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The complete Enrica Lexie/St Antony episode is not a private issue between an Italian ship and an Indian fishing boat. We cannot, as a country, afford to be lenient in this case; we need to know the Directorate General of Shipping is being so hesitant in taking any action in this case The latest...

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 April 2012
The department of justice submitted that though the copy of forwarding letters are available in its record, to club those copies for the last three years would be a time consuming task In a landmark order, the Central Information Commission (CIC) has directed the law ministry to disclose the...

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The four-week expose of President Pratibha Patil “land grabbing” for her post retirement bungalow in Pune made waves on the Internet and social media finally compelled the President to give up the land. Team Anna could use this example and take up one issue at a time to see its logical end

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 April 2012
The Food Safety and Standard Act, 2006, has been introduced to replace the Prevention of Adulteration Act, 1954. “Ironically, the major challenge of the menace of adulteration has not been dealt with in the new Act but rather more emphasis has been laid down on ‘mis-branded’ food,” the...

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The story of President Pratibha Patil’s palatial home was doing the rounds for quite sometime. However, it was only when Moneylife first wrote about it on 11th April and then followed it up with nine other articles that it triggered off a national debate in the media and social networking...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 April 2012
Around two million people have been hurt by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that took place 26 years ago. “The Chernobyl disaster underscored that mankind must be extra careful in using nuclear technologies,” Ukraine president Viktor Yanukovych said. Is India listening? The impact of Chernobyl...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 April 2012
Following persistent agitation by three intrepid activists, and supported by several exclusive articles in Moneylife alone, written by Vinita Deshmukh, the President of India, Pratibha Patil agrees to give up the land on which she was building a palatial post retirement bungalow President...

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Alekh Angre 27 April 2012
Airlines and other airport service operators, which have issued cheques amounting to Rs7.23 crore to AAI’s Southern Region, have bounced. AAI is silent about it Airlines such as Air India, JetLite, Paramount Airways, along with other parties operating at the airport, which have issued cheques...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 April 2012
Refusing to quash the petition, the three-member Supreme Court bench questioned if there was any public interest involved in the issue The Supreme Court of India has refused to quash the candidature of justice Dalveer Bhandari, the third senior-most judge of the apex court, to the International...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 April 2012
The ministry of consumer affairs has said that it will soon set up an inter-ministerial group to tackle misleading ads. The group will have the powers take suo moto action against errant advertisements and also to withdraw them The menace of misleading advertisements such as tall claims made by...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 April 2012
Indian companies raised a total of Rs5,800 crore during FY11-12 through initial public offers (IPOs)—a slump of 82% from the previous year, reports PTI. According to an analysis of the data available with the stock exchanges, 33 Indian firms raised Rs5,808 crore via the IPO route during the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 April 2012
Federal Bank has hiked the rate of interest on resident and non-resident external (NRE) term deposits, for a period of one year, to 10%, effective 3 April 2012.  The rate of interest for NRE term deposits for a period of one year to less than three years is 9.5% and for three years and above is...

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 April 2012
BCCI has always been a centre of controversy. The organisation has refused to come under the ambit of the RTI like other sports bodies, but recommends names for awards, which only an NSF recognised by the ministry of sports can do A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed against the...

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While activists campaigning against President Pratibha Patil’s palatial post-retirement home in Pune are starting a signature campaign today in Pune for citizen support, they are waiting for some crucial answers to their queries invoked through the RTI Act While the work (though slowed down)...

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Dr SD Israni 25 April 2012
Robust economies have strong rule of law with impartial rule-enforcing authorities. When the rule of law suffers, it is business that feels the maximum impact India is a country based on ‘Rule of Law’. In such a society, all citizens are supposed to be equal before the law. The law is...

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The Scam, the only book on the two biggest securities scaam, is a perennial top seller among business books. Now in its 7th printing, the book reads like a thriller.  " During discussions that night, Subba Rao called R Sinha, chief general manager (vigilance). They discussed the course of...

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Moneylife Digital team 23 April 2012
Considering the issue of traffic congestion and frequent strikes by auto rickshaw drivers, an airport bus shuttle service would be efficient from the usability point of view Despite being the financial capital of India, Mumbai remains the only metro in India as well in the world to be without...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 April 2012
A report in the Hindu Business Line says that the RBI wants banks to explore if they can provide unlimited number of ATM transactions at any bank ATM and also waive the annual ATM fee to senior citizens and physically/visually challenged customers. As per the current norms, banks allow their...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 April 2012
According to the Pune District Consumer Disputes Forum, since it came into existence in 1988, of the 5,604 cases against services like banking, medical, telephone, insurance, electricity, airlines and railways, 45% are against builder/developers, reported The Times of India. In almost 95% of the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 April 2012
According to the district level data released by Census Directorate, the 2011 census shows that around 3.7 million houses, including 0.48 million houses in Mumbai alone, are lying vacant in Maharashtra. This year, the number of vacant houses in the state has jumped 10.5% compared to 8.5% a...

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