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L&T General Medisure is worth considering for saving costs. Super top up is preferable instead of numerous top up policies available in the market. Find out why L&T General has received approval for a super top-up health insurance plan of up to Rs25 lakh. L&T my:health Medisure Super Top...

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Why’s Arvind Kejriwal silent about the massive loot of banks by large and small businessmen and politicians? Arvind Kejriwal is, without doubt, one of the sharpest minds on the political scene today. His guerrilla tactics of destabilising established power centres has won him an...

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Moneylife’s online survey on FMP shows that 25% of the respondents do not invest in FMP. Those who are aware of the tax benefits and decent returns do not shy away from FMPs. What stops others? Lack of clarity and dearth of reliable advice is to blame Moneylife online survey on fixed...

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Hitisha Jain 04 March 2014
According to Gabrielle Seacy of AktivOrtho, there are so many smart, talented people in India and the government needs to do much more to support them. AktivOrtho is a New Delhi-based orthopedic rehabilitation, sports medicine and medical fitness center Gabrielle Seacy and her husband...

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Will Subrata Roy, who has defied regulators and courts thanks to his political backing, be finally brought to book? Will Subrata Roy, ‘chief worker’ of the Sahara group have to be arrested to ensure his appearance in Supreme Court (SC) on 4th March? Will he, finally, understand the...

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It is never too late to buy the latest and most modern equipment available, to get the job done in the Railways and the funding through FDI can help in this Recently, Moneylife carried a story on the prospects of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Indian Railways. As mentioned...

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Charles Ornstein, Eric Sagara  and   Ryann Grochowski Jones (ProPublica) 04 March 2014
As transparency increases and blockbuster drugs lose patent protection, drug companies have dramatically scaled back payments to doctors for promotional talks. This fall, all drug and medical device companies in the US will be required to report payments to doctors Some of the US’...

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What is Mr Kejriwal’s idea behind these charges? Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal’s virulent attack on media houses, and their alleged connections with Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industries, got the Editors’ Guild of India agitated enough to note: “with concern the growing...

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Is the market trying to anticipate Narendra Modi as the PM? Last fortnight, I had suggested that the weakness of market indices would continue as foreigners wake up to the Indian reality of politics and economics. Well, it turned out to be incorrect. We got two weeks of rally instead,...

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Hitisha Jain 03 March 2014
Believing in giving 100% to her work, Namita Banka of Banka BioLoo puts in all her effort to start the business of promoting and developing innovative environmental friendly products and services for human waste management system Banka BioLoo Pvt Ltd is a proprietary firm started by...

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Staunch supporters of J Jayalalitha, the incumbent CM of Tamil Nadu want her to become the next PM of India. However, Amma, as she is referred by them has very little chances to hold the hot chair at the centre! When staunch supporters and followers of Tamil Nadu chief minister J...

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Several countries need to deal with bad debt or NPA problem as quickly as possible. Opening markets to the most experienced, often-foreign, firms to purchase assets could be one of the solutions. Can anyone take this politically unpalatable decision In the late 1980s it was estimated...

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Four out of 12 offices have no Ombudsmen since November 2013. Mumbai has no ombudsman for 4 months and Delhi has a part-time one visiting from Chandigarh Did you get Income Tax (IT) refund? If not, you can file a complaint with IT Ombudsman. But do you know if the IT Ombudsman of your...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 March 2014
A documentary on the working of tax havens in the context of the double taxation avoidance treaty between India and Mauritius reveals that while India may have received foreign investments due to the treaty, tax losses on its account run to the tune of tens of thousands of crores. Is it worth...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 February 2014
As the permitted list shows, a large number of areas like consumer education, RTI or investor literacy, which could benefit middle class people are kept outside the purview of CSR The Ministry for Corporate Affairs (MCA) has notified rules for corporate social responsibility (CSR)...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 February 2014
The CIC directed the PIO of urban development dept at GNCTD to corrected certificate about block D and D1 and D1 Extension at Mansa Ram Park. This is the 198th in a series of important RTI judgements given by former Central Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi The Central Information...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 February 2014
Empirical research on how the tone of a news article can affect stock prices In our previous issue, we had written about the correlation between news and stock returns. We learnt, through the research paper titled “Quantifying the Relationship between Financial News and the Stock Market”...

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As the fertiliser subsidy is reaching Himalayan heights at Rs67,970 crore, the  New Investment Policy should expedite planned growth of Urea plants and availability of natural gas It is too early even for India Meteorological Department (IMD), to predict the type of monsoon that we may...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 February 2014
Laxmi Lobo the founder of Spring Blossoms, a popular Mumbai-based flower retailer with an online presence that gives her a national footprint says, one has to take many risks to grow the business and succeed. In her case, the risks seem to have paid off well in her journey from Air India to...

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Legislators, who are wittingly or unwittingly promoting UIDAI’s biometric data collection, have committed an inexcusable, unpardonable blunder. Our future generations may deem this to be an act of treason for having facilitated entry of cyber Trojans that endangered India's territorial...

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