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Moneylife Digital Team 18 June 2013
Love thy neighbour Let’s see how the law applies to neighbourly relations. The biblical injunction of ‘Love Thy Neighbour’ is, unfortunately, not a common occurrence. Probably, because familiarity often breeds contempt. Two neighbours, Mr 1 and Mr 2, could not see eye to eye. No talk. No...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 June 2013
Despite financial regulation in the US, conflict of interest continues unabated, with advisors only interested in their own welfare The financial industry is rife with conflicts of interest. Few firms take the notion of ‘fiduciary responsibility’ seriously. One such example is the...

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Sushmita V Gopalan 18 June 2013
PAWS treats and rehabilitates injured birds and animals and spreads awareness about their care Twelve years ago, when an 18-year-old Nilesh Bhanage was flying a kite, he found a pigeon being viciously attacked by crows. He rescued it immediately and took the injured bird home only to...

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Paul Kiel (ProPublica) 18 June 2013
Former employees of Bank of America gave sworn statements that the bank lied to homeowners, denied loan modifications for bogus reasons and rewarded employees for sending homeowners to foreclosure Bank of America employees regularly lied to homeowners seeking loan modifications, denied...

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Marry in haste and repent at leisure is a popular saying. One fact that takes a toll on modern marriages that are increasingly ending in divorce is financial incompatibility. Here is a look at the stress points that may develop in relationships That marriages are made in heaven is now...

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Marry in haste and repent at leisure is a popular saying. One fact that takes a toll on modern marriages that are increasingly ending in divorce is financial incompatibility. Here is a look at the stress points that may develop in relationships That marriages are made in heaven is now...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 June 2013
Expensive Signal   Alot of people who know something about stock markets are intrigued and fascinated by fancy charts of fluctuating stock prices, especially those flashed on news channels. Unfortunately, charting patterns are often used without any method. To use them effectively...

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Real-life examples about how to apply various tricks for smarter thinking    Most people take the word ‘smart’ and ‘intelligent’ to connote someone who is academically bright and able to assimilate and comprehend complicated ideas. What about those who do not have the benefit of...

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From carbon to silver to uranium—the elements that helped create our world   There are 98 chemical elements in the periodic table, from hydrogen to zinc. They’re essentially the building blocks of life and pretty much everything else, from cars to smartphones to even our skeletal...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 June 2013
Buying term life insurance at 50 can also be challenging with possible loading after the medical tests. Based on the health condition, loading can be 25% to 300% Moneylife Foundation conducted a seminar to a packed audience on insurance needs at age 50. The event addressed by Raj Pradhan...

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Joaquin Sapien (ProPublica) 17 June 2013
Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J Hynes will be deposed by the lawyer for a man who has accused Hynes of running a prosecutor's office, where misconduct is condoned, even rewarded. Hynes, who has denied the allegation, had sought to avoid answering questions under oath, but a federal judge...

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Michael Grabell (ProPublica) 13 June 2013
After the deadly building collapse in Bangladesh, Walmart released a list of factories it had banned. But it has continued receiving shipments from two of them Since the Rana Plaza building collapse killed more than 1,100 people in April, retailers have faced mounting pressure to improve...

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Recent research has assigned mango “functional foods” status. Mango can help clear up skin, promote eye health, stave off diabetes and even prevent the formation and spread of cancer “There is no sincerer love than the love of food.”— George Bernard Shaw Conventional thinking is...

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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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