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Weekend Mega Linkfest:Sept 06,2013

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Interview with Bashar Al-Assad  (Izvestia)

An evening with an alleged mind reader (Open)

Asad,Akbar,Anarchy (Tehelka)

Engineering Terror (IDR)

The death of opinion mandi TV (Newslaundry)

Can anything put India’s defence middlemen out of business? (Caravan)

What urban planners can learn from a Hindu religious festival (Smithsonian)

The world’s biggest mutual fund takes a 41 Billion $ hit (Businessweek)

Amongst Syria’s Islamist fighters (NewYorker)

Going bankrupt at 25 changed Tommy Hilfiger’s life for the better (Forbes)

Why Interning at 60 is the new retirement plan (Atlantic)

How does McDonalds India operate? (Rodinhoods)

On the newshour tonite (GreatBong)

The Vulture’s Victory (ProjectSyndicate)

Travelogue:Pondicherry and Mahabalipuram (TeamBHP)

Spoof:Nawaz Sharif to campaign for JD (U) in Bihar (UnrealTimes)

The strange story of Skype (Arstechnica)

How Taliban attacked the largest US airbase in Afghanistan (GQ)

The Sholay opening scene visited (JaiArjun)

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Banks

Private Banks were big big winners yesterday

Yesterday, the Bank Nifty went up by nearly 10%.Banks-both PSU and Private- were big winners with all bank stocks closing in the green.

Some private banks showed outstanding gains as can be seen from the table below:

Symbol Close on 4 Sept,2013 Close on 5 Sept,2013 Gain
LAKSHVILAS 62 63.7 2.74%
KARURVYSYA 300.45 310.05 3.20%
SOUTHBANK 19.25 20.15 4.68%
DHANBANK 30.05 31.5 4.83%
J&KBANK 1051.2 1121.75 6.71%
DCB 41.2 44.15 7.16%
KTKBANK 79.75 85.75 7.52%
CUB 38 40.9 7.63%
HDFCBANK 564.05 609.5 8.06%
INDUSINDBK 366.9 397.5 8.34%
KOTAKBANK 608.5 662 8.79%
ICICIBANK 817.75 893.7 9.29%
INGVYSYABK 428.05 473.6 10.64%
FEDERALBNK 244.15 274.55 12.45%
AXISBANK 801.5 927.5 15.72%
YESBANK 236.05 287.5 21.80%
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Humor

Purshottam Express

Am reminded of my student days !!

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Anecdotes

The Tao of Stock Market Trading

Hat Tip Naresh Nambisan

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Video

RBI Governor says India not in ‘crisis’