2 Bank Phishing Emails in 2 days – Beware!!

I got these 2 Bank Phishing emails in a span of 2 days.  To top it, I don’t have any financial relationship with both these banks (BoB and IDBI).
Beware of any mails from – security@blahblahbank.com
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Career Days – A Placement initiative by BITS Pilani

I need not tell you a lot about BITS Pilani. The reputation speaks for itself. Being an alumni, I always long to do my best towards the future of the institution.
During these tough times, BITS has come up with a program called “Career Days”, in which they get the candidates to places where [...]

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Obama Inaguration Speech – Video and Full text

High quality video of the Complete speech
Full text of Obama’s speech
Congrats, Obama and America !!

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Bail out Satyamites, Not Satyam!

Govt not to bail out Satyam, reiterates Kamal Nath.
This seems more logical as investigations reveal possibility of the money being siphoned off, rather than understatement. This makes it a really serious crime! Also, there are signs of an overstated employee strength, to forge non-existing salary accounts.
A bailout might prove a bad precedent. [...]

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Kiva – The Microfinancing channel

Are you looking to lend some of your disposable income to needy entrepreneurs? Now all that you need, is to have a Paypal account! Read on…
As Wikipedia puts:
Microfinance refers to the provision of financial services to poor or low-income clients, including consumers and the self-employed
In other words, Microfinance refers to lending small amounts [...]

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A CFO without any knowledge of Company’s Financials

Yes.  It can happen!
Satyam’s CFO Vadlamani Srinivas claims to be caught unaware of the fudging activites.  Further he claims to have blindly signed the documents, that were prepared by his team.
According to sources, Vadlamani in his confession stated he wasn’t aware of the fraud as his 80-member team provided him documents and he blindly signed [...]

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Secularism in India

Incidentally, I am thumbing through ‘The Argumentative Indian’ by Amartya Sen which talks heavily about Secularism in India, when Christian churches are vandalised and Christians tormented in Karnataka.
India had been a secular state since Independence, hosting people from various religions and communities.  Though Community clashes are nothing new, an unsung harmony existed between these communities. [...]

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A noisy thought on the Independence Day!

Happy Independence day to all readers! But, how independent are we, constantly dreading about a mishap on the independence day; how independent are we, when an educated corporate woman working late in the night, can be mishandled by miscreants; how independent are we, in the hands of corrupt politicians. But that’s a separate topic [...]

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A Plea from a Life lover

Hello to Mujahideen or SIMI or LeT or Al Qaeda or whomsoever concerned.
This is a plea from a prospective victim, who might be stuck in any of your future executions. My feelings were hurt most, in the past two days. It was shocking and grieving to witness back-to-back attacks on Bangalore and Ahmadabad. [...]

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Country with the most Billionaires!

It’s not the United States or UK or Germany or India!  It definitely should be Zimbabwe, where every common man deals with billions of dollars (Z$ of course!)
Zimbabwe is reeling under serious inflation, hovering around 2.2 Million % as per official figures.  Unofficial figures put it higher.  These high value bills couldn’t even buy a [...]

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