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Moneylife Digital Team 09 February 2024
The Maharashtra Real Estate Regulatory Authority (MahaRERA) has released a draft aimed at regulating retirement homes across the state, aligning with the model guidelines issued by Union ministry of housing and urban affairs (MoHUA) for the development and regulation of retirement homes. This...

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As per the Delhi commission of women (DCW), 130,000 complaints of various kinds of harassment of domestic servants have been registered with it, ever since the Delhi Private Placement Agencies (Regulation) Order, 2014 was implemented in the national capital.   This fact came to light...

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Moneylife Digital Team 05 February 2024
Notwithstanding the 30 June 2023 deadline, as many as 114.8mn (million) holders of permanent account numbers (PANs) have not linked their PAN with Aadhaar. During the past seven months till 31 January 2024, the government collected Rs601.97 crore as a penalty from PAN-holders, the Lok Sabha...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 February 2024
EAS Sarma, former secretary to the government of India (GoI), has asked election commission of India (ECI) to come clean on this even at this belated hour, direct the concerned authorities to revoke the directorship of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-affiliated persons from the board of Bharat...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 February 2024
After raising concerns over the directorship of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-affiliated persons from the board of Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL), which is closely engaged in the manufacture and supply of electronic voting machines (EVMs), EAS Sarma, former secretary to the government of India...

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IANS 31 January 2024
As AI-generated explicit images of Taylor Swift create massive debate among the policy makers, US lawmakers have proposed a bill that would let victims sue over digitally faked sexual images.   The ‘Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits’ (DEFIANCE) Act would add a...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 31 January 2024
“We kill people on the basis of metadata.”   -Unrepenting admission of Michael Hayden, former head of USA’s NSA and CIA, quoted in the Draft Resolution on Mass Surveillance, The Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe dated 18 March...

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IANS 30 January 2024
Rajasthan government has fixed security issues impacting its website related to Jan Aadhaar that exposed millions of residents' personal information and sensitive documents.   Jan Aadhaar is a state programme that provides a single identifier to families and individuals in Rajasthan...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 January 2024
The Maharashtra government has announced an Abhay Yojana (amnesty scheme) for the penalty that can be levied for insufficient or non-payment of stamp duty. This scheme is a periodic government initiative to provide relief to individuals and entities by granting a waiver on unpaid or deficient...

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IANS 23 January 2024
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday chaired a meeting to launch the Pradhanmantri Suryodaya Yojana with the target of installing rooftop solar power panels on 1 crore houses in the country.   The meeting at his residence at Lok Kalyan Marg was held immediately after his visit to...

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It took over 60 years from conception to delivery, but Atal Setu, or the Mumbai trans-harbour link (MTHL), could be a game-changer for Maharashtra, exactly like the Mumbai-Pune Expressway (MPE), constructed by the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) in 2002. Some may argue...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 19 January 2024
“The forthcoming census could be the first digital census in the history of India. For this monumental and milestone-marking task, I have allocated Rs3,768 crore in the year 2021-22.” - Nirmala Sitharaman, Union finance minister, 1 February 2021, Lok Sabha    “Census 2021 and the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 January 2024
In yet another clarification, the UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) has asked all those concerned to delete the use of Aadhaar as proof of date of birth (DoB) from the list of acceptable documents. UIDAI says it observed that authentication user agencies (AUAs) and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 January 2024
Due to a vulnerability or security bug, the website of the Union ministry of corporate affairs (MCA) leaked the personal data of Ratan Tata, Mukesh Ambani, Gautam Adani, Virat Kohli, Shah Rukh Khan and lakhs of other directors of companies, alleges a security expert. Sai Krishna Kothapalli,...

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In order to appease voters of housing societies, members of legislative assembly (MLAs) and members of legislative council (MLCs) of various political parties divert their local area development scheme (LADS) funds, given by the state government to carry out civic and beautification works in...

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The picturesque Venna lake (that doubles up as a dam and is the main source of drinking water) greets you as you enter Mahabaleshwar, the most popular tourist destination of western Maharashtra; be sure that its shimmering surface hides life-threatening viruses and bacteria, causing a serious...

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That the drinking water contamination in Mahabaleshwar is due to horse excreta entering Venna lake has been established by the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE) in its health risk assessment research report which mentions seven contagious diseases caused by animal waste; all...

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While it would seem a bit too exaggerated that any government authority would promptly act on a research study report, in the case of the Mahabaleshwar drinking water contamination issue, the project was proposed by the Mahabaleshwar municipal council to the Gokhale Institute of Politics and...

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Can you believe that the excreta of a mere 170 horses in Mahabaleshwar is severely threatening the health of 700K (thousand) to 800K tourists who patronise this popular hill station annually? But the good news is that it is possible to eradicate this health menace, primarily by banning horse...

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 January 2024
Although the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) says that Rs2,000 notes continue to be a legal tender and currency and can still be exchanged, it has placed a nightmarish process to exchange notes after September. RBI announced the withdrawal of Rs2,000 notes in May circulation as part of its 'Clean...

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