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Last week in a nutshell

21 May, 20242 minutes read
Last week in a nutshell

“The govt. is a sleeping partner while we are the working partner”

At a recent BSE event, a stockbroker from Mumbai asked Nirmala Sitharaman, the finance minister of India, a question that she literally could not answer.  Keep scrolling for the full story. 

Will Chabahar Port be India’s next victory over Pakistan

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GPT 4o is born, but its parents are gone

OpenAI has recently launched GPT-4o, which promises remarkable advancements in producing human-like speech. Mysteriously, a day before the launch, Jan Leike who led the development of GPT4o announced his resignation from OpenAI. 

You take the risk, the government gets rich. 

Once upon a time, at a BSE event in Mumbai… 

On Tuesday, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was grilled by a stockbroker about India’s heavy taxes. The broker’s critical questions went viral in a video. 

He pointed out that various taxes, like GST, IGST, stamp duty, STT, and long-term capital gains tax, are eating into investors’ profits. He argued that the government was making more money than brokers and called the government his… 

“sleeping partner.”

To this, Sitharaman jokingly replied, “A sleeping partner cannot answer sitting here.”

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