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Homebuyers looking for loans will be relieved after RBI decided to keep the repo rate unchanged at 4 per cent....

The RBI mandated banks to link retail loans – including home loan, personal loan, etc. - to external benchmarks such as the repo rate.

Now, what are repo-linked loan rates? Why are they important? Listen to the podcast.

Tamil Nadu and Puducherry have had a ‘normal’ monsoon so far, even as the IMD has warned that the erstwhile cyclone ‘Burevi’ could bring more rain in these States. Tirupathur, Chennai, Villupuram, Tiruvannamalai, Puducherry, Kancheepuram, Sivagangai, Virudhunagar and Cuddalore recorded surplus rainfall, while Kanniyakumari, Tiruchirapalli, Erode, Nilgiris and Salem recorded deficit rainfall. Kerala, Mahe and Lakshadweep have also logged in a deficit.

The COVID-19 active caseload in India has dipped to 4.03 lakh, the lowest after 138 days, comprising 4.18 per cent of the total coronavirus infections reported so far in the country, the Union Health Ministry said on Sunday.

While 36,011 people in India were found to be infected with COVID-19 in a span of 24 hours, 41,970 new recoveries were registered during the same period.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate via video conferencing the construction of the Agra metro project at 11:30 AM on December 7.

A defiant Donald Trump is showing no signs of surrender and has reiterated yet again his unsubstantiated allegations of widespread voter fraud, claiming at his first post-poll rally in Georgia that he won a “rigged” US presidential election that he lost.

Trump alleged that the last month’s US election was rigged in favour of his Democratic opponent Joe Biden, who is now the President-elect.

The depression over the Gulf of Mannar has weakened two ranks down to a conventional low-pressure area this (Sunday) morning but the India Meteorological Department (IMD) expects it to continue to cause moderate to heavy rain over Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Karaikal, South Kerala, Mahe and Lakshadweep on Sunday and Monday.

The IMD has forecast heavy to very heavy rainfall at isolated places Tamil Nadu and Puducherry today and tomorrow (Saturday and Sunday). Heavy rainfall is also predicted South Kerala and Mahe today while it would be heavy to very heavy over Kerala on Sunday. Heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely over Lakshadweep on both today and tomorrow.

Find out more about Cyclone Burevi and the north-east monsoons in the podcast by Vinson Kurian.

Online dance festivals have become a part of the art space. With the ‘marghazhi’ festivities around the corner, rasikas across the globe gear up for a cultural season like none other. The most pertinent question however would be regarding the cost for the art. How many ardent fans of performing arts would willing to pay a sum of money to enjoy a concert or a recital by their favourite dancer or musician? Have the trends changed over the past decade? Will artists be forced to teach online to sustain themselves?

In this episode of Stage Business, we speak with Bharatanatyam dancer and actress, Devaki Rajendran. Devaki explains why a commitment to the art, the response from the audience and as well as financial stability for an artist are not inter-linked.

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Set-off and carry-forward provisions in the income Tax Act helps the tax payer to reduce the tax outgo.

Set-off lets you adjust loss against income earned, and reduce the tax outgo for that financial year.

While Carry-forward means that losses that are not fully adjusted in a year can be taken ahead to coming years for set-off purposes, thus reducing tax outgo in the future.

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Tamil cinema has deeply influenced the politics of the State for more than half a century. A host of actors, script writers and lyricists have made their mark in the politics in the State and Superstar Rajinikanth is the latest to join this troupe. Some like MG Ramachandran, J Jayalalithaa and M Karunanidhi have succeeded, while others, have not.

Karunadhi and MGR used their movies as a means to spread the Dravidian ideology. They were full time members of the DMK and worked for the party. MGR split the DMK and formed the ADMK, only due to differences with Karunanidhi. Rajini, just like MGR, has a huge fan base. But, he lacks a political organisation and a popular brand of politics.

In this podcast, we take a look at how Rajinikanth could influence the political landscape in Tamil Nadu.

Erstwhile cyclone ‘Burevi’ weakened last (Thursday) evening itself into a deep depression, and was waiting to cross the South Tamil Nadu coast even early on Friday morning, which India Meteorological Department (IMD) hopes would take place later in the morning. This effectively clears the South Tamil Nadu and South Kerala coasts of any cyclone threat.

The United Kingdom has become the first nation in the world to grant emergency approval for a covid vaccine. The nation's Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency has given its approval to a vaccine made by Pfizer-BioNTech.

We can expect more vaccines to get the needed approvals from various countries in the coming weeks.

India is taking a different approach. Senior government officials have said that the government plans to inoculate a critical mass and break the transmission of the coronavirus.

But, would these vaccines be accessed by only selected medical specialists and health institutions?  Are vaccines the only solution to this issue?

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