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Quant Mutual Fund founder Sandeep Tandon spent much of his career trading derivatives and prides himself on having conducted India’s first derivatives trade in the year 2000

The secret sauce behind the little-known fund house disrupting India’s MFs

10 min read . 01:11 AM IST

A farmer cools off with a bucket of water while working at a wheat farm in Ludhiana district of Punjab. A blistering heat wave has scorched wheat fields in India and reduced yields. (Photo: Bloomberg)

Heat, hardship and Punjab’s bitter harvest

9 min read . Updated: 24 May 2022

Stock market crashes can be followed by a weak economic scenario as well. In such a situation, it always makes sense to have some money in the bank because it allows you to make better decisions in life. (Photo: Mint)

The investment mistakes you shouldn’t make in hard times

10 min read . Updated: 23 May 2022

Revenge eating and drinking is happening like never before. After being battered for two years by the covid pandemic, the restaurant industry was finally beginning to see signs of a recovery. (Photo: iStock)

Inflation steals restaurateurs’ cheer

9 min read . Updated: 20 May 2022

Insiders have flagged irregularities in the governance process. Among the unanswered questions, were the institutional shareholders of Fino Paytech consulted?

The curious case of Fino Bank exits

10 min read . Updated: 19 May 2022

Sri Lankans are appalled that a powerful political family elected to deliver a technocracy has returned the country to a familiar past where queueing and rationing were the order of the day (Photo: AP)

Battered & bruised: Sri Lanka’s hard choices

10 min read . Updated: 18 May 2022

The textile industry is one of the country’s largest sources of employment, with an estimated 45 million people directly engaged in this sector. (Photo: Bloomberg)

China’s loss is India’s gain in the textile sector, but it’s not that easy

9 min read . Updated: 17 May 2022

Entrepreneurship mindset curriculum uses creative teaching methods, whereby students are encouraged to inculcate 21st century skills like creativity, problem solving, critical thinking and leadership.

The missing middle of Indian entrepreneurship

9 min read . Updated: 16 May 2022

A view of the Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (Gift City), located 30 km outside Ahmedabad.

At GIFT city, the glass looks half full

10 min read . Updated: 13 May 2022

Illustration: Jayachandran

The unsolved global mystery about the bug that’s making children very sick

9 min read . Updated: 12 May 2022

The warehousing and blending facility of Asian Tea & Exports, a Kolkata-based tea exporter. (Photo: Uday Bhattacharya)

The Lankan crisis is a chance for Indian tea sellers, but it’s a long haul

10 min read . Updated: 11 May 2022

India’s healthcare system has very few doctors, but what is alarming is also the shortage of nurses and midwives. The government’s Periodic Labour Force Survey data (2018-19) shows that there are only 9 lakh doctors working as of now. (Photo: HT)

How to prepare for the next pandemic

9 min read . Updated: 10 May 2022

From July 2021 onwards, retail lending has remained higher than lending to industry on a consistent basis (Photo: Mint)

How Indian banking has changed over the last decade

9 min read . Updated: 09 May 2022

Around 500,000 people of Kashmir are directly and indirectly associated with tourism. These include boat owners, hotel employees, travel agents, guides, handicrafts makers, and providers of transport and pony services. (Photo: Javaid Naikoo)

Paradise polluted: Can we save Kashmir’s lakes?

10 min read . Updated: 06 May 2022

Several states continue to be suspicious of the addictiveness of online gaming for money, and fearful of its consequences on vulnerable sections. The courts have consistently taken a less paternalistic view. (Photo: AP)

The taxman is betting big on fantasy games

10 min read . Updated: 05 May 2022

LIC has the largest insurance sales force in the country by far, accounting for 55% of the total number of agents in the country. (Photo: Mint)

Why LIC should worry about losing its agents

10 min read . Updated: 04 May 2022

In the last three years, India’s market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), initiated 150 new cases, on an average, every year for investigation in listed companies. (Photo: Mint)

Why doubling farmer income is a tough target

10 min read . Updated: 03 May 2022

Actors Deepika Padukone, Ayushmann Khurana and Alia Bhatt are among the new crop of actors who are investing in start-ups

Bollywood wants a slice of deal street action

9 min read . Updated: 29 Apr 2022

Dinesh Agrawal, founder and CEO of IndiaMart, says, ‘We know how to sell subscriptions. We are profitable because people trust our services, make money from them, and are thus comfortable paying for them’.

IndiaMart and the turf wars of the B2B e-com market

9 min read . Updated: 28 Apr 2022

About 200 million Indians are expected to upgrade to smartphones by 2025-26. (Photo: Mint )

Digital divide is widening with pricier smartphones

9 min read . Updated: 27 Apr 2022

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