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This morning’s newspaper carried a story about a railway accident in which a woman lost her legs while trying to board a local train. Whenever Moneylifers read a story such as this, they are reminded of Samir Zaveri, Mumbai’s HERO. A man who stands the tallest of all.....  without legs! p style="tex..

The Parliament of India, in the year 1988, with a view to enhance the acceptability of cheques in settlement of liabilities, by making the drawer criminally liable in case of bouncing of cheques, introduced the Banking, Public Financial Institutions and Negotiable Instruments Laws (Amendment) Act, 19..

CATCH THE REAL CROOK   It was a sad occasion. At a seminar, when the audience was asked if it thought whether lawyers were honest, not one hand was raised. That prompts us to bring y..

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PENSIONER’S DAY CELEBRATIONS ON 17TH DECEMBER EVERY YEAR. NOW 32ND PENSIONER's DAY ON 17-12-2014. p style="text-al..

Untitled 1 A friend from Germany sent the following news item, and it is produced verbatim:   “From WTTC News in Dallas, we get this ..

A BOY BREATHES HIS LAST - literally   Those readers who have suffered from asthma will empathise with this 10-year old boy, more than others will. Having been a victim for over 40 years, this writer knows all to..

Online Revenge Porn means that when there are relationship break ups, then either party puts up nude pictures of the other or videos of their intimate moments on social networking media, blogs and other websites. Online Revenge Porn is on the rise world over with the advent of an open arena of the internet. Most online porn in India is amateur porn or revenge por..

Some months back, Judge Allen Davis, presiding in a court in Ohio (USA), told the man seated in front of him, “No, you are still deceased.” Donald Eugene Miller Jr, was in court wanting to be told that he was alive. According to the judge, Miller was as dead as a dodo, “...in law.” This author has always maintained that though people might..

Crooks clog the courts, denying the honest the time to have matters heard   Friday afternoon. It was getting late in the Thane district court. The next day was a holiday. The opposing advocate had not turned up. We asked the judge to consider our situation, comin..

Recently there has been a spate of discussions in the media on the upcoming Irretrievable Breakdown of Marriage Law (IrBM) (Marriage Laws Amendment). Some important highlights of the proposed bill are –   1. Divorce can now be filed as a ‘No-fault Divorce’ stating tha..

What are the similarities between dumpers & pizza deliveries? - Both can kill   Behram Doctor, a Chartered Account, was a dear friend and a very decent human being. On the 29th/sup..

ArvindDatar and Moneylife had a wonderful session at the Yacht Club some time back. It was preceded by the launch of Kanga and Palkhiwalla’s latest edition of the Income Tax tome, Datar editing.   ..

This may be a wonderful pun concerning the articles that Moneylife readers have been getting in the past few months. While the idiom really means ‘catching crooks’, in this case the Bombay High Court has confirmed what we have been saying. That is how the law has caught up with us. p class="MsoNormal" ..

Arjuna (Fictional Character): Krishna, why is there such a lot of confusion over on the colour of money? Supreme Court, Government and citizens are all busy in the discussion of the law pertaining to Black money. Let’s discuss its different aspects.       p style="text-align:ju..

A case for prosecuting the prosecutors   Regular readers of Moneylife, and others, will recall an article called “Who will guard the Guardians?” …..”Quis custodiet ipsos custodes”.In that..