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Valliyur Satyavageeswaran 21 June 2012
The story of a ‘modern’ hospital in Bengaluru The ghastly fire in AMRI Hospital in Kolkata is still fresh in our memory. And Amir Khan devoted his fourth programme (of Satyamev Jayate) to issues of medical malpractice. At this juncture, I felt it was worth pondering about the callousness...

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Dr Prakash Hebalkar 21 June 2012
The regulator is making cable TV go digital which will benefit broadcasters but what about consumers’ interests, asks Dr Prakash Hebalkar For the past two years, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has been promoting digitisation of telecasting; TV channel distributors in all...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 June 2012
Recently a proxy advisory firm exposed how the independent directors of Escorts and institutional investors have allowed the Escorts management to push through a proposal that would increase the management’s stake. The move is against the interest of minority shareholders and the independent...

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Across the world, corrupt corporates, government officials and individuals have been sent to jail or made to pay heavy damages. When will India act to punish the guilty? The conviction of Rajat Gupta by a US court in the matter of insider trading has raised an important issue; can we...

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Col (retd) Rajeev Kumar 21 June 2012
Army officers need to stand up and be counted at any cost or else, they will stay down for good and dent the image of the Armed Forces Even as we get continuously desensitized to news of violence, immorality and corruption in all sections of society, news of such deviations by members of...

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The Sunday morning prime time show, which aimed to raise India’s social consciousness, asks people to support the NGOs working for the various causes featured in the show. Indian are watching but not opening their fists While advertisers may complain about TRPs and high costs, Satyamev...

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Science has become too powerful, too pushy and too dangerous to be left on its own. We need to have controls or else we will have more moon missions in preference to saving dying children in thousands from starvation “An inventor is a person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels,...

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An RTI library simplifies the process of seeking information and the citizens need not run from one department to another. Pune was the first city to have its own RTI library, now Chandigarh also has one Although it is binding on the public authorities under Section 4 to put up maximum...

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Moneylife Digital Team 20 June 2012
Parliamentarians were incensed when Anna Hazare launched a public protest about their foot-dragging on the Lokpal Bill. But these modern-day maharajas continue to use telephone facilities without paying dues, an RTI reply has revealed For common citizens defaulting on utility bills like...

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Arms dealer Ravi Rishi, who is involved in the Tatra truck bribery scandal is said to have spent around $5 million on his daughter’s wedding to the son of Chender Baljee—CMD of Royal Orchid Hotels Businessmen, who knew little about Ravi Rishi, the extremely low-profile but fabulously...

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The Western Ghats, with its numerous species of plants, birds and animals is soon to be upgraded to the status of World Heritage sites. Citizens and activists should take steps to preserve and protect this priceless legacy All of us living anywhere in Maharashtra, from the north-west...

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MDT/PTI 19 June 2012
  According to the IIT Faculty Federation, the Prime Minister has assured them that the autonomy of the IITs will remain intact New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday gave an assurance that the autonomy of Indian Institute of Technologies (IIT) will remain "intact", the...

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MDT/PTI 19 June 2012
According to the findings of a study, Mumbai is the most expensive city in India at Rs13,017 per night for an individual tourist which includes an accommodation, pre-meal drink, dinner and taxi ride   Chennai: Mumbai continues to be the most expensive city in India closely followed by...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 June 2012
The Reserve Bank of India is reportedly considering a move to commemorate several more leaders and politicians by having them join Mahatma Gandhi, Father of the Nation, on currency notes According to a report in the Time of India, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is working on plans to...

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MDT/PTI 18 June 2012
The High Court observed that in some cases even if flimsy mistakes were committed by doctors, the local appropriate authorities are sealing machines and prosecuting them   Mumbai: Observing that doctors are harassed by the authorities under the pretext of not following norms set up...

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While Aamir Khan could ignore doctor’s threats to file demotion cases, the legal system is different; the show can be throttled by litigations filed across the country   A couple of weeks ago, Satyamev Jayate, the Sunday morning show that exposed  the dirty deals between doctors,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 June 2012
The much sought after monsoon is finally here. And with it come the usual issues of water-logging, illness, traffic jams and so on. Here is a compilation of information that would come handy in monsoon   After making us to sweat and wait for over a week than its scheduled time, the...

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Hazare said allegations against his team were to divert attention from the demand for a strong Lokpal bill and if the Prime Minister feels that foreign powers are behind Team Anna, then it is necessary that he clearly tell the citizens who are those forces Ralegan Siddhi (Maharashtra):...

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Parliament House quota, High Officer Request quota, Discretionary Quota, Emergency Quota, Defence Quota, Foreign Tourist Quota, Union quota … in some cases all these make up half the berths, leading to huge corruption In the first of the three articles in this series we have seen...

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The civilians, including women and children, in 150 vehicles were trapped since last evening in multiple landslides in a stretch of 10 km at Khardung La on the Leh-Nubra road Leh: The Indian Army and police on Saturday rescued 400 civilians trapped in landslides at Khardung La Pass, the...

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