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To ease shortage of pulses, government exempts stock limit on kabuli chana
An official gazette notification was put out late on Thursday, but it did not mention the reasons b…
ANI
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This Canadian woman has been getting drunk without consuming alcohol for over two years! Here’s how
In an extraordinary series of events encapsulated in a recent medical journal, a 50-year-old Canadi…
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Centre to form panel to seek views on adopting universal charger model
The Central government is looking at the possibility of adopting a universal charger model for all …
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A third of restaurant goers don’t even notice the ‘unfair’ service charge on their bills
Around 37% of the Indian customers paid the service charge at restaurants in the last one month, as…
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Hunt for uncertified toys continues; BIS conducts 100 search operations
In order to curb the sale of non-ISI certified toys and to ensure implementation of the Toys Qualit…
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Govt asks sugar mills to export speedily to make early payment to farmers
The statement comes after the government allowed the export of 6 million tonnes of sugar on a …
ANI
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Prices of tomato expected to come down with increase in arrival of new crop from Maharashtra: Govt to Rajya Sabha
The prices of tomato is expected to come down with the increase in arrival of new crop from Nasik, …
ANI
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Tripura government cancels 62340 fake ration cards in state
The Tripura government has cancelled 62,340 fake ration cards identified after computerisation of t…
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Delhi delays distribution of pulses to the needy over quality issues
Just a day before the Delhi government was to start distribution of pulses under the PM Garib Kalya…
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Consumer Affairs Ministry to seek replacement of absentee officials amid COVID-19
Stating that the office memorandum (OM) has created some confusion, Consumer Affairs Minister Ram V…
PTI
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Yelp is cheering the DOJ's decision to file an antitrust lawsuit against Google: 'Google is directly harming consumers'
Yelp called the suit a crucial step in "confronting Google's anticompetitive abuses and monopoly po…
Avery Hartmans
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After fuel, government moves to reduce the price of edible oil by ₹15/litre
In view of the international prices of imported edible oils seeing a downward trend, the Centre has…
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Restaurant body fights back, says don’t eat if you don’t want to pay. QSR chains okay with the govt's move
The NRAI stated customers are free not to eat at a restaurant, if they do not wish to pay the servi…
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Biden just reduced 'financial distress' for veterans by allowing most of their medical debt to go unreported to credit bureaus
Any debt, whether it be medical or student debt, can harm credit scores. The VA is ensuring veteran…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Meet a 37-year-old with $108,100 in student debt who lives in a school bus because rent is unaffordable: 'Student-loan debt is by far my biggest regret'
Nick Crocker didn't even use his degree and wishes he'd gone to trade school instead. "It's too muc…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Veterans are being misled into taking out student loans 'they didn't need,' a Biden official says — and 'offending schools' will face consequences
Federal Student Aid's Richard Cordray issued schools a warning: be upfront about student loan costs…
Ayelet Sheffey
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The SEC could be the last, best hope to keep members of Congress from insider trading. The agency already has one Republican senator on its radar.
The agency's investigation of Sen. Richard Burr presents a test of the SEC's appetite for keeping m…
C. Ryan Barber
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Service charge on food, drinks to be done away with?
Service charge on food, drinks to be done away with?
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Inaccurate medical bills are trapping Americans in a 'doom loop' costing them $88 billion last year, Biden's top consumer watchdog finds
Some of the $88 billion in medical debt that landed on consumers' credit reports last year weren't …
Ayelet Sheffey
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US consumers face having to pay a lot more for beef as restaurants reopen and exporting increases
Members of Congress are calling for an investigation into the meatpacking industry as beef prices s…