Uday and Akhilesh talk about how the job scenario has changed due to the evolving manufacturing sector and how the current demographic dividend forms a part of a large labour market. You can watch the video here: YouTube
Financial Express Covid-19 highlights the importance of and urgent need to build ‘digital cocoons’ for the whole population The Covid-19 series of lock-downs have brought very different experiences for varied segments of society: the contrast cannot be starker than the social media posts of fancy meals at home compared to the long walks back to hometowns. What explains the difference? Those who have been able to weave a ‘digital cocoon’ have done comparatively better than the real-world migrants. A migrant moves location for economic activity, whether a job, business or studies. In case of a real-world migrant, her presence at the site of the economic activity is sine qua non – there is simply no way that the activity can be performed without the person being there. In the case of a ‘digital migrant’, however, a virtual presence suffices. Juxtapose the move of migrants to their hometowns with the initiatives that many companies are now running to empower their employees to ‘wor...
Rediff - part 5 of 6 When you invest, you can look at the investment from two perspectives: to generate a regular periodic return or to invest for a long term, without bothering about the intermediate returns. Mutual funds are a great avenue for achieving either end. You can either choose to invest in the 'dividend' option or a 'growth' option to achieve your objectives. When a mutual fund invests money on your behalf and makes gains on the same, it can either return the gains to you or keep the gains in the fund on your behalf. You can use either of these options based on your requirements. However, be careful that you know the tax treatment! Dividend option: If you are someone who requires money on a periodic basis from your investments, then you should choose the dividend option. This means that the fund will periodically (quarterly or mostly, annually) return some of its gains to you. Note that the fund is under no obligation to declare a certain rate of ...
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