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Mumbai’s advantageous location should not be taken for granted. If corrective measures are not taken early, the city will have to be put into the ICU Mumbai is very advantageously located. Although surrounded by sea, the surrounding land areas are forested and hilly, ideal to impound...

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MDT/PTI 02 July 2012
The apex court asked the Union and state governments to appraise it on measures to regulate the sale of acid to prevent its misuse as a weapon, particularly against women by their jilted lovers   New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to appraise it of their measures...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 June 2012
Following the state of CSD canteens, ex-servicemen has decided to boycott the canteens on 15th July in protest Canteen Stores Department (CSD), a unit of the Indian armed forces, runs canteen stores all over the country with an objective of providing consumer goods to serving soldiers...

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MDT/PTI 27 June 2012
Sania, in her hard-hitting statement, had said that AITA was portraying a wrong picture by saying she and Paes was the only possible qualification in the mixed doubles event for India     New Delhi: The All India Tennis Association (AITA) on Wednesday put up a weak defence to...

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MDT/PTI 27 June 2012
To make sure that the life of the soldier was comfortable in adverse conditions, DRDO is looking at the physiological needs, psychological aspects, bio-medical requirements, and even ergonomics   Dhamra (Odisha): Cases of suicides and fratricides among Indian soldiers has reduced to...

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 The issue of fake or counterfeit products is now reaching dangerous proportions—especially with pharma drugs, which have life saving or in case of fakes, life-threatening capabilities The recent seminar organised on World Anti-Counterfeiting Day by the Federation of Indian Chambers of...

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Some 200 students of IIT Roorkee won the ministry of science & technology’s Scholarship for Higher Education, part of the Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research scheme, but have been receiving only a partial amount. They used the RTI to find out the status   With the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 June 2012
The CIC directed the home ministry to disclose file notings and correspondence related to mercy petitions of all death row convicts including Afzal Guru   The Central Information Commission (CIC) has asked the ministry of home affairs (MHA) to disclose copies of the file notings, not...

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Megha Rajagopalan (ProPublica) 27 June 2012
Who does your location information really belong to?   Cellphone companies hold onto your location information for years and routinely provide it to police and, in anonymized form, to outside companies. As they note in their privacy policies, Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, and T-Mobile...

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MDT/PTI 26 June 2012
There is a larger public interest in disclosing Cabinet notes regarding introduction of any new bill in Parliament, after the Cabinet has taken a decision to table such a bill and the bill is tabled said CIC Shailesh Gandhi   New Delhi: The Central Information Commission (CIC) on...

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MDT/PTI 26 June 2012
There is a new phenomenon in which girls are recruited through event management agency by the companies holding their conferences in Goa, Anyay Rahit Zindagi alleged   Panaji: Business conferences and commercial events are serving as a new front for flesh trade with girls from various...

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Situated about five kilometres from the controversial post-retirement home which she abandoned, this new bungalow is the official residence of a senior officer from the Police Wireless Department From building a palatial post-retirement home on 2,42,000 sq ft of prime defence land...

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Dr Sadanand Nadkarni 26 June 2012
The “blame-game” and demands for action against doctors will not help and needs to be stopped. It is better to think of the changes in the system to reduce medical malpractice   Yesterday we carried the first part of the series titled “Healthcare system controlled by pharma companies...

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The fire at Mantralaya in Mumbai tells us a lot. While much will be talked of whys and hows, priority should be given to reconstruct lost information   I was busy writing something on the notepad on 21 June 2012 when I heard the siren of the fire engine on Babulnath Road sometime...

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The donation numbers look strange, the actual terms and conditions are not so clear and the show is flagging   On 20th June, Moneylife wrote how Satyamev Jayate (SMJ), the do-gooding show that was to redefine prime time and claimed to reach a massive 40 crore Indians (over just five...

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Competition Commission of India again delivers on its mandate. If only older regulators had as much spine as CCI By imposing a stunning penalty of Rs6,307 crore on 11 cement companies for price fixing and cartelisation, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) has once again shown that...

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Dr Sadanand Nadkarni 25 June 2012
The healthcare industry is virtually run by “big money” pharma companies and manufacturers of modern equipment. Doctors are mere pawns in their hands. A new series on solutions for the ailing healthcare industry   Aamir Khan has stirred a hornet’s nest, by exposing the malpractices in...

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 June 2012
According to the MCA study MLM schemes are inherently money circulation schemes and sale of products is only a camouflage New Delhi: Warning people against joining multi-level product marketing schemes, a government study said that such programmes are primarily meant to con individuals...

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MDT/PTI 22 June 2012
In April, the Met department had predicted a normal monsoon with LPA of 99%   India’s crucial monsoon during the June to September period is most likely to be normal at 96%-104%, says the India Meteorological Department (IMD). In a statement, the weather department said,...

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Valliyur Satyavageeswaran 21 June 2012
The story of a ‘modern’ hospital in Bengaluru The ghastly fire in AMRI Hospital in Kolkata is still fresh in our memory. And Amir Khan devoted his fourth programme (of Satyamev Jayate) to issues of medical malpractice. At this juncture, I felt it was worth pondering about the callousness...

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