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MDT/PTI 29 August 2012
On 25th August, devotees complained that the prasad laddoos made at the Shirdi Sai temple smelled foul and tasted bitter   Shirdi: Over 6,000 kgs of 'laddoos' (sweets) at the Sai Baba temple that had rotten were disposed of by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) team in Shirdi,...

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MDT/PTI 29 August 2012
The Special Court, which heard arguments on the quantum of sentence, will decide on the punishment on 31st August. The massacre had taken place a day after the Godhra train burning incident of 27 February 2002   Ahmedabad: Ten years after over 90 people from the minority community...

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The court orders that in the backdrop of too much and vague information asked for by the citizen, providing copies of 3,419 pages in 30 days is an ‘impossible’ task for the Public Information Officer In 2010, when I asked for the contract agreement between Ideal Road Builders (IRB) and...

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MDT/PTI 29 August 2012
The apex court passed the order on the petition filed by Kasab challenging Bombay High Court's verdict upholding the trial court's judgement convicting him and awarding death sentence in the 26/11 terror attack on Mumbai New Delhi: The Supreme Court of India on Wednesday upheld the death...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 August 2012
The AC buses plying on the BEST network in Mumbai, known as King Long buses, are in fact manufactured by JCBL in Mohali and have nothing to do with the Chinese bus maker, except few parts here and there Commuters travelling by the AC buses run by the BEST Undertaking in Mumbai are...

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Corrupt people take shelter under the age-old protection available to those facing allegations to the effect that “until proved guilty”. If we miss the opportunity to cleanse public life and allow our position in international assessments to drift further, it may take ages to redeem the...

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MDT/PTI 28 August 2012
Journalistic ethics apply not only to the print media but also to the electronic media and there is no reason why electronic media be not regulated by a statutory body says the Press Council   New Delhi: The Press Council of India (PCI) has urged Union Government to carry out...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 August 2012
The US watchdog, the Securities Exchange Commission, announced its intention to clamp down and virtually shut out a $600 million Ponzi scheme called ZeekRewards. Will our regulators and law enforcers learn? United States market watchdog, the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC),...

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MDT/PTI 28 August 2012
The apex court also took strong exception to the Centre's failure to put in place a proper mechanism to prevent such leakage in future New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday pulled up the Centre over leakage of its taped conversation of former corporate lobbyist Niira Radia saying its...

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MDT/PTI 28 August 2012
The informant has also not submitted any material to show that insecticide importers and manufacturers are charging exorbitant prices either due to any anti-competitive agreement, the CCI said while rejecting the plea New Delhi: The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has dismissed a...

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MDT/PTI 28 August 2012
Ministry of Corporate Affairs has asked RoC to probe the accounts of chit fund companies and certain MLM firms while the SFIO has recommended setting up of a specific central regulatory agency for implementation of Prize Chit and Money Circulation Scheme (Banning) Act, 1978   New...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 August 2012
Looking at the weather charts and various signs, there would be more rains in next few days. This may also tell the so-called experts that this time the IMD was accurate in its earlier forecast, which it was ‘forced’ to lower The India Meteorological Department (IMD) had cut its...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 August 2012
The Vedanta group is known to have violated laws of the land in pursuing its industrial and mining projects across India. While it does not give political donations in the UK and European Union, the Anil Agarwal-led group admitted that it has paid $8.3 million to Indian political parties...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 August 2012
Justice Ganguly speaks at the Conference of Lawyers for Social Justice and calls upon lawyers to contribute to the new freedom struggle waged by social movements Justice (Retd) Ashok Kumar Ganguly, presently chairperson of the state human rights commission, West Bengal called upon the...

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MDT/PTI 27 August 2012
The Prime Minister asserted that aggregating the 'purported gains' to private parties 'merely on the basis of the average production costs and sale price' of Coal India could be highly misleading New Delhi: Dubbing computation of loss of Rs1.86 lakh crore in coal block allocation by the...

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Jake Bernstein (ProPublica) 25 August 2012
The life insurance industry tried to make variable annuities irresistible to investors and was enraged when a Rhode Island lawyer exploited the fine print for his own profit   Joseph Caramadre has spent a lifetime scouring the fine print. He's hardwired to seek the angle, an...

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Moneylife Digital Team 24 August 2012
It is imperative to ensure the safety of nuclear facilities in India, and the welfare of the people residing in the immediate vicinity of nuclear installations, emphasises Dr EAS Sarma, former Union Power Secretary, Government of India Following the Comptroller and Auditor General of...

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MDT/PTI 24 August 2012
SEBI's Committee of Executive Directors felt that the investment of funds should be guided by consideration of return balanced with safety of funds rather than sole criterion of highest return New Delhi: Capital market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has decided...

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MDT/PTI 24 August 2012
As per the new norms, emission from mobile towers will be reduced by 1/10 of the current standards from next month   New Delhi: The Union Government on Friday said it will implement new tower emission norms from 1 September 2012 although there is no evidence that proves any adverse...

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MDT/PTI 24 August 2012
According to prosecution, Jamsandekar was murdered at the behest of Gawli, who had, along with the co-accused, conspired to execute the Shiv Sena corporator Mumbai: The special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court on Friday convicted gangster turned politician Arun...

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