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Moneylife Digital Team 14 September 2013
Moneylife Foundation held an exclusive, in-depth session conducted by Raj Pradhan for the management students of Centre for Management, Bandra (Mumbai). Personal Accident, Life, Health, Car, Travel and Home insurance concepts were discussed in detail Moneylife Foundation hosted an...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 September 2013
Exclusive workshop on how to be safe and smart with your money   The youth specially the ones with a new job and their own cash at their disposal have little idea of how to invest safely and smartly. Many end up falling into financial traps or invest in the wrong products. Being safe...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 September 2013
Sreesanth and Ankeet Chavan are banned for life from playing cricket, while Amit Singh faces a ban for five years. Rajasthan Royal's Siddharth Trivedhi got away with one year suspension Cracking the whip on corrupt players, the Board Of Control For Cricket In India(BCCI) on Friday...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 September 2013
Six privacy-advocacy groups sent a letter to the FTC last week saying that the revisions violate Facebook’s 2011 settlement with the Commission The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is looking into a set of policy changes proposed by Facebook in late August, though the Commission says it...

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Dilnavaz Variava 13 September 2013
The vast diversity of seeds developed by farmers over centuries, with special characteristics in drought or flood tolerance, taste and medicinal properties is often lost when corporate control of seed promotes a few varieties in which heavy investments have been made and high profits are to...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 September 2013
In their letter to the UN, the Syrian authorities have expressed their commitment to observe the obligations entailed by the convention even before its entry into force for the country The United Nations on Friday said that it received documents from the Syrian government on joining the...

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Justin Elliott (ProPublica) 13 September 2013
Vladimir Putin wrote an op-ed about Syria in the New York Times that was placed by the public-relations giant Ketchum. As ProPublica reported in November, this is not the first time the firm placed pro-Russia op-eds in American publications without discussing the role of the Russian...

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Dilnavaz Variava 12 September 2013
The hype for promoting GM is that it increases food security. India produced bumper stocks of food grains, all without GM, yet 200 million people are hungry. GM will not address the issues of poverty, poor storage and corruption, which deprive the poor of food. This is the second part of a...

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Marian Wang (ProPublica) 12 September 2013
Chasing prestige and battered by state funding cuts, many public colleges and universities with a historic responsibility to provide access to an affordable education have turned to "financial aid leveraging," offering wealthy or high-scoring students discounts on tuition This story was

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 September 2013
iPhone 5C will cost $99 for a 16GB model with a two-year contract. Without contract it would cost about $550 or over Rs35,000 without tax iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C, the two new offering from Apple came in a bevy of colours and two distinct designs, one made of plastic and the other that...

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Dilnavaz Variava 11 September 2013
There are inherent risks and dangers if India were to adopt genetically modified crops. Here is an expose about several myths surrounding GM crops. This is the first part of a three-part series There has been a great deal of publicity of late, particularly by the Agriculture Minister,...

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Despite the tanking of the rupee and the lower GDP numbers, the Indian government is doing more of the same. It is trying to pass a controversial food subsidies program that could cost about $21 billion a year. The reason for the generosity is simple. Elections are coming   Markets...

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Evidence is accumulating to show that most 'negative' studies, which otherwise would have changed the face of medicine, are rejected by the peer review system More than half of what doctors do is not based on their own evidence; even the other half has only a shaky base which cannot be...

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Post the new price control regime, several essential drugs are simply vanishing from medical shops. The patient is advised to check with the concerned physician if a replacement, mostly generic drug, can be medicated While patients welcome the price control for essential medicines,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 05 September 2013
There are many stock-picking methods one could choose from, but the average investor more often than not, gets in or gets out at the wrong time. R Balakrishnan, explains what an investor needs to focus on   The average investor has no clue about what he is buying or selling, survives in...

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Gopinath Mavinkurve 05 September 2013
An educationist and social activist started a mission to help people overcome poverty through education when she was in her 80s. Gopinath Mavinkurve writes about this gritty effort Rukmabai Tallur, fondly known as ‘ Rukmakka’, embarked on a mission on India’s Republic Day, in 1986. She...

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Medical developments from around the world Do Not Take Extra Vitamins Tablets I have been saying that none, except those that are malnourished, require any supplemental vitamins. Several scientific studies have confirmed my view. In an article titled “Don’t Take Your Vitamins”,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 August 2013
Making a Will is simple, but despite its importance, many of us fail to do it. At a packed session organised by Moneylife Foundation, advocate Bapoo Malcolm, explained the key elements to focus on while preparing a Will A Will simply carries out your wishes after death. One has to give...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 August 2013
The Bill, which replaces the 57-year old regulations, aims to protect interest of employees and small investors while encouraging companies to undertake social welfare voluntarily instead of imposing that through 'inspector raj' President Pranab Mukherjee has given his assent to the...

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Truthinadvertising.org 29 August 2013
Facebook reached a $20 million settlement agreement in the US. Under the agreement, Facebook can still post users’ content in ads but will give users more control over how their content is used Facebook users included in sponsored stories on the social networking site who filed claims

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