UNIQUE TIMES Magazine - January - February 2020

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After a dream run in 2019, gold likely to pause for breath

AFTER A DREAM RUN IN 2019, GOLD PRICES LIKELY TO PAUSE FOR BREATH

In December 2019, the US Federal Reserve Bank announced new term operations totalling $365 billion (over the two months upto January 2020), which involves ramping up the amount of temporary liquidity injections into the overnight lending markets. The Fed is to offer a total of $490 billion in liquidity via repo operations, including the $75 billion that it has already pumped in through three earlier term actions.

7 mins

CONVERTING THE ‘ABILITY TO LEARN' INTO A STRATEGIC ADVANTAGE

Learning is also not easy. It is an intellectual nightmare as what we have learnt in our past experiences, school and college are often taken as definitions and agreed upon. It is also psychologically difficult because learning points to uncomfortable truths at times. As Peter Thiel, the legendary venture capitalist says ‘brilliant thinking is rare but courage is in shorter supply’.

4 mins

Smt Nirmala Sitharaman: The First Fulltime Female Finance Minister

Her non-political career is as eventful as her political career. She was an assistant to Economist in the Agricultural Engineers Association in the United Kingdom. She also served as a senior manager in R&D. She was even a part of the BBC World Service team.

4 mins

GOODS AND SERVICES TAX-KEY DEVELOPMENTS

The message of the government is now indeed loud and clear that strict action would be taken against all defaulters. It would indeed augur well for trade to ensure compliance with the provisions of law rather than to face the wrath of the Department. As evidenced above, the Standard Operating Procedure would indeed go a far way in the matter of best judgment assessment and deciding the fate of non-filers of various returns.

4 mins

FACTS ABOUT DOWN'S SYNDROME

Down syndrome (trisomy of chromosome 21) is the most common chromosome abnormality in humans occurring in about one per 1000 babies born each year. It is typically associated with physical growth delay, characteristic facial and physical features, mild to moderate intellectual disability and poor immune function.

7 mins

MEANINGFUL CONNECTIONS THAT MAKE YOUR BUSINESS

Customer is the king in any business. They are the one who decide whether you should stay in business or not. Customers pay your salaries, through the business they do with you. Keeping them happy and delighted, hence, becomes the prime priority when it comes to sustaining a business.

3 mins

THE PLIGHT OF UNORGANISED WORKFORCE

When it is discussed about the topic of labour environment, only the organised sector is taken into consideration often. What is left unattended usually is the unorganised sector in which the majority of the labour population of the country resides.