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The vibrating condom is banned (possibly and probably) because it gave women (or at least promised) women pleasure. And a minister who thinks women ‘flaunt’ themselves and therefore deserves to be molested, watches them flaunting themselves for his own satisfaction Just the other night I was...

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Citizens in various cities have used the RTI Act effectively to stall felling of trees or halt their abuse. You can do it too Whether it is a Delhi High Court order or the Delhi or Maharashtra Tree Act, preservation of trees is mandatory and any felling requires legal permission from the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 February 2012
Finally, the cold war between Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), under the Planning Commission and the home ministry’s National Population Register (NPR), has been put to an end. The Cabinet committee has allowed UIDAI to carry out the enumeration process of 400 million more...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 February 2012
Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter have a share in the success of the Arab uprising. But what if these sites voluntarily put themselves in dock? In its blog post, titled “Tweets Must Flow”, Twitter, has announced that it can now selectively censor tweets on a country-by-country...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 February 2012
The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) has awarded Rs5 lakh as compensation to Kerala-based scientist, Venkata Rao, who wanted to send his son’s body parts for research to the US, but could not do so due to the failure of the courier service. Mr Rao donated the brain and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 February 2012
Trouble continues for the debt-laden power sector.  Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC), has decided to initiate non-compliance processes against 20 power utilities that have not paid Rs517.50 crore as transmission charges to the State-run Power Grid Corporation of India. Designated...

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Teachers must be humane midwives who deliver the best out of the children in school. They should stop the banking system of education where textbooks, like rupee notes, are printed in the government mint. Instead the teacher should deliver the best from the child’s brain bank  “Our greatest...

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An alternative view of mining, development, environment and the aspirations of people on the ground An inescapable truth of mining globally is the back-roads through jungles and forests. That’s how it starts. Often, the first contact people in remote areas with newly discovered or exploited...

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An atmosphere of animosity between the warring individuals and their departments might persist for some time and, therefore, there is a need for initiating conscientious efforts to restore and reinforce the elusive trust and goodwill between the MoD and army headquarters In what came to be...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 February 2012
Mr Sarma, former secretary of the Government of India, in a letter said the finance ministry should coordinate with MCA, SEBI and RBI to find effective answers to money circulation schemes which do not evidently add any value to the economy but siphon off the incomes of the people EAS Sarma,...

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There are problems in every city and everywhere the poor and elderly have their own problems, but looking around what is good for us can be replicated if it suits our culture and ethos without compromising on the safety and security of our people Mumbai is the fourth populous city in the world...

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The artist and thinkers need to push the boundaries of culture so that is not ossified by custom and so that it evolves. Our collective evolution towards a more inclusive society, a more caring one, depends vitally on debate and dissent It has been some time since I read in the media of a...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 February 2012
The company owes over Rs2,000 crore to all its panellists either as subscription amount it collected or income it has to pay for filling surveys. However, the main question is whether Speak Asia really has that much amount left in India? Speak Asia, the troubled and almost defunct multi-level...

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Alekh Angre 09 February 2012
The eminent professor said coconut oil contains mono-lauric acid, the same fatty acid that mother's milk has. Until the 1930s, even bread in the US was made using coconut oil. Things changed after that and the ghost of cholesterol was given birth to flourish today as the best business, Prof Dr...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 February 2012
The dues are pending since Champions Trophy in 2006 and IPL matches played in 2011 and it appears like the Rajasthan police are unable to take action against its own debtors Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) and Rajasthan Royals, the state’s franchise for the Indian Premier League (IPL),...

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Besides attempting to strangulate transparency by slow appointment of information commissioners, is the post of Maharashtra CIC is now being favoured for a particular bureaucrat? Vijay Kuvalekar held two posts simultaneously – that of Pune division’s State Information Commissioner as well as...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 February 2012
More retailers opting for standalone formats due to shortage of quality properties A recent report on the state of retail realty by Jones Lang LaSalle says that though the retail industry is poised for a boom, shortage of quality properties may curtail its chances. So now, retailers are...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 February 2012
Dr Subramanian Swamy talks about how to take the anti-corruption crusade forward Thanks to the ruling by the Supreme Court on sanction for prosecution, there is now a way that every citizen can approach investigative authorities for taking corrupt officials or ministers to task, said Dr...

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Or an unhappy truce? Kokilaben Ambani organised the perfect, Bollywood-style, ‘family reunion’ to inaugurate the museum at Dhirubhai Ambani’s hometown of Chorwad. But the camaraderie between the warring sons and glamorous bahus doesn’t seem to have extended much beyond the staged photo...

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Where are the new banking licences and other measures of last year’s Budget? It’s approaching that time of the year when one pulls out old Budget speeches to check for promises made and delivered by the finance minister (FM). What stands out is the Budget of 2010, soon after Pranab...

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