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Moneylife Digital Team 16 May 2013
PayU India, an online payment company, has launched PayU paisa, a web-based online payment system. This gateway does not require sellers to have a website of their own to tie-up with the service-provider. The gateway allows sellers to use its website to create a webstore and upload details of...

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Civil aviation ministry has permitted five domestic airlines to charge for various facilities, including a charge for the complementary check-in baggage. This has sent shock waves among the travelling community. Is this practical?  How will it affect the regular traveller? The ministry...

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Moneylife Digital Team 22 April 2013
Some of the most important factors that stop customers from buying online are trust as well as concerns about product quality, size and delivery. Will TrustPay from Snapdeal be able to address all these concerns? E-commerce or online buying sites have become the latest choice of private...

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Finally, you can have a top-class travel experience on the Indian Railways Indian Railways has thus far been the country cousin to the airlines for business travellers. And for good reasons too; while the Indian train network does not have its own Shinkasen speed lines which can operate...

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The pros and cons of Mahindra's latest version of the battery-operated car, what to do when your brakes are overheated, the ongoing investigations into evasion of duty on imported cars and why sales of new cars are dropping So is the Mahindra Reva e2o the only electric car to be launched...

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 March 2013
The petrol variants of the car are priced between Rs7.38 lakh and Rs8.84 lakh while the diesel versions are priced between Rs8.27 lakh and Rs9.79 lakh India’s largest passenger car maker Maruti Suzuki India on Friday launched an all-new version of its mid-size sedan SX4 in the country,...

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Car offers are galore. Don’t believe what the manufacturer or dealer says A ‘free’ car offered with an apartment has been a sales gimmick for some time now. It is not really free, but built into the price. But getting a small car from the same manufacturer ‘free’ on purchase of a new car...

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Tyres from sports utility vehicles add significant costs to your car maintenance Afriend of mine, who had bought one of those extremely popular low-cost utility vehicles masquerading as ‘sports utility vehicles’ (SUVs), learnt his lesson when it came to changing tyres. First of all,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 February 2013
In the second of this two-part series, Naveena Israni traverses the hills of Sri Lanka and sheds light on the country’s architectural, religious and cultural heritage In  our previous issue, we gave you general travel tips on Sri Lanka, followed by a tour of the beach town of Bentota and...

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Travel applications, highly popular in the West, are now gaining traction in India Airlines took to paperless ticketing to put a stop on wasteful expenditure on tonnes of paper tickets. As a result, ticketing made its way to electronic media, namely, phone and email, all over the world,...

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The scooter has distinct advantages which cannot be matched by motorbikes The scooter seems to be making a come back. Bajaj Auto had decided to concentrate more on motorcycles a few years ago and is now depending, in a large way, on its three-wheeler product. This must be one company...

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Naveena Israni 02 February 2013
Naveena Israni explores the beaches and the wild side of this island nation If  you’ve already explored tried-and-tested destinations in the US and Europe and grown weary of Southeast Asia, it’s about time you booked your tickets to refreshing, affordable Sri Lanka. This tropical island...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 February 2013
Only heavy users of ACs are sure to recover the extra money they shell out for an AC with a 5-star energy rating The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) is the government department that examines the efficiency ratio of air-conditioners (ACs), refrigerators and other appliances. BEE is...

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MDT/PTI 24 January 2013
Airtel and Idea increased call charges mostly by way of reduction in free minutes or airtime available on most plans. Prices of pre-paid special vouchers was also hiked while validity period on some recharge coupons are reduced New Delhi: Mobile call charges are hiked by up to 30% as...

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MDT/PTI 22 January 2013
This new solution would also allow customers to make card payments at the point of purchase itself at the retail outlets, thereby avoiding long queues at payment counters in these stores   Mumbai: Citibank India has announced a new paperless mobile payment system for all credit and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 January 2013
Many e-retailers make deceitful claims to coax you into taking snap decisions. Here is what you should know and guard against An online shopping website could turn any of us into impulsive shoppers. The discounts are sometimes too tempting to resist and purchase easy to make. You just...

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MDT/PTI 18 January 2013
The decisions on diesel rate increase for retail and bulk consumers will cut subsidies by about Rs15,000 crore on an annualised basis and by Rs3,400 crore in remainder of FY’13 New Delhi: In bold reforms, the government Thursday moved towards deregulating diesel when it raised prices by...

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MDT/PTI 17 January 2013
Oil companies have been permitted to raise diesel prices by a small quantum periodically till such time that they are able to cover Rs9.60 per litre loss they incur on the fuel, oil minister Veerappa Moily said   New Delhi: The government of India on Thursday raised the cap on supply...

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Will Peugeot be fair to existing customers who are yet to receive their refunds? Peugeot was one of the earliest foreign manufacturers who tried to enter India: it did not only fail miserably but also dragged down Premier Automobiles Ltd. This was way back in the early 1990s. I was...

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MDT/PTI 11 January 2013
SARE Homes has offered customers an option to pay 20% of the booking amount for an apartment, an offer which would be available for a limited period in association with ICICI Bank, a company statement said Chennai: SARE Homes has inked a Memorandum of Understanding with ICICI Bank to...

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