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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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The Governor of Tripura, DY Patil, had planed to fly down to Pune to pacify activists opposing President Pratibha Patil's post-retirement home; tweets depleted his confidence and he sent his confidante instead, who in turn asked the soldiers to "tone down the agitation" A couple of days back,...

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Are we creating infrastructure with huge investments which have not been designed for meeting challenges from disasters? In fact, these infrastructure themselves pose problems during normal times and more so during disasters 26 July 2005: It was another normal cloudy July day. Stray showers...

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Our politicians play ducks and drakes with the lives of millions of passengers travelling on this vast rail network either on work or holiday On Monday former railway minister Dinesh Trivedi, while speaking at an event organised by Moneylife Foundation, had said that there is an urgent need...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 April 2012
Ramesh S Prabhu, chairman of the Maharashtra Societies Welfare Association said, “MOFA has been in force for almost 60 years. It is more consumer-friendly. The new Bill has many shortcomings” The Maharashtra government’s new Maharashtra Housing (Regulation & Development) Bill, 2011, is facing...

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The introduction of Right to Service Acts by various state governments is a step in the right direction that will help in bringing about transparency, accountability and efficiency in public service, thereby reducing corruption in public places “Government work is God’s work” so proclaims the...

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Any small incident like signal failure can bring the suburban rail network across Mumbai to a halt. The question, however, is why the Railways do not have any backup system in place? Just two days ago former railway minister Dinesh Trivedi, while speaking at an event organised by Moneylife...

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RTI documents reveal that the President’s office twisted home ministry rules in its communication to Defence Estate Office, Pune, to get allotment for President Patil’s much-desired land in Pune. The very nature of the land ‘A1’ makes occupation illegal for any civilian which includes the...

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Angry investors plan to keep a close watch on SEBI’s spending binge this time. The Securities and Exchange Board of India’s (SEBI) decision to splurge over Rs280 crore on property acquisitions, under UK Sinha, has raised many eyebrows and caused a lot of heartburn among other...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 April 2012
The central railway trains were affected after a fire broke out around at two signalling cabins Local trains on Mumbai's main Central line were running about 45 minutes late this morning, sending the metropolis into a rush hour crisis. This was caused by a fire last night at the Kurla and...

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Without a sensible transport policy, aviation industry faces stunted growth A few days back, I made a short trip to Hyderabad to visit the biennial aviation trade show called India Aviation 2012. Held at the old Hyderabad airport in Begumpet, the place seemed to be abuzz with activity, even...

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Pune Cantonment Board’s reply to RTI application says that the cantonment comes under the jurisdiction of the Maharashtra Tree Act. Was this Act thrown out of the window for the President? At least 20 stalwart trees more than 100 years old and several other trees have been massacred to make way...

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Moneylife Digital Team 16 April 2012
Dinesh Trivedi, former railway minister, spoke to a packed audience on his brief but highly eventful tenure as a the minister, when he tried to effect many fundamental changes but was stymied “I am surprised that it took a Supreme Court to sack A Raja, who has shortchanged the country of...

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The Indian Ex-Servicemen Movement (ISEM) and related defence NGOs have begun galvanising support On Saturday evening, around 150 citizens, mostly jawans and retired officers gathered at the National War Memorial in Pune Cantonment to protest against President Pratibha Patil’s land grab by...

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Use of low-powered amplification distributed sound system is the answer to the demand for grounds at locations where people are present or can reach conveniently and to keep the noise level within limits. It would be most effective if the court directs the MoEF to evolve the guidelines for its...

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 PAN card data has become essential for certain transactions, which makes PAN card identity theft more likely than ever Waving a PAN (Permanent Account Number) card as a form of identity, when such a document is required with a photograph, has become second nature to many of us. Keeping a...

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Commander Ravindra Pathak (retd) and Col Suresh Patil (retd) who have been campaigning against excess defence land being taken by President Pratibha Patil  are well known activists in Pune.  Let’s see how far their tenacity takes them in this campaign which is connected with the highest chair in...

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