The AI Capex Bill Comes Due

Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) subscribers can no longer activate their Universal Account Number (UAN) or generate a new UAN through the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) member portal.   Following a major technology upgrade, both services have been shifted to the government’s Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance (UMANG) app, where users must complete…

Plexus: The Multiple Has Front-Run The Story

High risk warning: Foreign exchange trading carries a high level of risk that may not be suitable for all investors. Leverage creates additional risk and loss exposure. Before you decide to trade foreign exchange, carefully consider your investment objectives, experience level, and risk tolerance. You could lose some or all your initial investment; do not…

Personal Finance Published: Saturday, July 25, 2026, 14:08 [IST] The Kerala State Lottery Department has officially announced the Karunya KR-762 Lottery Result 2026 for Saturday, July 25. The weekly Kerala lottery draw was conducted at Gorky Bhavan, Thiruvananthapuram, where officials declared the winning ticket numbers for all prize categories, including the coveted Rs 1 crore…

Retail brokers handled $30.4 trillion in monthly FX and other trading volume in the second quarter of 2026, according to FM Intelligence. That is 9.3% below the first quarter’s $33.5 trillion, yet it leaves activity within 1.4% of the same period a year earlier. The quarter-on-quarter dip reads as a step back from a first-quarter…

The existing literature provides limited evidence on how environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance relates to corporate risk (in particular, total risk and systemic risk) in China. Using a comprehensive panel of companies listed on China’s A-share market (45 850 firm-year observations, and volatility-based risk measures constructed from 1 025 106 firm-day return records), this…