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India is already actively associated with the developments of Chabahar port in Iran and the proposed 70kms railway line between the port and Gorgan will further help develop trade Recent developments in Iraq are alarming. Whether this leads to a limited military engagement by US,...

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Megan McCloskey (ProPublica) 02 July 2014
After a ProPublica story, the military will exhume a grave in the Philippines that may hold the remains of Bud Kelder, an American POW whose family has long been fighting the Pentagon to get him home  After years of refusing to act, the U.S. military has reversed course and has decided...

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Dalbir Chhibbar 01 July 2014
Real and inclusive growth cannot take place until India's 6.25 lakh and more villages and hamlets are developed and well governed. One block development officer (BDO) is absolutely inadequate to administer and develop around 35 to 60 villages normally under his jurisdiction. For instance...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 July 2014
According to the proxy advisory firm, amendment in memorandum of association will open the floodgates to further leverage cash flows of Coal India and harmful to rights of minority shareholders State run Coal India Ltd (CIL), the country's largest coal producer. is reportedly planing to...

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Life insurance companies come up a wide variety of products to hook you. Many are irrelevant and harmful. Here is how to know that is being pitched at you any good At its core, life insurance is where you pay some money regularly to an agency and, on your death, your nominees/legal heirs...

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The FSLRC, in a hurry to resolve certain minor issues, ignored the evolution of the role and the care with which the RBI has nurtured the financial sector Dr Raghuram Rajam, the governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in a speech in Mumbai on 17 June 2014, once again brought to the fore...

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Julia Angwin  and   Jeff Larson (ProPublica) 01 July 2014
ProPublica plotted the NSA programs, showing which ones fall squarely into the agency's stated mission of foreign surveillance, and which ones are more controversial Illustrations by Alberto Cairo (special to ProPublica) This is a plot of the NSA programs revealed in the past year...

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Nikita Snehil 30 June 2014
With the implementation of the pre-requisite to have at least one resident director, foreign companies doing business in India will now have a tough time ensuring the residency requirement  The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) seems to be in top gear, issuing clarifications, circulars...

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 June 2014
With a great product portfolio, and a global push for reduced costs, Anuh Pharma could be the ace in the small pharma pack. Anuh Pharma makes active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), i.e., bulk actives. It belongs to the SK group of companies which has been around for 75 years. Anuh’s...

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Obesity is a serious health issue, but for the majority of Indians it is the lack of nutrition and food, enough to even survive, that is a pressing concern. How I wish we could devise a new method for solving India’s problem of disappearing waistlines, while others worry about their...

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Dalbir Chhibbar 30 June 2014
The single biggest reform required in the Indian police system is to insulate it from the control of politicians and the ruling government Policing is regulated by the obsolete and archaic Police Act of 1861. Few states, police being a state subject under article 246 of the constitution,...

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Justin Elliott (ProPublica) 30 June 2014
The charity is fighting ProPublica's public records request for information on how it raised and spent money after the super storm Just how badly does the American Red Cross want to keep secret how it raised and spent over $300 million after Hurricane Sandy? The charity has hired a...

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Rakesh M Goyal  and   Ankur Goyal 27 June 2014
A lack of vigilance towards how our education system is developing is going to end up causing long term harm to a wide swathe of Indian society. In the previous article on black money generated through the education sector, we discussed the amounts generated and the wide swathe of...

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Dalbir Chhibbar 27 June 2014
India faces formidable security challenges and the only way to address them is to re-work the framework under which our services operate India's armed forces are rightfully held in highest esteem and respect by citizens. They are brave, patriotic, highly disciplined and dedicated towards...

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VK Sharma 27 June 2014
Higher regulatory capital or leverage ratio would mean involuntary monetary tightening as it were! Pre-crisis, luxuriant supply of liquidity in an exceptionally low interest rate environment led banks to expand credit in any way they wanted, and inflate in the bargain the now infamous...

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This 'Little Book' is a selection from Jack D. Schwager's classic set of four previous 'Market Wizards' books. In any list of ‘must-read’ books on trading, you would certainly find two titles of Jack Schwager: Market Wizards and The New Market Wizards. These two books—and a few later...

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Anand Desai 27 June 2014
A look at how gods and goddesses play a pivotal role in deciding trends in the Indian marketplace This book provides a trivia-heavy look at the pervasiveness of religion in India, from the point of view of the fast-moving urban Indian. Even though breezy, the book is valuable, especially...

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Rakesh M Goyal  and   Ankur Goyal 26 June 2014
Speculations are that a big part of this money goes to politicians and bureaucracy as a large number of institutes are owned, controlled and managed by politicians and business houses There was a time, not long ago, when education was a noble profession. Creating a school or college was...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 June 2014
This was in connection with a compalint filed by Dr. Subramanian Swamy accusing Sonia and Rahul of illegally acquiring the assets of the National Herald newspaper. A Magistrate in Delhi issued summons to Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, requiring them to appear before the court on August...

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You can easily get refund of a train ticket bought through the Railways passenger reservation system or PRS, either online or through a  ticket window. There may be some delay in refund for tickets bought from private re-sellers If there is one technology based product in India, which...

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