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Moneylife Digital Team 29 May 2012
While high inflation is making life difficult for most people, it is boosting revenues of toll companies, which are earning an average income of 22% as against their own estimate of 16% to 18% Even as the number of toll booths and toll charges continue to rise exponentially, there are...

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On 23rd May, Moneylife wrote on how a Kerala citizen was denied access to Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel Report (WGEEP). The Central Information Commission and the Delhi High Court ordered the ministry to make it public. It has now been uploaded on its site Just when one wondered...

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We should demand better public transport, GPS-tracking device on government vehicles and using the power and reach of government fuel companies to think of larger social good In the previous piece (

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 May 2012
Noted RTI activist Subhash Agrawal raises serious issues concerning alleged immorality in appointments to the higher judiciary—an issue that has also agitated a lawyers’ body Delhi-based Subhash Agrawal, also a well known Right to Information (RTI) activist has requested the Supreme Court, to...

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Petroleum companies should tell the public how they are going to improve efficiency and bring down costs instead of weeping about under-recoveries, and the governments should reduce their expenditure through greater efficiency. As Indira Gandhi said in 1970, austerity is the only way to go It...

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G Venkatesh 28 May 2012
Security is tighter but only in the top-end hotels. That apart, a lot of processes are followed to meet just regulatory norms Hotel security in India is much tighter today. A visit to the Taj Mahal Hotel will make you aware that the hotel has become a fortress. The 26/11 terrorist attack when...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 May 2012
The cabinet secretariat has refused to furnish the records of empanelment of Mr Thomas’ appointment at the Centre under the RTI Act. However, earlier acting on an appeal filed by Delhi-based activist Subhash Agrawal, the CIC had directed the government to disclose of the documents The central...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 May 2012
The horrendous accident that killed 27 and left 26 others injured, shows lethargic enforcement of regulations, especially on highways and expressways Twenty-seven members of a marriage party, including four children, were killed and 26 others injured when a speeding tempo rammed in two...

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Is railway safety ignored because it is a middle-class issue? On 22nd May, 24 people were killed and 35 injured at dawn when the Hampi Express collided with a stationary goods train in Andhra Pradesh. This is after two railway accidents on one day (20th March) had killed 15 people at Hatras...

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The largest chunk of the petrol price hike goes to the government not just as taxes bit in other ways—only to perpetuate a colossal waste by netas and babus in the name of running this country. They should be happy with the price hike Petrol prices are up. And political formation ‘A’ in...

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Should the applicant and the Public Information Officer follow the amended rules of the state government or abide by the National RTI Act? There’s a lot of conflict, say experts The Maharashtra government’s amended RTI (Right to Information) rules are in straight conflict with that of the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 May 2012
According to Tanya Thakur, the Common Law Admission Test 2012, had questions which were not within the prescribed syllabus The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court has issued a notice to the National Law University (NLU), Jodhpur while hearing a petition filed by a class 12 student which...

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The Hazard Centre’s own observations on the BRTS corridor suggest that there is huge inconvenience being caused by the CRRI experiment to bus commuters, pedestrians, and cyclists, who are emphatic that the BRT corridor must be retained and have several suggestions for how it may be improved….

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If properly administered, ozone therapy can cure or reverse a variety of ailments, says BV Gokhale In  Oxygen is the most primary need of all animals and humans. If the supply of oxygen to human lungs is completely stopped for about 10 minutes, death is almost certain. A molecule formed by...

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Moneylife Digital Team 24 May 2012
The Maharashtra State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission ordered a builder M/s A&A Shelters Pvt Ltd to hand over a flat and pay compensation of Rs60,000 to a buyer who had paid 20% of the flat price in September 2009 but never got possession, reported Times of India. Buyer Mangilal Parihar...

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Fuel price hikes are inevitable. There is not much else we can do - and wasting time on bandhs is not going to solve anything either. What should you be doing? Here are 7 things including filling up your tanks and tyres in the morning! On Wednesday, the oil marketing companies hiked...

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Moneylife Digital Team 24 May 2012
Twitter and Facebook is abuzz with several Indians expressing anger over the petrol price hike by Rs7.5 per litre. On Twitter #petrol and #Rs7.50 are trending terms The steep hike in petrol prices has evoked mixed reactions with a section of industry saying the move would further burden the...

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The question is if some of the money comes back what should one do with it? The long overdue and much awaited White Paper on black money was presented by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday that has everyone wondering what this is all about. The document does not give details of the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 May 2012
A RTI reply from the Navy Headquarters to Delhi-based activist Subhash Agrawal has revealed that more than Rs23 crore was spend on the event which took place on 20 December 2011   The President’s Fleet Review (PFR) 2011, held off the Mumbai coastline, cost the Navy whopping Rs23.24...

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A Public Interest Litigation has been filed by an NGO representing interests of para-public transport of autorickshaws. It claims that being a para-public transport, autorickshaws must be allowed to use the ‘underutilized’ BRT lanes. In this two-part article, the saga of the Delhi BRT will be...

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