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IANS 11 September 2018
The Supreme Court on Monday asked Greater NOIDA authority to deposit Rs 66.82 crore, received from realty major Unitech Limited, with apex court's registry to refund those plots buyers who have opted out of its housing schemes in the area.   A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra,...

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IANS 07 September 2018
Domestic fuel prices witnessed the steepest hike in the year so far with around 50-paise raise across the four metro cities.   Both petrol and diesel prices have been at their all-time high in the country for around a week now, due to increase in crude oil prices and depreciation in...

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‘Customer is king’ is a nice slogan coined by business and industry. But how many businesses actually treat customers well, especially if they are small customers?    Companies are primarily interested in business and in completing transactions, rather than ensuring customer...

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IANS 07 September 2018
British Airways announced that it was probing a massive theft of customer data from its website and mobile app.   The airline said the breach took place between 10.58 p.m. on August 21 and 9.45 p.m. on September 5, the BBC reported.   "The breach has been resolved and our...

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IANS 05 September 2018
The Supreme Court on Tuesday said ‘big scandal’ is taking place in the name of real estate business, as it favoured independent forensic audit of balance-sheets of the Amrapali Group to know diversion of home buyers' money.   Saying ‘big, serious fraud’ is being committed on home...

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Sucheta Dalal, Yogesh Sapkale, Srikrishna Kachave  and   Aravind Natarajan 04 September 2018
A single account opened in United Bank of India, under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY), or the ‘no frills’ or Basic Savings Bank Deposit Account (BSBDA) had a whopping Rs93.82 crore deposited. This was revealed in a Right to Information (RTI) query.   Remember, the Jan Dhan...

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Moneylife Digital Team 03 September 2018
With the price of petrol and diesel scaling new heights, there is concern about what would be the steps taken by the government to control the same. Petrol has crossed Rs86 per litre and diesel Rs75 per litre in Mumbai. Factors, which drive the retail price of petrol and diesel, are crude oil...

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 August 2018
Over the past three years, there were 43 cases of theft in lockers of public sector banks (PSBs) and Maharashtra tops the list in terms of number of thefts, reveals a written reply in the Lok Sabha.   In the reply, Shiv Pratap Shukla, minister of state for finance, said, "... during...

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IANS 30 August 2018
Banks will largely remain open in the first week of September and there will be no impact on the functioning of ATMs, contrary to social media buzz that claimed banks across India will be closed for six days during the week.   "The message going around in the social media that banks...

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IANS 29 August 2018
The Centre on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that guidelines have been framed to blacklist builders, contractors and architects found to have constructed buildings in violation of sanctioned plans.   A bench of Justice Madan B. Lokur, Justice S. Abdul Nazeer and Justice Deepak Gupta...

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IANS 28 August 2018
Diesel prices touched record high levels across metro cities on Monday, barring Mumbai, and prices of petrol too inched nearer their all-time peak across major cities.   In the national capital, diesel was priced at Rs 69.46 per litre, against the previous high of Rs 69.32 recorded on...

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IANS 28 August 2018
Chairman of Haryana Real Estate Regulatory Authority (HARERA) in Gurugram K.K. Khandelwal said on Monday that builders who have fraudulently secured occupation certificate (OC) will face action.   He said those officials who will be found involved in the fraudulent act would also face...

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My friend bought a T-shirt at a well-known retail outlet in Bengaluru. At the checkout counter, she was asked for her mobile number and email ID, before processing her bill. She refused to give these details – it was, she argued, irrelevant (she knew that the information would be used for...

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TruthInAdvertising.org 28 August 2018
Remember when you would go to the toy store as a kid and the toys with the most promising packaging turned out to be the greatest disappointments once you got home and pried open the package? Unfortunately, the disappointment that comes from being duped by the flashy marketing of, say, an...

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IANS 27 August 2018
Plane journeys are taking longer than a decade ago, according to a report that claims the change is due to airlines "padding" their schedules to create an impression that passengers are reaching their destinations on time.   The report by London-based travel guide, Which?, carriers...

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Money lost can be earned again; but time lost is permanent. This is especially true in legal matters where the law of limitation comes into effect. Hence, a person with a grievance or claim must ensure that her complaint is not time-barred. This article is about the timeframe for filing...

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IANS 17 August 2018
Hundreds of smart homes and businesses in India are at risk of leaking data due to misconfiguration of a protocol used to interconnect and control smart home devices via smart home hubs, warns new research from global cybersecurity company Avast.   The researchers found more than...

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IANS 13 August 2018
Jodhpur and Marwar in Rajasthan were declared the cleanest railway stations, while Varanasi, the prime minister's Lok Sabha constituency, slipped to the 69th position in the third cleanliness survey released on Monday.   Releasing the survey report, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said:...

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IANS 13 August 2018
Taking note of the increasing amount of pension and losses in the passenger buisness, a parliamentary committee has suggested rationalisation of train fares while advocating that the Finance Ministry should partly bear the pension liability of the Indian Railways.   The cash-strapped...

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IANS 13 August 2018
The Supreme Court has find a builder 100 crore for undertaking construction of a project in Pune in violation of the environment clearance given to it.   The court imposed damages of Rs 100 crore or 10 per cent of the project cost whichever is more, as it modified the 2016 order of...

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