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Bangalore Gold price up by 1275 per gram

Three days after PM Modi told a Telangana audience to skip gold this wedding season, the Centre hiked import duty from 6% to 15%.

Bangalore Gold: ₹14,115/g yesterday → ₹15,390/g today. That's ₹1,275 per gram in a single day. Silver: now ₹300/g.

The speech on the 10th May by PM Modi covered three things in one breath: skip gold for weddings for a year, drive less, work from home like Covid. Sudha Murty publicly backed it this week. Then the duty landed.

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u/Inevitable-Ad-6481 — 10 days ago

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Chennai gold rate jumps massively by 1275 per gram

In one day, gold prices have jumped sharply against the backdrop of the central government hiking the gold/silver import duty from 6% to 15%.

This is in the backdrop of PM Modi asking the country on the 10th to skip gold purchases for weddings for at least a year, drive less, work from home. Three days later the duty hike landed. Wedding shopping lists this season are wearing the squeeze.

Chennai jewellery rate jumped from ₹14,115/g yesterday to ₹15,390/g today ₹1,275 per gram in a single day, or roughly ₹10,200 extra per sovereign overnight. Up ₹1,555 over the past week.

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u/Inevitable-Ad-6481 — 10 days ago

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So electricity just got 56 paise/unit costlier from today. For a 300-unit household that's around ₹170 extra on the next bill — not a wallet-killer on its own, but stack it on the gas price bump from a few weeks ago and the monthly utilities line is quietly creeping up.

KERC's reasoning is that BESCOM is sitting on roughly ₹2,000 cr in losses and someone has to absorb it. Spoiler: it's us.

The small wrinkle worth knowing — new rates kick in from today's meter readings. So whether the next bill is half-old-rate-half-new or fully on the new schedule depends on where your billing cycle falls. Worth checking the last-read date on your previous bill before you get surprised.

source: Live Bengaluru App.

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u/Inevitable-Ad-6481 — 22 days ago

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Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced a high-speed bullet train service between Chennai and Bengaluru that would cut travel time from the current 4+ hours to 73 minutes.

Key points from the announcement:

One of India's busiest inter-city rail corridors — gets high priority
Phased rollout: new tracks, station upgrades, integrated safety systems
World-class technology standards (the line they always use)
Follows the precedent of the Mumbai–Ahmedabad bullet train project (which is still under construction)

no cost figure, no DPR status mentioned in the announcement.

Worth taking seriously? Mumbai–Ahmedabad was sanctioned in 2017 and is still partial. That said, a Chennai–Bengaluru corridor at 73 minutes is the kind of project that would meaningfully reshape both cities' commute markets — IT, healthcare, weekend travel, the lot. Even with realistic delays.

Curious what the sub thinks: do you actually see this getting funded and delivered in any reasonable timeframe, or is this one for the "announced 2026, opens 2045" file?

source: Live Chennai App

u/Inevitable-Ad-6481 — 22 days ago

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Karnataka has promulgated the Motor Vehicles Taxation (Amendment) Ordinance. Two changes that matter for most people here:

1. Out-of-state vehicles — cars, jeeps, mini-buses and two-wheelers registered outside Karnataka but operating "permanently" within the state must now pay road tax to the state. Govt's stated reasoning: thousands of vehicles use Karnataka roads without contributing tax revenue, and many residents were registering elsewhere to avoid it.

2. EV exemption partially rolled back — EVs priced above ₹25 lakh will now attract a 10% tax. Below that, exemption presumably continues.

Rate schedule:

Vehicles ₹10L–₹15L: 15%
Vehicles above ₹15L: 18%
EVs above ₹25L: 10%
Older vehicles: based on age + depreciation

How "operating permanently within the state" gets defined and enforced is going to be the interesting part — the existing 12-month rule already covers this on paper, so this may be more about enforcement teeth than new policy. EV side seems clearer-cut.

u/Inevitable-Ad-6481 — 22 days ago