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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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Unconvincing Mentoring There is little differentiation among self-help books these days. The shelves of this genre have become so overcrowded that it seems anybody can get away writing a ho-hum book and find a publisher to boot! The only differentiating factor appears to be the title...

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Service vs Business   This is an unusual autography, penned with a sense of detachment and subtle humour by a longstanding member of the practising auditing profession, G Narayanaswamy, who built a successful practice with toil and grit at Chennai. It provides many gems of wisdom from...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 March 2013
How do you plan for retirement when so many relevant questions are unanswered? You don’t know how long you will live for, but can you calculate what your expenses will be, how inflation will affect expenditure, and much else. Debashis Basu, trustee of Moneylife Foundation, presented a clear...

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We need to combine modern medicine, which is effective for emergency care, with less expensive but equally effective methods and Ayurveda fits the bill perfectly Ayurveda has a strong scientific base—the true science of non-linearity and holism which modern medicine does not have, as...

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Moneylife Digital Team 22 March 2013
Dietary Salt and Death A study published in the February issue of the Journal of Hypertension, an American Heart Association publication, shows that, if Americans were to reduce their daily salt intake by as much as 50%, they could save some 300,000 premature deaths. Roughly 80% of...

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