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Moneylife Digital Team 12 June 2013
Pranay Vakil and Parimal Shroff, two highly experienced professionals spoke on the new Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill, recently cleared by the Union cabinet, and how it would affect homebuyers and the industry The real estate sector is a critical driver of economic growth...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 June 2013
Till 8 am today, Colaba (south Mumbai) recorded 69.65 mm rainfall, while the eastern suburb recorded 109.38 mm and western suburb recorded 159.34 mm rainfall Heavy and incessant rains have thrown normal life out of gear in Mumbai as rail and road traffic was disrupted inconveniencing...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 June 2013
The much sought after monsoon is finally here. And with it come the usual issues of water-logging, illness, traffic jams and so on. Here is a compilation of information that would come handy during Monsoon 2013   After making us sweat and wait for over a week, the monsoon has finally...

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Theodoric Meyer  and   Peter Maass (ProPublica) 07 June 2013
Following reports that the FISA Court has granted an FBI request requiring Verizon to turn over telephone call data to the NSA, we've updated this story to show what information law enforcement agencies can get on you without establishing "probable cause" Update June 6, 2013: This post...

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Christie Thompson (ProPublica) 06 June 2013
A breakdown of the key proposals, and the debate they are stirring on Capitol Hill When the Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing on the U.S. military’s sexual assault crisis, lawmakers grilled Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine officials on the alarmingly high number of rapes and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 June 2013
In an Open House session in Mumbai, RBI’s Deputy Governor openly agreed with Moneylife Foundation’s stance that banks should not sell non-banking products like wealth management services, insurance and gold   At a Moneylife Foundation’s open house attended by a packed audience in...

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Khalid Memon 06 June 2013
RBI deputy governor Dr KC Chakrabarty said that the decision on various charges levied by banks has been left to their respective board of directors and the Indian Banks Association oversees the reasonableness aspect and can suggest a cap on the charges. This policy prevents the RBI from...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 June 2013
US Secretary of State John Kerry said that India and eight other nations have qualified for an exception to sanctions under America's Iran Sanctions Act, based on additional significant reductions in the volume of their crude oil purchases from Iran United States on Thursday exempted...

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Cora Currier (ProPublica) 05 June 2013
In 2009, Obama pledged to reopen an inquiry into the deaths of as many as 2,000 Taliban POWs during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. Four years later, there's no sign of progress In his first year in office, President Barack Obama pledged to “collect the facts” on the death of hundreds,...

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The government and or urea manufacturers must seriously consider setting up overseas units in the Gulf so as to get the best advantage in the present circumstances. Such a move would bring in bilateral benefit whereby India can assure these overseas partners that their foodgrain supply will...

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Lois Beckett (ProPublica) 04 June 2013
In a decades-long campaign to deny cities in the US, power to regulate guns, even the smallest local rules are now coming under attack   If you feel unsafe at a public pool in Charleston, W.Va., you may soon have the right to lie there on a towel with a handgun at your...

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Moneylife Digital Team 03 June 2013
The focus of the 'Open House with Dr Chakrabarty' organised by Moneylife Foundation was on all aspects of banking services, especially on mis-selling of third party products, grievance redress system and technology glitches in banks At a Moneylife Foundation programme today attended by a...

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According to doctors and researchers, more than 40 carcinogenic chemicals with an additional 3,960 chemicals are mixed to get the desired effect in gutka with tobacco. Can we ask the manufacturers to export their entire production? After all, many may have taken a resolution on this World No...

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Joe Sexton (ProPublica) 03 June 2013
Alexina Simon was picked up as a witness in a minor criminal case. Prosecutors in Queens held her over two days without a lawyer. Now, she wants to hold them to pay individually for what she says was misconduct It wasn't much of a case: Queens prosecutors wanted to prosecute a woman for...

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A complete shortlist of the various behavioural biases we suffer from In 1932, Rolf Dobelli came across the diaries of his great-uncle. His uncle had immigrated from a tiny Swiss village to Paris to seek his fortune. In August 1940, two months after Paris was occupied by the German Nazi...

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A glossy book tries to draw a parallel between angling and trading What do trading and fly fishing have in common? Both require passion, patience and persistence; at least according to fisherman-turned-trader Stephen Morris who has penned Fly Fishing the Stock Market (Wiley; $75; 280 pages)....

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Anishi Khetan 31 May 2013
An ‘online store with a heart’ is how Kultwear describes itself. Anishi Khetan writes about how this unique initiative allows you to help a cause and an artiste, every time you opt for one of its funky Tees As a nation, we are a cynical and pessimistic lot. We have an opinion on...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 May 2013
Many are not aware that their retirement corpus is influenced by many unknown factors. Debashis Basu, editor Moneylife, in a seminar for Moneylife Foundation members, spoke on the various unknowns and how one could deal with them by investing safely and smartly Most Indians keep a large...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 May 2013
Many investors end up with unsafe investment products after falling for the glib talk of marketing staff. Debashis Basu, editor Moneylife, in a seminar for Moneylife Fundation members, spoke on how one can plan for their goals by smart investing One of the best investment strategies is...

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 May 2013
The annual list of “Heroes of Philanthropy” compiled by Forbes Asia magazine, features a total of 48 persons from the Asia-Pacific region, including countries like China, Singapore, Hong Kong and Indonesia Four Indian business leaders—Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, PNC Menon, Vineet Nayar and...

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