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Moneylife Digital Team 09 March 2012
With instances of recovery agents harassing bank customers continuing unabated, banks need to take care in choosing and recruiting recovery agents A recent report published by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Banking Ombudsman (BO) reveals that out of 71,124 complaints it received during...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 March 2012
In a letter to top AP administrators, he said the move is essential to stop land scams from happening Former Union finance and power secretary, EAS Sarma, has written to top Andhra Pradesh administrators, asking for implementation of Section IV of the Right to Information Act, which talks of...

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The Planning Commission’s proposed “High Speed Rail Authority” has taken some baby steps forward, though matters are still in the seeking opinion stage. The stakes are extremely high and there is every danger that the larger national good may once again be de-railed—if the proposed users do not...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 March 2012
The World Development Report of the World Bank says that as compared to $1 earned by a man, a woman in India gets only 64 cents. Overall, the report showed that despite some significant improvement in their quality of lives, women are still behind men in claiming their rights The 2012...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 March 2012
UIDAI is currently working under an executive order as the Bill was rejected by the Parliamentary panel in view of lack of proper groundwork, unjustified cost, and instance failure of such exercises in other countries New Delhi: The government will introduce a bill during the Monsoon...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 March 2012
How much can we really learn or understand from news reports and what are the actual facts The recent instance of attack on the media by lawyers in Karnataka has drawn widespread criticism from all quarters. Yet, many citizens have raised their doubts as to why the media remains silent when...

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After several years of persistent campaign by RTI activist Commodore Lokesh Batra and several RTI activists abroad, the RBI, early this week, has given a “no objection” to the government for the sale of electronic postal orders through credit/debit cards for paying RTI fees. Now the Department...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 March 2012
Former bureaucrats, activists, write to PM on his “foreign hand” charge against anti-nuclear and anti-GM crop agitations. They ask him to take cognisance of the issues that are being raised by the agitators The prime minister’s hard selling of the nuclear plants and genetically modified crops...

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Alekh Angre 05 March 2012
A mobile subscriber who has applied for MNP will not be allowed to withdraw his request after 24 hours. This will help subscribers who are often denied porting by mobile operator for sundry reasons The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has asked donor operators (DO) not to...

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Kingsfisher, which has survived with the help of loans from public sector banks and a favourable aviation ministry, now wants more! Every time the Congress-led government announces yet another bleeding-heart programme aimed at the poor, it ensures a few thousand new supporters for Team Anna....

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There is a real danger for people who have taken stands especially when using the RTI Act of India 2005, but then one will not live forever. And also, there is some truth in the saying that it all comes around eventually A few weeks ago, I received a veiled sort of threatening call in...

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The larger issue is, of course, that there is very much another Karnataka out there which is not anywhere close to what Bengaluru would have us believe. Especially with the stoppage of most mining and allied activities, there are parts of Karnataka which are now labour exporting areas, because...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 March 2012
The aim of the event is to introduce Indian wines in Canada and also to facilitate interaction between the wine makers, consumers, traders and government authorities The government is finally taking the wine business seriously. In the coming week, a wide variety of Indian wines will be...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 March 2012
Nasty tweets continue against Kingfisher the day after the party held to mollify critics on Twitter Mumbai Mirror reported that Kingfisher had thrown a party last night for its harshest critics on Twitter. However, the day after, the flood of sarcastic tweets continue unabated.

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The impact of this on our economic strength has been discussed in the past also in this journal, and matters have only become worse since then, but at some stage there comes a time when this sort of an approach—that India is content being a soft state—has to stop Yet another incident has...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 March 2012
The findings reveal that out of the 5,00,000 students that graduate every year, a dismal 3.51% are appropriately trained to be directly deployed on projects A recently released survey by Aspiring Minds, an employee assessment service provider, claims that almost 82% of India’s engineers are...

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Three friends, who have been together since our pre-kindergarten days, get together to venture into growing and processing vegetables—an area which was totally new to them We have always been fond of potato in its various forms. However, it was only about three years ago that I actually...

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Dr SD Israni 29 February 2012
Will the Manmohan Singh government take the message embedded in the Supreme Court’s recent decisions? What do you say about a government which seems to be bumbling from one blunder to another; a government whose chief executive (the prime minister) remains silent even when it is...

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 A student from Mumbai who appeared for her HSC Board examination in October 2011 has been denied last week, copies of her original answer sheets of the three subjects Last week, an anguished mother wrote to me: “This is xxxxx xxxxx from Mumbai.  I have applied for a certified copy of my...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 February 2012
While there are moves to bailout the ailing airlines using public funds, Kingfisher is offering free wine club memberships and vouchers for premium members Eminent social activists Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey have written to the Prime Minister, expressing citizens’ concern about the bailout...

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