LIFE


Theodoric Meyer (ProPublica) 08 May 2013
What actually happened in the US in the two months since the across-the-board budget cuts took effect? We have updated our sequestration explainer to reflect new developments. It was originally published on April 11, 2013.   When the annual White House Easter Egg Hunt faced...

Read More



Doctors are frustrated, patients are angry, hospitals in the west are going broke, insurance companies that are there only to make money are also declaring Chapter eleven by the day. Time to get back to the old, trusted tradition of family doctors?   “The time has come," the Walrus...

Read More



Moneylife Digital Team 07 May 2013
Dhaka magistrate has directed police to investigate a complaint filed by the wife of a victim who had alleged that her husband and other workers were 'pushed to death' by the building owner Police in Bangladesh are investigating possible murder charges against the owner of a shoddily...

Read More



Sergio Hernandez (Special to ProPublica) 07 May 2013
When New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg tapped Cathie Black to be schools chancellor, a lowly intern filed a freedom of information request that the city fought for two years. Now, that intern reflects on why the mayor tried so hard to keep secret emails that turned out to be innocuous In...

Read More



Moneylife Digital Team 07 May 2013
Bank of America agreed to pay $1.7 billion to MBIA and will also receive right to buy a 4.9% stake in the bond insurer ending their legal dispute over mortgage-backed securities Bank of America said it would pay $1.7 billion to bond insurer MBIA (Municipal Bond Insurance Association) to...

Read More



Moneylife Digital Team 07 May 2013
Medical developments from around the world   Surgical Complications and Hospital Finances Research linking surgical complications to higher hospital profits has come to light lately. Many articles had headlines such as “Study: Hospital profits soar when surgeries go wrong”,...

Read More



K Saldanha 06 May 2013
A Kolhapur-based organisation helps the disabled become self-supporting Helpers of the Handicapped, Kolhapur (HoHK) was started in 1984 by two dynamic ladies, Naseema Hurzuk, a paraplegic since she was 16 years old, and Rajani Deshpande, who uses crutches to move around due to polio,...

Read More



Moneylife Digital Team 06 May 2013
A treatise on every known approach to investing by the master of valuation If a serious investor is seeking a compendium of investment strategies to get started in the world of stock market investment and analysis, the wide range of general investment books makes this choice tough. Look...

Read More



Moneylife Digital Team 06 May 2013
What happens if the US defaults? Investors are living in a world where terms like defaults, stock market crash and capital erosion are freely bandied about by the media. Much of the developed world is supposed to be in a long-term financial mess. In the past few decades, we have seen...

Read More



Moneylife Digital Team 06 May 2013
How often do we come across a book that is so small, powerful and yet so poetic? The Sweetness of Life (Francoise Heritier; Rs599; Particular Books; 76 pages), an international bestseller, is one such. The book is written in a diary-like fashion with no distinct chapters. Each entry is woven...

Read More



Moneylife Digital Team 04 May 2013
In an enlightening session on Gold at the Moneylife Foundation Knowledge Centre today, Debashis Basu, editor and publisher of Moneylife used decades of data to expose many myths about gold that are (freely available and strongly propagated on the Internet) and strongly held by both retail and...

Read More



Simple home remedies are the best options for minor illnesses like fever, cold, etc “Sickness shows us what we are.” — Latin proverb Fever and common cold, sore throat and flu-like illnesses can be managed at home without the use of pharmaceuticals. Bed rest, fresh air, adequate...

Read More



Christie Thompson (ProPublica) 29 April 2013
The Senate's immigration overhaul would allocate $4.5 billion in new border spending. We take a look at the current proposal, and how border money's been spent (and wasted) in the past Federal spending on border security is at an all-time high —and it would get even higher under the Gang...

Read More



Moneylife Digital Team 27 April 2013
Chain-money schemes like Saradha are flourishing in our country. Countless crores have been lost in this manner. But these schemes aren’t the only danger. There are internet-based scams, phishing scams, identity theft, job scams, and much else you could be fooled by. Sucheta Dalal briefed...

Read More



Theodoric Meyer (ProPublica) 26 April 2013
Seven different agencies regulate fertilizer plants in Texas, but none of them have authority over how close they are to homes and schools April 25: This post has been corrected.   A week after a blast at a Texas fertilizer plant killed at least 15 people and hurt more than 200,...

Read More



Justin Elliott (ProPublica) 25 April 2013
As military contractors fight budget cuts, they get a friendly face on the Senate Armed Services Committee Last year, we told you about how former Lockheed Martin executive Ann Sauer had been hired to be the top Republican staffer on the Senate Armed Services Committee.   Sauer got...

Read More



Marian Wang (ProPublica) 24 April 2013
Prospective students have long looked to low acceptance rates, high number of applications and other factors to determine how prestigious a college is and whether they should apply. However, colleges have found ways to make their institutions seem more appealing   As college-bound...

Read More



Charles Seife  and   Rob Garver (Special to ProPublica) 23 April 2013
ProPublica had reported that the FDA allowed drugs to stay on the market despite the fact that the research underpinning their safety and efficacy was tainted by fraud. New information shows that even after the FDA had cited the lab for falsifying data, the agency issued at least one brand...

Read More



Sebastian Rotella (ProPublica) 22 April 2013
Counterterror officials say the emerging portrait suggests the brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev slipped into Islamic extremism under the influence of Internet propaganda April 20: This story has been corrected.   As an eighth-grader in a Cambridge public school, suspected...

Read More



Moneylife Digital Team 20 April 2013
For democracy to flourish, a smooth functioning justice system is necessary. The efficiency with which the Indian judicial system works is disappointing. This has to do with the lack of judges, laziness of the courts and various other inefficiencies. Bhagvanji Raiyani, founder of the Forum...

Read More

Free Helpline
Legal Credit
Feedback