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Moneylife Digital team 22 December 2011
Use of social networks is not limited to just young people. People aged 55 or more have emerged as the fastest growing age segment in social networking says comScore Social networking is the most popular online activity worldwide accounting for nearly 1 in every 5 minutes spent online in...

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The report of the CAG, presented to Parliament a few months ago said “this (the decision to purchase 68 aircraft at a cost of Rs50,000 crore) was a recipe for disaster and should have raised alarm signals in the ministry of civil aviation, Public Investment Board and the Planning Commission"

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 December 2011
The recent order by the apex court paves way to restart proceedings against the accused, including H&M's chairman V Ramachandran, in the vMoksha case The Supreme Court has dismissed the special leave petitions (SPL) filed by Helios & Matheson Information Technology Ltd (H&M) and Pawan Kumar,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 December 2011
In a memorandum, the Varkari Sampraday, Grahak Panchayat and Krantivir Prathisthan among others, alleged under reporting, especially of vehicle traffic and toll collected so far, by the toll collection agencies across the state Commuters, farmers and Varkaris (devotees who make walking...

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In the innocuous Kusmal village of Odisha, young Khirasindhu Sagria uses RTI to expose the scandal of several ghost farm ponds which were never built but he is instead rewarded with harassment and threats from government functionaries Sagria Khirasindhu is a young Dalit villager residing in...

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 If you are looking at reducing your household budgets and at the same time interested in learning more on how the direct to seller with minimal middle-men concept works in India, then attend your friendly neighbourhood ‘haat’ or weekly market regularly The FDI in retail or not debate...

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Moneylife Digital team 20 December 2011
Typosquatters register misspellings of popular websites in the hope that they will be able to make money out of traffic from unintentional typing mistakes made by internet surfers In case you are one of the people who prefer to type a complete URL while surfing the Internet, here is a warning...

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Thanks to lax laws on the subject of deeper enquiry on who or what is really behind a company, the business of khoka and shell companies have brought India to a point where we already do not know who or what is behind major projects. We do know, however, that large amounts of money flow in and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 December 2011
Study recommends e-governance as an effective measure According to a working paper published by Transparency International (TI) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), Indians pay some $700 million every year for land administration services. Bangladeshis,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 December 2011
The parliamentary standing committee on law and justice has recommended that NGOs, receiving public donations or foreign funds in excess of Rs10 lakh, media companies and firms financed by government—wholly or partly, should come under the purview of Lokpal. If accepted, around 0.45 million...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 December 2011
To improve passengers’ security, the Indian Railways will soon announce a round-the-clock helpline. This unique helpline number will be first introduced in Mumbai—Central and Western Railways. It will make it easier to resolve complaints by tracking the trains. Currently, there are separate...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 December 2011
Economic growth has failed to provide a better quality of life to Indian citizens. It ranked 134th (among 187 countries) on UNDP’s (United Nations Development Programme) Human Development Index (HDI). HDI is measured using parameters like a long and healthy life, access to information and a...

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 Chances of a single answer to two opposing questions on the RTI Act means there is something to it which the rule-books don’t tell you about—but you can bowl googlies to them, too, when the system expects you to hold a straight bat to their bouncers Here is a single answer to two...

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Whichever way you look at it, solar energy back to grid which is now economically feasible in India even on a 1:1 basis, but is simply not going to move forward because of the lobbying involved in seeing that it does not happen Experimenting with solar energy has fascinated me since first...

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Politicians want to control the internet because they are worried about internet scams taking over their games. Unfortunately, these scams mostly don't come with guarantees   You have recently received e-mails from a lady pretending to be the unfortunate Rajaratnam’s wife, offering a share of...

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A person who always tells the truth will always be honest but a person who tells lies or is deceitful in important matters will always be dishonest and will be fertile ground for giving and taking bribes What is truth, asked jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer.—Sir Francis Bacon...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 December 2011
While there is much political criticism of black money stashed abroad, many Indians are now waking up to the possibilities of bringing back money saved abroad without violating the Indian laws Every political party, in particular, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is criticising the government...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 December 2011
CREDAI-Jones Lang LaSalle report also perceives a regulator will positively impact realty situation The Confederation of Real Estate Association of India (CREDAI) and Jones Lang LaSalle’s Indian Real Estate Transparency Index (IRETI) has identified Andhra Pradesh (AP) as the top spot holder,...

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RTI activist Sharad Phadke who successfully pursued a case of his failed ATM transaction which was not credited to his account for 65 days, has now taken up cudgels against bank frauds against small time loan takers. A report… Radha Nath Singh, a villager in Dhanbad district of Jharkhand was...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 December 2011
NCPRI also expresses its concerns about Standing Committee’s final report on Lokpal Bill that seeks CBI to be independent from government National Campaign For People’s Right to Information(NCPRI),  while welcoming several of the recommendations by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Lokpal...

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