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Some stuff I am reading today morning:

LPG subsidy directly in bank accounts (BusinessLine)

India’s Kumbh Mela leaves unholy mess (WSJ)

Indian hedge funds dare where FIIs fear to tread (ET)

Get ready to file tax returns (BS)

Iconic math teacher in the dock, accused of improper touch (Mumbai Mirror)

No German Jain bringing Deutsche Bank to the world as customer’s man (Bloomberg)

Pick funds with stellar recent returns (MarketWatch)

Eulogy for the blog (NewRepublic)

Meet Mr.Money Mustache, the man of retired at 30 (WashingtonPost)

Can’t buy a channel, buy a few journalists (MediaCrooks)

Some interesting off beat reads for the weekend:

The truth behind China’s intrusion into Ladakh (UnrealTimes)

Vehicle Fires:How to handle them (TeamBHP)

Travelogue:Unknown Kumaon (Ghumakkar)

11 of Mumbai’s Most unusual street food snacks (MumbaiBoss)

How to recover money from the Samba’s and Gabbars of industry (Rodinhood)

Profile of Boston Bombing Brothers (BostonGlobe)

Did HSBC bank resort to illegitimate transactions to earn commissions? (Moneylife)

Watching a film in small town India (ForbesIndia)

Madhu Trehan interviews Shobana Bhartia (Newslaundry)

Yasin Bhatkal-India’s most wanted terrorist (Tehelka)

What families in Haryana do to have a son (Open)

Google search terms can predict the stock market (Smithsonian)

An ex-wife threatens Steve Wynn’s casino empire (Businessweek)

Don’t do something, just sit there (Economist)

Chemical weapons and Assad’s game (NewYorker)

The limits of Stephen Schwarzman’s Scholarship Diplomacy (Atlantic)

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Why Naresh Goyal is King of the policy jungle (ET)

Should you exit your older front loaded ULIP (Mint)

Taxman sends notices to Mutual Funds (BS)

M&M bets on Bolero to beat Tata (Bloomberg)

Basic Investment Philosophy (Subramoney)

Crime Pays (Mediacrooks)

Are you an investor or a story teller? (BigPicture)

Albert Edwards:Stocks will crash,gold will go above 10000$/ounce (BI)

When swindlers worked the “Big Con” on stock market investors (Climateer)

Why central planning fails (DailyReckoning)

Some stuff that I am reading today morning:

Hoax on Twitter erases $ 130 Billion from US Markets (ABC)

Hiring by Infosys,Wipro lowest in the last 5 years (BusinessLine)

India Gold Premiums soar as Demand outstrips Supply (WSJ)

Air Asia offers ticket to Thailand for Rs.5000 (ET)

Tata Housing gets bookings worth Rs.450 Crore in one day (FE)

Govt seeks to raise Rs.5000 Crores through ETFs (Mint)

I survived the flash crash of 2013 (TRB)

The perils of investing in what you know (Bucks)

Suckered:Saradha goes bust (CapitalMind)

Where to open a demat account (Subramoney)

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

How did the world’s rich get that way?Luck (BusinessWeek)

Telecom firms spread a low cost net (BusinessLine)

Mercedes,Audi and BMW shift to cheaper cars (ET)

RIL signals start of growth era (BS)

Bajaj’s quadricycle faces a tough ride (Mint)

India’s rickety bridge across its digital divide (Bloomberg)

Use hedge funds for proven return reduction (TRB)

Gold bugs swatted again (RickFerri)

Is it worth making the shift to fundamental indexes? (Globe&Mail)

Bill Fleckenstein:Hold tight your gold (ZeroHedge)

The mind of Jeffrey Gundlach (CrossingWallStreet)