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Moneylife Digital Team 21 March 2013
Moneylife Foundation was joined by members of All India Bank Depositors’ Association, Mumbai Grahak Panchayat, All India Bank Employees’ Association and Mumbai Mahanagar Vyapari Seva Parishad in its campaign against the RBI’s foolhardy proposal to disincentivise the issuance and usage of...

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K Saldanha 21 March 2013
Sangram has done much in the past two decades to empower sex workers in rural Maharashtra, finds SANGRAM (Sampada Gramin Mahila Sanstha) has been fighting difficult battles—against the spread of HIV/AIDS among sex workers, against the stigma attached to their work and against their...

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Modern medicine has only now realised that hostility is the prime cause of major killer diseases “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” — Robert A Heinlein There is a new definition of health—in contrast to the outdated Alma Ata...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 March 2013
The protesting employees have urged RCB players to boycott Mallya’s team. They have also asked the BCCI not to allow RCB to participate in the upcoming IPL Frustrated over not getting salaries for the last 10 months, Kingfisher Airlines employees on Wednesday asked the government to act...

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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed”— Dwight D Eisenhower   I was pleasantly surprised to see Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi last...

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Medical developments from around the world Smiling Linked to Health Benefits New research in Psychological Science reaffirms the positive benefits of a simple smile; it even showed that a half-hearted smile might be associated with some benefits. Smiling lowers the heart and breathing...

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Justin Elliott (ProPublica) 19 March 2013
The Gulf kingdom welcomes the International Peace Institute even as it bars some human rights advocates and journalists from the country As Bahrain enters the third year of a crisis sparked by Arab Spring protests in 2011, the government continues to bar many human rights advocates and  

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Cora Currier (ProPublica) 18 March 2013
Deutsche Bank agrees to pay $17.5 million to Massachusetts for a deal involving Magnetar, the hedge fund behind many CDOs gone sour Deutsche Bank is the latest financial institution to be fined for not warning investors about the role of the hedge fund Magnetar in creating complex...

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Cora Currier (ProPublica) 14 March 2013
The White House announced 17 pardons on Friday. But Obama has still granted clemency at a lower rate than his predecessors On Friday, President Obama pardoned 17 people. But despite the new pardons, the Obama administration has still granted clemency more rarely than any president in...

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Lois Beckett (ProPublica) 13 March 2013
The companies that sell information about how much money you make — and whether you’re pregnant, divorced, or trying to lose weight — are facing new scrutiny in the US Data companies are scooping up enormous amounts of information about almost every American. They sell information about...

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Tracy Weber  and   Charles Ornstein (ProPublica) 12 March 2013
New data show drugmakers' payments to hundreds of thousands of doctors in the US, and some have made well over $500,000 Update Mar. 11, 2013, 4:55 pm: This post has been updated to reflect a response by Dr. Vladimir Maletic to questions from ProPublica.   Dr. Jon W. Draud, the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 March 2013
The products should be truly by women, for women and to protect the health of women! Boxes of used sanitary pads have been sent to the corporate offices of Hindustan Unilever, Procter and Gamble and Johnson and Johnson, which are the major manufacturers of sanitary napkins. “This is just...

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Dr Nita Mukherjee 09 March 2013
Dr Nita Mukherjee describes a decade-old effort that is bearing rich fruit   Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF), a Delhi-based not-for-profit organisation, was founded by Osama Manzar in December 2002 under the Societies Registration Act. Its objective is to uplift the downtrodden...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 March 2013
In the first half of Moneylife Foundation's fourth annual Women's Day event (supported by DSP BlackRock's Winvestor Initiative), Mumbai-based financial planner Sujata Kabraji provided our audience with a step-by-step process, tailor-made for women, to financial success. Sharing many mistakes...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 March 2013
That is the conventional wisdom and could be wrong. Financial literacy, or the lack of it, is one of the reasons why women tend to be more risk-averse than men, according to new research which debunks the biological theory. If the right financial education was imparted to more women at school...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 March 2013
At the 4th annual Women’s Day event (supported by DSP BlackRock's Winvestor Initiative), Moneylife Foundation honoured two amazing women, Meena Seshu of SANGRAM and Jyothi Mhapsekar of Stree Mukti Sanghatnana, for their contributions to society. This was followed by a speech by another great...

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Recent research has thrown new light on the widely used medicine “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” — Mark Twain A chemist with as many as 40 patents, Arthur Eichengrün, a Jew, was the first to discover aspirin in 1897. He was the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 March 2013
Just three days after it was presented by finance minister P Chidambaram, Anil Harish and Vimal Punmiya delivered their engaging analyses on the budget. Several important points, gone unnoticed by media thus far, were discussed in detail by the speakers. Particular attention was paid to...

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The importance of using authentic public information before making an investment decision Since the ‘Great Financial Crisis’ of 2007, there have been numerous books on not only the crisis and its aftermath but several more ‘how-to’ books on investing and avoiding the perils of economic...

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Dr Nita Mukherjee 02 March 2013
Dr Nita Mukherjee finds a rich collection that provides published and unpublished materials relating to Indian women On a recent visit to Delhi, I had the opportunity to personally explore the rich resource that the library of the Centre for Women’s Development Studies (CWDS) provides on...

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