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James O'Keefe / Big Government:
Statement from James O'Keefe — The government has now confirmed what has always been clear: No one tried to wiretap or bug Senator Landrieu's office. Nor did we try to cut or shut down her phone lines. Reports to this effect over the past 48 hours are inaccurate and false.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
O'Keefe's defense — He posts a statement on Big Government: — I learned from a number of sources that many of Senator Landrieu's constituents were having trouble getting through to her office to tell her that they didn't want her taking millions of federal dollars in exchange for her vote on the health care bill.
Ezra Klein:
Rahm Emanuel makes me very pessimistic about health-care reform — According to the New York Times, the "White House on Thursday signaled the outlines of its strategy for breaking the partisan logjam holding up President Obama's agenda." And that outline is the most depressing thing I've read on the chances for health-care reform.
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Washington Post:
After Obama speech, Democrats confused about path ahead — A day after President Obama called on them to renew efforts to pass his ambitious agenda, congressional Democrats remained in disarray Thursday about how to move forward, with at least some pointing at the White House as the cause …
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New York Times:
Health Bill Stalled, Obama Juggles an Altered Agenda — WASHINGTON — The White House on Thursday signaled the outlines of its strategy for breaking the partisan logjam holding up President Obama's agenda, saying Democrats would move quickly to underline their commitment to fixing …
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis:
GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT: FOURTH QUARTER 2009 (ADVANCE ESTIMATE) — Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States — increased at an annual rate of 5.7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009, (that is …
Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
U.S. Economy Grew at Fastest Pace in 6 Years Last Quarter — The United States economy grew at its fastest pace in over six years at the end of 2009, but a sluggish job market is still souring economists on the sustainability of the recovery. — Gross domestic product expanded at an annual rate …
Megan McArdle:
Dude, Where's My Job? — The initial estimate is that fourth quarter GDP grew at a blistering 5.7% annual pace. With the usual caveats—third quarter GDP estimates started high and then were revised down to a much more modest level—that's great news. — But man cannot live by GDP alone.
Robin Abcarian / Los Angeles Times:
Scott Roeder convicted of murdering abortion doctor George Tiller — A jury in Wichita deliberates for just over a half-hour before finding Roeder guilty. He had admitted that he shot Tiller, who performed late-term abortions, at a church in May. — Reporting from Wichita, Kan. …
Justin Elliott / TPMMuckraker:
BREAKING: Roeder Found Guilty Of Murdering Dr. George Tiller
BREAKING: Roeder Found Guilty Of Murdering Dr. George Tiller
Ben Armbruster / Think Progress:
Palin On Whether She Will Still Speak At 'Scammy' Tea Party Convention: 'You Betcha!' — Tea Party activists and loyalists have recently criticized the National Tea Party Convention set to take place in Nashville, TN next month, balking at the expensive ticket prices and the fact that the "scammy" event is for-profit.
Salah Nasrawi / Associated Press:
Bin Laden blasts US for climate change — Buzz up! — CAIRO - Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has called for the world to boycott American goods and the U.S. dollar, blaming the United States and other industrialized countries for global warming, according to a new audiotape released Friday.
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Bin Laden deplores climate change — Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader, has condemned the US and other industrial economies, holding them responsible for the phenomenon of climate change. — In an audio tape obtained by Al Jazeera, bin Laden criticised George Bush, the former US president …
Patrick O'Connor / The Politico:
Obama rumbles with House GOP — BALTIMORE — President Barack Obama told House Republicans Friday that Washington can't break through partisan gridlock "if we can't move past the politics of no" — then engaged with them in an extraordinary back-and-forth straight out of the House of Commons.
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Linda Greenhouse / Opinionator:
The Next Time — Three years ago, after Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. led the Supreme Court to the brink of overturning a few precedents but then blinked, a frustrated Justice Antonin Scalia accused the chief justice of "faux judicial restraint." — It was foreseeable then that something …
Z. Byron Wolf / ABCNEWS:
Democrats Declare Rhetorical War on the Supreme Court
Democrats Declare Rhetorical War on the Supreme Court
Randy E. Barnett / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Owes the High Court an Apology
Obama Owes the High Court an Apology
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Brown on Romney: 'He's changed' — One Washington habit Scott Brown doesn't seem to be adopting is message control. — Some highlights from his wide-ranging interview,with the Globe, in which he seems to stake quite a bit on his and others' personal qualities, include a description …
John Tlumacki / Boston Globe:
Scott Brown interview transcript — Massachusetts' new senator talks about his campaign, the issues — and signing a supporter's head — Senator-elect Scott Brown sat down with Boston Globe reporters Matt Viser and Eric Moskowitz in his State House office for a half-hour interview.
Bruce Bartlett / Forbes:
More Goo-Goo Than Gipper — A number of pollsters have noted that Barack Obama's approval rating is about the same as Ronald Reagan's at a similar stage of his presidency. Yet it feels that Obama is in far worse shape politically. I think a key reason for the difference is that Reagan …
Congressman Buyer won't seek reelection — 24-Hour News 8 has learned Indiana Congressman Steve Buyer (R-4th District) will announce he will not seek reelection during a news conference Friday. — Buyer is perhaps best known for his 1998 role as a prosecutor in President Clinton's impeachment hearings.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Has Obama become bored with being president? — This is about the time Barack Obama becomes bored with his job. — He's in his second year as president, and he's discovered that even with all the powers of office, he can't do everything he wants to do, like remake America. Doing stuff is hard.
Moe Lane
NY Daily News:
White House orders Justice Department to look for other places to hold 9/11 terror trial — White House officials have told the Justice Department to consider other venues for the 9/11 terror trial that was to be held in lower Manhattan, the Daily News has learned.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
March of the Peacocks — Last week, the Center for American Progress, a think tank with close ties to the Obama administration, published an acerbic essay about the difference between true deficit hawks and showy "deficit peacocks." You can identify deficit peacocks, readers were told …
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Jules Crittenden:
... Won't Be Down To Breakfast — Two empty places at the table. J.D. Salinger and Howard Zinn. Well, we can sit here awkwardly silent, listening to the clink of cutlery, or we can have a cheery chinwag! I vote for chinwag. — Salinger first. I may be one of the few people …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: Stewart rips Matthews on "forgot Obama was black" moment — Jon Stewart calls Chris Matthews "a Scotch away from becoming Ron Burgundy," and that's not the best line in this clip from Mediaite, where Stewart and Wyatt Cenac tear into Chris Matthews and his "big thinking" on race after the State of the Union speech.
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Educationists know that it is possible to get positive results from any child given the right environment. The Government may find it hard to swallow but there should be more provision for disadvantaged children and further help available, if necessary, when they become adults. If appropriate education can be made available early on, possibly only a tiny proportion will need assistance as adults.
Among the vast numbers struggling to live on Social Security benefits are many who were once educationally fragile children and who are now frightened, unskilled adults without the means or self-esteem to cope independently.
Margaret Rayner
Horsham, West Sussex
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Here, as in America where snowboarding began 10 years ago, city denizens who would not usually go near anything sporty are flocking to the ski shops to buy gear and to the slopes to learn the frustratingly difficult sport. Many downhill skiers are also converting to the board. They say snowboarding, although harder to master than skiing at the basic stages, is much more versatile and gives access to steeper, rougher terrain than can be tackled by the average skier.
Several ski schools in Scotland now offer snowboarding along with the more traditional ski instruction. Although the sport is a relatively recent phenomenon this side of the Atlantic, the standard of instructor skill here is said to have reached a new high. If you are thinking of giving the sport a try, head for the most reliable (ahem) snow area in Britain - the high Cairngorms.
Cairnwell, at Glenshee ski resort, has access to some of the best Cairngorm snow. With a pool of instructors up to BASI Grade 1, the school offers snowboarding either by the day (not much use - you'll just fall down a lot) or over weekend or week-long intensive courses. Should there be no snow when you arrive (this is Britain, remember), Cairnwell also offers a variety of other mountain sports, including hang-gliding, paragliding and mountain biking, so there will be enough to keep you going if the weather lets you down.
The first thing to try to master is committing your weight to your rear leg (you stand sideways), and therefore on the back of the board, which then acts as a rudder to turn you through the snow. This is hard to do without falling over backwards, but if you don't do it you will fall forwards. It's all a matter of practice. At least - as you plump down on the hard- packed snow for the umpteenth time - you have the compensation of getting fit as you learn: there are no handy lifts for the baby slope snowboarders. When you're down you have to lumber back uphill through the snow in your heavy boots.
However, once you have learned to hold your weight to the back of the board and have carved that first turn, you will feel extraordinarily pleased with yourself. It's a beautiful feeling - all the more so as the early stages are so hard-learned. Be reassured, though, that once you have the basics more-or-less mastered (allow a week's intensive tuition, or several weekends, for this) the learning curve becomes much steeper - unlike skiing, which offers easy basics and then a long plateau of bad skiing that can take years to escape.
And then there's always the gear. Ever eager to make a buck, the ski- wear companies have realised the sheer fashion cred of snowboarding and put out entire ranges of clothes that look like scruffy but expensive skateboard threads. Unlike the more flashy and naff salopettes, jackets and ski-suits that look awful enough on the slope but would get you laughed off the streets, snowboard gear looks good in Soho. Not that you're a fashion victim, of course...
Beyond the cool clothes, if you decide to go for snowboarding seriously and buy a board, boots and the rest, you can expect to pay quite serious money for the equipment. Fortunately Cairnwell, like all Scottish ski schools, includes equipment hire in its general tariff so you don't have to splash out until you have decided whether you actually like the sport and have discovered whether you have the required leg-body co-ordination.
Finally, if you are already a seasoned snowboarder and want to brush up on some specific, more advanced techniques, Cairnwell coaches snowboarding right up to international competition standard - although this, as usual, can be limited by poor snow conditions. See the accompanying tariff section (right) for prices.
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Snowboarding in the Cairngorms
Cairnwell Mountain Sports,
Gulabin Lodge,
Glenshee (near Blairgowrie),
Perthshire PH10 7QQ.
Tel: 01250 885238, winter 013397 41331.
Fax: 01250 885238.
Season: Open all year.
Accommodation: 12 beds on site. Camp site nearby, and other local accommodation can be arranged.
Food: Breakfast, dinner available - not in tariffs.
Children: All ages accepted.
Insurance: Clients should provide their own winter sports holiday insurance.
Safety: All instructors are trained in first aid.
Affiliations: British Association of Ski Schools.
Tariffs: Rates for group snowboard lessons - half day, pounds 10; one day, pounds 17; two days, pounds 28; three days, pounds 37; four days, pounds 46; five days, pounds 60. (Discounts for youths). Private instruction - pounds 20 an hour for one person, pounds 25 an hour for two, pounds 30 an hour for three, pounds 40 an hour for four. Race or specialised instruction - pounds 120 per half day; pounds 200 per day. Five-day package (including hotel, equipment and instruction) about pounds 200.
Booking: 50 per cent deposit, balance paid on arrival. No charge for cancellations four weeks in advance. Loss of deposit if cancellation between one to four weeks; full balance due if cancellation within one week. Bookings normally made in advance, but late bookings accepted if space availablity.
Access: Off the A93 between Blairgowrie and Braemar. Trains to Pitlochry, Perth and Dundee. Buses between Aberdeen and Braemar, or Dundee/Perth and Blairgowrie. Taxi fare to centre is about pounds 20.
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A fixed deposit (FD) or term deposit is a type of financial instrument offered by banks and it allows individuals to deposit sums of money for fixed periods of time, like 1 month, 6 months, 1 year, 5 years etc. In general, fixed deposit accounts offer a higher interest rates than savings accounts. Fixed deposits are regarded as safe investments and help people to grow their financial assets without exposing them to volatility and other risks associated with the financial market. Most of the banks offer fixed deposit accounts in India and the interest rates offered with these accounts depend on the tenure of deposit and other factors. The tenure offered with fixed deposits can range from 7 days to 10 years, whereas the interest rate offered can be as high as 9% per annum. Some of banks even offer tax saving fixed deposits that offer tax benefits to customers.
Compound interest arises when interest is added to the principal so that from that moment on, the interest that has been added also itself earns interest. This addition of interest to the principal is called compounding.
The following formula gives you the total amount one will get if compounding is done:-
A = Final Amount that will be received
P = Principal Amount (i. e. initial investment)
r = Annual nominal interest rate (as a decimal i. e. if interest is paid at 5. 5% pa, then it will be 0. 055) (it should not be in percentage)
n = number of times the interest is compounded per year (i. e. for monthly compounding n will be 12, for half year compounding it will be 2 and for quarter it will be 4
t = number of years
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City Union Bank | 30 days | 6.75% | Get City Union Bank FD Rates » |
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Karur Vysya Bank | 90 days | 7.25% | Get Karur Vysya Bank FD Rates » |
Karur Vysya Bank | 120 days | 7.90% | Get Karur Vysya Bank FD Rates » |
Darcl Logistics | 6 Months | 9.25% | Get Darcl Logistics FD Rates » |
Bharat Bank | 9 Months | 8.50% | Get Bharat Bank FD Rates » |
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SRS Limited | 2 Years | 12.25% | Get SRS Limited FD Rates » |
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Tax-saver FDs are popular instruments for saving on taxes.
The amount invested in these FDs qualify for deductions U/S 80C of the Income Tax Act,1961.
Money invested in these FDs is locked-in for at least 5 years. This is the minimum time-requirement to qualify for the deduction. Premature withdrawal is not allowed. If the deposit is encashed before maturity, the amounts held under this scheme do not qualify for deductions.
The maximum amount allowed as deduction is Rs.1.5 lakhs. This is as per changes in the law, effected as of Nov.13, 2014. (Under the Bank Term deposit Scheme, 2006 this amount was limited to Rs.1 lakh). The minimum deposit amount is Rs.100.
Only the principal invested can be claimed as deduction U/S 80C. Interest earned under this scheme is taxable. TDS is charged @10% on the interest earned during a financial year and thereafter according to the deposit-holders applicable tax-bracket.
Interest rates are determined by the bank offering this product. They are usually in line with other deposits of similar tenures. Interest earned can either be paid-out or reinvested/compounded.
In case of joint-holdings, deduction can be claimed by the primary holder only.
The Fixed Deposit Receipt issued when investing is required to claim said deduction.
Traditionally, Fixed Deposits (FD) have been seen as a secure and profitable medium of investment. However, many people, especially investors in the higher tax brackets, ignore a crucial detail when it comes to Fixed Deposits- the interest earned through FD is taxable in line with an individual's tax slab. Consequently, this detail ensures that your returns from FD investments is actually lower than expected. For example- If you are in the 30% income tax slab and have a fixed deposit that gives you 9% interest, the actual interest passed down to you after the tax cuts is just 6%. Thus, having a working knowledge of how taxes work in terms of an FD helps you stay on top of things.
Remember that interest on fixed deposits are calculated annually or on a cumulative basis. However, the same FD is taxed on an accrual basis, meaning revenue is recognized when earned and expenses are recognized when incurred. Thus, the timeline on reception of the interest on your FD isn't a factor for tax to be imposed upon it. You will have to pay the corresponding tax at the end of the financial year, and even in situations when the interest isn't taxable, it must be displayed on your IT returns.
In order to access funds at a short interval, one can avail a loan against fixed deposits held with the bank. It is given in the form of an overdraft against your deposited amount. This is an alternative given to customer by bank instead of breaking the deposit prematurely.
Loan against fixed deposit is a great option for those looking to avail a loan at a better rate when compared to personal loans where interest rates range from 14-30% p.a. Moreover, you will continue to earn interest on the deposit though you have availed a loan against it.
Most of the banks allow a loan in the range of 70-90% of the deposit amount. Some banks even offer more than this range. There is no standard on the amount of loan that can be sanctioned. It varies from bank to bank and also upon the amount deposited.
Interest rate charged on the loan given on a fixed deposit is usually 2-2.5% above the interest paid by the bank on the deposit. Once again, it varies from bank to bank.
In order to improve credit scores, or manage credit more responsibly, banks offer secured credit cards i.e. credit cards issued against a fixed deposit (FD) held with the issuing bank.
Credit cards are usually not given to risky customers i.e. those who are not creditworthy. e.g. those who have poor credit scores, bad histories of managing debt, poor track records of paying dues, defaults on payments etc.
Key features:Credit cards issued against an FD
Vs. regular credit cards
In case of payment defaults: Banks can make recoveries from the fixed deposit if dues are not cleared on secured cards. Regular credit cards are unsecured and unpaid dues can either be written off or recovered through legal recourse.
Vs. Debit Cards
Debit cards require the cardholder to maintain adequate funds in his/her account prior to using the card. Secured Credit Cards allow cardholders can make spends, payment for which will be fulfilled at a later date.
Premature withdrawal or Breaking a fixed deposit means withdrawing the money before the maturity expires. This may be necessary if you urgently require the funds or if there are better investment opportunities elsewhere. Many people want to close their old Fixed Deposit account before maturity and open a new account when they see the current interest rates on fixed deposits in the market much higher than rate of interest at which they have opened FD sometime back.
Most of the banks charge premature withdrawal penalty in the form of a 0. 5-1% lower interest on customers looking to close their Fixed Deposit
In the event of the FD being closed before completing the original term of the deposit, interest will be paid at the rate applicable on the date of deposit, for the period for which the deposit has remained with the Bank, with premature closure penalty.
The Bank on request from the depositor, will allow withdrawal of term deposit before completion of the period of the deposit as per terms agreed upon at the time of placing the deposit.For such premature withdrawals and partial withdrawals, the Bank will levy a penalty of 1%, on the applicable rate.Partial withdrawal is permitted in units of Rs 1,000. The balance amount earns the original rate of interest.
Non-Resident Ordinary (NRO) Rupee Accounts are maintained by non-resident Indians (NRI) in Indian Rupees, to keep funds that belonged to them before they turned NRI. These accounts can also be used to account for fresh earnings in Indian Rupees even after the individual has turned an NRI, from such sources as house rent, dividend and interests, salary etc. The interest earned from such accounts is taxable as per the Indian income tax regulations. Currently, Indian banks offer an interest rate from 8-10% on fixed accounts that fulfil the NRO parameters.
Alternatively, a Non-Resident External (NRE) Rupee Accounts are maintained by non-resident Indians (NRI) in Indian Rupees and are meant for foreign exchange that is earned in their country of residence and then transferred to India. The interest earned from such accounts is tax free and the funds can be moved around to other accounts without any restrictions. Currently, Indian banks offer an interest rate from 7-10% on fixed accounts that fulfil the NRE parameters.
Fixed deposit can be opened for a minimum period of 7 days to maximum of 10 years.
All Resident individuals (Including Minors) and HUF are eligible to open a fixed deposit account
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22nd August, 2016
After the brilliant performance of Indian female athletes in the Rio Olympics, Oxxy, one of India's largest healthcare networks, has announced that it will make a fixed deposit of Rs.11,000 for each girl child born in the country. The company said that there will be no contribution taken from the parents and the allocation of the funds will be handled by Oxxy. The fixed deposit can be withdrawn by the girl when she attains the age of 18 years. Everyday approximately 50,000 children are born in India and Oxxy is expecting approximately 5,000 registrations per day. Oxxy's Girl Development Program is available to every expecting mother and has helped reduce the infant mortality rate by educating expectant mothers on the various tests they need to undergo in accordance with global standards.
9th March 2017
A net withdrawal of Rs.5,582.83 crore has been observed in Jan Dhan accounts ever since 7th of December which was the day deposits in all these accounts increased to an all-time high after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decision to ban cash notes worth Rs.500 and Rs.1,000 in order to curb corruption, a move which came to be known as demonetization.
Total deposits had increased to a high of Rs.74,610 crore on the 7th of December and after that started reducing gradually to close at Rs.69,027.17 crore on the 11th of January, according to the latest data from the Finance Ministry. During the period between 7 December to 11 January, the total deposit had reduced by rs.5,582.83 crore. As of now, there are around 26.68 crore Jan Dhan accounts. The upper withdrawal limit per month for a Jan Dhan account has been fixed at Rs.10,000 from the 30th of November to check for misuse of these accounts. The upper limit for all deposits in a Jan Dhan account is Rs.50,000. On November 9th, the day after demonetization was announced, there were 25.5 crore accounts which had a deposit of 45,636.61 crore. Total deposits in these accounts increased by around Rs.28,973 crore in around a month.Mr.Singh also said that this was just a soft launch and that the firm is planning a mega launch to announce its arrival sometime in April.
9th February 2017
Utkarsh Micro Finance, backed by Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC) has begun a new chapter by foraying into the banking sector.
The company which began operations on the 23rd is looking to take the market over by storm by providing higher deposit rates compared to major banks.
At present, the bank is looking to reduce the 1% processing fee levied on new loan borrowers and is also considering reducing the lending rates in the near future. Currently, the lending rates range between 15% - 25% annually.
Managing Director of the bank, Govind Singh, spoke to the media and said that the company has successfully completed all formalities and has launched five full-fledged branches in key areas.
He also said that the company is the first banking-related entity to be launched since demonetisation and that all this was possible because CDC pumped in Rs.150 crores in Tier-II capital about two weeks ago.
Mr.Singh also said that this was just a soft launch and that the firm is planning a mega launch to announce its arrival sometime in April.
7th February 2017
Last fortnight, the non-food credit in banking system was 9.3%. However, on September 30 when the fortnight ended, the non-food credit in banking system went up to 10.6%. When the fortnight ended, as per the Reserve Bank of India, the review for non-food credit stood at Rs.74.35 lakh crore. There was also some growth with bank deposits which was 11.3% year on year. The previous fortnight, the year on year rate stood at 9.9% which amounted to a total sum of Rs.101.43 lakh crore. This was for the first time that the banking deposits surpassed Rs.100 lakh crore milestone.
There has been very less growth in the section of loan sanctions. So the 10.6% credit growth is basically a result of the demands from retail segment. The management of different banks have agreed on the same and stated that this would remain their focus area now. The borrowing have been moved by different companies to corporate bond market. This has happened due to the low rates of interest. The lowest MCLR for one year is 9.05% at present. For corporate bonds that come with AAA rating, the benchmark rate set by FIMMDA is 7.6%.
18th October 2016
According to SEBI, banks are not allowed to use their own fixed deposits receipts as collateral as clearing or trading stock exchange members, whether they function directly or through associates. This move was made as step towards strengthening SEBI's risk management mechanism. Clearing corporations received a circular directing them to stop accepting FDRs from banks. For those members who already deposited their FDRs or their FDRS from associate banks, they would be required to replace the collateral with other eligible security within the next 6 months. IOSCO, the international securities regulator body, has its own global benchmarks set for collaterals. The need for Indian markets to align the risk management practices along the lines of global benchmarks has emerged. In light of this, SEBI has taken the step to bar FDRs being used as collateral.
21st July 2016
Before Raghuram Rajan took over as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, depositors were facing negative real rates when it came to their savings. People turned to more lucrative investments such as gold, land and other non-financial assets. An important objective for Rajan was to raise the interest for savers with a decent positive real rate. Since January 2014, the rates have been rising as inflation started to fall. In the past few months, the real term deposit rates have been declining. However, the rates have stayed positive making deposits more appealing. For those interested in depositing their money in fixed deposit schemes, the returns will be higher than what they were a few years back.
21st June 2016
Money invested in stocks increase in value much faster than money invested in KVP or FD. It is important to not invest everything in just one investment option but to diversify. Diversification reduces risks that are specific to stocks and provides better returns as well.
Companies that provide visible growth in earnings are generally chased by companies resulting in an increase in their valuation. However, there are times when investors get trapped while chasing such companies. Although stocks look expensive upfront, they must be evaluated based on their growth, sustainability and visibility of earnings.
20th June 2016
The financial year 2015-16 saw bank deposits grow at 9.72%, a 5 decade low for the segment on a year-on-year basis.
The low bank deposit rate has caused alarm, given that the government has recently lowered small savings interest rates which has brought them equivalent to bank deposit rates.
The low rate has been blamed on high interest rates, resulting in depositors withdrawing and spending more.
Scheduled commercial banks have seen barely 9.9% growth with regard to their deposits, caused due to low inflation and a high real interest rate.
Credit increased by 11.28% for the same time period, with advances for the period being Rs. 73, 026 billion. Due to the problem of capital shortage and a rise in the number of non-performing assets, the Finance Minister announced a capital infusion of Rs. 25, 00 over the 2016-17 fiscal year.
28th April 2016
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It has taken a while to get the engines revving, but the GameHouse division of Real Networks is now making its run at the social game market. The company has 3,000 casual games and 50 million unique users a month, but its traditional business has been disrupted. Now it is poised to start cranking out Facebook games that could be a lot more lucrative, according to an interview with GameHouse senior vice president Matt Hulett (pictured).
GameHouse is launching a series of new Facebook games, including Collapse+Blast this summer and a follow-up title Bayou Blast, which launches at the end of October and is the company's most important social game to date, Hulett said. Each game by itself isn't a huge deal, but over time GameHouse hopes to grab its fair share of the market and make a strategic shift into social and mobile games.
Rather than fear change, Hulett said, companies like his have to embrace it and run with it. Overall, more than half of GameHouse's 80 or so developers are now focused on social games. The investment this year is more than $10 million in social and mobile games, and that amount will increase significantly in 2012.
"We are trying to take the 10-year-old GameHouse business on the casual side and move it over to social," he said. "We want to crack the top 10 in six months."
Hulett's background is in startups, where he has raised $100 million in funding. But he joined the gaming division to turn the operation around. He described that process at a recent talk at the Casual Connect game conference in Seattle.
Real Networks built the GameHouse division in a more prosperous time, during the heyday of casual games played on web sites. Facebook and Zynga have since disrupted that business, and companies can no longer charge $20 a game for casual titles. Now the social games on Facebook are free-to-play, where users play them for free and pay real money for virtual goods. Even so, GameHouse still has something like a $100 million business.
Just a short time ago, most people believe that Zynga had the Facebook game market locked up. It still has more than 267 million monthly active users today. But other companies have made a big dent in grabbing users. EA has 94 million monthly active users, thanks to the fast growth of The Sims Social. Germany's Wooga has 41 million users, and King.com has 16.6 million users.
"It's like the 1912 patent office, where they said everything that can be invented has been invented," Hulett said. "Because they are successful now, it doesn't mean Zynga will own the market."
The success of the newcomers has given Hulett some heart and emboldened him to accelerate the company's investments. He is recruiting more developers to build new games or adapt existing ones for social play. Of the thousands of games that GameHouse has, there are probably 100 or so that can be adapted as GameHouse-owned brands on Facebook. So far, the company has 15 games on Facebook, with a total of 4.6 million monthly active users.
The Collapse+Blast game has more than 200,000 daily active users and is growing by several thousand a day. The Bayou Blast game is a gem-matching game, much like Bejeweled. But it has an interesting touch-related mechanic where you can draw a line through all of the gems of the same color on a screen and score points by doing so. The game is social, as you can email high scores to your friends and taunt them.
"It's designed for higher engagement," Hulett said.
Other titles in the works include a slot machine game and a social version of Let's Make a Deal. Each of those games will try to drive traffic to the GameHouse web site, in addition to being playable on Facebook.
While some of this sounds simple, it has meant a lot of change at GameHouse, The company cut back on staff and then hired more people for the social and mobile games.
The good thing is that the market is still growing at a healthy rate, and it's not too late to expand into the Facebook market. Most other new entrants are aiming at the mobile market, and GameHouse has more than 75 games on those platforms. But the addressable market for social games is much better, Hulett said. The company will dip its toes into the Google+ social games market as well, although Facebook will remain its main target.
"The simulation genre might be getting saturated, but there are new genres that are attracting different audiences," Hulett said. "We're early in this journey. I'm betting with half the team focused on social, and even more next year."
Will some of this disrupt and hurt the casual game business? Hulett doesn't care.
"We have had the crap kicked out of us so many times that I have no problems cannibalizing anything I am doing today," he said.


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While preparing for this past Macworld Expo in San Francisco, a number of us journalists found our requests for media passes denied by IDG World Expo, whose representative claimed that the new policy was to allow only a single representative from each media outlet access to the keynote. This pronouncement was met with much irate spluttering, since many publications, including TidBITS, send multiple representatives to Macworld Expo to cover both the keynote and the rest of the show. IDG World Expo claimed the policy was necessary because of restricted space in the keynote hall. Luckily, it ended up not affecting us, since Tonya, Jeff Carlson, and I were also giving presentations at the show, and speakers were allowed into the keynote with no restrictions; also, IDG World Expo was happy to give us press passes for the rest of the show.
When the appointed time arrived on that Tuesday morning, we queued up with the rest of the speakers and were led by an Apple person into a specific portion of the spacious hall leading toward the ballroom where the keynote would take place. As usual, the VIPs are led into the hall first, while conference attendees who were allowed into the keynote were collected off to one side - but we saw no sign of our friends in the media. The previous year, we had been corralled in the depths of Moscone Center with the rest of the press, with some folks being led up to the main hall, and others being forced to stay behind to watch the keynote on screens in what was termed the "overflow room." So we didn't think much of the lack of the press at the time, figuring that they were simply behind us somewhere.
But then I caught sight of a friend at Apple who I'd met at MacHack years before and waved to him. He saw me and waved back across the crowd, a huge look of relief on his face. Just then, our speaker group was led into the hall, where Steve Jobs introduced iLife '06, the Intel-based iMac, and the MacBook Pro. Afterwards, I ran into my friend again on the way out. He asked how we'd gotten into the keynote, and with some irritation, I related the whole story of having to use our speaker badges instead of our press passes. "But it wasn't a big deal," I ended, "even though we had to sit pretty far back, and ended up essentially watching the entire keynote on the big screen, since the stage was so far away. In fact, it was probably better," I joked, "since we didn't take the full brunt of Jobs's Reality Distortion Field. It was probably just like watching from the press overflow room."
He glanced around to make sure no one was listening and muttered, "I'm glad you weren't in there; I hear they've moved into phase three of the AJRP."
"The what?" I asked.
"I can't talk about it here," he said, "but I'll forward you something via email later on. Give me the fingerprint for your public PGP key." We exchanged PGP fingerprints, and I went off to cover the show, utterly mystified.
Needless to say, I soon forgot about my friend's odd behavior, and since it's nearly impossible to keep up with email while at the show, it wasn't until the plane ride home that I happened upon his message. I decrypted it, and read the following short email discussion, dated from a bit more than five years ago - names had been removed.
Subject: AJRP phase 2 We have the go-ahead from SJ on AJRP phase 2. Phase 1 subjects are showing no signs of rejecting the RDF implants. The next step is to choose who will participate in phase 2. Recommend starting with DRW, TYN, TSC, EMT, JSW, GB. Subject: Re: AJRP phase 2 >Recommend starting with DRW, TYN, TSC, EMT, JSW, GB. Let's swing for the fences with EMT, JSW, TYN. Subject: Re: AJRP phase 2 >> Recommend starting with DRW, TYN, TSC, EMT, JSW, GB. >Let's swing for the fences with EMT, JSW, TYN. Agreed. Please coordinate with PR on their briefing times.
At first I could make relatively little of the terse messages, but after some puzzling over the acronyms, I realized that at least some of them were abbreviations for publications, with the letters reversed. JSW was WSJ - the Wall Street Journal. TYN was NYT - the New York Times. And as for EMT, TME didn't make a lot of sense until I guessed at the missing vowel: Time Magazine. And what the heck could an RDF implant be?
With some concentrated Web searching and use of the Internet Archive, I was able to assemble a relatively complete collection of stories filed about Apple by those three publications since 1999; I wanted to see if there had been any change after 2001 when this AJRP had supposedly taken place. Indeed, although there were stories about Apple from a number of writers in each publication over that time period, those from Walter Mossberg at the Journal, David Pogue at the Times, and Josh Quittner at Time were, frankly, pretty positive. Take a look at some of these quotes:
First, Josh Quittner from his famous article about the iMac G4, which Time Canada accidentally posted before the iMac was unveiled at Macworld Expo in 2002: "With its overhaul of the popular iMac, Apple has again created a masterpiece of design." The rest was described as "feverishly positive" in a New York Times article about the embargo flub.
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But the Wall Street Journal's Walter Mossberg takes the cake, saying, "I believe that, at the moment, Apple makes the best computers, and the best operating system, for mainstream consumers doing typical tasks - email, web surfing, office-productivity functions such as word processing and presentations, photo organizing and editing, playing and collecting music, and editing home video."
I was starting to get a sense of what an RDF implant might be - a device that somehow increased the already astonishing power of Steve Jobs's famed Reality Distortion Field. For those who haven't experienced the RDF, it's something else. Tonya and I had our first experience with it close up during our senior year at Cornell University in 1988-89, when Jobs came to cut the ribbon on the first public room of NeXT cubes at Cornell. We were student supervisors, and the computer room in Upson Hall was one of those that our people operated, so we were in the front row when Jobs came and gave a short speech before cutting the ribbon to open the room. To this day, Tonya only mutters about how amazing his shoes were. But I remember how thoroughly I was taken in by the RDF, how utterly world-changing I thought the NeXT cubes were going to be, with their optical drives and 400 dpi laser printers. Of course, after he left, the RDF's effect slowly faded, and within a week, we were cursing the drives (which sucked in dust and failed regularly), rebooting version 0.8 of the operating system constantly, and torturing Display PostScript as our feeble attempt to get back the machines for significantly increasing our workload.
But what could AJRP stand for? PRJA - assuming it was backwards like the other acronyms - didn't make any more sense. I noticed my friend was online in iChat shortly after, and when I opened a chat with him, iChat showed that since we were both .Mac members, the chat was encrypted. "What's AJRP expand to?" I asked. His reply was terse, "Apple Journalist Reeducation Program."
Suddenly it all came clear. Phase 1 must have been the initial testing of the RDF implant - perhaps a few people who came to the Genius Bar at a particular Apple Store for advice on which Mac to buy were taken in the back room for a "personal consultation" and given the RDF implant before being sent out to evangelize Apple. Phase 2 was more ambitious - those private briefings that top-level journalists are given with company brass could have been Apple's chance to get to Mossberg, Pogue, and Quittner and ensure positive press from their influential publications. And phase 3 - well, Apple hasn't been taking much flak of late, so there's no telling how many journalists are now included in the AJRP but the media room at Macworld Expo was crowded. Apple undoubtedly didn't want to tip its hand; hence the one pass per media outlet policy, ensuring that there could still be dissenting opinions. At least for a while...
All we can recommend is that you pay close attention to what you read about Apple these days, and consider whether the author might have been co-opted by the AJRP. At big conferences like Macworld Expo, the TidBITS team will be sticking together for mutual protection, and we've created an automated system that will post a pre-arranged message to ExtraBITS in the event that Apple does manage to get to us. So keep an eye on our home page, and if you see a headline announcing "Record iPod and iTunes Music Store Sales!" you'll know we've succumbed. Wish us luck, and watch our backs.


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Jerry Ritchie Chubb, 64, of Warsaw and formerly of Sullivan, passed away at 8 a.m. Monday, April 14, 2003, at Kosciuskco Community Hospital in Warsaw. Born Dec. 1, 1938, in Sullivan, he was the son of Roy and Nellie (Ritchie) Chubb. He was a math and computer teacher at Warsaw High School from 1970-89. He was named Educator of the Year in 1987. He also worked at Loy's Music Company and at Rensselaer High School for five years. He was a member of Milford Christian Church, and formerly served as a decon; Warsaw Breakfast Optimist Club; Warsaw American Legion Post 49. In 1986 he was named Optimist of the year. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1958-63 in Turkey. He was a 1957 graduate of Sullivan High School and held BS and Masters degress from ISU. Survivors include his wife, Mary Ann (Alexander) Chubb of Warsaw; one son, Christoper Dale Chubb of Jacksonville, Fla.; one daughter, Julie Ann "Marty" Sheckler of Uniondale; one brother, Lonie Chubb of Baker, La., and five grandchildren. Graveside services will be held at the Center Ridge Cemetery in Sullivan at 3:30 p.m. on Friday with Marty Shecker officiating. Military graveside rites will be conducted by the American Legion Post 139 Sullivan; 197 Shelburn; and 298 Hymera.
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I made this cute bracelet yesterday using the Mollie Flower pattern. I found this pattern even before I learned to crochet and I still love it! It's a really easy pattern to work up and there's still more things I want to make using it.
For the bracelet, I made 3 flowers and joined them with tight knots and then I put an sc in the end flower and chained 10 to the other one and joined with an sc. It took me all of 20 minutes to put this together. I just love it, it's so cute.
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Sleepytime Gorilla Museum's Almost As Trippy As Its Bus
A band as bizarre, diverse and complicated as Sleepytime Gorilla Museum couldn't be expected to travel in any normal vehicle. So it's only proper that once the band pulls up to New York's Bowery Ballroom, the usually stoic NYC passersby stop, point and stare. These are pedestrians who don't blink when they see Gene Simmons selling hot dogs on the street. Those who check out the band's show at the Longhorn Saloon in Fort Worth on Saturday will understand the fuss.
It's not that well-known on our side of the Rockies, but the West Coast is home to the Green Tortoise bus line, a hippie Greyhound sort of operation that stops for cookouts instead of fast food and can take passengers down past Mexico or up into Alaska. Four years ago, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum purchased one of their decommissioned buses, one that had put in decades of service to Costa Rica and back. It's large, green, old and awesome.
"That's the coolest fucking bus in the history of buses!" an Asian hipster dude in a pink shirt confirms as he passes.
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Sleepytime Gorilla Museum performs Saturday,May 2, at the Longhorn Saloon, Fort Worth.
Besides, it wouldn't be like Sleepytime Gorilla Museum to tour in something as blasé as a van. Conceived in 1999, the Oakland-based band has built a following around its intricate and often jarring mix of experimental rock and theatrical stage presence. With the band decked out in full costumes and makeup and playing an assortment of homemade instruments, the stage show is as much a visual spectacle as it is an auditory cluster bomb: It's Mr. Bungle with a sense of style.
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In contrast to the chaotic atmosphere onstage, the bus remains comparatively serene. It's a family affair, as bassist Dan Rathbun and his wife, Nieves (who sells homemade skin care products at the band's merch table), have brought along their 3-month-old son, Jasper. Also, violinist and vocalist Carla Kihlstedt is expecting her own child soon, courtesy of her boyfriend, SGM drummer Matthias Bossi.
"I don't know anyone who is bummed out about having babies on the bus," says singer/guitarist Nils Frykdahl, who until recently also had his 5-month-old daughter in tow. "Even the people who aren't interested in babies. It lifts everyone's spirits and gives people something to do."
Little Jasper promptly pukes.
At most, the band has had 12 adults and two babies on the bus. Frykdahl often brings his big brown dog, too, but the pooch is sitting this one out. Space is needed, after all, and somehow, everyone manages to get his or her own sleeping pod in the back section of the bus (even the infants).
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Richie Havens, a Brooklyn-born singer who sang gospel as a teenager, began playing folk music in Greenwich Village clubs in the 1960s and was the opening act at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair in 1969, died Monday of a heart attack at his home in Jersey City, N.J., according to his agent. He was 72 years old.
Havens had a long career as a musician, but if he had done nothing else, his performance at Woodstock would secure his place in American music history. Havens was the first performer to walk onto the stage at the festival; he sat on a stool and performed for nearly two hours — including an improvisation that incorporated the spiritual "Motherless Child," later called "Freedom." It became a highlight of the documentary about the festival and introduced him to audiences around the world.
As a black performer, he was a rarity in the folk-dominated Greenwich Village scene. His sandpaper soft voice and percussive guitar playing caught the ear of folk impresario Albert Grossman, who first signed Bob Dylan and helped create Peter, Paul and Mary. Havens released his breakout album, Mixed Bag, in 1967.
Havens went on to act in films and on television, and he continued recording for more than 40 years. He had a Top 20 hit in 1971 with a cover of The Beatles' "Here Comes The Sun" and released his last album, Nobody Left to Crown, in 2008. But it was onstage — with his guitar — that Havens was in his element. He toured constantly and in 2008 told NPR that he never planned his shows beyond the opening and closing songs.
"Many times people have come up to me after and they'd, they'd say, 'Richie, do you know what you did?' I'd say, 'What?' They'd go, 'I wrote these songs down for you to sing and you sang 'em all in a row.' That's the kind of communication happens, you know," Havens said. "It's like if you let the audience lead, then you are the audience."
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Vienna, Austria (AP)--Star skier Hermann Maier can't remember details of the motorcycle accident that left him with a broken leg and put his career in jeopardy.
Maier, undergoing treatment in the intensive care unit of a Salzburg hospital, spoke to the media Sunday for the first time since his crash 10 days ago.
``The most important thing is that I am on the road to recovery and that I am alive,'' Maier said, according to Austrian news agency APA.
Maier appeared shaken and tired as he spoke with Austrian national TV network ORF, his voice quavering.
``The first thing I can remember is waking up in Dr. Aufmesser's surgery in Radstadt. That was the point where I realized that there were people there to take care of me,'' Maier told ORF.
Maier collided with a car near the town of Radstadt, just south of Salzburg. Doctors pinned the broken leg with titanium pins and screws and performed a skin graft in surgery that lasted seven hours. His treatment since includes physiotherapy to try to curb the loss of muscle bulk.
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