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Moneylife Digital Team 07 January 2014
Thinlas Chorol is founder of an all women travel company that provides female guide and all assistance for trekking in the rugged terrain of Ladakh Thinlas Chorol, founder of Ladakhi Women’s Travel Co has been awarded the Jankidevi Bajaj Puraskar 2013 for her outstanding contribution...

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Tracy Weber  and   Charles Ornstein (ProPublica) 07 January 2014
The action by US Medicare follows ProPublica's investigative series detailing inappropriate and wasteful prescribing, fraud in the nation's biggest prescription drug program Medicare plans to arm itself with broad new powers to better control — and potentially ban — doctors engaged in...

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The heart surgery programme in the US alone is a $100 million business! They thrive on panic mongering. There is compelling evidence that more health care and more aggressive treatment across the complete spectrum of illnesses is not necessarily better Our greatest achievement in modern...

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Marian Wang (ProPublica) 03 January 2014
Those slashed retail prices that fuelled your holiday shopping binges might be illusions. ProPublica explains why college pricing is similar -- but even less transparent You know all those seemingly great sales during the holidays? It turns out, they are often a “carefully engineered...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 December 2013
IIM Ahmedabad has teamed up with Random House to publish a series of management and business books, under the ‘IIM Ahmedabad Business Books Series’, to bring their teachings to a wider audience. IIM Ahmedabad has teamed up with Random House to publish a series of management and business...

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The story of the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban Malala Yousafzai, who dared to defy the Taliban to educate herself, and got shot, has now written a book, along with journalist Christina Lamb. A large part of the book is about the beauty of the Swat Valley,...

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N Madhavan 27 December 2013
While women continue to battle against violence and rape, men are also being victimised by laws meant to protect women. Crisp India, or Child Rights and Shared Parenting, is an NGO that highlights this “There is no doubt that the father’s involvement in childcare cannot be substituted by...

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Fragments of global culture and history, expressed through numbers Do you know the number of Olympian Gods, according to Greek mythology? Can you name the seven sins of Christendom? Hint: if you watch Brad Pitt’s movie Seven, you might be able to answer this question. How many...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 December 2013
In an interactive session at Moneylife Foundation, advocate Bapoo Malcolm explained to a packed house the practical aspects of making a will Through a Will, we offer specific instructions about what has to be done with movable and immovable properties after our death. As simple as it...

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Most of our pathophysiology of diseases is based on the Darwinian model unfortunately, and it has to change for the good Darwinian evolution theory has become outdated and is replaced by Lamarckism. Charles Darwin himself agreed with Jean-Baptiste Lamarck but neo-Darwinians, who have a...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 December 2013
Two experts on gender issues enlightened an eager audience of students, HR practitioners and lawyers on the nuances of this important Act in today’s context Most people are clueless about the stringent provisions of the new Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 December 2013
In an attractive presentation to a packed audience at a Moneylife Foundation seminar, tax expert Ameet Patel explained the three keys for safe tax-filing—documentation, e-filing and form 26AS Moneylife Foundation held its 191st event “Pitfalls and Precautions for Filing Income Tax...

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Joaquin Sapien  and   Hanna Trudo (ProPublica) 24 December 2013
Three decades after 6-year-old Etan Patz disappeared, police suddenly had a suspect. Then they chose not to record his interrogation, a decision that could affect their case A version of this story was co-produced with WNYC. Listen to it here.   Shortly after 7 a.m. on May 23,...

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Lena Groeger (ProPublica) 23 December 2013
How long you wait at the emergency room-ER matters a lot. ProPublica’s new interactive news application lets reader in the US see travel and wait times at hospital ERs near them Some medical conditions require and receive immediate care. People who are having heart attacks or who have...

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TruthInAdvertising.org 20 December 2013
Law enforcement agencies seized 706 domain names that were selling fake products like headphones, sports jerseys, personal care products, shoes, toys, luxury goods, cell phones and electronic accessories In an effort to crack down on counterfeit merchandise, the US Immigration and...

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Tracy Weber  and   Charles Ornstein (ProPublica) 20 December 2013
The US government does little to stop schemers from stealing from Medicare Part D, the program that provides prescription drugs to more than 36 million seniors and disabled people This story was co-produced with NPR.   With just a handful of prescriptions to his name, psychiatrist...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 December 2013
The Sexual Harassment Act if implemented well would go a long way in protecting women employees. Anagha Sarpotdar and Adv Mini Mathew, speaking at a Moneylife Foundation seminar, explained issues of workplace sexual harassment and guided on how to deal with such cases Media coverage of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 December 2013
The new law is a significant step towards creating awareness on the issue of workplace sexual harassment and ensuring women a safe and healthy work environment Media coverage of the complaint against Tarun Tejpal and Justice Ganguly (retired Supreme court judge) have only brought home...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 December 2013
More people searched online for Bollywood newcomer Sunny Leone than actors like Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif and cricket maestro Sachin Tendulkar during 2013 Sunny Leone, the adult star turned actor and the new entrant in Bollywood was the most searched personality in 2013 across India...

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Jake Bernstein (ProPublica) 17 December 2013
Judge cites "very real emotional and psychological victimization" of dying participants who took cash for assigning their death benefits to investors PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Joseph Caramadre believed he had found the Holy Grail for investors, a risk-free way to speculate in financial...

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