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Moneylife Digital Team 18 January 2012
Cold wave conditions are not restricted to North India this winter. Small towns in Karnataka and Andhra, too, have unusually cold nights In Chandigarh, on 7 January 2012, the weather news was that there will be no morning assembly in any government school until the weather conditions improve....

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While the government at one end time and again attempts to deflate the Sunshine Act, at the other end harassment to RTI activists too never ceases Deliberately under-staffing State Information Commissions (SICs); PIOs citing Section 8 with unfailing regularity as an excuse not to part...

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How did the Costa Concordia simply keel over and capsize so quickly after being breached? Slightly deeper waters and she would have simply gone down, with no trace on the surface. Half exposed, she is going to be like that for a long time now, as a daily reminder to an industry slow on...

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Alekh Angre 17 January 2012
While Rajasthan police are taking on fraudsters who are operating various MLM and ponzi schemes, the state government is working on a bill to curb the MLM menace The growing menace of multi level marketing (MLM) and ponzi schemes like Speak Asia are increasingly coming under the scrutiny of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 January 2012
Even as the proposed Jan Lokpal Bill seeking an anti-corruption ombudsman seems to be lost in political maze, a survey by Transparency International (TI), an anti-corruption organisation, revealed that India is the second largest bribe-paying nation in South Asia. The survey says that 54% of...

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Moneylife Digital team 17 January 2012
According to a recent RBI rule, all banks will have to issue identical-looking cheques. It has set a deadline of 30 September 2012 to adopt uniform design standards to facilitate image-based or paperless clearing of cheques. Currently, in most parts of the country, banks physically move cheques...

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Moneylife Digital team 17 January 2012
A recent CAG report tabled in Parliament revealed that State agencies have incurred a loss of Rs1,200 crore on import of pulses due to deficiencies in the design, implementation and monitoring of schemes for pulse import. Against the targeted import and sale of pulses of 5.31 million tonnes (MT)...

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Moneylife Digital team 17 January 2012
A regulator for real estate in Maharashtra will be a reality soon. The Maharashtra Cabinet approved the proposal for a new law—Maharashtra Housing (Regulation and Promotion of Construction, Sale, Management, and Transfer) Act—to replace the Maharashtra Ownership Flats Act, 1963. A housing...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 January 2012
It’s an open secret that telecom operators levy extra charges for SMS on festive days like Diwali and New Year. Acting in response to a public interest litigation, the Madurai bench of Madras High Court, issued notices to telecom companies on collection of extra charge on text messages on...

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Moneylife Digital team 17 January 2012
Despite, over two decades of government’s water pollution control efforts, our lakes and rivers continue to remain highly polluted, a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General points out. The report, tabled in Parliament, says that there’s no attempt to compile a comprehensive list of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 16 January 2012
According to activists the government can seek help of consumer organisations and together should file suo moto complaints in larger public interest The Union government, especially the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, is seeking proper guidelines for suo moto complaints in consumer affairs to...

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Moneylife Digital team 16 January 2012
Sections of the media in India have willy-nilly become participants and players in practices that contribute to the growing use of money power in politics, which undermines democratic processes and norms— while hypocritically pretending to occupy a high moral ground, says the report released by...

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The simple act of listing all pending cases publicly, will go a long way in restoring citizens’ confidence in these institutions, and also act as self- regulating check I had made a commitment when I was made an Information Commissioner that I would ensure that I decided most of the cases...

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Shukti Sarma 14 January 2012
Get ready to revel in water To alter a famous saying slightly: What’s in a name? That which we call water, by any other name would smell as watery. Or will it? That is not what connoisseurs of ‘fine water’ want you to believe. In India, where we regard water as water, the water...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 January 2012
“Thanks to their organoleptic features, Sicilian wines are excellent matches with Indian cuisine. The fact that they offer very good price-quality ratio make them an excellent choice for restaurants, hotels and consumer alike,” says Subhash Arora, director of the Indian Wine Academy Sicilian...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 January 2012
“Apart from corruption, the nation’s prestige is stake. It is an embarrassment to give sub-standard gifts to our foreign guests. That, too, it is bought at highly inflated prices,” Dr Nutan Thakur, who filed a writ petition in the Allahabad HC commented A Lucknow-based social activist, Dr Nutan...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 January 2012
Rajan Alexander, who runs a blog called Devconsultancygroup warn of fresh rain and snow and treacherous conditions in the North and Northwest regions A fresh western disturbance called J2 is expected to affect western the Himalayan region and adjoining plains from 14 January 2012 onwards,...

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The “funny money” problem in India is no longer a minor bump; it is severe, it is suspected to be much more than the readiness to blame ISI of Pakistan, and requires a total overhaul of the laws pertaining to counterfeit currency I usually pay for fuel by card at my regular filling station,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 January 2012
Experts have called for more transparency in the entire process of testing and advocated testing of milk on a continuous basis The recent survey on milk adulteration conducted by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) found that 68% of the tested samples did not conform to...

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India is the fourth horse. We will begin to stir when the agony of inflicted poverty, the torture of corruption, the abyss of amorality, the absence of conscience and the sheer impossibility of our lives will make us begin to reclaim our humanity Today I learned something. From watching a TV...

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