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Sleepless nights, no baths for Sreesanth
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Nifty can reach all time high if Jan 2011 high is cleared
It is very likely that the Indian markets will follow the US markets at least to make it to its past all time highs
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Sonia Gandhi: The leader who never delivered?
Why is it that the most powerful person in the country is nowhere to be seen when some soothing gentle words are needed.
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Movie Review: The Great Gatsby is the most Bollywood of Baz Luhrmann’s films
The great American dream is an integral part of America. It’s ‘great’ in that it symbolises not truth, but hope when the truth is disillusioning; it symbolises not facts, but ideals when facts are unnerving; it symbolises not likelihood, but promise when likelihood is all but bleak.
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Debt, gas problems knock stuffing out of GVK
GVK’s problems are compounded by debt taken in more bullish times to increase its stake in Mumbai and Bangalore airports.
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Why this secrecy over Sonia Gandhi?
What makes the otherwise motormouth mainstream media so silent about Sonia Gandhi even though there is a mountain of evidence against her on her assets and foreign trips?
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Laws alone can’t prevent a disaster like the Bangladesh factory collapse
Unless consumer approach in the West changes or countries like Bangladesh come up with strong rules, disasters like the Savar factory collapse will keep occurring.
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Inflation indexed bonds on 4 June: Here’s what you need to know
The 1997 IIB issuance was in the form of Capital Index Bond (CIB), where only the principal repayment was indexed to inflation. The current CIB version of IIBs will protect interest payment as well as principal repayment from inflation.
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Explainer: A strong US dollar is good for India
The trend of rising equities and falling bond yields will continue. India will see Sensex and Nifty rising and ten-year bond yield falling on the back of the USD strength.
Once upon a time, there was a dabbawalla scam
Whatever happens, I hope this film never wins an award - because they have made hundreds of thousands of people feel good, thinking this was actually happening, when all the time it was a fairy tale. #Dabbawalla Association #HowThisWorks #India #Malnutrition #Mumbai #Share My Dabba
Wrong on Ghaziabad: The Kiran Bedi argument for moral policing
Bedi's argument that we should focus on the legal wrong committed by the girl slapped by cops is technical, disingenuous and enabling. #Ghaziabad #India #Kavita Krishnan #kiran bedi #moral policing #Police #Ranjana Kumari #Shalimar Gardens #ThatsJustWrong
A brother, sister and paying guest: Cobalt Blue explores transgressions of love
In Sachin Kundalkar's new novel Cobalt Blue a young woman falls in love with the family's mysterious paying guest. But she doesn't realise her brother is in love with him too . Until one day the paying guest disappears. #BookExcerpt #Cobalt Blue #Google Hangout #Jerry Pinto #Literature #Sachin Kundalkar
Book review: Terrorism is funny business in ‘Vanity Bagh’
You wouldn't expect a novel about home-grown terror, in which a prisoner seems to be losing his hold on reality, to be fun, but Salim manages this feat. #Anees Salim #BookReview #Vanity Bagh
Why the new drug price controls won’t impact most consumers
What the new pricing policy does is that it replaces the earlier regime, in which prices of drugs were calculated based on the cost of manufacture, with a regime that decides the prices based on existing market prices of top selling brands. The new regime takes the average of the three brands that have one percent of the market share.
#Cipla #CriticalPoint #Drug Price Control Order #Medical #NLEM #Supreme Court #UPA #WHO #World Health OrganisationHow Indian circuses are reeling under the court ban on animals
While circuses in other countries struggle to compete with an ever-increasing array of entertainment options, India’s have faced a cataclysm.
#Ban on animals #HowThisWorks #Indian circusesFirst edition of ‘The Great Gatsby’ sold for a whopping 1,875 pounds
A first edition of legendary American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” sold for 1,875 pounds ($2,872), or nearly triple the opening price, at an auction in Edinburgh, Scotland.
#Auction #BuzzPatrol #F. Scott Fitzgerald #Leonardo DiCaprio #The Great GatsbyAn art exhibition that makes you see homelands and ‘racism’ differently
Almost every work in Homeland makes the viewer think about what inspires a sense of belonging to a space, a set of rituals or even an idea.
#homelands #InMyOpinion #RacismPainting India red: Why the global racism map is wrong
A global map of racism paints India as one of the least tolerant nations in the world based on responses to a single query about undesirable neighbours.
#BehindTheNumbers #black #Caste #India #Iraq #Racism #Shia #Washington Post #WorldSwine flu virus found in seals for first time
Researchers have detected the H1N1 virus, that created a worldwide pandemic in 2009, in elephant seals off the coast of central California – the first report of the flu strain in any marine mammal.
#Ano Nuevo State Reserve #California #H1N1 virus #NewsTracker #Swine flu #University of California
