The trip home costs far more than the ticket. A six-line Diwali trip budget, ways to cut costs, and what a loan app really costs if there is a gap.
No-cost EMI and Buy Now Pay Later, with the worked maths: processing fees, GST on interest, blocked card limits and the upfront discount you give up.
Seven copy-ready letters for wrong charges, recovery harassment, rejection reasons, credit report errors, cooling-off exit, NOCs and data deletion, plus the RBI escalation summary.
Since 1 July 2026 lenders report to credit bureaus four times a month. What changed, how fast payments and missed EMIs now show, and your rights when the data is wrong.
Banks must give the main reasons for a loan rejection in writing. How to ask, how to read the answer, how to check your credit report, and the 21/30-day correction clock.
When lenders can and cannot charge for prepaying or foreclosing a loan under the RBI’s 2025 directions, a worked example of what prepaying saves, and how to close a loan cleanly.
Every digital loan from a bank or NBFC has a cooling-off period of at least one day. What exiting costs, with a worked example, and how to do it.
Calling hours, notice before visits, ID, recorded calls and no contact at sensitive times: the RBI rules on recovery agents today and from 1 January 2027, and what to do if an agent crosses the line.
What a lender may ask for, what loan apps must never access, and what the DPDP Rules (notified 13 November 2025) add, phase by phase, as of October 2026.
The RBI hiked repo rate by 40 bps. This hike will translate into higher equated monthly instalments, or EMIs, on new home loans. For existing borrowers,
Applying for a joint loan is one of the most convenient ways of increasing your home loan eligibility. However, there are some other points that