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THE HIMALAYAN DISASTER: TRANSNATIONAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT MECHANISM A MUST

We talked with Palash Biswas, an editor for Indian Express in Kolkata today also. He urged that there must a transnational disaster management mechanism to avert such scale disaster in the Himalayas. http://youtu.be/7IzWUpRECJM

THE HIMALAYAN TALK: PALASH BISWAS TALKS AGAINST CASTEIST HEGEMONY IN SOUTH ASIA

THE HIMALAYAN TALK: PALASH BISWAS TALKS AGAINST CASTEIST HEGEMONY IN SOUTH ASIA

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Saturday, June 16, 2012

Fwd: Weekly Updates - Seema Rai case in Satyamev Jayate and doctors, Rot in the Railways,Nifty may move higher subject to dips, and many more...



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TOP STORIES OF THE WEEK
 
The Seema Rai case in Satyamev Jayate: Time to bell the cat?
The Seema Rai case of a failed pancreas transplant was discussed on Aamir Khan's Satyamev Jayate. Here is the full story of what went wrong in that case starting from the fact that Fortis did not even have the licence to perform pancreas transplant surgery...

*Satyamev Jayate & doctors: Look at the spurious basis of modern medicine

*Rajat Gupta convicted of insider trading
*Rajat Gupta's journey from board room to jail cell
*RTI reveals that 'Big Fat Indian Weddings' are under scanner
*Pharma companies selling common drugs at 10 times the cost
*Weak IIP not translating into lower inflation; will RBI go in for a rate cut?
 
ADVT

SPECIAL: ROT IN THE RAILWAYS by Veeresh Malik

 
Rot in the Railways -I: Wrong kind of passengers subsidised
Here some numbers that indicate how unreserved passengers subsidise the first class AC passengers, which include lots of freeloaders...

*Rot in the Railways – II: The Tatkal scam

*Rot in the Railways – III: The quota system and the corruption it breeds
 
EXCLUSIVE COLUMNS
 
Corporate India vs Government: Full circle
Sucheta Dalal
The hoax called VIP and VVIP
Veeresh Malik
Emerging markets Vs foreigners
William Gamble
MARKETS/REGULATION
 
*Weekly Market Report: Nifty may move higher subject to dips
Nifty has to stay above 5,045 for the upmove to continue...

*Rally materializes as expected but caution advocated in further rise

*Fortnightly Market View: Price vs fundamentals

*Market players used S&P report for profit booking
 
 
BOOKS: THE LOVE OF THE PRINTED WORD
 

Fischer Black
John Wiley & Sons

The Meadow
Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark

Exile On Wall Street
Salvatore Carollo

INVESTING/ MUTUAL FUND/ INSURANCE
 
Best Stocks from top funds
A review on how the portfolio has performed by Jason Monteiro and the new suggested portfolio...
*Why is property insurance yet to take-off in India?
*LIC wants to be an aggressive equity trader at whose cost?

*S&P says India may be the first 'fallen angel' in BRIC

 
 
COMPANIES & SECTORS
 
Public sector banks - 1: With government keeping the control, who will put in the capital?
The government wants to hold 51% is PSBs and is inflexible about it. It will soon find out the flip side to this, when asked to put in capital to either maintain this stake or force banks to give up growth...
*Public sector banks - 2: Brazen, quixotic and thoughtless directives from Delhi
*Business correspondent model at near-zero cost may fail with deep negative impact
*Critical risk and issues in regulating bank business correspondents
*Mining in India shows regulatory failure, says Human Rights Watch
*What NTPC should have done with its 16.10 billion units of surplus electricity
*Unitech enticing new buyers by advertising hot returns of a selected past period
*No multi-level TDS on software industry from July 2012
*Car sales in May hampered due to rising cost of ownership
*Can India achieve a 9% GDP growth once again?
 
 
PERSONAL BUSINESS
 
Relying on your ATM for emergency cash? Think again
You may be nastily surprised that your ATM has run out of money when you really need it ...
 
PUBLIC INTEREST
 
Revenue from bus stop advertisement is more important than human life
The death of a passenger electrocuted in a bus stop should shake up Traffic Police, Municipal Corporation, MSRDC, MMRDA, PWD, MTSU and perhaps even the judiciary...

*DoE admits 'unauthorized' activities at 6, Krishna Menon Marg bungalow

*Bad ads: ASCI's new monitoring arm identifies 55 ads misleading
*Moneylife Foundation seminar on 'Bee Safe and Smart'
*India ranks 23rd in financial literacy among 28 countries, says Visa
*Inadequate sleep likely to increase stroke risk
*In Tamil media, astrology, spirituality and religion are hot-selling items
 

OTHER NEWS

 
How Microsoft and Yahoo are selling politicians access to you
The personal information you gave Microsoft or Yahoo may be used to target you with online ads...

*US presidency: The muddle in Europe

*US media companies make yet another push to defang transparency rule
*Cozy connections between JP Morgan and the Senate Banking Committee
*Grieving father struggles to pay dead son's student loans in US
 
HISTORY
 
Helping guests in times of crisis has its rewards
While smokers caused immense trouble to the hotel staff, helping guests in times of crisis gets the writer "the employee of the month" award. The 45th part of a series describing the unknown triumphs and travails of doing international business...
*Sight seeing in America: Providing assistance to hotel guests
*Returning to our roots: The end of a long journey
 
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