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Cora Currier (ProPublica) 14 February 2013
In 2009, ProPublica identified more than thirty prisoners once held by the CIA who weren't accounted for. Since then, a few have resurfaced and many remain missing In one of President Barack Obama first acts in the White House, he ordered the closure of the CIA’s so-called “black-site”...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 February 2013
The arrest warrant follows Nasheed’s failure to attend his previously scheduled trial hearing at Hulhumale’ Magistrate Court on 10th February as he was on a visit to India Former Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed sought refuge in the Indian High Commission in Male after an arrest...

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It is a debatable whether a healthy person really needs preventive health check-up. Today, you may be subjected to unnecessary CT scans in case you choose an advanced PHP. Customers should beware as an extensive check-up is not in your interest Got your preventive health check-up done?...

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Medical developments from around the world Yucky! But Could Be Healthy Children usually pick their nose and eat the dried boogers coming from the nose. As they grow up, today’s Westernised parents reprimand them to stop that habit. People think it is not civilized behaviour to pick...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 February 2013
Italian police has arrested Giuseppe Orsi, chief executive of the country’s largest defence and aerospace group. The Finmeccanica CEO is alleged to have paid $670 million in bribes for the sale of 12 helicopters to the Government of India Giuseppe Orsi, chief executive of Italy’s largest...

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Narasimhan Balakrishnan 12 February 2013
For a movie that is the brainchild of the so called ‘intellectual’ of Tamil cinema, the movie is painfully childish and stupid even, in bits. And there’s the threat of a sequel coming soon, to boot, much more real than any terrorist threat While I certainly don’t know enough to comment...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 February 2013
In recent months, the 85-year-old German-born Pope, hailed as a hero by conservative Catholics and viewed with suspicion by liberals, has looked increasingly frail in public sometimes being helped to walk Pope Benedict XVI on Monday announced that he would resign on 28th February. The...

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Nikole Hannah-Jones (ProPublica) 11 February 2013
The Obama administration is preparing to issue a rule setting a single standard for proving violations of the Fair Housing Act - just as the Supreme Court signals it may take up a challenge to the measure UPDATE: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development issued the final...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 February 2013
Mumbai’s housing societies recently received fat property tax bills with arrears for the past three years. Experts believe that there is no justification in this bill, particularly because your bill is based on the Ready Reckoner rate, which is a flawed method. Read on to find out the reasons...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 February 2013
Majlis Law provides legal support to women, has built a support system for victims of rape, and is deeply involved in bringing about a positive change in the community’s and the legal system’s attitudes toward women Majlis Law (Majlis) is known only as a legal aid group, perhaps because...

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How Lutyen’s Delhi rules India, to our misfortune India, or roughly the geographical territory we think India is, was ruled for over 600 years by various Muslim rulers, between 12th century and 17th century. Then, we became subservient to the East India Company and later to the British...

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The authors reveal the mystery of Chinese banks and how they function The Chinese government operates several black boxes unknown to the world at large. One of the black boxes is China Development Bank (CDB). This Bank has pumped trillions of yuan into the Chinese economy, enabled...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 February 2013
Out of the 256 films that were rejected by the Censor Board, the majority had sexually implicit material The Central Board of Film Certification (Censor Board) has denied certification to 256 films during the period between 2001 and 2011. The Board rejected as many as 78 Hindi films,...

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Hypertensive drugs can be harmful, as shown by some studies “He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence” — William Blake  Conventional research in medical science, better called statistical science, is reductionist and is based purely on the bio-medical model of disease. Future...

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T Christian Miller (ProPublica) 08 February 2013
The Sandi Group was fined $75,000 after delaying reports to the US government that more than 30 of its workers had died in Iraq The US Department of Labor has fined a private security contractor $75,000 for failing to file timely reports on the deaths of workers in Iraq as required by...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 February 2013
The probes revealed ‘wrongdoing’ by 21 employees, mainly related to the setting of the bank’s yen and Swiss franc Libor submissions between October 2006 and November 2010 Royal Bank of Scotland, in which the British government has an 81% stake, agreed to pay fines amounting to $612...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 February 2013
The Swiss-based multinational company, along with the security agency Securitas AG, which it hired to infiltrate the international organisation ATTAC, has been ordered to pay compensation to the NGO Nestlé was, along with the security agency it hired for the job,  found guilty by a Swiss...

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Lois Beckett (ProPublica) 06 February 2013
State Democratic parties formed a cooperative to sell the voter data they have collected from supporters. Now they're looking for commercial customers For years, state Democratic parties have been gathering information about individual voters' political leanings. They have noted down the...

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We are made up of hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen and other trace minerals. When we die we go back to the same elements. In between we are an amazing enigma called the human mind seen as a human body which, for all intents and purposes, looks solid having a perfect shape “Maybe we're...

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Let mothers feed their babies for as long as they could. Efforts to feed every new-born baby with a ‘scientific’ formula instead of the God-given mother’s milk should stop for the common good. When governments are in cahoots with the industry mankind suffers “Successful people are always...

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