Nice Read : Heights of Avarice!!

This evening, I have come across this news article which highlighted the greediness of the human beings and different which ways that we extend ourselves to breakthrough the loop holes of the rules, which were meant to be broken.

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When I searched through Internet, it was listed as "Burned Cigars Insurance case" so I guess it must be popular and chances are that you may have read them already. In case you have NOT, please go through this article which was very funny, thoughtful and philosophical when you read between the lines to some extend :)

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Yet another Harshad Mehta?

Some years back, Harshad Mehta was famous in Indian house hold names all for wrong reasons. Especially if you are upper middle-class and with the I-do-trading-too person, you would have certainly known this person and probably lost some money with him too.

This morning, I read an article which might completely overshadow Harsha Mehta episode. This was about an Indian couple held for stock market scam to the tune of ..hold your breathe..1,100 Crore Rupees. And the Modus Operandi was quite an interesting ... but their promise and premise had SCAM written all over it with 20% return on capital per month..And definitely the below face had that written in Bold letters too. Let us see in detail..

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Quick Series: Growth Story in India..Is it sustainable?

As I am going through completing first few modules on economic module chapters, there was this interesting topic on the growth stories of new kids on the world economic market namely China and India.

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3 Reasons why Obama should NOT have been elected again..

By the time I am typing this blog post, the US election results are well announced and "Mr. President" title appears to stay again with Mr.Barack Obama. There was huge backlash on him losing the people's favourite @ Popularity votes but winning through the age old, red tapist electoral college votes. Likes of publicity man, Mr.Donald J Trump, have openly called out for a Revolution.

May be he is having a point and I guess some of these reasons why Obama should NOT have been re-elected again

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What's your ID?

Today's post is more to do with the current news but sprang out some of its business and philosophical side too...WIthout adding much ado, the title of the post is going to be asked sooner in most of the government of India departments..starting with our favourite Indian Railways.

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