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Moneylife Digital Team 18 January 2014
Sunanda Pushkar, who was upset over an alleged extra-marital affair between her husband Shashi Tharoor and a Pakistani journalist, was found dead in the hotel last night The body of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Union Minister Shashi Tharoor, was on Saturday shifted to AIIMS for post-mortem...

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Jeff Gerth  and   T Christian Miller (ProPublica) 17 January 2014
Federal drug regulators are moving to enforce a ban on prescription drugs with more than 325 milligrams of acetaminophen. But you'll still be able to buy pills that contain up to twice that dose over-the-counter at the gas station or grocery store Earlier this week, the US Food and Drug...

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TruthInAdvertising.org 16 January 2014
The US FDA does not have a formal definition of ‘natural’ with respect to foods other than to state that the term on food labels means the product must not contain anything artificial or synthetic The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have declined a request made by three different...

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Moneylife Digital Team 16 January 2014
Last time, the controversy over Twitter cost Tharoor his job as minister of state for external affairs. Will he come out unscathed this time? Shashi Tharoor, the minister of state for human resource development (HRD) is at the centre of a cross-border tweet war between his wife and a...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 January 2014
Dhasal’s poems broke away from stylistic conventions. He was also the founder of the militant Dalit Panther movement and also one of the famous and outspoken members of this group Renowned Marathi poet and firebrand activist Namdeo Dhasal passed away in Mumbai on Wednesday after a...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 January 2014
Lack of a legal framework is the main hurdle in probing cases related to sports fraud for CBI, which now will set up a unit under its special crime branches Taking note of the growing menace of corruption in sports, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will soon set up a specialised...

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Charles Ornstein  and   Tracy Weber (ProPublica) 15 January 2014
As Medicare considers banning doctors who pose a "threat to the health or safety" of patients, it plans to consider an array of factors When the agency that runs Medicare announced last week that it would take action against doctors who prescribe abusively in its massive drug program –...

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Charles Ornstein  and   Tracy Weber (ProPublica) 15 January 2014
As Medicare considers banning doctors who pose a "threat to the health or safety" of patients, it plans to consider an array of factors When the agency that runs Medicare announced last week that it would take action against doctors who prescribe abusively in its massive drug program –...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 January 2014
Launching the 10th edition of Kanga & Palkhivala’s ‘The Law & Practice of Income-Tax’ at Moneylife Foundation event, noted income tax jurist Soli Dastur reviewed the book orally The classics Kanga & Palkhivala’s ‘The Law & Practice of income-tax’ has been updated by prolific writer and...

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Marshall Allen  and   Olga Pierce (ProPublica) 14 January 2014
Medical malpractice system often discriminates against certain patients, particularly those with low incomes. Those who can’t get representation, often women, children or the elderly, are sometimes called the ‘hidden victims’ of medical malpractice After surgery on her ankle, Jeanine...

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Charles Ornstein (ProPublica) 13 January 2014
New disclosures from data broker IMS Health reveal how much pharmaceutical firms will pay to know what your doctor is prescribing Need another reminder of how much drugmakers spend to discover what doctors are prescribing? Look no further than new documents from the leading keeper of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 January 2014
Speaking at a Moneylife Foundation seminar, noted lawyer Arvind P Datar, who took market regulator SEBI through its battle with Sahara, spoke about the many ways in which companies evade the long arm of the law to dupe people and the necessity of speedy justice to convict the culprits

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Eating habits in emerging markets are following a dangerous trend of the West, and many will be obeses in no time. If you want to reduce (or avoid) obesity, do skip the samosas or fries and order the saag or dal makhani instead One of the problems of living in a town is that the limited...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 January 2014
Launching the 10th edition of Kanga & Palkhivala’s ‘The Law & Practice of income-tax’ in Mumbai noted income tax jury Soli Dastur said there is a need to improve tax administration. The 10th edition of this classic book has been updated by prolific writer and senior advocate Arvind...

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Corporate governance practices in India and across the world What do Sahara, Satyam, Saradha, SKS Microfinance and National Spot Exchange Limited have in common? They are the epitome of mismanagement; they misused shareholders’ wealth and destroyed the savings of hardworking Indians,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 January 2014
If you want to know about high-frequency trading (HFT) then this book will be useful Over the past few years, technology has transformed financial markets. Machines have replaced human beings in trade execution in the most liquid markets of the world. The rise of super-fast computerised...

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An incomplete story of top Indian bankers This books purports to cover the history of Indian banking. If so, it ought to have covered more than just six bankers from Bombay; there are many other equally distinguished banking pioneers from other parts of the country more particularly the...

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N Madhavan 09 January 2014
Kidney care is taught to patients and also made affordable  by this organisation, says Agroup of five young nephrologists from Mumbai met on the sidelines of the Indian Society of Nephrology Conference at Nagpur (India) in 2003. Having returned from Canada and Australia, they knew that a...

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Several countries use daylight savings by readjusting clocks depending upong the season. Readjusting the Indian Standard Time or IST would greatly help and save energy if it was done simply by a 30 minute change on a national scale There are two kinds of people who keep appointments: one...

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Are top journals like Science, Nature and Cell, artificially restricting the number of papers they accept and more keen to increase subscription? Be a scientific agnostic, to be able to think out-of-the-box; but become a scientific fanatic when it comes to data. For instance, how do we...

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