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In the past six months, between April-September 2021, the top three cryptocurrency exchanges – WazirX, CoinSwitch Kuber and CoinDCX – have blocked over two lakh accounts citing malicious activities.

With IPOs of two Third-Party Administrators (TPAs) expected to come up soon, Sai Prabhakar and Maulik Madhu discuss their role in the insurance industry.

The Government has underlined Air India’s special dispensation in terms of foreign direct investment (FDI) policy that dictates a cap of 49 per cent on all foreign investments.

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As various States notched up the volume against Centre for the paucity of coal and resultant power outages, the Centre hit back on Tuesday morning, accusing the States of selling power at higher price in power exchanges while load-shedding for consumers at the same time.

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Professor Kanishka Biswas of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Research, Bengaluru, an autonomous institution of the governmental Department of Science and Technology, has just been named as one of the recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award, the highest Indian award for scientific work, for his development of a ‘high performance thermoelectric material’, Cadmium-doped Silver Antimony Telluride. 

Due to a phenomenon called ‘Seebeck effect’, if there is a temperature differential across the ends of two dissimilar electrical conductors or semiconductors, then a voltage will automatically develop between the two materials. The key here is temperature differential, which is hard to sustain. However, Cadmium doped Silver Antimony Telluride is a bad conductor of heat while also being a good conductor of electricity. This means that with this material, it is possible to tap waste heat and produce electricity from it.

Harish Bhat, author of #TataStories, takes us on a nostalgic journey into the creation of the Air India Maharajah.

Satya Sontanam and Hari Viswanath discuss what earnings yield is and why it is a helpful tool to evaluate stocks vs.  Other asset classes

Syringe and needle producers in the country are an anguished lot, as they face the prospect of their hard-earned reputation getting dented globally.

Following a Government directive this week, restricting the export of syringes – these manufacturers find themselves in a position where they will not be able to honour existing global commitments. A tag of being “undependable”, they caution, affects not just these entrepreneurs but also the country.

Rajiv Nath, President, All India Syringes and Needles Manufacturers Association, urges the Government to have a dialogue with the industry for better supply-chain management so no one’s left is unhappy. Nath is also Chairman and Managing Director, Hindustan Syringes & Medical Devices (HMD), India’s largest syringe maker and among the largest global producers of auto-disable syringes.

An IIT Madras researcher engineers material so as to gather electrons and make them do useful work--such as splitting water under sunlight. The research gives birth to a new field of science called 'polarisation photo electro chemistry'.

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Finding your tax burden quite high?  Satya Sontanam and Maulik Madhu discuss why any plans to share your income with near and dear ones to reduce the tax outgo, will fall flat.