Interestingly, NSDL’s CAS monthly holding reports now value equities by face value instead of market value (as they did until August).
That change makes it hard to track portfolio variations. I am not sure if it’s intentional or just a mistake.

Reason No 999999 why one should convert to Buddhism.

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Ezhava Hindu youth BA Balu was recruited by the Devaswom Recruitment Board for the post of kazhakam — a person who helps the priests in rituals — at the temple. But the upper caste temple priests protested against the appointment demanding that their helper should be from the upper caste Warrier community.

indianexpress.com/article/indi

Faced with caste discrimination at Koodalmanikyam temple in Thrissur under the government-controlled Devaswom Board, a man from the state’s backward classes has decided not to join the assigned post at the temple. He has now been reassigned to another job.

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‘Approach of priests has pained me’: Kerala OBC man refuses to join post at Thrissur temple | India News – The Indian Express

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