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There is plenty of room for further price reductions in the near future, for all types of, especially foreign brands The new Ford EcoSport will be out for bookings by June 2013; it is best compared with the Hyundai Quanto, while bearing in mind that the one-litre engine in the Ford has a...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 May 2013
Srinivasan’s cup of woes seems to be spilling over with the sports ministry joining the growing chorus of demand for his resignation as BCCI president into the ongoing IPL spot-fixing scandal The sports ministry on Wednesday joined the chorus for demanding resignation of Board of Control...

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Researchers are fabricating their findings to create the illusion of positive findings, instead of publishing their actual results, for the continuation of their steady stream of funding and grants. “That the cartel’s medical monopoly has created a climate of bias in our educational...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 May 2013
The money laundering network, which had spread its wings to 17 countries, including US, UK, China, Russian, Canada, Australia among others was run by a Costa Rican company Liberty Reserve The US Federal authorities has indicted seven people in a $6 billion money-laundering scheme spread...

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Theodoric Meyer (ProPublica) 29 May 2013
Funding to update the US's decades-old flood maps has been cut in half in recent years, even as extreme weather has grown more frequent As the United States grows warmer and extreme weather more common, the federal government’s flood insurance maps are becoming increasingly important.

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 May 2013
Sometimes critical illness is priced too high Like Indians, many Americans are unaware of the importance of setting aside and saving money for unforeseen health disasters and the subsequent costs that come along with it. A study by Washington National Institute of Wellness Studies found...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 May 2013
A large number of Americans know little about credit scores. A consumer survey, released by the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) and VantageScore Solutions, reveals that a large number of Americans know little about credit scores. Only 25%-40% of a representative sample of 1,022...

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Moneylife Foundation held an exclusive, in-depth session on insurance needs at 50 years of age. Personal accident, life, health, car, travel and home insurance needs were discussed in detail. Insurance cannot cover everything and hence there is need to be financially prepared Moneylife...

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The course Shinzo Abe is following is not unique to Japan. Central bankers, by following Japan, are making the same mistake over stimulus and reforms. Stimulus alone without the most important part, reforms, is simply a recipe for trouble Has the Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe found...

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Moneylife Digital Team 24 May 2013
India and some other countries such as China and Japan have cut their oil imports from Iran to secure waivers. This enables them to continue imports of oil to some quantity without facing a backlash from the US    India may soon get a fresh waiver from the sanctions imposed on doing...

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Respect nature as your mother and learn from her; if you abuse nature, she will kick you in the teeth! Long live mankind learning from nature as our Indian scientists of yore did   “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world”— John Muir    ...

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Joaquin Sapien (ProPublica) 24 May 2013
Jabbar Collins spent 16 years in prison for murder before he won his freedom and a chance to take on the man who put him behind bars. ProPublica examines the career of that prosecutor, Michael Vecchione, the allegations against him, and what strikes many as an inexplicable lack of...

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Raymond Bonner (Special to ProPublica) 23 May 2013
Opponents of the death penalty have hit upon an effective tactic: Learn who is making the lethal drugs used in executions and publicly shame them. Now, death penalty states are fighting to make the names of the drugs a state secret   States that impose the death penalty have...

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Richard Tofel (ProPublica) 22 May 2013
The uproar over the IRS scandal last week reinforces the point that much of the heat is just the latest expression of Washington cynicism and its consequences -- that the talk show hosts and their fellow travellers, and the representatives and senators and officials in the executive branch,...

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The sun teaches two important lessons: it does not make any difference and shines on everyone, rich or poor showing us the universality of existence. The more important lesson that the sun teaches us is humility, the kingpin for good health and happiness. The sun has been burning for so long...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 May 2013
After failing to pay the last instalment of the franchisee fee, Sahara India decided to pull out from the IPL T20 league Sahara India, the owner of Indian Premier League (IPL) franchisee has withdrawn its team after failing to pay final instalment of franchisee fee. In a release, Sahara...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 May 2013
Estimating how much you need for retirement is hard enough. But even if you are able to do that, getting there is a tough task. In the second part on the series of retirement planning, Debashis Basu, editor Moneylife, focussed on the right way to invest There is a maze of retirement...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 May 2013
(Vindoo chatting with Sakshi Dhoni, wife of MS Dhoni during an IPL match)   Vindoo Dara Singh, more famous as winner of Bigg Boss 3, is the latest celebrity arrested in the IPL spot fixing scandal Vindoo Randhawa, son of late wrestler-actor Dara Singh, was on Tuesday arrested by...

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Peter Sleeth (Special to ProPublica) 21 May 2013
Unsatisfied with answers so far, leaders of the House veterans' panel ask defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to explain why Army units cannot find field records from Iraq and Afghanistan The top Republican and Democrat on the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs are demanding more information...

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Continuing food scandals in China do bring up a question, perhaps far more disturbing. If the government cannot protect babies or its people, how much protection do investors or markets get?   Regulations are usual supposed to protect ordinary citizens. There are regulations for food,...

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