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Moneylife Digital Team 16 April 2013
The two blasts occurred within seconds at a sidewalk along the route of the Boston Marathon, where thousands of people had lined up to cheer on the marathoners   At least three persons were killed and over 130 sustained injuries when two powerful explosions rocked the US city of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 April 2013
Moneylife Foundation invited Advocate Bapoo Malcolm explain to a packed house of over 80 attendants the practical aspects of preparing a will. Over the course of the interactive two-hour session, which mostly consisted of participants asking a string of questions, Mr Malcolm covered...

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Cora Currier (ProPublica) 12 April 2013
Defense attorneys for men accused of terrorism before military commissions at Guantanamo Bay believe their email communications have been searched and even tampered with The long-troubled military trials at Guantanamo Bay were hit by revelations earlier this year that a secret censor had...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 April 2013
The Supreme Court had on 21st March upheld Sanjay Dutt’s conviction under Arms Act and sentenced him to five years in jail of which he has already served 18 months Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, ordered by the Supreme Court to complete his five years sentence for complicity in the 1993...

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Lois Beckett (ProPublica) 10 April 2013
The 2012 Obama campaign set the bar for the use of voter data. The Republicans aren't interested in being beaten again The Republicans have admitted it: They need to get serious about collecting and analyzing voter data.   Well, you can't get much more serious than talking to...

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Medical education in India is lacking in understanding of minor illnesses in rural areas and the wisdom of Ayurveda Indian medical education has undergone very little change since its inception in 1835 by the East India Company in Madras, Bombay and, Calcutta. Today, most of our doctors...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 April 2013
Thatcher’s government privatised several state-owned industries. She was also in power when the UK went to war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands in 1982 Britain’s first woman prime minister Margaret Thatcher, known as the “Iron Lady”, today passed away following a stroke at the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 05 April 2013
Mumbai’s housing societies are up in arms against the hefty property tax bills, with arrears for the past three years, they have recently received and the even fatter bills they are expected to receive in the coming years. Rajendra Thacker, president, Society for Fast Justice, explained why...

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Theodoric Meyer (ProPublica) 05 April 2013
A ruling in a similar case last year suggests that judges do not have the authority to reject settlements in which firms neither admit nor deny wrongdoing Judge Victor Marrero last week became the latest federal judge to question a time-honored tactic of federal regulators: negotiating...

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Fascinating accounts of 12 value investors Ever since Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffet paved the road for value investment as one of the most successful styles of investing, there has never been a dearth of books on the subject. Enough has been written about what constitutes value...

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Joaquin Sapien (ProPublica)  and   Sergio Hernandez (Special to ProPublica) 04 April 2013
The innocent can wind up in prison. The guilty can be set free. But New York City prosecutors who withhold evidence, tolerate false testimony or commit other abuses almost never see their careers damaged The murder case against Tony Bennett seemed pretty straightforward.   Shortly...

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Dr Nita Mukherjee 03 April 2013
Dr Nita Mukherjee finds another successful skill development model based on training illiterate rural women Exactly a decade ago, ‘graduates’ of the Barefoot College decided to come together to form what is perhaps the first association of semi-literate women solar engineers. The Women...

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Medical developments from around the world   Breast Cancer and Heart Risk A recent research, published in the New England Journal of Medicine (2013; 368:987-998), shows that radiation for breast cancer might expose women to the risk of some heart diseases. Lo and behold! ‘Experts’...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 March 2013
North Korea said in the event of any 'reckless' US provocation, its forces should mercilessly strike the US mainland, military bases in the Pacific, including Hawaii and Guam, and those in South Korea North Korea, in a direct response to the US' threat to use nuclear capable stealth...

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Cora Currier (ProPublica) 29 March 2013
Human rights researchers years ago identified a man who may have been held secretly by the CIA, and whose whereabouts were unknown. It appears that man is now in custody in New York Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn unsealed an indictment Wednesday charging Ibrahim Suleiman Adnan Adam...

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The Cyprus shock gives us an opportunity to trim our ambitions and tailor our projects and programmes in such a way as to harmonise them with resource availability. Taking a lesson, Kerala should also review its half-baked investment ideas that are being pushed through by the neo-rich and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 March 2013
Jayalalithaa said the Tamil Nadu government would permit IPL matches only if the organisers provide an undertaking that no Sri Lankan players, umpires, officials or support staff would participate in these matches The Indian Premier League (IPL)'s sixth edition appears to have hit a...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 March 2013
Medical developments from around the world Chest-only Resuscitation Improves Survival Rates “Adoption of chest-compressions-only resuscitation over traditional cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for bystander intervention in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest dramatically improved...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 March 2013
Medical developments from around the world Marriage Could Reduce Risk of Heart Attacks Undoubtedly, marriage is good for health and can be a good preventive measure as well. A study in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology finds that marriage reduces the risk of acute coronary...

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Understanding risk and returns in real life   Myths abound in financial markets. There are few books that bust such myths. Ken Fisher has written a couple of them (reviewed in Moneylife) and now Jack Schwager, famous for interviews of top-performing fund managers (Market Wizards), has...

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