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Uttam

The middle class is not savvy enough or has time to research stocks anywhere in the world. That's why we need a robust system based upon mutual fund / Exchange Traded Funds. In the US the cheapest funds nowadays have management fees of less than 0.1%. What are the cheapest ETFs/Mutual Funds in India...

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Another 13 lakhs will 7 PM today. Total now 6.43 crores. There seems to be a pattern for last two days. 13 lakhs till 7 PM and then another 7 lakhs (or maybe there is a delay in capturing data) by 8 AM then following day. So a total of about 20 lakhs. That's slow for India's potential. Hopefully, w...

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PPF hits 46 year low of 6.4% as govt cuts interest rates of small savings schemes This is great news. Given the yields on G-sec securities are down, there is no reason for Govt. to keep paying such high interest rates on these small saving schemes. High interest rates in the small saving schemes ha...

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Less than 13 lakhs today until 7 pm.

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Here are the weekly numbers of vaccinations in India since March 1st: Mar 1 - Mar 7: 6.69 mil Mar 8 - Mar 14: 8.92 mil Mar 15 - Mar 21: 15.15 mil Mar 22 - Mar 28: 15.46 mil So the current rate is a little over 1.5 crores per week. This week a lot more people will be eligible and we should see a lot ...

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Besides the PRC, only the US and India are vaccinating at the highest rate. The US looks consistently over 2.5M/day and India is right there, just slightly behind. I think the PRC wants to boost up its numbers just so they can smack the smug Americans and Europeans and tell them to get their act to...

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Highest global COVID-19 contact rate in India Indian Supermodel for Covid predicts national peak of second wave by mid-April with 70-80K new cases daily. India is witnessing the world’s highest coronavirus contact rate, whereby an infected person is infecting another one every two days. What is wor...

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The ball in the vaccination court is with states now. Center has so far transferred 8.29 crore doses , and states have administered only 5.5 crores and wasted some. A few states like Rajasthan, Gujarat, Kerala, Uttarakhand, etc. are performing much better than others. Maybe there should be a quick c...

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SBI has put together a very interesting report on the second wave of Covid infection. I couldn't find the report itself but here is an article about it. This caught my eye: https://i.ibb.co/JkxKmNp/Screen-Shot-2021-03-26-at-9-49-22-AM.png TN and Punjab seem to be most vulnerable. They have a relativ...

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I noticed very interesting stats on Cowin dashboard with regards to registration: Total Registrations: 5.37 crores FLW and HCW: 2.16 crores Online: 0.79 crores Walk-in: 2.41 crores Meaning 2.41/3.2 = 75.2% of the general public has "contacted" Cowin platform through "Walk-ins." T...

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India delays big exports of AstraZeneca shot as infections surge

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Here is where we stand relative to our neighbors:

The slope for India is the steepest. That means, we started late but are rapidly catching up.

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Talking about gumming up the system, here is another example where PILs at SC have the potential to bring the economic engine to a complete halt: Centre seeks early Supreme Court ruling on Hindustan Zinc stake sale evoked a sharp response from a bench headed by CJI S A Bobde, who asked, “What is the...

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I hope they make every judge in the nation understand this. There have been too many judgements by hyperactive judges on policy matters, which have gummed up the system. I remember there were a lot of judges trying to throw spanners in the initial days of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 impleme...

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Those above 45 years can get Covid-19 vaccine from April 1 With the Covid-19 surging across India again, anyone above 45 years will now be able to get the Covid-19 vaccine from April 1, Union minster Prakash Javadekar said on Tuesday. He requested people entitled to get themselves registered to tak...

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Another Indian vaccine getting close. With increased infection rates, they are soon likely to get data on the 150 symptomatic COVID patients, needed for emergency authorization. (just looking for a silver lining!) ZyCoV-D will hit markets in May-June Interview/ Pankaj Patel, chairman, Zydus group Cu...

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Average daily FASTag collection crosses Rs 100 crore-mark This is over from 1st March 2021 to 16th March 2021 period. Just a back of the envelope calculation: Annual toll collection = 356 * 100 = 35,600 crores. The current India's Govt. Bonds yield (30-year maturity) = 6.842% The Monetized Value of...

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Looks like Alstom is preparing for the increased demand for locomotives from DFCs Madhepura facility will be able to deliver 20 locomotives in month, which is almost double the earlier capacity Alstom to deliver 14 more high-power locomotives to Indian Railways Speaking exclusively to BusinessToday....

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Many states are being actively encouraged by the center to increase vaccination rates. I saw the news about HP, Haryana, etc. I am hoping that the average daily rate of vaccination will climb to 3M per day. Increasing the gap between the two doses of Covidshield is a welcome move. Clinical studies h...

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A total of 19,65,635 vaccine doses were given till 7 p.m. on Monday, the 66th day of nationwide Covid-19 vaccination.

The cumulative number of Covid-19 vaccine doses administered in the country has crossed 4.72 crore on Monday.

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Customs duty change: First auction fetches solar bid tariff of Rs 2.20 per unit The first solar auction after the announcement of the basic customs duty on solar imports fetched a tariff of Rs. 2.20, much to the surprise of the renewable energy industry. Currently, the lowest tariff discovered in t...

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It would be interesting to cross check this new wave of infected population against the first dose vaccinated ones. and to see how many of them developed a severe disease versus mild-moderate disease. The clinical results so far have shown a remarkable effect of the vaccine in eliminating a severe ...

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FACTBOX-India's many COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing deals NEW DELHI, March 22 (Reuters) - India is the world's biggest maker of vaccines and its companies have signed deals to manufacture or sell billions of doses of various coronavirus shots. Here are the production or marketing details announced ...

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AstraZeneca vaccine found to be 79% effective in U.S. trial, ‘no increased risk’ of blood clots The findings of a large U.S. trial have shown that the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford is 79% effective in preventing symptomatic illness and 100% effective agai...

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Private hospitals going slow, affecting vaccine campaign

In my humble opinion, there is a need to increase compensation to private facilities.

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If it's 10.4 percent efficacy againt the new variant, does that mean covidshield is now useless and we are back to square one? So what difference it makes whether Covidshield vaccine exists or not other than to ramp up Covaxin production? The 10.4% efficiency for South Afrian variant is against mil...

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Uttam wrote:COVAXIN production expected to reach 700 million doses per year by the second half of this year.

I posted this earlier. BB is in the process of raising capacity of Covaxin production to 700 million per year.

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Here is data point. I just saw a message on my society’s WhatsApp in Haryana. The local Primary Health Center is asking eligible people of the society to register for vaccination. They will come to the community center of the society to vaccinate if the number of registrations exceed 50 . I thought ...

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Latest from Cowin 23.5 lakhs today eod. Total up to 4.13 crores.

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I assume this 8pm stat is from Cowin ? Asking because the PR only lists upto 7pm: https://pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetailm.aspx?PRID=1706161 . It says 18,16,161 vaccine doses upto 7pm. So they added another 123,000 odd vaccinations in the single hour around dinner time. I checked Cowin dashboard at ab...

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Another 19.39 Lakhs till 8 pm today. Total now 4.089 crores shots.

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Covid-19: Centre mulling above-45 vaccine The Centre’s advisers are discussing a proposal to offer Covid-19 vaccines to people 45 years or older amid fears of a second nationwide wave and demands from health experts and state authorities to widen vaccination coverage. A proposal to extend the vacci...

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EU's drama with AstraZeneca vaccine continues: EU to send letter to AstraZeneca in possible first step of legal action BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission will send a letter to AstraZeneca as part of efforts to resolve a dispute with the Anglo-Swedish company over its supplies of COVID-19 v...

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The point here is not whether corruption is good or bad. Corruption is BAD (period.) The point is to look at what is causing this corruption. Are there any market distortions that make corruption lucrative? In my opinion, this corruption is happening because there is a distortion between allowable d...

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It is a difficult question. Yes, even on black market somebody is vaccinated. However the ask is, is someone deserving getting vaccinated? Take the case of say a bus conductor <45 years of age and no comorbidity. Or the gig-worker. It will be helpful both to the economy and to that individual to ge...

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As long as it's sold and consumed domestically, it's 'ok' - vaccinated people in any case are a good thing. The black market is symptomatic of supply issues and the solution is to fix the supply. Wasting police on chasing people down is pointless here. Too much of a waste of time , effort and publi...

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On the other hand, 12% wastage in vaccinations in Telangana/AP! :shock: That is criminal. I do not understand why the "district collector" and the "district magistrate" be hauled up and locked up for this! And no news paper talks about it. Is it wasted OR being sold on the black...

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COVAXIN production expected to reach 700 million doses per year by the second half of this year.

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2.03 million on 17th as per cowin dashboard till 11 p.m And that's really not enough for India's size. It needs to go up to 5 million on average a day. Here is what should be done now (most of this is based on posts on this forum): 1) Allow the private and public-sector employers to start buying va...

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Suraj wrote: 2.2 million up to EOD according to MoHFW data. Not sure why it wasn't much more for the full day.

Just my hunch. I think it has something to do with EU chatter about Covidshield. Don't have data to support it but heard from people that the vaccine hesitancy has gone up.

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