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Moneylife Digital Team 17 January 2012
It’s an open secret that telecom operators levy extra charges for SMS on festive days like Diwali and New Year. Acting in response to a public interest litigation, the Madurai bench of Madras High Court, issued notices to telecom companies on collection of extra charge on text messages on...

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Moneylife Digital team 17 January 2012
Despite, over two decades of government’s water pollution control efforts, our lakes and rivers continue to remain highly polluted, a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General points out. The report, tabled in Parliament, says that there’s no attempt to compile a comprehensive list of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 16 January 2012
According to activists the government can seek help of consumer organisations and together should file suo moto complaints in larger public interest The Union government, especially the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, is seeking proper guidelines for suo moto complaints in consumer affairs to...

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Moneylife Digital team 16 January 2012
Sections of the media in India have willy-nilly become participants and players in practices that contribute to the growing use of money power in politics, which undermines democratic processes and norms— while hypocritically pretending to occupy a high moral ground, says the report released by...

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The simple act of listing all pending cases publicly, will go a long way in restoring citizens’ confidence in these institutions, and also act as self- regulating check I had made a commitment when I was made an Information Commissioner that I would ensure that I decided most of the cases...

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Shukti Sarma 14 January 2012
Get ready to revel in water To alter a famous saying slightly: What’s in a name? That which we call water, by any other name would smell as watery. Or will it? That is not what connoisseurs of ‘fine water’ want you to believe. In India, where we regard water as water, the water...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 January 2012
“Thanks to their organoleptic features, Sicilian wines are excellent matches with Indian cuisine. The fact that they offer very good price-quality ratio make them an excellent choice for restaurants, hotels and consumer alike,” says Subhash Arora, director of the Indian Wine Academy Sicilian...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 January 2012
“Apart from corruption, the nation’s prestige is stake. It is an embarrassment to give sub-standard gifts to our foreign guests. That, too, it is bought at highly inflated prices,” Dr Nutan Thakur, who filed a writ petition in the Allahabad HC commented A Lucknow-based social activist, Dr Nutan...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 January 2012
Rajan Alexander, who runs a blog called Devconsultancygroup warn of fresh rain and snow and treacherous conditions in the North and Northwest regions A fresh western disturbance called J2 is expected to affect western the Himalayan region and adjoining plains from 14 January 2012 onwards,...

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The “funny money” problem in India is no longer a minor bump; it is severe, it is suspected to be much more than the readiness to blame ISI of Pakistan, and requires a total overhaul of the laws pertaining to counterfeit currency I usually pay for fuel by card at my regular filling station,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 January 2012
Experts have called for more transparency in the entire process of testing and advocated testing of milk on a continuous basis The recent survey on milk adulteration conducted by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) found that 68% of the tested samples did not conform to...

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India is the fourth horse. We will begin to stir when the agony of inflicted poverty, the torture of corruption, the abyss of amorality, the absence of conscience and the sheer impossibility of our lives will make us begin to reclaim our humanity Today I learned something. From watching a TV...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 January 2012
According to investigation agencies, many MLMs and ponzi schemes in the country are operated by selected ‘gang’ of so called ‘leaders’, who move from one scheme to another with new name and product The ongoing investigations into the multi-crore rupees Speak Asia scam has revealed that...

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Why do we consciously or unconsciously seek the authority of the Caucasian to demonstrate our own ability to operate in the modern world?  Are we world-class only if we dress European? Here I was going through the boarding gate, handing over my boarding card to the boarding inspector. I suppose...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 January 2012
RTI petitions yield confusing information on receiving complaints about judges of superior courts It looks like confusion exists within the judiciary itself about ways of dealing with errant judges. Two different RTI queries have yielded contradictory answers from former Chief Justice of...

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Alekh Angre 11 January 2012
The central bank itself has been the target of the scamsters who have used its name in a fake e-mail, asking people for numerous personal details to register for a one-time password. The best way to deal with such mails is to delete it ASAP Reserve Bank of India (RBI), while issuing another...

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Acting Chief State Information Commissioner Vijay Kuvalekar disposed off 457 out of 607 appeals in a Special Appeal Disposal programme held in Mumbai recently, a vital step towards clearing 18,677 appeals piled up in Maharashtra Consider this dismal picture: Number of second appeals pending...

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Unless Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities as well as the Tier 1 cities give priority to infrastructure for walking, cycling and BRTS, the inherent competitive advantage these non-metropolitan cities have to develop will be lost leading to greater migration to tier I cities, causing them also to suffer due...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 January 2012
Kolkata-based advocate SK Tulsiyan, known in the I-T circles as a CA, is under the CBI scanner for allegedly using his connection to obtain favourable orders from the Income-Tax department and ITAT Both chartered accounts (CAs) and lawyers are angry over the highly influential SK Tulsiyan, an...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 January 2012
Although the hallmarking for yellow metal is been made mandatory by the Indian government, it will take at least a year for it to be implemented across the country The Indian ministry of consumer affairs recently approved a proposal making hallmarking of gold, mandatory. The industry has...

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