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Some 80,000 customer complaints a month about faulty scooters, and a customer frustrated enough to torch a showroom last month, is the kind of stuff that would put a company in fire-fighting mode, while its stock price plummeted. But we...

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Sucheta Dalal 08 Oct 2024
Five years after his passing, and nearly a decade after his 2015-16 Budget speech, India’s savers have many reasons to remember the late finance minister Arun Jaitley. His tenure marked the last time a serious conversation took place...

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Sucheta Dalal 04 Oct 2024
There are two kinds of people who were lured by the promise of high, tax-free, guaranteed returns on agriculture, promised by Growpital: a) those who are too young to remember the1990s when lakhs of people lost money in agriculture and...

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Sucheta Dalal 27 Sep 2024
On 13th September, media headlines said that the market regulator had completely exonerated the former management of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) in the co-location (Colo) scam of 2015.  Some speculated that this had cleared the...

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Sucheta Dalal 20 Sep 2024
The raging controversy over Madhabi Puri Buch and turmoil at the market regulatory body, almost drowned out a stunning order by the Bombay High Court on 26 August 2024. A bench of justices GS Kulkarni and Firdosh P Pooniwalla had imposed a...

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Sucheta Dalal 13 Sep 2024
A series of allegations by the Congress Party against Madhabi Puri Buch, chairperson of the Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI), sent shock waves through the financial sector yesterday, casting a further shadow over the...

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Sucheta Dalal 06 Sep 2024
A massive sum of over Rs2 lakh crore of people's unclaimed money lies trapped with the government, poorly accounted for and frustratingly difficult to reclaim, either by the original owners or, more often, by their heirs. These...

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Sucheta Dalal 30 Aug 2024
A Chilean dictator accused of crimes against humanity, including torture, mass murder and holding people hostage seems worlds apart from Hindenburg Research’s allegations against Madhabi Puri Buch (MPB), chairperson of the Securities...

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Sucheta Dalal 23 Aug 2024
The manner in which India’s market regulator, the Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI), has gone about investigating the astounding rise in share prices of the Adani group has been troubling for independent observers, even...

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Sucheta Dalal 16 Aug 2024
All good things must come to an end; and this applies to governments, markets and exchanges alike. Recent global developments have underscored this truth. India’s stock market, which has been the big shining spot for the Narendra...

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Sucheta Dalal 09 Aug 2024
Owning a home in India is not merely a financial decision, it is an aspirational and emotional issue that represents a significant personal milestone and is a measure of success. Most Indians will invest in a home as soon as they can...

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Sucheta Dalal 02 Aug 2024
In a few days, the finance minister will present the first budget of the third Modi government. Far from celebrating path-breaking reforms, this time, the optics are dire on many fronts. So much so that even its powerful social media cell,...

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Sucheta Dalal 19 Jul 2024