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Megan McCloskey (ProPublica) 01 April 2014
The restructuring promises to address many of the problems laid out in a recent ProPublica and NPR investigation. The Pentagon is overhauling its efforts to find and identify missing service members from past wars, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced Monday.   The changes...

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Unrestrained bullishness has gripped the market. The market may move up even from here but if you want to get in, wait for a dip. Don’t jump in on a further break out to new highs. In any case, the market climate has little to do with the right stocks to buy Stock market indices have...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 March 2014
Former Union Secretary EAS Sarma who along with others obtained a landmark order from Delhi HC on illegal foreign funding of political parties has called on the Election Commisison to initaite immediate against political parties and Vedanta group Following a Delhi High Court order that...

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The new government may take months before the roadblocks to resume full-scale production We had recently covered various issues relating to the coal production in the country and the enormous difficulties that the exclusive monopolistic producer, Coal India, faces in its day to day...

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Chinese currency Yuan or Remminbi has been rock solid until recently. This created carry trade of faking of exports, getting in foreign exchange and buying a rising renminbi. Now that the Chinese currency has dropped what happens? There was one major emerging market currency that was not...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 March 2014
Environmental Activist Sumaira Abdulali and Adv Mohana Nair explained the Whistleblowers’ Bill and how it can protect whistleblowers, who expose malpractice or corruption The "Whistleblowers' Bill", a long standing demand of activists and NGOs, was cleared on the last day of Parliament...

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Has Nilekani or Congress party ever informed that its biometric Aadhaar is going to be used for surveillance and security? Also is this the reason why very few MPs, MLAs and ministers from Congress have subjected themselves to biometric profiling of Aadhaar or NPR? On 24 March 2014, the...

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Abhirup Ghosh 28 March 2014
Will the NHB's directions on private placement of NCDs by HFCs be effective with the near enforcement of Companies Act, 2013? In what seems to be a clear after thought, Housing finance industry regulator, National Housing Bank (NHB) on 19 March 2014 came up with directions for the issue...

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Divya  and   Bapoo Malcolm 28 March 2014
Divya and Bapoo Malcolm spent Sunday afternoon at Nissan showroom in Worli, Mumbai to take a look at Datsun GO, the new car Enter the Micra, Nissan’s very own wonder kid, and keep the Superman inside you on the ready. With the right side of your vision blinkered, you would need all your...

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Last year, SEBI stopped the SMS menace of SMS Techsoft when it found the company promoters and directors using this to offload their shares. This week, there is a surge in volume in Patidar Buildcon shares after ‘intra-day tip’ SMSes. Is SEBI aware about this? As the stock markets are...

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Piped gas from Myanmar is far more realistic and practical than expecting the Iranian gas to travel through Pakistan to reach India Although the question of upward revision of gas prices has been going on for more than a year, and is in line with the contractual obligation, and duly...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 March 2014
According to CARE Research, procedural hassles, requirement of large land and capital coupled with high leverage position, remain key challenges for airport development in India Various agencies like the Airports Authority of India (AAI), state governments and private players have been...

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RBI has tried to push the inflation index bonds with additional commission for distribution and doubling the investment limit. But the product has not caught the fancy of investors. Find out why different customer segments shunned the product that is open till 31st March Reserve Bank of...

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India need to have extra professional help in restructuring the railways, by laying extra tracks, getting bigger capacity wagons and locomotives to move them, and make the freight attractive enough It may be recalled that, in the interim budget, Railway Minister, Mallikarjun Kharge...

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While Nandan Nilekani, former chairman of UIDAI, is busy fighting his election, he has left behind a dubious record of keeping the Aadhaar holders in the dark regarding access to their biometrics and other personal details by any private or public agency Now, it is from the horse’s...

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Marshall Allen (ProPublica) 27 March 2014
If studies are accurate, more than a million patients in the US are harmed a year by the medical care they thought would heal them. Here are six recommended steps the sufferer can take This post, originally published on Sept. 18, 2012, has been updated.   I often speak to people...

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We still use the outdated Newtonian physics to understand the human body. We also use the reductionist view of human healing. The result has been disastrous, to say the least Science is change. Anything that remains static does not qualify to be science in the true sense of the word....

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Should we really prevent the government from announcing and acting on matters that have been going on for some time or simply postpone it and take a vacation from work till the elections are over? The elections are scheduled to take place from 7th April and the process is spread over a...

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The new rules for CSR have been notified. Here are some essential details A few months back, when I introduced the readers to the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) as enunciated in the Companies Act, 2013, CSR was yet to be notified; even the rules for implementation of the...

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Beware, tyres are getting damaged well before their tread life is over Some of the best feedback I get on the motoring industry is from friends in the tyre industry. One issue that many of them tell me that they are facing now, increasingly all over India but especially in previously not...

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