Ashish Agashe, Shilpi Pandey

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Sebi Steps Up Surveillance Amid Surge in Retail Investors
Rediff.com2 Mar 2026

Sebi Chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey announced intensified surveillance and...

Retail rush, SIPs drive Rs 14 lakh cr jump in mutual fund assets in 2025
Rediff.com31 Dec 2025

Mutual fund industry extended its bull run in 2025, adding a staggering Rs 14 lakh...

Foreign investors withdrew record Rs 1.6 lakh cr from Indian equities in 2025
Rediff.com28 Dec 2025

Foreign investors fled Indian equities in 2025 at a scale never seen before, pulling...

FPI inflows into Indian equities drop sharply in 2024; rebound anticipated in 2025
Rediff.com25 Dec 2024

After a robust 2023, foreign investors significantly scaled back their investments in...

Mutual fund industry on a high; asset surges Rs 17 lakh cr in 2024
Rediff.com24 Dec 2024

After a stellar 2023, the mutual fund industry sustained its growth momentum in 2024...

IPO boom: Record Rs 1.6 lakh cr raised in 2024
Rediff.com22 Dec 2024

Fundraising momentum is expected to accelerate further in the New Year, potentially...

Will RBI's new Guv usher a growth-propping rate cut in 2025?
Rediff.com22 Dec 2024

The RBI under former governor Shaktikanta Das resisted pressures to cut interest rates...

FPIs' love affair with Indian markets continues; pump Rs 1.5 lakh crore in 2023
Rediff.com17 Dec 2023

In a dazzling resurgence, foreign investors have graced the Indian equity markets with...

FPIs dump shares with record net outflow of Rs 1.2 lakh cr in 2022
Rediff.com28 Dec 2022

After three consecutive years of infusing huge funds, foreign portfolio investors...

Fund mobilisation through equity, debt routes down 20% to Rs 11 lakh cr in 2022
Rediff.com26 Dec 2022

Fund mobilisation by companies through equity and debt routes has dropped 20 per cent...

Jhunjhunwala: The RARE big bull and unabashed wealth creator
Rediff.com14 Aug 2022

Stock market investments are always said to involve risks and people who made big...

IPO fireworks in New Year too; cos likely to garner Rs 1.5 lakh cr
Rediff.com28 Dec 2021

Initial share sales are set to dazzle the Dalal Street in 2022 too as companies are...

Rescue acts, growth measures dominate RBI's platter in 2020
Rediff.com30 Dec 2020

Delivering a public speech hours after the RBI launched a rescue act for Yes Bank on...

Why migrants cycle hundreds of kms to reach home
Rediff.com12 May 2020

After five weeks of lockdown, migrant workers' patience ran out and so did the money,...

MFs add over Rs 4 lakh cr to asset base in 2019, expects momentum to continue
Rediff.com25 Dec 2019

It was because of strong inflows into debt-oriented schemes that saved 2019 from being...

Busy Mumbaikars take break, join in anti-CAA protest
Rediff.com19 Dec 2019

Denizens of the fast-paced financial capital, who value their time over everything...

Tale of two sets of passengers on a rainy night
Rediff.com2 Jul 2019

'There were no airhostesses and stewards to bring us food, water and the news of when...

'Can you drop me till wherever mob allows': Woes of a Mumbaikar
Rediff.com3 Jan 2018

A first person account of the train-walk-bike-taxi journey on Wednesday to the office,...

As rains paralysed Mumbai, people slept in offices, train stations
Rediff.com30 Aug 2017

The place of work turned into place of stay or a dormitory for the office goers and...

India lauds Brazil's support for actions to combat terror: Modi
Rediff.com17 Oct 2016

Prime Minister Narendra Modi also thanked Brazilian President Michel Temer for...