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For the domestic market in India, anybody and everybody happily places a sticker saying ‘organic’ on anything they want, after all this NPOP, NSOP and certifying agency system! As with most such things, it starts with anecdotal personal experiences, and then it moves into research. This,...

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Governor K Sankaranarayanan, who is complying with the RTI Act in Maharashtra refused to comply with the same in Goa (as he hold both posts) like his predecessor Dr Sidhu. The High Court, in a judgment on 14th November, however declared that the Governor does come under the ambit of the RTI Act...

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 Cool fusion nuclear energy has no fallouts or environmental pollution of any kind. It is one hundred per cent clean and is relatively very inexpensive and you could get it from seawater. As the energy demand is going up exponentially, we need to explore, study this technology on urgent basis...

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For successful investing it is necessary to realise, that any country where the government protections are so bad that their own citizens are leaving, there is no place for foreigners to be going the other way To pick a good restaurant the expression goes, find a place with a full parking lot...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 November 2011
The coaching class took fees under the pretext of tutoring as per ISC pattern, but instead was providing tuitions based on CBSE standard State Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission, Uttarakhand while dismissing an appeal of a coaching class asked the class to return tuitions fee and pay a...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 November 2011
According to NCDRC ruling, Hyderabad-based NIMS and two of its doctors showed deficiency in medical service leading to death of a patient in 2000 National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) has hauled up Hyderabad-based Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) and two of its...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 November 2011
The RTI activist was told about a stay from the High Court after eight months of his appeal being withheld The government has attempted to stonewall the Right to Information (RTI) Act yet again. Surprisingly, the RTI activist, who had filed an application, has been informed that the...

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While the Action Committee Against Corruption in India will take up issues of corruption and fight them legally, Dr Swamy is perhaps building up credible resource persons from the society to perform the role of political candidates for the next general elections  At a closed door meeting in...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 November 2011
Contrary to claims by Speak Asia and its panellists, the company’s servers were never taken over by EOW as they are located in Singapore Even while the investigation against ponzi scheme Speak Asia, which duped people by promising easy income, is speeding up, company’s website which was...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 November 2011
Former bureaucrats and engineers have come up with suggestions of alternative models, which are clean and substantially cheaper Following former president Dr APJ Abdul Kalam’s spirited defence of the upcoming nuclear plant in Andhra Pradesh, activists and sector experts have all offered their...

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One of the biggest-ever defence contract for 126 fighter jets worth a huge $11 billion will be closely watched for any signs of corruption in the deal. Mr Antony and Dr Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi better watch out as at the first sign of corruption, the whistles will be out and blowing...

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Yet again, another RTI activist was brutally murdered. This time it was Ahmedabad-based Nadeem Sayeed. Will this trend soon become a run-of-the-mill crime story or is there hope? The ball is actually in the government's court - all it has to do is enforce Section 4 of RTI Act in right earnest -...

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Experts and activists who under the Pune Metro Jagruti Abhiyaan have been campaigning for a well planned metro, may have some hope now Unarguably, public transport is the biggest issue concerning Pune. With nearly 25...

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From Wall Street in the US to the main street in India, public protests are raging “Panic of the Plutocrats”, is how the New York Times titles an article by Nobel laureate Paul Krugman. It explains the “remarkably hysterical reaction from Wall Street, the super-rich in general, and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 November 2011
Here is another MLM, Grace Air Travels, which claims to give cash rewards and a tour to Thailand on selling travel packages If easy income on filling surveys, selling household products or simply watching advertisements were not enough, here is a multi-level marketing (MLM) company, which...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 November 2011
To people living in the vicinity of nuclear power plants, what matters is scientifically substantiated logic Former bureaucrats and activists have expressed their bewilderment at former president Dr APJ Abdul Kalam’s controversial defence of nuclear power plants. Dr Kalam’s article in The Hindu...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 November 2011
Fed up with higher service charges from banks, several Americans have switched their saving accounts to credit unions or co-operative financial institutions Last one month proved to be one of the best in terms of new customer acquisitions for credit unions or co-operative financial...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 November 2011
While president APJ Abdul Kalam gave a clean chit to the nuclear project (some details), India's former revenue secretary EAS Sarma has taken on his claims and punched some holes in the popular former president's statement Maintaining that he has not come as a mediator, former president APJ...

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Will countries like Egypt, Tunisia and Libya be able to change decades of mismanagement? It is possible, but exceptionally difficult. The entrenched interests are not giving up without a fight Most people have an opinion about their government. Whether they feel it is either good or bad is a...

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While Uttarakhand has passed a strong Lokayukta Bill on the lines of Team Anna’s Jan Lokpal Bill, it remains to be seen whether its power will be maintained—it would have to incorporate the Centre’s Lokayukta provisions There is still time to cheer Uttarakhand’s strong Lokayukta Bill for two...

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