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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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Undoubtedly a hit, but will Aamir Khan create a social movement and emerge the new hope for Indians desperately seeking a leader? It is too soon to tell, argues Sucheta Dalal Just a week ago, a close friend wondered why we hadn't had another television show like Rajni - the spunky, crusading...

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Commercial banks must encouraged to offer preferential rate of interest to the physically and mentally-challenged people On reading the article on “RBI Monetary Policy for 2012-2013: Policy on deposit rates requires change” published in the Moneylife Digital Newsletter dated 2 May, 2012, my ...

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Aamir Khan and ‘Satyamev Jayate’, his TV show has become an instant hit in the country. No doubt, we need to name and shame those involved in female infanticide and foeticide, provided they are also given a chance to express their views on the same show Aamir Khan's opening episode of...

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The judiciary should refrain from granting stays on orders when anyone approaches it after defying a legally valid order. Only respect for courts will not make a better law-abiding nation, respect for the law will As an information commissioner I have noticed that many public authorities do not...

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 May 2012
BSB Trading promises dubious double your money in a matter of months While offering guaranteed returns from trading in equities is impossible, many multi-level marketing schemes are luring gullible investors by assuring them huge returns. BSB Trading House is one such company. It claims to be...

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 May 2012
The Bureau of Energy Efficiency, which has launched a mobile application “AC Power Saver” will enable consumers to calculate energy consumption and potential savings In order to give boost to the consumer awareness on energy efficiency, the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) has developed a...

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Sucheta Dalal recounts how she broke the story, and how hundreds of court cases have meandered for two decades with no end in sight On 22 April 1992, exactly 20 years ago, an acquaintance of the news editor of The Times of India tipped me off about an incredible story. Harshad Mehta,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 03 May 2012
Google needs to fully explain to Congress and the public what it knew about the collection of data through its Street View program ConsumerAffairs.com, in a report said that critics are questioning how much Google knew about the rogue engineer supposedly responsible for Google's gathering of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 03 May 2012
About 54% Indians have used social media to get a customer service response at least once in the past year as compared to an average of 20% in other markets. However, 64% Indians lose their temper with a customer service professional which is far higher in comparison to an average of 48% across...

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Moneylife Digital Team 03 May 2012
Posing I-T officials a gang looted a doctor and also used fake letters to get police protection during the raid. Now the I-T department want to nab the master-mind of the gang, believed to be an insider This is not a story directly lifted or inspired (as they call it in Bollywood) from a movie,...

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The issue of fake currency notes coming out of ATMs is very real. What can be done? Here are some suggestions Most ATMs (Automatic Teller Machines) in India simply dispense cash, but increasingly are being readied for a host of other functions and capabilities, so the risk increases....

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RTI applications have jumped by a lakh in Maharashtra compared to 2010 with the urban development department receiving the highest number of applications, according to the 6th annual report of Maharashtra State Information Commission The sixth annual report of the Maharashtra State Information...

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