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National carrier Air India expects operations to normalise by Saturday night after its flights were delayed due to a software glitch which hindered essential services like check-in, baggage handling and boarding.   Briefing the media in New Delhi, Air India Chairman Ashwani Lohani...

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Automobile major Maruti Suzuki will stop selling all diesel fuelled cars from April 1, 2020 as new emission norms kick in from next year.   According to the company's Chairman R.C. Bhargava, the company will stop selling diesel cars from April 1, 2020 as car prices will rise due to...

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 April 2019
Builders and developers should not use 70% of the fund collected from homebuyers to repay loans, rule Real Estate Regulatory Authorities (RERAs) from two states, says a report. In one such case, the Haryana Real Estate Regulatory Authority (H RERA) even directed the police to register a...

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The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to file reply on a plea complaining that Central Bank of India, the public sector lender, has disbursed the housing loan without linking it to the stages of construction for a under-construction greenfield housing...

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Moneylife Digital Team 24 April 2019
The Maharashtra State Consumer Commission has sentenced builder Shekhar Dadarkar, proprietor of SD Constructions, to three years in prison for failing to comply with the Commission’s order. In its earlier order, the Commission had directed the builder to handover 1,270sq ft (square feet) flat...

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The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) to file a response to a plea seeking to ensure basic amenities like petrol pumps, toilet complex, ambulance and other emergency facilities on expressways.   A bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon...

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Many users of old versions of Android prior to 8.0, especially those who like to use lifestyle-related apps on mobile, are finding several ads, sometimes full-screen advertisement for products as well as for installing other apps.    This, according to Avast, an anti-virus software...

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Recently, a Moneylife reader complained about how his brother lost about Rs1 lakh through unified payments interface (UPI) when he linked his State Bank of India (SBI) account on GooglePay app. Someone hacked into his GooglePay account and transferred his money in to a Paytm account through...

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A plea was filed in the Delhi High Court on Monday seeking prompt redressal of consumer complaints in the wake of the ongoing Jet Airways crisis.   The application was filed by consumer rights activist Bejon K. Misra, whose earlier plea seeking capping of airfares charged by the...

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Amazon's online shoppers are being fooled by fake review factories running on multiple Facebook groups.   The scam is supported by several large and small companies as well as by entrepreneurs who depend on Facebook to spread positive reviews about their products listed on Amazon to...

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Airfares on domestic routes, especially those connecting non-metro cities, remain high with suspension of Jet Airways flights. The average ticket prices have gone up in the range of 10%-15% across various sectors even as airlines like SpiceJet and IndiGo have mounted additional...

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Honda Cars India (HCIL) has voluntarily recalled 3,669 units of its premium brand Honda Accord to replace faulty driver side front airbag inflators.   An inflator system is used to pump-in gas at a high-speed to inflate airbag in case of an accident.   Accordingly, the company...

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Air India will offer "special" fares to Jet Airways passengers stranded at international stations, informed sources told IANS on Thursday.   Jet Airways had on Wednesday said that it was forced to stop all operations as it failed to secure interim funds from the lenders.   "As...

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The Directorate General of Anti-Profiteering (DGAP) has served a notice on technology major Samsung India for allegedly not passing on the benefits of GST reduction to its customers and in turn making undue profits, sources said.   The notice, sources said, was served on the basis of...

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The Supreme Court has declined to stay the apex consumer commission's order, which held that home buyers in Jaypee Infratech Ltd (JIL) can move the consumer forum against JIL's parent company, Jaiprakash Associates Ltd. (JAL), for compensation and possession of their respective...

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Many people are receiving emails informing them about significant sums of money having been deducted from their netbanking account for Goods and Services Tax (GST). It asks them to click on a link in the mail, which shows name of Income Tax website to download the payment challan. If you have...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 April 2019
An unprotected database belonging to JustDial, India's largest local search service, is leaking personally identifiable information of its every customer in real-time, who accessed the service via its website, mobile app, or even by calling on its 88888 88888 customer care number, says a...

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Moneylife Digital Team 16 April 2019
In February 2019, Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) investigated complaints against 243 advertisements, of which the advertisers ensured corrective action for 63 advertisements once they received complaints from ASCI.   The Consumer Complaints Council (CCC) of ASCI upheld...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 April 2019
In an unusual victory for the consumer, a District Consumer Forum in Chandigarh has awarded complainant Dinesh Parshad Raturi, Rs3,000 as compensation and Rs1,000 as litigation expenses as Bata India had wrongly charged for a paper carry bag.    Bata India had pleaded in the case that...

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The 2019 summer holiday travel season is expected to be marred by high air fares as debt-ridden Jet Airways gradually truncates flight operations, experts said.   Even though the airline, lenders and the government are still hopeful of a revival, the current trend might see Jet...

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