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Moneylife Digital Team 14 May 2012
Biometrics is not the only problem, the enrolment process and authentication systems are also emerging as serious issues with the UID or Aadhaar identification project. This is also forcing banks to search for other alternatives for payment authentication Lost cards, fake and frivolous...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 May 2012
RPN Singh, minister of state, MCA in written reply in Lok Sabha said that, “There is no separate activity code to identify multi level marketing (MLM) companies.” Surprisingly, such a reply from MCA comes at a time when ministry of consumer affairs is drafting guidelines for MLMs While many...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 May 2012
The ministry of health and family welfare has set up a three-member committee to examine validity of the scientific and statutory basis adopted for approval of new drugs without clinical trials. The committee has been asked to submit its report within two months The ministry of health and...

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EAS Sarma 11 May 2012
Casting aside the need for transparency and competition, the politicians and civil servants of both coal and environment ministries made hay while the sun was shining and merrily allotted around 200 coal blocks without auctions. Soon, the coal-power bubble will burst. A Coalgate and a multitude...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 May 2012
A parliamentary panel on heath found that pharma companies are advertising prescription drugs, which is not permitted in India. The Standing Committee also made a shocking revelation that the DCGI is favouring drug manufacturers by approving drugs without conducting mandatory clinical trials

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The 2,42,000 sq ft of land in Pune returned by President Patil is to be ‘suitably’ used for an alternative purpose. Communication from the ministry of defence is awaited, said Southern Command officials Although President Pratibha Patil has returned the 2,42,000 sq ft of land in Pune on which...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 May 2012
The apex court has asked a competent authority to look into allegations of misconduct against the former CJI even though it has refused to direct the government to recommend a presidential reference to remove justice Balakrishnan as NHRC chairman New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday asked...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 May 2012
Tejinder Singh, accused by the Army Chief VK Singh of attempting to bribe him, had retaliated against the Army Chief. But he has been pulled up by the lower courts while the Delhi HC questioned maintainability of Tejinder Singh’s petition and now suddenly he withdrew his petition from the apex...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 May 2012
Bahujan Samajwadi Party president Mayawati has made unauthorised constructions to her four bungalows in New Delhi, as per information sourced by Delhi based activist Subhash Agrawal. While the CPWD had ordered her to stop the unauthorised construction, no action has been taken against her

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The CAG is an excellent weapon. Unfortunately, the CAG reports are all post-mortems. We need something that may be described as “concurrent audit” of government deals, a detective’s review of the proposal at the point that the final decision is to be made First, it was the Mundhra scandal, an...

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G Venkatesh 09 May 2012
In the “Silicon Valley” of India, plumbers, carpenters and water supply are scarce while flat-owners bickering among themselves in illegal “associations” formed to run the buildings There are essentially two types of residential buildings in Bangalore. The first type is those that are...

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Mahiti Adhikar Gujarat Pahel is conducting a drive across Gujarat to file RTI applications for procuring copies of answer sheets.  Interestingly, it has invoked Section 7(1) of the RTI Act under which information has to be given within 48 hours as it concerns ‘life and liberty’ Taking...

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Gender determination can be stopped if stricter audits on how ultra-sound machines are followed.  But this would mean a straight 70-80% drop in business in India. Which manufacturer of ultra-sounds wants to see that happen? The previous article Satyamev Jayate: Follow the money trail to catch...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 May 2012
CBI has asked banks to freeze accounts of Sakshi TV and the newspaper owned by the Kadapa MP while a special CBI court has summoned YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and 12 others including heads of three pharma companies to appear before it on 28th May The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), probing...

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Dr SD Israni 09 May 2012
The president is expected to not just adhere to the basic rules, but also follow the highest standards of ethics Recently, the online portal of Moneylife exposed how the President of India is building a palatial bungalow in army land in Pune, her post-retirement home. This has turned very...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 May 2012
Central Information Commission, acting on a RTI appeal filed by Delhi-based activist Subhash Agrawal, ordered that for the sake of transparency, “all the information relating to the allotment, occupation and use of the bungalow at 6, Krishna Menon Marg, should be brought out in the public...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 May 2012
A research conducted by the University of Bergen, Norway, revealed that Facebook addiction occurs regularly among younger than older users. It was also found that people who are anxious and socially insecure use Facebook, probably because they find it easier to communicate via social media than...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 May 2012
A truck carrying 30 tonnes of the chemical, also used as an explosive, is missing since the last 20 days. The Visakhapatnam Port alone imports over one lakh tonnes of the chemical. Is there any check on why such large quantities are being imported in the country, asks the former secretary EAS...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 May 2012
According to the Comptroller Auditor General of India (CAG), 334,806 smart card-based driving licences issued by Andheri (Mumbai) and Pune RTOs (regional transport officers) were bogus. Of these, the Andheri RTO issued 300,298 licences. CAG also says that 65,171 smart card-based vehicle...

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Moneylife Digital team 08 May 2012
Aconsumer court in Nashik has ordered a builder to hand over a row house to a couple who had paid the token amount and also pay them Rs75,000 as compensation. Ajay Aswale and his wife booked the property with Rs2 lakh, and were ready to pay Rs16 lakh on getting possession. The developer Ravindra...

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