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	<link>http://ashisha.com/consumer</link>
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		<title>Delhi Government held responsible for money for bringing up a child after mother&#8217;s failed sterilization procedure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When a woman undergoes a sterilization procedure, it is with the expectation that any more sexual relationship will not result in more babies, and in today&#8217;s world where family planning is required, going in for a sterilization procedure is an act of great responsibility. When the family feels that they have had enough children, then [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ashisha.com/consumer/2010/03/01/delhi-government-held-responsible-for-money-for-bringing-up-a-child-after-mothers-failed-sterilization-procedure/</link>
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		<title>Letting your age guide how you handle your finances</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you want to invest money, and talk to any skilled financial planner or read the numerous articles on this area, all of them talk about having an asset allocation in place. What this means is that when you do your investment, you should consider that you have considered all the different investment possibilities &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ashisha.com/consumer/2010/01/08/letting-your-age-guide-how-you-handle-your-finances/</link>
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		<title>SEBI told to work towards compensating fraud-hit investors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SEBI (the Securities and Exchange Board of India) has the mandate to protect investors, especially the retail and small investors who can get defrauded on various stock market deviancies, fraud, and management frauds. And SEBI has taken a number of actions in the past to act against people who have sought to defraud investors, such [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ashisha.com/consumer/2009/11/23/sebi-told-to-work-towards-compensating-fraud-hit-investors/</link>
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		<title>Car dealers to pay a compensation of 25,000</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The second hand car market in India is increasing, to the extent that the business of re-sale and purchase of second hand cars now has a greater volume than that of first car purchase (direct purchase of vehicles from the dealers). However, a lot of people who decide to buy or sell their vehicles do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ashisha.com/consumer/2009/11/21/car-dealers-to-pay-a-compensation-of-25000/</link>
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		<title>Banks levying charge on pre-payment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For people who take loans from banks, there is always an urge to try and get rid of the loan early. I know a number of colleagues and friends who have taken loans to buy properties, and once they have taken a loan, there are always trying to use excess money that they have to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ashisha.com/consumer/2009/09/27/banks-levying-charge-on-pre-payment/</link>
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		<title>Insurance regulator gets strict on orphan policies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What are orphan insurance policies ? These are policies where the agent who sold these policies has shifter to another company, and the person who bought these policies no longer has an agent or an intermediary to help service them. This is a common problem in the life insurance business, since:
- An agent will do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ashisha.com/consumer/2009/09/09/insurance-regulator-gets-strict-on-orphan-policies/</link>
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		<title>Individual finances: How to manage when loans are killing you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I read an article that took a situation where a person was in real trouble financially, and what the person can do in such a situation that could help. The situation was one that many of us can relate to &#8211; in times of good money and a good job, your finances and projections for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ashisha.com/consumer/2009/08/19/individual-finances-how-to-manage-when-loans-are-killing-you/</link>
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		<title>Mistakes commonly made by equity investors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everybody makes mistakes in the equity market, so one cannot blame retail investors for making many mistakes. Even acclaimed mutual fund and hedge fund investors have made mistakes over the years, but that does not excuse the retail investors from trying to learn about the mistakes that they keep on making so that they reduce [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ashisha.com/consumer/2009/08/09/mistakes-commonly-made-by-equity-investors/</link>
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		<title>Finance: Safety vs. risk in terms of investments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One typically hears of cases where people have invested money in dubious investment schemes run by scheming and smooth investment gurus who actually end up duping people of their hard-earned money. These smooth operators typically get caught, but this is no consolation for those people who lose their money in these schemes. Similarly, people end [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ashisha.com/consumer/2009/08/09/finance-safety-vs-risk-in-terms-of-investments/</link>
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		<title>Obtaining duplicate copy of documents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People encounter this problem once in a while. You have invested money in a Fixed Deposit, or in Mutual Funds, or some other such investment method (including investing in a private company). Suddenly you find that you cannot locate the proof of such an investment (you could have lost it, it could have got destroyed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ashisha.com/consumer/2009/08/09/obtaining-duplicate-copy-of-documents/</link>
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