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With retail inflation still over 7%, people in lower-income groups have cut back on essentials while those who are better off are prioritizing expenses.

One morning earlier this month, I ran into Savita Kumari, a security guard at a gated community in Greater Noida who works a 12-hour shift.
A single mother of four-year-old twins—a girl and a boy—Kumari lives with her mother in Ghaziabad, not far from Delhi. At 30, she is the sole earner. With a bachelor’s degree in English, she worked at several call centres before she got married in 2015. Four years later, she separated from her alcoholic husband, after which she was hired as a housekeeping supervisor at New Delhi’s Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station, a job that paid Rs …

The newly announced levy on UPI payments undermines the very foundation of using digital payments for stock market investing. Brokers are in a tizzy.
The stock market regulator is investigating a string of disappointing public listings. The idea is to send a message.