Month: June 2011

Below are all the posts archived for the month.

Shriram Transport Finance NCD Oversubscribed
in Fixed Deposits

Shriram Transport Finance NCD was over-subscribed on the first day itself, and Business Standard reports that there is a lot of gray market activity on this NCD, much like there was on the SBI bond issue. India Infoline reports that the issue is closed for subscription already. I’m unable to find the official press release,
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India’s Report Card on Google Transparency Report
in Personal Technology

Google Transparency Report is a lesser known Google initiative where they compile data on content removal requests and user identification requests at a country level, and publish it on the web. The idea is to show the level of censorship present in a country by releasing data on number of content removal request that originate
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Shriram Transport Finance NCD Review
in Fixed Deposits

Shriram Transport is the latest company to offer a debt issue, and they’re going to offer NCDs (Non Convertible Debentures), to retail investors which offer interest rates from 11.35% to 11.60% per annum in the reserved category. The issue size is Rs. 500 crores (with an option to issue additional Rs. 50o crores if there’s
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Download Excel Based Retirement Calculator
in Retirement Planning

Reader Pattu  has developed a retirement calculator for his own use, and was interested in sharing it with other OneMint readers as well. I took a look at it, and liked what he’s done, so I’m sharing the calculator here. Download Retirement Planner He has also described his thought process, which I’m sharing below. Retirement
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Jeevan Arogya, Technology Caves and Getting Fooled by Fluency
in Links

I’ll start with this amazing Infographic from Trulia which shows the US cities that are popular among foreigners for home – buying. The data is based on search queries, and not strictly home buying but still makes for interesting reading. New York, San Francisco and Chicago are the top 3 cities for Indian Trulia users.
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