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Moneylife Digital Team 24 January 2012
Alliance Air refused to give information on former minister’s daughter’s travel with IPL team despite a previous ruling The Maharaja has long lost his sheen. Yet, he refuses to speak of those who robbed him. The Central Information Commission (CIC) has pulled up national carrier Air India...

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Moneylife Digital Team 24 January 2012
According to the UIDAI study, it has been affirmed that the authority’s biometric enrolment system is ready to handle high throughput of up to 10 lakh registrations per day and has 99.965% accuracy in terms of duplication detection New Delhi: Dispelling fears that the biometric technology...

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Alekh Angre 23 January 2012
Experts from the industry remain divided on the issue of health hazards caused due to radiation from mobile towers With the increase in mobile phone usage throughout the world, the effect of radiation from mobile phones and towers on human health is the subject of recent interest and study....

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 January 2012
According to a Brussels-based not-for-profit consumer organisation, Herbalife’s sales method is in contradiction with certain articles of the Market Practices Act; whereas the company argued that it uses a legal “multi-level” sales system Herbalife, a global direct selling firm, has been...

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Moneylife Digital team 20 January 2012
Majority of complaints received at the National Consumer Helpline were from telecom subscribers, followed by LPG, banking, PDS and insurance customers The telecom sector in India tops in the number of consumer complaint received by the National Consumer Helpline (NCH) in December 2011....

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Moneylife Digital Team 20 January 2012
The airline has refused to provide information, asks for review of CIC order in view of ‘severe competitive market’ Moneylife has written about Central Information Commission (CIC) order on Air India for disclosing information about rolling out bigger jets for VIPs. Read

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 January 2012
The MLM company lured investors from several states by promising unusual high income on investing or buying gold products and further enrolling more people Following the crack down on various multi-level marketing (MLM) companies in Rajasthan, another case Swarna Labh Tradelink has come to...

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Whatever the outcome of the legal battle, it raises some pertinent questions. The way a minor issue like an error in his date of birth has been allowed to snowball, it appears a deliberate mischief against the army chief Suddenly, the media is on fire calling general VK Singh’s petition in...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 January 2012
AK Mohanty, chief manager and deemed PIO of Indian Overseas Bank was fined Rs12,000 for delay in providing information to a RTI user while AP Singh, general manager, Board Services Department has been served a show-cause notice by the CIC for similar reasons The banking sector has been...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 January 2012
HDFC Securities Ltd has launched trading applications for mobile phones. The service will open up trading opportunities to people on the move and to those who don’t have access to trading portals. The apps will facilitate clients to trade, transact and receive market information anytime,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 January 2012
Cold wave conditions are not restricted to North India this winter. Small towns in Karnataka and Andhra, too, have unusually cold nights In Chandigarh, on 7 January 2012, the weather news was that there will be no morning assembly in any government school until the weather conditions improve....

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While the government at one end time and again attempts to deflate the Sunshine Act, at the other end harassment to RTI activists too never ceases Deliberately under-staffing State Information Commissions (SICs); PIOs citing Section 8 with unfailing regularity as an excuse not to part...

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How did the Costa Concordia simply keel over and capsize so quickly after being breached? Slightly deeper waters and she would have simply gone down, with no trace on the surface. Half exposed, she is going to be like that for a long time now, as a daily reminder to an industry slow on...

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Alekh Angre 17 January 2012
While Rajasthan police are taking on fraudsters who are operating various MLM and ponzi schemes, the state government is working on a bill to curb the MLM menace The growing menace of multi level marketing (MLM) and ponzi schemes like Speak Asia are increasingly coming under the scrutiny of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 January 2012
Even as the proposed Jan Lokpal Bill seeking an anti-corruption ombudsman seems to be lost in political maze, a survey by Transparency International (TI), an anti-corruption organisation, revealed that India is the second largest bribe-paying nation in South Asia. The survey says that 54% of...

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Moneylife Digital team 17 January 2012
According to a recent RBI rule, all banks will have to issue identical-looking cheques. It has set a deadline of 30 September 2012 to adopt uniform design standards to facilitate image-based or paperless clearing of cheques. Currently, in most parts of the country, banks physically move cheques...

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Moneylife Digital team 17 January 2012
A recent CAG report tabled in Parliament revealed that State agencies have incurred a loss of Rs1,200 crore on import of pulses due to deficiencies in the design, implementation and monitoring of schemes for pulse import. Against the targeted import and sale of pulses of 5.31 million tonnes (MT)...

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Moneylife Digital team 17 January 2012
A regulator for real estate in Maharashtra will be a reality soon. The Maharashtra Cabinet approved the proposal for a new law—Maharashtra Housing (Regulation and Promotion of Construction, Sale, Management, and Transfer) Act—to replace the Maharashtra Ownership Flats Act, 1963. A housing...

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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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