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5 September 2011   Moneylife Exclusive Cochin Port Trust bats for DP World, LBW cabotage Veeresh Malik A one-sided contract between Cochin Port Trust, the landlord, and DP World Ports Vallarpadam Terminal, its tenant, has led to intense lobbying over cabotage rules. A local problem, which has more to do with a local solution, is being used as a catalyst to push a deeper agenda with a national bearing. The country's interests are at the stake, once again, for reasons that increasingly appear to be very shady...     Exclusive Column     Kotak Mahindra turns 25. Once again! Anil Thakraney The ads are so dull and witless; you'd rather watch paint dry on a wall. The least they ought to have done was to make the stories very funny and interesting...       Other ML Exclusives   Sahara India Financial's ad promising repayment of all deposits by December comes under RBI scanner The company's announcement in the media last week follows a fresh order by the Reserve Bank of India, asking it to bring down its aggregate liability to zero by 30 June 2015 and repay its depositors on maturity... ............................................................................................................................................... Daily Market Report: Share prices hit speed-breaker Nifty to move in a range of 4,965 to 5,100... ............................................................................................................................................... Voluntary part of the New Pension System enlists only 51,000 members Even the Rs1,000 giveaway announced by the FM in the 2010-11 budget to potential savers has failed to make them join the NPS. It is obvious that potential investors tend to shun market volatility and prefer guaranteed returns... ............................................................................................................................................... National Rural Livelihood Mission: Understanding the vulnerability of low-income groups If NRLM has to succeed in raising the livelihood of poor rural people, where previous programmes have failed, it is necessary to involve low-income producers in the design and implementation of various programmes, as only then can the structural causes of poverty be substantively tackled... ............................................................................................................................................... Andhra IT land swindle: Former top bureaucrat demands probe against Prodigy Solutions The company had collected big sums on the promise of giving people jobs. It seems that it also illegally acquired office spaces at various places, with the complicity of government officials, according to the complaint... ............................................................................................................................................... Traditional plan: Low returns, decent death benefit Will the lure of monthly income work for Max New York Life's new non-participating money back insurance plan? ............................................................................................................................................... Financial inclusion of sugarcane farmers in modern-day India In some ways, financing arrangements today penalise the small producer for mistakes of other parties. There is an urgent need to make financial products for low-income people client-sensitive and responsive... ............................................................................................................................................... This recession is different: Booms in the emerging economies have accumulated too much debt Conventional wisdom is that the recent global crisis was caused by developed countries and that many emerging markets were barely touched by the recession. On the contrary many of these economies have not only been expanding, but also overheating, and the amounts and the extent of debts they have piled up in the process are only just beginning to be realised... .............................................................................................................................................. Projects in limbo: Singur to Salboni Now Sajjan Jindal is facing the heat... .............................................................................................................................................. Personal finance today - IndusInd Bank launches 'FastForex'–Forex trading platform - ICICI Pru MF unveils Capital Protection Oriented Fund-Series V-60 Months - HDFC Mutual Fund introduces 92 days fixed maturity plan - Axis Mutual Fund launches Fixed Term Plan-Series 15   ON STANDS NOW At a Glance   - MoEF to pass final order in Lavasa case in three weeks, HC told - CVC examining finance ministry report on charges against ex-SEBI member - Impeachment proceedings against justice Sen dropped - ONGC unlikely to pre-empt Cairn-Vedanta deal as price too high - RBI's tight monetary policy may not have to be extended: FM Corporate Wrap-up   - Sanofi Aventis & Multicare ink strategic agreement in Philippines - BHEL wins contract worth Rs1,395 crore from NMDC - Ranbaxy launches generic anti-ulcer drug in UK   Moneylife Columns     Regulation: Paralysed regulators Sucheta Dalal With wrong people at the helm, distrust and lack of integrity are the norm...     How and why did microfinance agents become a part of the Indian microfinance business? Ramesh S Arunachalam It is important to understand that MFIs co-opted local leaders as agents in their desire to grow rapidly, to cope with the costs of servicing the last mile and maximize profits...     Face 2 Face   'Affordable housing is a demand category yet to be taken up' Everyday, thousands of home-seekers surf the Internet, looking for their dream home. How does the residential property market look through the lens of a property portal? Ganesh Vasudevan, vice president and business head of indiaproperty.com, gives an overview to Moneylife...     Editor's Pick   Copper shortage to continue Demand may exceed supply by 4,95,000 metric tonnes in 2011, the biggest deficit since 2004, compared with 2,14,000 tonnes last year. The shortage has been continuing for the third straight year. ...................................................................................................................................................... When all else fails, try for oil in Alaska But oil reservoirs are depleting there at a fast rate. ...................................................................................................................................................... Do credit rating agencies actually matter? If subprime deals can get top ratings, it's time to go back to the drawing board. ...................................................................................................................................................... Flash-flood alert: It's raining hurricanes Storm Lee has hit the US Gulf Coast; Typhoon Talas is ripping through western Japan and Hurricane Katia is gaining strength in the Atlantic Ocean. ...................................................................................................................................................... Will QE3 destroy the Fed? Here's a doomsayer who says that QE3 will destroy the Fed, the dollar and the US economy. ...................................................................................................................................................... Cartoon of the week Here are a whole lot of them-Libya is the flavour of the month.   Book Review   Indian Mujahideen: The terror inside Shukti Sarma Shishir Gupta writes some hard facts about home-grown terrorists in "Indian Mujahideen".   FROM the ARCHIVES   CIC: Government employees have an equal stake in good governance Chief information commissioner says citizens should get proactive about government functioning through the use of RTI. But this should not become a tool to harass officials. Rather, there should be minimum friction between the information seeker and the provider... ...................................................................................................................................................... Financial inclusion of sugarcane farmers in modern-day India In some ways, financing arrangements today penalise the small producer for mistakes of other parties. There is an urgent need to make financial products for low-income people client-sensitive and responsive...     To subscribe to this free newsletter log on to www.moneylife.in or email us at newsletter@moneylife.in To get FREE updates via sms click here.

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