Have you ever thanked your wife for doing your laundry? Have you appreciated your mom for doing the cooking for you? Well, not something you would usually do, I guess. But how about if you can get a day to appreciate the women in your family and life for their hard work and their achievements? Women’s day is the perfect time for this.

Most businesses have need for transcription services; it is seen as they normally generate a lot of audio/ video files, minutes of the meetings etc., which may need to be transcribed for better storage, easy access and so on. Let’s have a look at some of the scenarios, where investing in business transcription services, is your best bet:

Be it the call centre with over 200 staff or a financial company with about 100 employees, or even another of the multinational companies, the one thing they all have in common is they have their own IT department. This department will be in charge of maintaining the computers, software, IT repairs etc.

Children and elders alike normally get excited at this time of the season, with the nearing of Christmas time. It’s the time for celebrations, gifts, decorations, cards and the like. However, it is also the season when you are normally out of money, due to all the gifts that your need to give your family and loved ones.

Since the launch of agile software development, it’s been bogged with controversy with most of the companies claiming that it helps in quick delivery of software while also successfully managing the customer requirements. The opponents to the development style believe that it goes on to undermine some of the old and good software development practices.

With the advent of technology, you also see rise in the use of equipments like smart phones, accessories, smart home technology, machines or industrial equipment etc., which also generate a huge volume of data. Managing these data is going to be very challenging for businesses and is seeking for better ways to handle it all effectively for various processes.

Health care is one of the most bureaucratic, overly regulated industries. Not only do government regulators have a number of rules and guidelines, but private insurance companies have tremendously complicated billing procedures. They are seeking any possible excuse to deny a claim and have created a byzantine billing system to reduce claims and make the process as complicated as possible.

“Don’t trust everything you see. Even salt looks like sugar”, a commonly used quote found on the web. I am in no way belittling genuine cases here but domestic violence, the word oft heard; reminds us mostly about how women are victims of it- be it verbal, mental or physical. Very rarely does one look at the other side of the coin.

Being an Indian, all of us are familiar with the term “Namaste”, and the warm greeting that goes with it, as your host greets you with folded palms, irrespective of if you are an elder or not. The gesture goes like bending the elbows and touching the palms at the chest level. Be it Namaste or namaskar, it’s all birds of the same feather flocking together.

Before you choose to liquidate your mutual funds or even plan to invest in mutual funds, you should know how “capital gains” are taxed. These are taxed as per the holding period, either as a short term capital gains tax or as long term capital gains tax. Capital gains are the profit you make when you liquidate your mutual fund investments.

The sudden move to abolish old high denomination notes of Rs.500 and Rs.1000 seems to have had a positive effect on digital payments systems, as more and more people turn to digital payments as an alternative. The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) was launched in April by National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI).

Saving is a habit, inculcated within, probably even as a child. Don’t want your child to make the same mistakes that you did? Want them to be more money savvy? Well, you can start early and motivate your child to save now. How about some tips to go about it this 2017? Saving can be a boring old task, something which your child could easily lose interest in.