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Moneylife Digital Team 01 September 2026
Mumbai and the wider Mumbai metropolitan region (MMR) have entered September with a series of price increases affecting daily commuters and businesses. Auto-rickshaw and black-and-yellow taxi fares have been raised from Tuesday, while Mahanagar Gas Ltd (MGL) has increased prices of compressed...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 August 2026
The central consumer protection authority (CCPA) has imposed a ₹1 lakh penalty on United Biscuits Pvt Ltd, formerly known as Pladis India Pvt Ltd, for allegedly misleading consumers by marketing McVitie’s Whole Wheat Marie Biscuits as, 'Whole Wheat' despite the product containing only 19.5%...

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The unified payments interface, or UPI, has changed the way Indians pay for things — splitting a restaurant bill, paying the vegetable vendor, booking a train ticket and sending money to family. What used to involve queues, cheques or, at the very least, a bit of faff now happens in seconds,...

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Shirish Shanbhag 27 August 2026
Disputes in a cooperative housing society (CHS/the Society) often begin with what appears to be a straightforward question of ownership or convenience, but the underlying issue is frequently one of access, boundaries and documentary rights. Where common areas or access routes in a CHS are...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 August 2026
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has stepped up enforcement against food companies over misleading advertisements, false health and nutrition claims and labelling violations, issuing more than 150 notices to food business operators (FBOs) in recent months.   The food...

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 August 2026
The directorate of enforcement (ED) has arrested two persons in connection with a ‘digital arrest’ cyber-fraud case in Goa that has led investigators to an extensive money-laundering network whose bank accounts were allegedly used to move more than ₹27,850 crore and deposit around ₹2,904 crore...

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 August 2026
Consumers may get relief from high sugar prices in the coming weeks as the Union government revised rules for duty-free raw sugar imports and the industry maintains that there is no shortage of the sweetener. The government has revised the timeline for processing and selling duty-free imported...

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 August 2026
Nearly 25 years after Mumbai began creating resettlement and rehabilitation (R&R) housing for families displaced by infrastructure projects, many of the buildings and settlements are facing extensive maintenance, financial and governance problems, according to a study by Youth for Unity and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 24 August 2026
The Rajasthan High Court (HC) has laid down a detailed framework to prevent banks and investigating agencies from imposing indiscriminate or indefinite freezes on bank accounts during cybercrime investigations, holding that where the amount allegedly linked to a fraud can be identified, the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 August 2026
India's health insurance market may be seeing stronger consumer demand, but policyholders continue to face significant problems when they actually need their insurance. About four in 10 policyholders who made a claim reported at least one issue, with problems involving hospital and provider...

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Received an email this week that looks exactly like it has come from the income-tax (I-T) department? The tricolour emblem is there, so is the familiar blue e-filing header, a reference number and a polite request to ‘click here to view your important message’.    Before you do anything else,...

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Shirish Shanbhag 20 August 2026
A cooperative housing society (CHS/the Society) is often governed as much by the practical realities of shared living as by its formal rules. Parking is a recurring source of friction, particularly where limited spaces must be allocated fairly among members, while long-pending maintenance dues...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 August 2026
The central consumer protection authority (CCPA) has imposed a penalty of ₹1 lakh on Amazon Seller Services Pvt Ltd (Amazon India) for allowing ordinary sweets to be marketed on its platform as 'Shri Ram Mandir Ayodhya Prasad' without authorisation from the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra...

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Dr Rajendra M Ganatra  and   Ashit Badani 18 August 2026
Residential real-estate projects are fundamentally different from manufacturing or infrastructure businesses which invest in productive assets that generate income over a long economic life. In a conventional business, returns are realised over two broad stages—the capital recovery phase, or...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 August 2026
The directorate of enforcement (ED) has provisionally attached immovable properties worth ₹129.80 crore in a money laundering investigation linked to an alleged real estate fraud involving homebuyers and investors in Ahmedabad. ED's Ahmedabad zonal office issued the Provisional Attachment Order...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 August 2026
Chief economic adviser (CEA) V Anantha Nageswaran has called for the reintroduction of a lower ethanol-blended petrol such as E10 alongside E20, particularly to protect India's large fleet of older two-wheelers, while cautioning the government against increasing ethanol blending beyond 20%...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 August 2026
The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued show-cause notices to Bollywood actors Shah Rukh Khan, Ajay Devgn and Tiger Shroff over their participation in an advertisement for Vimal Elaichi, alleging that the campaign may amount to surrogate or indirect promotion of a...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 August 2026
The Maharashtra government has released a draft of the model bye-laws 2026 for cooperative housing societies, proposing an extensive overhaul of the framework governing the day-to-day functioning of housing societies across the state. The draft covers membership and succession, maintenance...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 August 2026
Railway stations across the country continue to struggle with basic passenger amenities, with a comptroller and auditor general of India (CAG) audit finding deficiencies at 458 of 512 stations inspected across 16 railway zones.   The deficiencies were not confined to smaller or low-traffic...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 August 2026
The White House has placed Pune, Gujarat and Chennai in an unusual group of manufacturing locations it calls ‘ugly sister cities’, pairing the Indian production belt with Cincinnati, Dayton and Columbus in US.   The comparison has nothing to do with traditional sister-city relationships....

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