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Moneylife Digital Team 15 March 2014
At a Moneylife event, where all the seats were booked, Debashis Basu, explained in detail all the things that a saver needs to know about how and when to invest in stocks and bonds   With the BSE Sensex near its all-time high, and with bonds yields currently above 8.50%, is it the...

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Paul Kiel (ProPublica) 14 March 2014
The investigation by US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau follows a ProPublica story that detailed the company’s lending practices World Acceptance Corp., one of the largest high-cost installment lenders in the United States, disclosed today that it is the target of an investigation...

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Nina Martin (ProPublica) 13 March 2014
Nina Martin talks with a leading expert on the historic tension between civil rights and religious freedom As conservatives grapple with the reality of gay marriage and the Supreme Court weighs whether companies should be forced to offer birth control to employees, it's very clear: The...

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Eric Sagara (ProPublica) 12 March 2014
Pharmaceutical company payments to health care professionals dropped between 2011 and 2012 among most of the companies and categories Pharmaceutical company payments to health care professionals dropped between 2011 and 2012 among most of the companies and categories ProPublica tracks,...

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Charles Ornstein (ProPublica) 11 March 2014
Two new reports from the CDC show the dangers of overprescribing narcotics and antibiotics. Is there a way for doctors and consumers to make better decisions? Twice last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has pointed to the harm caused by aberrant and...

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Healthcare industry uses science like a dogma. We need to open our minds to science that is reald and seeks the truth Science is man’s wonderment about the universe. The majority of us are conformists; we do not think out-of-the-box and are not capable of understanding progress in...

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A range of value investing styles and opportunities John Mihaljevic is the managing editor of The Manual of Ideas, a monthly journal for value-oriented investors. The popular investing newsletter is aimed at generating investment ideas and publishes interviews with numerous fund managers...

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Some good profiles by Subroto Bagchi but many puff pieces This book is a compilation of Subroto Bagchi’s long-running column about “sixty men and women I came in contact (who) left behind a sense of wisdom.” Bagchi shares these with us through this tome. He classifies his subjects under...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 March 2014
To celebrate International Women's Day, Moneylife Foundation felicitated two extraordinary activists. Sheelatai Chitnis of Multiple Sclerosis Society of India was one of them   Sheela Chitnis, the founding member and honorary secretary of Multiple Sclerosis Society of India (MSSI) said,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 March 2014
To celebrate International Women's Day, Moneylife Foundation felicitated two extraordinary activists. Dr Ketna Mehta from Nina Foundation was one of them Dr Ketna Mehta, the founder of Nina Foundation said, “Although we are working since past 13 years, this is the first award Nina...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 March 2014
Every woman needs to understand importance of saving, investment in right product and have a contingency plan in place, said Nisreen Mamaji, explaining savvy saving for smart women at a seminar organised by Moneylife Foundation on International Women’s Day. In a special seminar, “Savvy...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 March 2014
Speaking at the Women's Day celebration at Moneylife Foundation, the first CMD of Bharatiya Mahila Bank said that the bank is determined to be of assistance to women entrepreneurs the way traditional banks can’t   Usha Ananthasubramanian, the first Chairman and Managing Director of the...

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Megan McCloskey (ProPublica) 07 March 2014
Private Bud Kelder went missing during World War II. Evidence suggests he's buried as an unknown soldier in Manila. Will the Pentagon ever move to identify him? Tracing his genealogy online one night, John Eakin landed on a name that evoked an old family sorrow.   Arthur “Bud”...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 March 2014
Autumn Radtke, CEO of First Meta, a virtual currency exchange has been found dead in her home in Singapore on 26th February   Autumn Radtke, the chief executive of First Meta, a virtual currency exchange has been found dead in her home in Singapore.   A police spokesman said...

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Konica Bhatt 06 March 2014
Appalled by the way people tend to treat stray animals, Preeti Bhatt decided to set up an organisation especially for their protection at Pune. I hold that the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man,” said Mahatma Gandhi. As much as...

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Naveena Sadasivam (ProPublica) 06 March 2014
ProPublica surveys some recent research on potential health implications of hydro fracking For years, environmentalists and the gas drilling industry have been in a pitched battle over the possible health implications of hydro fracking. But to a great extent, the debate — as well as the...

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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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Medical developments from around the world Pentavalent Vaccine-related Deaths Government of India is trying to undermine the seriousness of deaths following this new vaccine which it wants to spread all over India. One wonders why the government is so keen to push this down the throat...

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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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The drug industry is trying to fix things for the apparently healthy population in the fond hope of preventing future suffering Ionce glanced through an editorial in The Lancet titled “Could Epidemiologists Cause Epidemics?” Stimulating title indeed! As I read on, I could feel my own...

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