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The question is if some of the money comes back what should one do with it? The long overdue and much awaited White Paper on black money was presented by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday that has everyone wondering what this is all about. The document does not give details of the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 May 2012
A RTI reply from the Navy Headquarters to Delhi-based activist Subhash Agrawal has revealed that more than Rs23 crore was spend on the event which took place on 20 December 2011   The President’s Fleet Review (PFR) 2011, held off the Mumbai coastline, cost the Navy whopping Rs23.24...

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A Public Interest Litigation has been filed by an NGO representing interests of para-public transport of autorickshaws. It claims that being a para-public transport, autorickshaws must be allowed to use the ‘underutilized’ BRT lanes. In this two-part article, the saga of the Delhi BRT will be...

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Ministry of Environment & Forests constitutes an ecological committee to survey the Western Ghats and then sweats at making the details of the report public. RTI and judiciary direct it to make it to do so   The importance of the Western Ghats in our country is unquestionable....

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Colours of the food can influence the perceived flavour, but what is alarming is the alacrity with which food colours are used for non-food applications and vice versa. How safe are food colours and how effective is the regulation in India? Food colours are available as liquids, powders,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 22 May 2012
According to Libra India, the petitioner NGO, the land allotment to Suzlon was in violation of various acts pertaining to land allotment and valuable pastureland meant for animal grazing which cannot be given away to private companies The Supreme Court has sought the Rajasthan government’s...

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According to the media enquiries, Mahantesh’s colleagues are categorical that nothing that he was working on was controversial to incur this murderous attack. More pressure needs to be mounted to ensure justice is done to a whistle blower The brutal attack with a blunt object at 8.30pm on...

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Moneylife Digital Team 22 May 2012
The paper trail or paper confirmation receipt, which would be automatically printed by the electronic voting machine, would help eliminate doubts cast on the EVM system The Election Commission of India (EC) will soon start filed trials of the vote confirmation ticket, which will show where the...

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The short-cut on single control cabins for WDP4 engines used on high-speed passenger trains is the real reason for the number of rail accidents and near misses   By and large, accident enquiries of all sorts tend to place the blame on what is called “human error”, implying that almost...

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Moneylife Digital Team 22 May 2012
A smart fraudster called a mobile user and told him that he had won a free talk-time of 50,000 minutes. However, when the user went to claim it, there was no free talk time and instead he had to pay money for other peoples’ calls There are no free lunches and so is no free talk-time of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 22 May 2012
Dumping your old TV, mobile phone or laptop into the garbage bin or selling them to a local scrap dealer is now illegal. The new, e-Waste Management and Handling Rules, 2011, make it mandatory for consumers to route their e-waste for recycling through collection centres established by the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 22 May 2012
The Chandigarh Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum has directed a private sector bank to pay Rs15,000 to its customer for unnecessarily listing him as defaulter in the Credit Information Bureau India Limited’s (CIBIL) list, reported Indian Express. According to complainant Bhajan Pal, in 2003, he...

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The BMC is proposing to construct a 1.3 km Ghatkopar-Mankhurd viaduct. Is the flyover being planned with the intention of increasing mobility of people or motor cars? After the commencement of the Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP), a partially World Bank funded project, the Government of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 May 2012
NGOs and social activists have together written a letter to the BMC and Mumbai Police chiefs supporting the BMC staff for taking effective action against encroachments like hawkers and structures in Dadar station area Leading civic activists and non-governmental organisations from Mumbai have...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 May 2012
What is not final is the governmental policy decision on the aspects to which the Western Ghat report submitted by Prof Gadgil panel relates, the High Court said The Delhi High Court, while upholding the order passed by Shailesh Gandhi, Central Information Commissioner (CIC), has asked the...

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Kim Barker (ProPublica) 19 May 2012
A woman in upstate New York is surprised to find a contribution to the Wisconsin governor's campaign on her credit card When MaryAnn Nellis tried to pay for groceries on April 14, her credit card was declined. Later, she said, she found out why: Her credit card company, Capital One, had...

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One of the landmarks in the birth of the digital bush telegraph is the story of how moneylife.in, the financial and news website, handled the news that the first citizen of the land, President Pratibha Patil, illegally got large tract of army land in Pune for a palatial retirement home It could...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 May 2012
According to BCCI chief administrative officer Ratnakar Shetty, MCA officials should be appreciated for the extreme restrain shown by them in the face of abusive language being hurled on them Mumbai: The Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) on Friday banned Kolkata Knight Riders' co-owner and...

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Megha Rajagopalan (ProPublica) 18 May 2012
Years after the world's scariest computer virus attack, not much has changed Last week, the Department of Homeland Security revealed a rash of cyber attacks on natural gas pipeline companies. Just as with previous cyber attacks on infrastructure, there was no known physical damage. But security...

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Jesse Eisinger (ProPublica) 17 May 2012
When banks are in trouble, they often mislead the world about their financials. Maybe JPMorgan disclosed everything properly about its $2 billion loss, but that's what we need to determine. The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are looking into...

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