate more with the old series.

This Dhanteras, a look at the 5 crazy ways Indians show their love for gold

Be it cars covered in gold, or shirts made of the golden metal, Indians seem to have done it all.

It won’t be a Happy Diwali for gold as prices surge on back of weak rupee

Gold prices have surged to their highest in more than two years and that’s not good news in the Diwali festival season.

On Camera

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.