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SMS spam by Income tax department to pay advance tax

December 14, 2011

Would you believe, starting from 4 December, I received over 50 SMS’s from the Income Tax Department, asking me (and others) to pay the advance tax by 15 December 2011. ‘Help India Grow’, ‘Help build the nation’, ‘Help accelerate progress’ and ‘Don’t wait for 15 th Dec’: these were the themes of all the messages [...]

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KVB offers 9% interest on short term deposit (15 to 300 days)

December 14, 2011

Normally, you’d find the best interest rate on deposits if the period is between 1 to 2 years. Lesser period that that will earn you less interest which is also applicable for mega larger periods, such as 5 to 10 years. But occasionally, you’ll find banks’ coming out with special deposit schemes, when there is [...]

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Nissan launches Sunny Diesel; Price too high than petrol version

December 13, 2011

It not a surprise any more to see your neighbour shell out a lakh more to purchase a diesel car instead of a petrol one. And it’s is least surprising to see car companies produce more number of diesel cars than petrol to meet that demand. So here is Nissan, launching the Diesel version of [...]

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Airtel Hello tunes album (charges, subscribe & unsubscribe info)

December 13, 2011

Got bored of using a single song as your Hello tune? Or bored of changing the song once every month? Say hello to Airtel’s ‘Hello Tunes Album’. It is similar to Hello Tunes song, but instead, you have an album here. An album is a collection of 4 songs from a movie (that you can [...]

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Vodafone mobile service discontinued? For not in use for 60 days

December 13, 2011

While browsing the Vodafone India website today, I’ve found an interesting note at the bottom of its web pages. It says that the service to a mobile number will be discontinued if it is not in use for 60 continuous days. This includes not using that mobile number for making or receiving calls, sending/receiving SMS’s [...]

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6% Savings interest rate; not worth a move for banks?

December 12, 2011

When RBI has lifted its control over the Savings bank interest rate, most of the people would have thought the banks’ would raise the rate (they are currently offering) to stop outflow. While some banks, notably, Kotak Mahindra and Yes Bank (and 1 or 2 smaller banks) have raised quite immediately after the announcement, there [...]

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A contribution card for PF account holders; Nothing for PPF yet

December 12, 2011

Have no choice but to contribute to EPF (or just PF)? Well, here is what you might get soon, a ‘Contribution card’. About 4.72 crore employees contributing to the future fund will get these cards from April 2012, if things go by as planned. The final decision on implementing this will be taken when the [...]

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