CITIZENS' ISSUES


There is a category of people who feel that by suing the government in the Supreme Court Gen VK Singh has ‘lowered’ the dignity of the high office of the Army Chief. It is not merely a question of seeking redress and relief for himself but also his moral duty to vindicate the honour and dignity...

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The participants at the IMW were reminded that if they wanted the freedom to grow, they had it, and there was no point in simply bringing up old issues. The approach was that the IMW heralded a solution oriented future, and was not going to be the complaint centre There is a theory doing the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 January 2012
For the purpose of crackdown of these MLMs, the Rajasthan police have formed a Special Operation Group headed by the Additional Director General (ADG) of Police. This is something like Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Andhra Pradesh police Following the ongoing probe in the multi level...

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David Moss 27 January 2012
Let’s ask the professors UIDAI cited in its latest report: Do you agree with UIDAI’s assessment of Aadhaar? Do you share their confidence in the project? Did UIDAI ask you in advance, before using your name for their marketing purposes? The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)...

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 January 2012
It was a Black Day for Pune, reminiscent of the ghastly German Bakery Blast when innocent lives were snuffed out in minutes. Today, it was a maniac driver who went berserk on busy streets killing 9 and injuring 27 within an hour’s drive Santosh Mane, the driver of Maharashtra State Transport...

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Moneylife Digital team 25 January 2012
With much attention on the effects of global warming on the climate system, the recent severe winter weather has heightened global warming scepticism among the general public. Analysis of the most recent observational and modelling data supports links between strong regional cooling trends in...

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Moneylife Digital team 25 January 2012
Mumbai-based consumer activist AR Shenoy found out that in four years only 172 branded samples were drawn in Mumbai, of which 41 samples failed the tests as per PFA Act, 1954. Not a single loose milk sample was drawn and tested for reasons best known to Maharashtra FDA The issue of milk...

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Belief is a strange thing. It becomes attested to by agreement. And a lot of agreement persistently applied over time assumes the character of dogma masquerading as fact I went for a country jaunt the other day. Not in the Wordsworthian manner of o’er glen and dale, but through a rough dusty...

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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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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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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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