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IANS 07 February 2019
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has issued a showcause notice to telecom and DTH operator Airtel over recent issues of blackout faced by some viewers of its Direct-to-Home (DTH) services during transition to the new tariff regime, sources said.   The notice was sent...

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 February 2019
The network capacity fee (NCF) and channel prices announced by broadcasters and distributors as per the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India's (TRAI's) new guidelines could increase the monthly bill of most subscribers of television channels, says a research report.   In the report...

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Railways are the lifeline of our vast country. Apart from ever-increasing number of passengers, they provide livelihood for innumerable hawkers and vendors who cater to passengers’ needs. There are also thieves and crooks that enter the compartments unauthorised and make their living by...

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Shajai Jacob 28 January 2019
Whether the real estate market remains bullish or bearish, non-resident Indians (NRIs) prefer a place back in India - not just for investment returns but also to remain rooted in their country of origin. Previously, NRIs (like most other buyers and investors) had every reason to be leery of...

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Anuj Puri 24 January 2019
Redevelopment is a fact of life in any ageing, land-starved metropolitan city. In India, no city defines this dynamic quite as accurately as Mumbai.   The conventional norm of redevelopment in India involves appointing developers to redevelop old and dilapidated housing projects....

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Chandraprabha Venkatagiri 21 January 2019
My relatives and friends have often taunted me by saying that I have a skewed and negative opinion about business schools. I have also been exhorted to adopt a more positive approach while sharing my experiences with the community at large.   My counter to them is that there is only...

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Janata Bazaars were set up by the government to provide groceries and articles of daily use like clothing, to citizens at slightly lower prices than available in private shops.    During a recent visit to a Janata bazaar outlet in Bengaluru, I picked up a basketful of goods and...

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The safe and environmentally sustainable transportation of fossil fuels, especially liquid and gaseous, is the result of decades of improvement to a point where we seldom hear about accidents of any sort in marine tanker ships, refineries or terminals. Globally, the same safeguards are taken...

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Earlier today, I learnt that, in India, those handling coal, liquid fuel or cooking gas consumer serving outlet agency are not required to possess any formal safety, fire-fighting, dangerous goods handling or specific hazardous material competencies.    I think we must be the only...

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The new tariff regime of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) now allows viewers to select the television channels that they want to watch and pay the maximum retail price (MRP) set by respective broadcasters for each channel or for a bouquet of channels. Our calculations and...

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Last week, Moneylife had published an interview with Dr Pallavi Darade. Her raids on 350 outlets from where four leading online food app companies procured food for their customers, revealed unhygienic conditions in 112 outlets, which did not have registered licences either.   To...

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Vijaya Bank, which has over 1,000 branches and has recently been merged with two other public sector banks (PSBs), was slammed by the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC), primarily for the lackadaisical manner in which it handled its appeals against an order by the lower...

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TruthInAdvertising.org 10 January 2019
One of the ways TINA.org stays on top of deceptive marketing trends is by monitoring the activities of regulators who share our mission, such as the Federal Trade Commission, the Food and Drug Administration, and, increasingly, the Securities and Exchange Commission.   We also keep...

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One of the best tricks of the trade in the good old days was for the ‘competent authority’ to mis-spell your name.   Train ticket, airline ticket, driving licence, scooter booking, radio licence, income tax refund, sales tax certificate, marriage certificate, school leaving...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 January 2019
After limiting liability of customers in fraudulent bank transactions, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has brought out new (similar) rules for mobile wallet and prepaid payment instruments (PPI) issued by non-banking entities like Paytm, PhonePe, GooglePay, and Amazon Pay. Under the new...

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IANS 09 January 2019
Continuing its efforts to improve the safety of card transactions, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Tuesday extended the use of tokenisation -- hiding of actual card details with a unique token -- in the wider payments ecosystem.   To date, the RBI had allowed card payment networks...

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IANS 05 January 2019
The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum in Chandigarh has imposed a penalty of Rs 13,000 on a leading retail store for charging Rs 5 from a consumer for giving a paper carry bag to carry items that were shopped at the store.   Terming the charging of Rs 5 for each paper carry...

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 January 2019
Newspapers tend to give wide publicity to celebrities who lose money to cyber fraud. But there is a problem when the media projects financially illiterate celebrities as innocent victims, when they do not have the savvy to exercise basic caution before parting with information to scam...

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Dr Pallavi Darade, a medical graduate working for the Indian Revenue Services, was deputed as commissioner of Food & Drugs Administration (FDA) in Maharashtra during the last one and a half years. Her notable achievement has been, busting the food safety aura that the trendy and extremely...

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IANS 04 January 2019
The Supreme Court on Thursday vacated its stay on the Centre's 2015 action seeking damages of Rs 640 crore from Nestle India limited - the manufacturer of Maggi noodles - for alleged unfair trade practices, false labelling and misleading advertisements.   The class action is rooted in...

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