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Leave Encashment Tax: In Service vs When You Leave
Leave you encash while still employed is part of your salary under section 16 of the Income-tax Act, 2025, and is taxed at your marginal rate. Leave encashed when you retire or leave, as a non-Government employee, is…
Build an earned leave ledger with accrual and carry-forward cap
An earned leave balance is a ledger, not a single number: for each employee and month, opening balance plus leave credited minus leave taken gives the closing balance, which becomes the next month's opening. Build it…
Learning to code from zero after 30: a realistic first 12 weeks
You can learn to code from zero after 30, and the first 12 weeks should aim at one thing: writing small, complete Python programs from a blank file without copying. Expect slower syntax recall than a 20-year-old with…
What you can and cannot learn on a phone during your commute
On a phone during a commute, you can usefully read code, predict what it outputs, review concepts, listen to explanation-heavy segments of recordings, and plan your next laptop session. You can't usefully write code…
Learn data concepts in Hindi, work in English: a bridging method
Learning data concepts in Hindi is a sensible choice if it lets you understand them properly, and it does not block an English-speaking job. The skill to add is not "better English" in general but three specific things…
Laptop requirements for data and AI courses, by programme
For most data and AI courses, a 64-bit laptop with 8 GB of RAM, an SSD with at least 50 GB free and a screen of 1440×900 or larger is enough to start. The exceptions are specific: Power BI needs Windows, container-heavy…
Show numbers in lakhs and crores in Excel, Power BI and Python
In Excel, the custom format [>=10000000]##\,##\,##\,##0;[>=100000]##\,##\,##0;##,##0 shows 12345678 as 1,23,45,678, but it mis-groups negative numbers. For scaled figures like 18.40 L or 2.35 Cr, divide in a helper…
KPO non-voice to data analyst: from accuracy audits to analysis
If you work in a KPO non-voice process such as invoice indexing, data entry, claims adjudication support or document review, your quality audit sheet is the best starting point for a data analyst switch. Each column on…
Joining Bonus Tax: Recomputing Your First-Year Take-Home
A joining bonus is taxed as salary in the tax year you receive it. Section 18(1)(b)(i) of the Income-tax Act, 2025 treats any amount received from a person before joining employment with them as "profits in lieu of…
Joining Bonus Clawback: Pro-Rata Repayment, Gross or Net
A clawback clause says how much of your joining bonus you must repay if you leave before a set date. It pays to know that figure before you resign. Three things decide it: the clause's shape (full, tiered or pro-rata)…
Job scams in India: fee demands, fake offer letters, task scams
Most job scams in India follow one of three patterns: a fee demanded for registration, training or a "refundable deposit"; a fake offer letter used to collect money or identity documents; or a "task" scheme on WhatsApp…
Build a job application tracker spreadsheet with working formulas
A useful job application tracker has one row per application with columns for date applied, company, role, source, status, last contact date and next action, plus three formula columns: a follow-up due date, an overdue…
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