| Insider outsider | 22-NOV-09 |
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| A peep into a new book about underrated Maharashtrian cuisine. |
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| Vigilance books three mines for illegal trade of Rs 400 cr | 22-NOV-09 |
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| The state vigilance department has filed criminal cases against owners of three iron ore and manganese mines for carrying out illegal mining and trading of minerals. The cases have been filed in the vigilance court at Balasore. |
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| Time your stock sale | 22-NOV-09 |
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| The decision to exit your stock holdings is never easy. But it is important to keep profit-booking for better returns. |
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| V V: The Great Depression, 1929, and us | 21-NOV-09 |
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| Because of the close parallels between the current global financial crisis and the Great Depression, 1929, it is no wonder that there is no end to books on what we need to do now — or what it really meant then and who was responsible for the meltdown. Liaquat Ahamed, a professional investment manager for 25 years who has also worked for the World Bank and now an adviser to several hedge fund groups in the US, has come with his own diagnosis of what happened to the West after World War I, of bubbles followed by busts and a cascading series of events that led to the Great Depression, in Lords of Finance: The Bankers who Broke the World (William Heinemann, Special Indian price, Rs 1,185). |
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| Look at the dark side | 21-NOV-09 |
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| Partition in Bengal, despair in Delhi and power games in Tudor England: three new books to read. |
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| Get your word's worth | 21-NOV-09 |
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| In the beginning was the Word. Then the species became needlessly talkative and new words had to be invented and added to the lexicon. This went on happening for thousands of years until one day it seemed that the process was set to reverse itself, with Internet chat-sites and SMS jargon encouraging the abbreviation of existing words into near-unrecognisable forms (“gr8 2 c u!”). Surely dictionaries will become passé now, we thought. |
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| Facebook Throws Lawyers At Fan Seller | 20-NOV-09 |
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| After recently winning a landmark $711 million in a recent spam lawsuit, Facebook has now thrown the might of their lawyers at someone else who they claim is illegally making use of their site. |
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| Reading Raju's mind | 20-NOV-09 |
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| On January 7, Ramalinga Raju confessed to his monumental fraud. He had, Raju said in a letter to the stock exchanges, cooked Satyam’s books for seven long years — revenue, profit, bank balance et al. Raju was soon arrested and put in the Chanchalguda prison. The Union government swung into action. A board was appointed to manage the affairs of the company. In a matter of months, Satyam was sold to Tech Mahindra. |
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| Sensex sheds 213pts on profit booking | 19-NOV-09 |
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| The Sensex opened in the positive at 17,004 but soon slipped into the negative territory. The BSE-benchmark touched a low of 16,712, down 293 points from the day's high on intense selling. The Sensex finally ended at 16,785, down 213 points. The NSE Nifty settled at 4,989, down 66 points. |
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| Mobile apps prove a boon for Indian developers | 19-NOV-09 |
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| Shanmukh Raj, a 29-year-old developer who works for an Udipi (Karnataka)-based application development company called Robosoft, headed a four-member team which recently developed a popular online game called Chess Lite. “It took my team four months to develop this game for the iPhone. |
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| Bankers will remain bankers | 19-NOV-09 |
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| We are always better analysts with a 20/20 hindsight. Indeed, an ex post reading about events leading up to a crisis appears logical, and often leaves one with the question about why the evolution of the crisis could not be seen and corrected in time. Still, policy-makers know that such a review and understanding are important to learning from mistakes. Restoring Financial Stability (Wiley) acts as a catalyst to that understanding by offering a comprehensive sequencing of the causes and progression of the build-up of the financial strains that, following the Lehman bust in September 2008, evolved into a full-blown global financial crisis. It is a collection of thematic essays by the faculty of the Stern School of Business at New York University. |
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| Correction in gold price soon, say observers | 18-NOV-09 |
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| Blaming a rush of investor-buyers for pushing gold price to over Rs 17,000 level, market experts see the yellow metal getting cheaper by about Rs 500 per 10 gram by next week on profit-booking. |
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| Extra info now from online rail booking | 18-NOV-09 |
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| In an add-on measure for those who book rail tickets online, Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has tied up with Tripadvisor to provide detailed information to such travellers about accommodation facilities, restaurants and tourist attractions at a particular destination. |
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