Every resident Indian who has tried to invest in global markets hits the same wall eventually. The Liberalised Remittance Scheme allows a maximum of USD 250,000 per financial year for all permissible capital account and current account transactions combined. For a serious long-term investor who wants meaningful international diversification, USD 250,000 is useful but often not enough, especially once travel, education, and other personal foreign currency uses are factored in.

A circuit limit, also called a price band or circuit breaker, is a regulatory cap on how much a stock's price can move in a single trading day. SEBI and the stock exchanges set these limits to prevent extreme intraday price swings that could be driven by panic, speculation, manipulation, or sudden news. The upper circuit is the maximum price a stock can reach in a single session. Once the stock hits this ceiling, trading is halted. No buy orders can be executed above that lev

On 3 June 2026, SEBI whole-time member Kamlesh Chandra Varshney signed a 109-page interim ex-parte order against Rajesh Exports Limited and its promoter Rajesh Mehta. The order, catalogued as WTM/KV/CFID/CFID-SEC6/32431/2026-27, is one of the most detailed and damning regulatory documents issued against an Indian listed company in recent memory. It does not merely allege that revenues were inflated. It sets out, chapter by chapter, how revenues attributed to Swiss subsidiarie

Interactive Brokers gives Indian investors direct access to stocks, ETFs, bonds, and funds across 170 global market centres. This guide covers every step: opening an account, funding it under LRS, what you can actually buy, the true cost of currency conversion, how gains are taxed in India, US estate tax risks, and the compliance obligations you cannot afford to ignore. If you are based in India and is someone who wants the broadest possible access to global markets from a s

Apple. Nvidia. Alphabet. Microsoft. Amazon. The world’s most valuable companies trade on US exchanges. Indian investors have never had more ways to own a piece of them. This guide covers every route: direct stock investing under the LRS framework, GIFT City platforms, and mutual funds that invest in US stocks, with actual fund names, US stock allocations, and the tax rules you must know. For most of India’s investing history, owning a share of Apple or Amazon felt like someth