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Moneylife Digital Team 14 March 2012
New announcements every year is what rail passengers from Mumbai feels on the Rail Budget. However, they keep wondering about what happened to last year’s announcements Railway minister Dinesh Trivedi, announcing his maiden railway budget, made a host of promises for Mumbai. Additional 75...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 March 2012
Liases Foras’ December quarter figures show at the current rate of sales, Mumbai builders will need 44 months to clear their inventories While other cities are seeing increased sales of residential units, buyers in Mumbai are scarce. The latest data released by Liases Foras on the December...

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Often, municipal corporations carry out flawed projects which go against public interest and only suit vested interests. Use of RTI can help unearth such irregularities. Here’s a startling example... The Mula-Mutha rivers in Pune resemble stinking nallahs, yet the Pune Municipal Corporation...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 March 2012
Coming down heavily on the RBI, the central information commissioner under the RTI Act, said the idea put forward by the central bank that citizens are not mature enough to understand and will panic and harm their own interests, is repugnant to democracy In what could possibly be a path...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 March 2012
The Indian High Commissioner had claimed that the high commission simply provided a literal translation in English of two short artworks in Hindi. However, Cricket Australia faced a fine for violating the anti-tobacco ban India put up a more embarrassing show on field in the recently...

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Following a Moneylife article published on the Mumbai Metro project, and its wide distribution among all stakeholders, the Centre has sought modifications  “Mumbai Metro Line 3 – Some Questions need to be asked” published about a fortnight back in these columns seems to have had its effect....

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Yogesh Sapkale  and   Alekh Angre 13 March 2012
Over 40% of the country's total railway passengers are from Mumbai and yet they get a 'damn' in every railway budget. As usual there is a demand for increasing frequencies of local trains, more coaches, hygienic conditions across stations and safe travel With increasing number of people...

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A time has come to demand that the auditor function and perform by being more of a bloodhound sniffing out frauds and misfeasance and cease to be a mere toothless watchdog that neither growls nor bites On 1 March 2012, Veritas Investment Research, an international agency, in a report on DLF,...

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Kingfisher Airlines is facing troubled times. If you are booked to fly on of the Kingfisher flights, here is how you can avoid the agony at the airport I’ve started from a clean slate three times over to write this piece and all because of the same reason, a new development with respect to the...

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 What is happening on the west coast of India lately with the MV Enrica Lexie, in and around Kerala, defies all logical explanation. Except one big one—the crew in this case happens to be European, not third world At a modest estimate, there will be over 120 ships of all sizes, shapes and flags...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 March 2012
While 'Team Anna' member, Prashant Bhushan has launched a scathing criticism of the Vodafone verdict saying that India will be seen as a ‘banana republic’ where foreign companies can loot our resources, senior advocate Arvind Datar says in this case the demand was for capital gains tax which...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 March 2012
With instances of recovery agents harassing bank customers continuing unabated, banks need to take care in choosing and recruiting recovery agents A recent report published by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Banking Ombudsman (BO) reveals that out of 71,124 complaints it received during...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 March 2012
In a letter to top AP administrators, he said the move is essential to stop land scams from happening Former Union finance and power secretary, EAS Sarma, has written to top Andhra Pradesh administrators, asking for implementation of Section IV of the Right to Information Act, which talks of...

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The Planning Commission’s proposed “High Speed Rail Authority” has taken some baby steps forward, though matters are still in the seeking opinion stage. The stakes are extremely high and there is every danger that the larger national good may once again be de-railed—if the proposed users do not...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 March 2012
The World Development Report of the World Bank says that as compared to $1 earned by a man, a woman in India gets only 64 cents. Overall, the report showed that despite some significant improvement in their quality of lives, women are still behind men in claiming their rights The 2012...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 March 2012
How much can we really learn or understand from news reports and what are the actual facts The recent instance of attack on the media by lawyers in Karnataka has drawn widespread criticism from all quarters. Yet, many citizens have raised their doubts as to why the media remains silent when...

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After several years of persistent campaign by RTI activist Commodore Lokesh Batra and several RTI activists abroad, the RBI, early this week, has given a “no objection” to the government for the sale of electronic postal orders through credit/debit cards for paying RTI fees. Now the Department...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 March 2012
Former bureaucrats, activists, write to PM on his “foreign hand” charge against anti-nuclear and anti-GM crop agitations. They ask him to take cognisance of the issues that are being raised by the agitators The prime minister’s hard selling of the nuclear plants and genetically modified crops...

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Alekh Angre 05 March 2012
A mobile subscriber who has applied for MNP will not be allowed to withdraw his request after 24 hours. This will help subscribers who are often denied porting by mobile operator for sundry reasons The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has asked donor operators (DO) not to...

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Kingsfisher, which has survived with the help of loans from public sector banks and a favourable aviation ministry, now wants more! Every time the Congress-led government announces yet another bleeding-heart programme aimed at the poor, it ensures a few thousand new supporters for Team Anna....

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