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Dr Nita Mukherjee 25 June 2019
Sometime on the morning of Sunday 26th May, I received a typical marketing SMS from Tata Sky congratulating me as I had been ‘awarded’ a free trial subscription for a month for Tata Sky Binge. Binge is a product that Tata Sky has on offer that allows access to various Internet-based streaming...

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Yoga guru and ayurveda tycoon Baba Ramdev on Wednesday called for "zero tolerance" to those found guilty of indulging in adulteration of food and manufacturing spurious medicines and demanded they be sentenced to life imprisonment.   "This is one of the most heinous forms of crime...

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Sumit Sharma 19 June 2019
A personal accident policy and a happy family floater policy are usually sufficient for most individuals and families to head out for a holiday. Or that’s what a honeymooner thought.    The following is a case of a person holding all relevant policies but different interpretation of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 June 2019
A Bandra based couple has registered a complaint against two men for allegedly defrauding them of Rs50 lakh. The accused have been booked under Sections 420, 405 and 463 of the Indian Penal Code.    Mount Mary Road resident - Hassanaly Dossani was introduced to the two brothers...

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In a bid to get first-hand information from railway passengers, Railway Board Chairman Vinod Kumar Yadav has asked all General Managers and other senior officials to travel by trains frequently.   In a letter written to all the General Managers on June 13, Yadav told them to file...

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Facing severe water shortage and high vegetable prices, restaurants/hotels serving South Indian meals are mulling ways to tackle the situation, including stopping lunch meals, said an official of a hotel association.   "It is a major crisis faced by the hotels in Chennai and also in...

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Krishna Nair  and   Aditya Joby 17 June 2019
The Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA), set up to ensure safety and security of realty transactions by mandating that people only deal with registered and regulated entities, is already being manipulated.    The game-changing RERA legislation of 2016 has been adopted by 20...

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ANJANA DAS (IANS) 10 June 2019
Withdrawing a cumulative Rs 10 lakh a year can attract 3-5 per cent tax if a proposal going around in the Finance Ministry takes shape in the Budget to track high value cash deals and make digital payments mandatory.   In its push towards a digital economy, the central...

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Sumit Sharma 10 June 2019
Bombay Hospital, which has a capacity of more than 800 beds and is also a post-graduate teaching institute, was told its practice of  overcharging on medicines sold to a patient while being treated at its main operation theatre was an unfair practice.    The South Mumbai District...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 June 2019
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided to do away with its charges levied on transactions processed in the real time gross settlement system (RTGS) and national electronic funds transfer (NEFT) systems. The Central bank has also asked banks to pass the benefits to their customers who use...

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Many people crib about bad products and services but procrastinate when it comes to filing a formal complaint, especially if the company refuses to redress the grievance and it needs to be escalated to a consumer forum or other appropriate authority.   Often, consumers end up filing...

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Sumit Sharma 29 May 2019
In a judgment that brings relief to millions of home-buyers, a consumer court has ruled that a home buyer is well within his rights to demand refund of the entire amount paid, along with a nominal interest rate, if the flat has not been delivered even after a delay of one year from the...

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India witnessed a dip in mobile speeds in April 2019 with its rank remaining at 68th position in fixed broadband speeds globally and has declined in ranking to 121 in mobile speeds, Ookla, the company behind Speedtest, said on Monday in updates to its Speedtest Global Index for April...

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Real estate title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. had leaked a whopping 885 million sensitive customer financial records, going back to 2003, on its website for everybody to access.   According to KrebsOnSecurity.com, a website that covers computer security and cyber...

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High airfares as a result of capacity constraint dragged the domestic air passenger traffic lower by 4.2 per cent to 109.95 lakh in April 2019 on a year-on-year (Y-o-Y) basis, ratings agency ICRA said on Thursday.   A day ago, data furnished by the Directorate General of Civil...

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Think twice before having a glass of milk. You may be drinking a ‘cocktail of milk, white paint and detergent. Come summer, and there is acute shortage of milk in the country, and it is during these months that milk and related products tend to turn more unsafe than other...

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Moneylife Digital Team 22 May 2019
In a move that has set off an alarm among investors and regulators, Dewan Housing Finance Ltd (DHFL) said it would neither accept new deposits nor allow premature withdrawals after its debt instruments were downgraded.    “In view of the recent revision in the credit rating of our...

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A complaint by a customer alleging a glass pieces being found in a burger at a Burger King outlet here last week is being investigated, a police official said on Monday.   "We have registered a complaint by the customer last Saturday (May 18) against Burger King. We are awaiting...

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Abhay Datar 20 May 2019
It is a fact that India continues to seriously lag behind in public amenities and facilities for senior citizens and people with disabilities. In fact, we take the absence of special facilities so much for granted that not many people know when there is a special mandate or direction to...

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Just a day after the 2019 Lok Sabha polls came to an end, state-owned oil marketing companies (OMC) on Monday have raised the retail price of petrol and diesel signalling that election induced price moderation for petroleum products has come to an end.   On Monday, petrol prices...

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