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The choice of red colour for your dream car may match your vibrant personality, but you may end up paying higher premium for it due to the poor visibility factor.  Insurers say vehicles with colours like beige, red and blue induce poor visibility during night and are hence, prone to a higher rate of accidents. Therefore, when arriving at the premium, vehicle owners with vibrant...

The general insurance industry grew 12.53 per cent in 2007-08 with robust performance by private players, including Reliance General which continues to be the fastest growing insurer. The 13 non-life insurers collected Rs 28,131 crore in premium in FY''''08, against Rs 24,998 crore collected in the previous fiscal, according to the industry data.  During the period, the four public...

Seeing a market, banks give the pullers a push The design replaces traditional wooden frames with hollow iron pipes to make the three-wheeler both sturdier and lighter, adding more luggage and leg space as well On a bank's radar, Dinanath Patel is but a blip-potentially, a big blip. For banks in search of new clients, his profession of nearly eight million rickshaw pullers...

The best things in the world are free, said Kareena Kapoor's character, Geet, in Jab We Met. However, in an immediate afterthought, she realized how even buying a bottle of water can be impossible without some ready cash. Apart from being a delightful film, this film is interesting for the way its main characters make the 1,270 km long journey from Mumbai to Bathinda with Aditya's...

When 38-year-old Santosh Balan, a senior private sector executive, was faced with a medical emergency concerning his wife, settling the hospital bill was the least of his concerns he had the necessary medical cover. But an overlooked lapse in procedure almost cost him a tidy sum. At the time of discharge, the third party administrator (TPA) had not processed the claim or intimated...