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SPECIAL: THE WEEK OF SCAMS
 
SEBI scores big with Sahara
After the landmark verdict by the apex court, Subrata Roy-led Sahara Group has come out with full page ads in various newspapers. This is childishness and only underlines the dangers of allowing this group to keep expanding without regulatory checks and balances...
* Supreme Court's Sahara ruling: Salute to the judges, but a huge question mark before financial regulators
*SC asks Sahara group to refund Rs17,400 crore to investors in three months
*Vedanta gave 'illegal' political donations in India?
*The big lie about King Long AC buses that actually are made in Punjab
*Parliament paralysed for 8th day on coal block issue
*Sahai defends letter to PM on coal block allocation
*Corruption: A challenge for managers
 
 
TOP STORIES OF THE WEEK
 
Expense Ratio: Questionable practices of mutual funds
Recently, the Securities & Exchange Board of India allowed fund companies to charge more to investors through a convoluted formula. The practices of fund companies, anyways, were to charge more, not less because investors are usually blind to fund charges, being focused more on returns...
*BSE to enter capital markets by March next year

*IRDA's senior citizen initiatives: On the track or off it?

*Will investors sue Tulip Telecom?
*Kasab's mercy petition: Who will take the call, President or Home Minister?
*Judiciary snubs bulky, vague information asked under RTI
*NDTV Vs WPP: Defamation suit against Sir Martin Sorrel by NDTV's law firm
 
 
SPECIAL: THE ELECTION GAMES BY SANDEEP KHURANA
 
Election Games: Biting the bullet of the ballot – 2
Greedy pursuit of seats—crime, caste, religion, money power...
*Crime & Money: Biting the bullet of the ballot-3
 
EXCLUSIVE COLUMNS
 
Investor protection: Complex protection
R Balakrishnan
Stimulus: Does it actually work?-
William Gamble
Cruising in the mountains
Veeresh Malik
ADVT
MARKETS/REGULATION
 
*Weekly Market Report: Decline to continue
Higher high, lower low on the Nifty may change the trend...

*Weekly Nifty View: US Fed trying to talk up the market but will it oblige?

*Brace for a correction in the stock market, warns BNP Paribas

*SAT asks SEBI to pass final orders within two weeks in IPO cases

*FII inflow is not strongly correlated to Sensex returns in the short run
 
BOOKS: THE LOVE OF THE PRINTED WORD
 

Hedge Fund Market Wizards
Jack D Schwager

Getting Started in Currency Trading
Michael Duane Archer

Risk Less and Prosper
Zvi Bodie and Rachelle Taqqu

COMPANIES & SECTORS
 
Coal India should develop and expand in India rather than venture outside!
Instead of chasing the rainbow and coal abroad, CIL would do well to persuade the environment ministry for expeditious clearance of a few out of the 45 pending cases and endeavour to comply with as many conditions that have hindered the progress...
*ONGC has to show some results—faster!
*Underlying performance continues to be strong in consumer stocks, says Nomura
*Attention needed for Oilseeds & Pulses Development Corporation?
*Underlying demand in the Indian automobile sector remains weak, says Nomura
*Consumer demand continues to be strong says Nomura
*Power grid failure: How to prevent it from happening
*Not much joy in spectrum auctions guidelines, says Nomura
 
 
INVESTING/MUTUAL FUNDS/LEARNING
 
L&T shareholders would gain from spinoffs
More than three years ago, L&T CMD AM Naik had assured the media that the company has plans to unlock value for its shareholders by spinning off many of its operations into independent companies. However, nothing has really happened since then. Spinoffs would be of great benefit to shareholders...
*JSW Ispat's merger with JSW Steel will be negative, says Nomura
 
PERSONAL FINANCE/INSURANCE/CONSUMER INTEREST
 
Moneylife Insurance seminar: Personal Accident, Life, Health, Car, Travel & Home cover simplified
Moneylife Foundation held an exclusive, in-depth session addressed by Raj Pradhan, where he explained in detail what to look for in the different kinds of insurance covers we need...
*Real Estate Malpractices: Home-buyer at the mercy
*Get your car insured through mobile phone
*Accident Compensation: Unfair deal
*HDFC Invest Wise: One more ULIP
*Now, online personal loans from Bajaj Finserv

 
ECONOMY & NATION
 
Rural India consumption growth outpaces urban areas: CRISIL
Given the large size of India's rural population, the value of goods and services consumed has always been greater in rural India, but urban India had narrowed the differential during most of the last decade by growing at a faster pace ...

*India's GDP growth marginally higher in June quarter, says Nomura

*Farm subsidies should go to make farmers self-sufficient in the long run
*Tariff revisions for PPA projects possible, finds Nomura
 
MONEY & BANKING
 
India's 'boring' banking system remains robust: Deepak Parekh
Greed has trampled over trust, respect and legality, the HDFC chairman said, while recalling a new word coined recently, 'Banksters' -- implying that bankers were ready to dethrone gangsters with their despicable behaviour ...
*Cash Reserve Ratio: A non-performing asset for banks?
*Open letter to RBI governor D Subbarao
*Gen-Y sees totally cashless shopping coming, says survey
*Higher money supply growth points to a positive revenue growth: Morgan Stanley
 
 

WELLNESS

 
Health is not all physical
When the mind becomes tranquil, the body becomes healthy and happy ...
 

PUBLIC INTEREST

 
Death takes a policy: We answer questions from readers
The story of Joseph Caramadre moved dozens of ProPublica readers to debate the ethics of insurance and corporate behaviour ...
*More than 300 lawyers, activists and law students converge at Indore
*Air India reinstating "sacked pilots"
*Was it too early to say IMD is off the mark?
*US presidential elections: Gender wars
*SC upholds death sentence of 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Kasab
 
TROTTER NAMA: THE WORLD AROUND US
 
Along the silk road: Khiva, bukhara and samarkand

Jaideep Mukherjee takes a trip along Khiva, Bukhara and Samarkand—the Silk Road cities that played a big role in the 19th century...

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