New Delhi: Is it the Chief Election Commissioner versus the Governor of the Reserve bank? The EC asked the Reserve Bank to raise the cash withdrawal limit for those contesting Assembly Polls. RBI refused point blank! The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has rejected the request of the Election Commission to enhance the weekly cash-withdrawal […]
New Delhi: The stand is clear. If Maulvis cannot grant legally valid divorces, neither can Church authorities. Most Christians believe that it’s an academic question. They maintain that civil laws passed by parliament cannot be overshadowed by personal laws. Civil Court is greater than church Court. But, some ask, if religious marriages are accepted as […]
New Delhi, Seven blasts rocked the north- eastern states of Assam and Manipur on the occasion of Republic Day today even as celebrations were held in other parts of the country with the states showcasing their cultural diversity and the might of security forces. Five serial blasts by anti-talk ULFA (Independent) shook upper Assam as […]
New Delhi: “Justice is not blind and nor do the courts wear blinkers,” Delhi High Court has said while coming down hard on a man for keeping his 94-year-old mother “out of her own home” for 16 years by engaging her in litigation over possession of the house built by her. While imposing costs of […]
More than 50 orphaned children (after their farmer parents committed suicide due to the agrarian distress) have been touring the length and breadth of Maharashtra, appealing to people not to take the ‘drastic step’. The children are inmates of `Adhartirth Ashram’, set up by Trimbakrao Gaikwad at Tupadevi in Trimbakeshwar tehsil of Nashik district. The […]
New Delhi: Demonetisation has proved to be a major headache for the law enforcement agencies. The money that was seized as evidence will be worthless if not deposited in banks … but how then will they produce the evidence(the same bank notes) in court during trial? Probe agencies like CBI and NIA have found themselves […]
Davos: India is a country with “corruption at mass level”, Paytm chief Vijay Shekhar Sharma said (Jan 19) Digitisation would lead to a process where the money trail would ensure that people would be asked to pay tax on the money they have earned. He said the Paytm business model could help address this corruption. […]
New Delhi: Delhi Police Commissioner Alok Kumar Verma was appointed Director of CBI, country’s premier probe agency (Jan 19). His name was cleared by a three-member selection panel headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and comprising Chief Justice of India Jagdish Singh Khehar and Congress leader in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge as members. Verma has […]
New Delhi: It may be a dog’s life, but he’s got a right to live it! Culling and extermination are two different things, so stop bitching about being bitten by carnivorous canines! “Stray dogs have a right to live,” was how the Supreme Court reacted sharply today when a submission was made that such canines […]
New Delhi: Has the note ban actually cleaned up dirty dealing in the Real estate market? Some believe so! Anyway, half the potential buyers for apartments and such have disappeared! A Gloomy time for real estate barons! But the feeling is that the sector has been forced to ‘clean up’. The Property market, long considered […]
New Delhi: You can’t sue a college for not giving you a ‘placement’. Education isn’t a commodity to be bought or sold or with ‘special offers’. Students are not consumers. A youth’s plea against an institute for allegedly not providing him with an internship or job as promised at the time of admission, has been […]
New Delhi, Jan 15 (PTI) A three-member committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet tomorrow to decide on the chief of the country’s premier probe agency CBI. The post of CBI director is lying vacant for over one month following Anil Sinha’s retirement on December 2. At present, Gujarat-cadre IPS officer Rakesh Asthana is […]
