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New Delhi: You can do everything “right” for three decades - save diligently, avoid indulgences, build a nest egg and still face the most unsettling retirement question: will your money last as long as you do? Retirement is no longer a short chapter after work; it can stretch two or even three decades. And how long your retirement corpus lasts depends on how you withdraw, how long the withdrawals last, and how resilient your plan is to inflation, longevity, and medical contingencies. Millions of Indians face the same silent fear after retirement. Income stops on a date, while life doesn’t.…

New Delhi: Capital appreciation in NCR is beginning to follow a far more predictable, corridor-led pattern. What’s changing is not just the pace of price movement, but the mindset behind it. Investors today aren’t chasing momentum; they’re responding to visible, on-ground value creation - be it infrastructure nearing completion, stronger social ecosystems, or consistent leasing activity. Thus, appreciation is no longer just a by-product of market cycles; it’s increasingly becoming a marker of how mature and well-aligned a micro-market truly is. What’s lending this appreciation cycle its credibility is the depth of forces underpinning it, and the data now reflects…

Mumbai: The United States has extended the exemption from sanctions on seaborne Russian oil by one month, an official statement said. The US Treasury Department issued an order on Monday extending the exemption from sanctions on Russian oil stranded at sea on or before April 17 until June 17. "Effective May 18, 2026, General License No. 134B, which was issued on April 17, 2026, and expired on May 16, 2026, is fully replaced and revoked by this General License No. 134C," the order issued by the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control said. The statement comes after India said…