Tag: Want

Want To Teach Your Young Child About Finance? Here Are Five Simple Activities To Get You Started.

Loknath Das

Little Joe’s Coffee & Books, Katonah NY MARY ANN DAVIS Growing up, most of us (adults) weren’t taught about finance. Money was considered taboo, and it simply wasn’t spoken of. Today we are paying for it. It’s obvious now the problems that come along with not having a financial education. Adults are swimming in debt through credit cards and student loans. Financial stress wreaks havoc on marriage and health. Most Americans do not have enough saved for retirement. But really, this shouldn’t be surprising. Why should adults know how to manage their…

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Want free Netflix or Amazon Prime? Go for these mobile recharge plans

Loknath Das

Good amount of data, unlimited calling benefits and few SMSs a day, all these together make a perfect a recharge plan? Or do they? What if your recharge pack could get you access to Sacred Games or Jack Ryan web series, won’t that be an ideal recharge plan? Of course, nobody would say no to something extra and that too something like Netflix or Amazon Prime. Amazon Prime and Netflix are two leading video streaming services in India. Both the services offers a free trial for a month but then…

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3 Things To Get If You Want To Travel In Style

Loknath Das

The Swirlster Picks team writes about stuff we think you’ll like. Swirlster has affiliate partnerships, so we get a share of the revenue from your purchase. Travel in style to make heads turn wherever you go Winter is here! And apart from the glorious fact that we get to indulge in some winter fashion, another thing we are thrilled about is that this is the perfect weather to those places which were too hot to travel to in summer months. So a weekend trip or two is not a bad…

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Want to travel the world? First head to these 7 trending spots for the vacay of your life

Loknath Das

Seven reasons the size of a continent why you should swap your corner office for travelling to the four corners of the earth. To reduce the world to a list of top destinations is a near impossible task. But for a variety of reasons some places are favoured over others and become the flavour of the moment. Here are some of the top spots trending this year: Asia The five Stans of Central Asia  Together, the five Stans — Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan — of Central Asia spell…

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10 SECRETS TRAVEL INFLUENCERS DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT THEIR “PERFECT” VACATIONS

Loknath Das

Most travel influencers make the #goodlife look effortless — like every day just so happens to begin with an oceanside feast and end with champagne glasses clinking as a pink sun melts into the horizon. There are lavender fields galore, and hey — do y’all have a special strategy for finding a city’s most charming doors? But really: How do they do it?! Here, nine full-fledged travel influencers reveal the biggest secrets behind their highly filtered lives: 1. THEY HAVE NO REAL HOME BASE “I don’t have an apartment, and I haven’t for two years,” says…

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Want to buy a house? Here’s how much to invest in SIPs to achieve your goal

Loknath Das

Disclaimer: This story is for informational purposes only and should not be taken as investment advice. Financial goals are an integral part of investing money into various schemes. Setting aside a life or financial goal can often be motivational for higher investments. A call to Zee Business mutual fund helpline came from a 28 year old investor who has started an SIP in six funds. His dream is to buy a house after a period of seven year and will continue with his investments after that. For that he said he wanted a…

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Want to try a ski safari? Head to Four Seasons’ upcoming European ski destination hotel

Loknath Das

While Courchevel, in the French Alps, was in the spotlight during last year’s ski season with the opening of the Barrière group’s first hotel in the mountains, for 2017, the focus is on Megève, with a new luxury establishment in store from Four Seasons and Edmond de Rothschild Heritage. The Canadian luxury hospitality group and the Rothschild family have joined forces to bring a new very-high-end offer to the Megève hotel scene. With it, Benjamin and Ariane de Rothschild will be boosting the profile of the ski resort in France’s…

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ASEAN academics want India to play leadership role in improving connectivity, commerce and security

Loknath Das

New Delhi: Amidst the aggressive and unpredictable behaviour of China, Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) want India to take and play leadership role in improving commerce, connectivity and security in the region. This was the common viewpoint expressed by speakers from the ASEAN nations at the academic session on the second day of the two-day Delhi Dialogue on Wednesday. Themed on ‘ASEAN-India Relations: Charting the Course for the Next 25 Years,’ the event, held annually since 2009, discusses politico-security, economic and socio-cultural engagement between ASEAN and India. Speaking in…

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Want to crack IIT-JEE? Take up chess like this Varanasi lad

Loknath Das

Varanasi: His mastery over chess taught Adarsh Srivastava all the right moves to crack IIT-JEE Advanced 2017, with AIR 355. He scored 286 out of 366. “As right moves hold the key to victory in chess tournaments, similarly the use of the right formula holds a solution to each question of mathematics,” Srivastava told HT soon after the declaration of the IIT-JEE Advanced results. “I like playing chess. It improves my concentration levels and helps me crack mathematical problems. One wrong move in chess can change everything, leading to defeat ,…

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Applicants Want Mix of Old and New Technology in Recruitment, Survey Finds

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Now that most teenagers have access to a smartphone, they want colleges to text them — except when they don’t. Student recruitment is complicated like that, as a new national survey of college-bound students suggests. Although most respondents (57 percent) said they were willing to receive texts from colleges, some kinds of messages appealed to them more than others. The vast majority were open to time-sensitive texts about application deadlines (86 percent), responses to specific questions (82 percent), and reminders about events they had registered for (75 percent). But they…

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