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Saurabh Mukherjea of Marcellus Investment Managers has an interesting take on investing - he says that while it's human instinct to allocate the most to the highest performing assets, he's trained himself to do the reverse. Another thing that created a lot of chatter was when he said he needs a ₹50 crore corpus to retire - but Mukherjea has one key inflation calculation that he's taken into account to arrive at this number. Watch!

Reliance Industries kept its position as the most valued company, followed by TCS, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, Bharti Airtel, SBI, Infosys, LIC, ITC, and Hindustan Unilever.

Welcome to the very first episode of Guru Portfolios! In this interaction with Mint, where leaders in the financial services industry share how they manage their own money, Kalpen Parekh, MD & CEO of DSP Mutual Fund, tells us about his preference for hybrid funds, cutting down risks in his investments and using widely-diversified portfolios. WATCH!

Amid strained ties with India, Maldives has inked a pact for free military assistance from China. This comes even as the process of Indian troops' withdrawal from Maldives and replacing them with civilian personnel has started. This also comes days after a Chinese research vessel was allowed to dock in Maldives despite India's protests. Meanwhile, considering tension in the Indian Ocean Region is ratcheting up, India is opening a full-fledged Naval base in Minicoy in Lakshadweep. Watch

EAM Jaishankar while responding to a question on India's perception has a 'big bully' in the neighbourhood, pointed out how India has always stepped up and gone our of the way to help neighbouring countries. Taking a swipe at Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu, Jaishankar reminded him that India gave Maldives $4.5 billion in aid when they needed it. He also referenced how India gave other countries vaccines during the peak of COVID-19. WATCH

Baba Ramdev & his Ayurvedic medicine business are in trouble. Supreme court of India on Tuesday, issued a contempt of court notice against him and the MD of Patanjali Ayurveda Acharya Balkrishna. The two-judge bench led by Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah also criticised the central government for ‘sitting with eyes closed’ The court is angry with Patanjali for continuing to run its advertisements in which it has been making misleading claims as per the court.

Chris Wood, the global head of equity strategies at Jefferies publishes a popular weekly newsletter called Greed & Fear. In this edition of the note, Wood says that the fundamental and structural reforms in the 2 5-year terms of PM Modi's government have helped India realise its full potential. In fact, he went on to quote a note written 21 years ago, and emphasised how India has changed in the last 10 years. Watch

Indian Metals & Ferro Alloys Q3 FY24 Results Live: Revenue Increased by 9.89% YoY & Profit Increased by 899.91% YoY

Speaking about the ongoing India vs Maldives diplomatic issue, foreign minister S Jaishankar says that while 'politics is politics', people do understand the importance of relations with India. This comes even as the Maldivian government has now set a date, 15th March, for India to withdraw troops from the island nation. This also comes just after Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu's visit to China, after which he said that 'Maldives is not in any country's backyard'. Watch