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Moneylife Digital Team 09 February 2012
The dues are pending since Champions Trophy in 2006 and IPL matches played in 2011 and it appears like the Rajasthan police are unable to take action against its own debtors Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) and Rajasthan Royals, the state’s franchise for the Indian Premier League (IPL),...

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Besides attempting to strangulate transparency by slow appointment of information commissioners, is the post of Maharashtra CIC is now being favoured for a particular bureaucrat? Vijay Kuvalekar held two posts simultaneously – that of Pune division’s State Information Commissioner as well as...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 February 2012
More retailers opting for standalone formats due to shortage of quality properties A recent report on the state of retail realty by Jones Lang LaSalle says that though the retail industry is poised for a boom, shortage of quality properties may curtail its chances. So now, retailers are...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 February 2012
Dr Subramanian Swamy talks about how to take the anti-corruption crusade forward Thanks to the ruling by the Supreme Court on sanction for prosecution, there is now a way that every citizen can approach investigative authorities for taking corrupt officials or ministers to task, said Dr...

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Or an unhappy truce? Kokilaben Ambani organised the perfect, Bollywood-style, ‘family reunion’ to inaugurate the museum at Dhirubhai Ambani’s hometown of Chorwad. But the camaraderie between the warring sons and glamorous bahus doesn’t seem to have extended much beyond the staged photo...

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Where are the new banking licences and other measures of last year’s Budget? It’s approaching that time of the year when one pulls out old Budget speeches to check for promises made and delivered by the finance minister (FM). What stands out is the Budget of 2010, soon after Pranab...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 February 2012
In a statement, the Team Anna member said the Prime Minister and the then Finance Minister is not justified in allowing a huge loss being caused to the country for saving the government and continuing in offices Noted lawyer and Team Anna member, Shanti Bhushan has said that after the recent...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 February 2012
While intention of the state government may be genuine, its new guidelines for direct selling companies will not curb the menace of MLMs but in fact would shield them The guidelines being framed by the Kerala state government to distinguish a genuine direct selling company from fake one are...

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The Supreme Court has restored our hopes with three very effective blows against the government At a time when ordinary Indians, struggling against mind-numbing corruption, were feeling rather despondent at the Anna Hazare movement having slowed down, the Supreme Court of India has delivered...

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 February 2012
Dr Swamy, who exposed the shady nexus between politicians, bureaucrats, media & lobbyists, is the chief guest at Moneylife Foundation’s second anniversary function on Sunday at Mumbai Now that the Delhi trial court has dismissed Dr Subramanian Swamy’s petition to prosecute P Chidambaram,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 February 2012
In a little reprieve to Home Minister, the special court dismissed the plea of Dr Swamy to make Mr Chidambaram co-accused in the 2G spectrum allocation scam Dr Subramaian Swamy, president, Janata Party said he will file an appeal in the High Court and place more evidence on record after his...

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No one would perhaps know what was the urgency for the Factoring Bill – it is not as if factoring business was a mushrooming business which needed regulation The Parliament recently passed the Factoring Regulation Bill 2011 (‘Factoring Bill’ or ‘Bill’) . Given the fact that several other...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 February 2012
Think twice before you accept free mediclaim offer for being a valuable credit card holder. If you  bite the bait, you may end up not just paying for the mediclaim but also running around to get back your money The Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Gujarat State, dismissed the appeal...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 February 2012
According to a CRISIL report, despite low penetration of higher education in India and healthy demand for skilled manpower, higher educational institutions are struggling to fill seats and over one-thirds seats in engineering colleges and B-Schools are vacant Low occupancy has impacted the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 February 2012
The investigation agency is probing more leads to trace the money sent from India to Singapore and may also arrest more people soon The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Mumbai police, which is investigating the multi-crore Speak Asia scam, may soon arrest some more people involved in the...

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The new RTI rules framed and implemented by the Chhattisgarh government is a clear attempt and snatching a citizen’s fundamental right of access to information and strangulating the RTI Act. Citizens are requested to sent protest letters in large numbers The Right to Information Act (RTI) is...

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 Science is what scientists do! Science is holy and great but scientists need not be that pure, which is the problem today. Science tries to understand nature. Today scientists try and teach nature a lesson or two! “The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality...

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Alekh Angre 31 January 2012
Poor box charity money failed to reimburse healthcare expenditure of poor, needy patients The Poor Box Charity Fund (PBCF) in government hospitals, constituted to help poor patients access to healthcare which are not available for free, in reality, has remained unused with no real benefit to...

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Shukti Sarma 31 January 2012
Builders and buyers are silent on all quarters about the irregularities Fountain Square, A mega residential-cum-commercial luxury project on Relief Road, Oshiwara, Jogeshwari (W) is stuck after being served a show-cause notice by the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA)...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 January 2012
Even as the government’s move to get data access of the corporate users of BlackBerry has taken a back seat, it has proposed a legal provision to get access to the encrypted data of companies such as Google and Skype. Accordingly, these companies will have to locate part of their IT...

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