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GlaxoSmithKline has pleaded guilty to criminal charges, and agreed to pay $3 billion in fines for various sins. Well, GSK is not alone. GSK has been caught doing what all pharma companies  do most of the time, as I have been warning for decades  “Power corrupts. Knowledge is power....

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Important thing is to prevent accidents from happening. Laws must be in place but the focus should be physical features that prevent cars moving at high speeds in by lanes and road junctions There is a report that the driver of a Bollywood actor, while rushing in a Toyota Lexus in Bandra...

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Rajan Alexander 03 July 2012
While a 29% rainfall deficiency for June per se may look rather depressing, it is less than 5% of the average rainfall of 887mm in the monsoon and could be possibly made up for in the remaining season The media has apparently gone totally berserk declaring the monsoon dead even as it has...

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MDT/PTI 03 July 2012
A hawker filed petition in the HC alleging abduction of another hawker by GRP and an activist, which the Court found absolutely fake case   Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has fined a hawker Rs5,000 for filing a petition in which he alleged abduction of another hawker by the Government...

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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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