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A full bench comprising central information commissioners will conduct a hearing on the issue of BCCI and 29 other cricket associations coming under the RTI, based on a complaint filed by an RTI activist The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) continues to hold on to a court...

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Every human body is built to last as long as it can, thanks to its immune system. The immune system needs boosting, on a regular basis, to keep the person disease-free. Modern medicine is not doing that. “Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite...

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Justin Elliott (ProPublica) 24 July 2013
In response to a public records request, the super-snooping spy agency from US says it doesn't have the technology The NSA is a "supercomputing powerhouse" with machines so powerful their speed is measured in thousands of trillions of operations per second. The agency turns its giant

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Medical developments from around the world Transparency in Drug Research There is a move to push pharmaceutical companies to be more transparent in clinical trials. Activists, including Dr Peter Doshi, a post-doctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University, want public access to all the...

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Justin Elliott (ProPublica) 23 July 2013
In a secret effort, the National Security Agency appears to be vacuuming up large swathes of the Internet Among the snooping revelations of recent weeks, there have been tantalizing bits of evidence that the NSA is tapping fiber-optic cables that carry nearly all international phone and...

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 Ben Bernanke’s testimony before the Congress shows how he is simply reflating a bubble that he created earlier. Unfortunately, the worst impact of tightening will not be in the US, but in emerging markets where the pain will be much greater On 17th July, much of the world’s financial...

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Theodoric Meyer  and   Peter Maass (ProPublica) 22 July 2013
From subpoenas to secret court orders, the US government has an arsenal of legal tools for sweeping up your personal data Update, July 22, 2013: This post has been updated to include the New Jersey Supreme Court’s recent ruling on location data. It was originally published on Dec. 4,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 20 July 2013
Many women allow their husbands and fathers to make all their financial decisions. It is high time women stood up to take charge of their financial lives. Sucheta Dalal, trustee of Moneylife Foundation addressed a packed hall of women on what to watch out for Women tend to be unconcerned...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 July 2013
Detroit's bankruptcy, the largest municipal bankruptcy filing in the US followed a declaration of financial emergency in March 2013. New York Times call Detroit as 'home to 700,000 people, as well as to tens of thousands of abandoned buildings, vacant lots and unlit streets' Detroit...

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Theodoric Meyer (ProPublica) 19 July 2013
Homeowners in the US have to bear the cost of fixing the Federal Emergency Management Agency or FEMA's mistakes When Donna Edgar found out that new flood maps from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) would place her house in a high-risk flood zone, she couldn’t believe it.

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 July 2013
A consortium including Sunil Gavaskar, Nagarjuna and Vankina Chamundeswaranath has bought stake in IBL’s Mumbai Masters Contrary to media report about Sachin Tendulkar buying stake in Mumbai franchise of the upcoming Indian Badminton League (IBL), it was another cricket legend from...

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Joe Sexton (ProPublica) 18 July 2013
A prominent Brooklyn prosecutor, forced to testify under oath about allegations that he had railroaded a possibly innocent man on a murder charge, consistently spoke some form of "I don't recall" -- a stunning 324 times -- for fairly simple details surrounding the case For Jabbar...

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Tracy Weber  and   Charles Ornstein (ProPublica) 17 July 2013
Patients currently have to rely on trust that their doctors prescribe them the right drugs. ProPublica’s new tool, Prescriber Check-up, for the first time allows patients to see how health care providers stack up with peers   This article was co-published in the Op-Ed pages of the Los...

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Peter Sleeth (Special to ProPublica) 16 July 2013
Army Secretary John McHugh confirms to members of Congress that commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan failed to keep required field records: "Steps are being taken to make sure this doesn't happen again" July 12: This post has been updated. The U.S. Army has conceded a significant loss...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 July 2013
Australia has a robust retirement system, largely due to stringent regulation and emphasis on financial literacy Australia, the land of Kangaroos and boomerangs, has a high-quality retirement income system which is worthy of emulating. It has achieved a high savings rate and low coverage...

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Sebastian Rotella (ProPublica) 15 July 2013
As some in Congress question a State Department report downplaying Iranian influence, intelligence officials say covert Iranian cooperation with Venezuela has been a gateway for hostile activities in the region Last year, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited his ally President...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 July 2013
The second part of Moneylife Foundation’s event on retirement planning focussed on how use a mix of assets to generate retirement corpus and what are the options available post-retirement Most savers put their savings in bank deposits, gold and real estate. A small portion of their...

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For city usage, it will be the efficiency of the air-conditioner which will make or break the petrol version The much hyped up launch of the Ford EcoSport, a car masquerading as an SUV has been one of the loudest pre-launch activities in the past few years. The price was revealed and

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Nikole Hannah-Jones (ProPublica) 11 July 2013
Last month's Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act was just the latest move in a 150-year dance between the high court and Congress over the protections owed this country's African Americans Ever since the War of the States, Congress and the Supreme Court have clashed over the...

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The US Supreme Court’s ruling, which unanimously held that human genes could not be patented, could have lasting effects on the biotech industry Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” — Dr Seuss The US Supreme Court has pronounced a judgement that is a...

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