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India Focus: Cut your building costs and help the environment

The other day when my chartered accountant was busy computing my taxes he gave me a bit of good news (rather rare for a chartered accountant) that if I had constructed/bought my house/apartment funded partly by a loan taken from my provident fund, a Housing Finance Corporation, a bank or my employer I would get a massive rebate in that dreaded income tax.

Arvind Mills need no introduction. For all of us are familiar with the image of a tough looking man in cowboy's clothes and hat set at a jaunty angle so that the eyes are not visible at all leaping at us out of all the old magazines and the legend Arvind Mills emblazoned at the bottom of the page.

Whatever confusion one might have about how to go about acquiring housing loans one of the major areas which always confuses people are the foreclosure norms.

Indo-Gulf Corp began the millennium with a bang by reviewing its business strategies after having begun its operations in fertilisers.

As one grows older and is faced with the harsh reality of life one realises that one has to provide for ones old age.

Unit area method (UAM) is emerging as an alternative to the rental method as the base to compute property tax (PT).

There comes a time in life when one feels the urgent need for money. So what does one do at a time like this. Turn to friends? No way. Ask big brother or sister.

Once upon a time, there was a trans-yamuna area which was looked down upon by true blue Delhiites.

Stock options. A brave new world, the introduction of which in the capital markets has given investors a longer leash where their portfolios and trading strategies are concerned.

Ever wondered where that money goes by the middle of the month.

The story that I am about to tell you has often been repeated in the lives of many Indians. I have a friend who is a young achiever.