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MDT/PTI 15 June 2012
The practice of fixing MRP to exorbitant high, even 1,000% of cost of production, gives a chance to the whole chain of distributors, whole sellers and retailers to dupe the unaware consumers   New Delhi: Leading pharma companies, including GlaxoSmithkline, Pfizer and Ranbaxy, sell...

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  The death of a passenger electrocuted in a bus stop should shake up Traffic Police, Municipal Corporation, MSRDC, MMRDA, PWD, MTSU and perhaps even the judiciary   3 May 2012, Chota Durgah Bus Stop, Mahim: A commuter got electrocuted little past midnight. This happened because a...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 June 2012
According to HRW, the environment impact assessment reports submitted by iron ore mining companies in India are “full of false data” and they should be reviewed The scale of lawlessness that prevails in India's mining sector has gone out of control due to a dangerous mix of bad policies,...

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But will the government manage to curb gross wastage in weddings when its own ministers are seen flouting norms? Since the last several years the “Big fat Indian wedding” may have attained a glamorous tone but the clamour to stop lavishness bordering on vulgarity of wealth display has...

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How the Railways the artificial pricing and flawed ticketing process is allowing tickets touts to skim off hundreds of crores a year In part 1, Moneylife showed how the higher classes of travel on railway trains were being subsidised by the unreserved general class travellers and pointed...

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Here some numbers that indicate how unreserved passengers subsidise the first class AC passengers, which include lots of freeloaders Getting a railway ticket is a tough job unless you pay a premium and go through the touts. Most people who try the Tatkal route don’t get it. But often, I...

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In some ways, we are back to the pre-reform days. But corporate India thinks it can prosper by quietly adjusting to the grim reality February 1992: I wrote about a secret meeting of top industrialists threatened by economic reforms, at Mumbai’s Belvedere Club at the Oberoi Hotel, to...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 June 2012
Indians are under-invested when it comes to saving for emergencies and according to the global survey, over 70% Indian respondents can barely manage personal economic emergencies for three months India is the third-largest growing economy of the world apart from being one of the highly...

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Lois Beckett (ProPublica) 14 June 2012
The personal information you gave Microsoft or Yahoo may be used to target you with online ads   Microsoft and Yahoo are selling political campaigns the ability to target voters online with tailored ads using names, Zip codes and other registration information that users provide when...

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MDT/PTI 13 June 2012
The PIL filed by BJP's former leader Govindacharya, seeks recovery of taxes on incomes of Google and Facebook from India and data safety of50 million Indian users   New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought responses of the Centre, Facebook India and Google India on a plea...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 June 2012
In a reply to RTI activist Subhash Agrawal, the DoE has admitted to ‘unauthorized’ activities at ‘6, Krishna Menon Marg’ bungalow which was allotted to the late Babu Jagjivan Ram   The Directorate of Estates (DoE) in a reply to a Right to Information (RTI) application has admitted...

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Though there are no fingers pointed at anyone in particular in the $11 billion Rafale jet fighter deal, it certainly has strange connections and cross connections There have been allegations that pressure from the highest political level, and possibly a huge under-the-table payment,...

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Nicholas Kusnetz (ProPublica) 11 June 2012
Booming oil production has brought a flood of toxic waste to North Dakota. Energy companies reported more than 1,000 oil and wastewater accidents last year alone, yet the state has taken few steps to regulate the industry   Oil drilling has sparked a frenzied prosperity in Jeff Keller's...

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Few firms have shown interest in assessing government's performance against corruption and many have asked to extend the deadline complicity and the wide gamut of responsibilities New Delhi: The Indian government's move to review its fight against corruption by independent experts has...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 June 2012
The 2008 global meltdown revealed the inability of experts to foresee such a situation and act on it. A new study has warned that the situation could well happen again Professor Mark Stein, the award-winning academic from the University Of Leicester School Of Management, in his...

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G Venkatesh 07 June 2012
Why are fire accidents occurring with impunity and what does it say of the prospects of the fire safety industry?   Of late, fire accidents are being reported with unfailing regularity and are forgotten by all of us immediately. Major accidents such as Uphaar fire tragedy in Delhi or...

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At HealthCare Global Enterprises, Sudhansu Mohanty was subjected to nuclear scan by a technician when a specialist’s supervision is mandatory. Instead of threatening to sue Aamir Khan, the IMA will do the nation a great service if it gets cracking on such cases The comments to...

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The ‘Sunday Mail’ obtained ‘shocking’ information under the RTI on hygiene in eateries in Brisbane. Indian cities are not far behind; all you need to do is invoke the RTI Act, like it was done in Pune We generally believe that Indians have a bad sense of hygiene and that our municipal...

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The Planning Commission justified Rs35 lakh spend saying it as ‘routine maintenance and upgradation’. However, it has no answer on money spent for the non-feasible door access control system for toilets   After media reports surfaced on how the Right to Information (RTI) application...

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The renovation of the two toilets with “diplomatic embassy standards” and Japanese or German class fittings, should cost between Rs2 and Rs4 lakh in Delhi   The toilet controversies appears to be rocking the headlines in the print media and breaking news on television, and no less than...

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