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Custom Duty : Instead of a formal signature, some documents are marked with S/d- (an abbreviation for signed) as a form of attestation. This rai...
Corporate Law : Analyze the effectiveness of carbon taxes in combating climate change. Explore the strengths, weaknesses, and alternative strategi...
CA, CS, CMA : New e-waste management rules (G.S.R. 801(E)) effective from April 2023 require registration, responsibility, and reporting for man...
Finance : Explore yoga fitness market trends, retention strategies, and tech innovations. Uncover insights on customer loyalty, VR classes, ...
Corporate Law : Learn about the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) under the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016, outlining the obligations f...
Corporate Law : उत्तर प्रदेश बार काउंसिल ने नए अधिवक्ताओं के पंज�...
Finance : Discover the risks of UPI cash deposits, recent transaction statistics, safety measures, and future plans for cross-border UPI int...
Fema / RBI : Details on penalties for not maintaining AMB in savings accounts, criteria for calculation, and government's stance on rationalizi...
Corporate Law : TRAI has released a consultation paper on reviewing Telecom Consumer Protection Regulations 2012, focusing on tariff offerings, vo...
Corporate Law : Govt launches 3 employment schemes: wage support for new workers, incentives for manufacturing jobs, and employer support to boost...
Corporate Law : Supreme Court of India invalidates State VAT amendments made post-GST, citing issues of legislative competence in Telangana, Gujar...
Corporate Law : Kharghar Co-op. Housing Societies Federation Ltd Vs Municipal Commissioner (Bombay High Court) Bombay High Court in the matter of ...
Corporate Law : Calcutta High Court held that computation of award amount without multiplying the amount with the multiplier 13 is unjustifiable....
Corporate Law : Ours being a Welfare State, the respondents who happen to be instrumentalities of the State under Article 12, cannot act arbitrari...
Corporate Law : Held that there is no infringement of copyright as some contents are bound to be similar as teaching given in the Holy Books Quran...
Corporate Law : MHA issues guidelines to ensure nondiscriminatory prison visitation rights for LGBTQ+ community, emphasizing equal treatment in al...
Corporate Law : Get clarity on GPF interest exceeding 5 lakhs. Learn about revised provisions & implications for government servants' GPF subscrip...
Corporate Law : Government of India requests Bar Council to issue Bar Licenses through Digi Locker, enhancing e-governance and e-court integration...
Corporate Law : Government of India announces a 4% increase in Dearness Relief for pensioners effective from January 2024. Details & implications ...
Corporate Law : Explore the Ministry of Commerce & Industrys transformative industrialization scheme, UNNATI 2024, approved by the Cabinet. Incent...
The Supreme Court has ruled that mandatory death penalty for an offender under the Arms Act was unconstitutional as it violated fundamental rights guaranteed to a citizen.A bench of Justices Asok Kumar Ganguly (since retd) and J S Khehar said Section 27(3) of the Arms Act, which imposed mandatory death penalty, was also “ultra vires and void” as it restricts the powers of the court in awarding sentences to an accused in such cases.
A scheme was launched in 2007 to provide legal /financial assistance to the deserted or divorced overseas Indian women through the Indian Missions/Posts. It was revised and the revised scheme came into effect from November, 2011. The scheme would be available to Indian women who have been deserted by their overseas Indian / foreign husbands or are facing divorce proceedings in a foreign country, subject to the following conditions:-
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has today released a Pre-consultation Paper on “Allocation of Spectrum in 2G band in 22 Service Areas by auction” for comments of the stakeholders.The Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in its Judgment dated 2nd February 2012 in the writ petitions no 423/2010 and 10/2010, has directed TRAI to make fresh recommendations for grant of licence and allocation of spectrum in 2G band in 22 Service Areas by auction, as was done for allocation of spectrum in 3G band.
Whether a complaint can be filed by a citizen for prosecuting a public servant for an offence under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (for short, ‘the 1988 Act’) and whether the authority competent to sanction prosecution of a public servant for offences under the 1988 Act is required to take an appropriate decision within the time specified in clause I(15) of the directions contained in paragraph 58 of the judgment of this Court in Vineet Narain v. Union of India (1998) 1 SCC 226 and the guidelines issued by the Central Government, Department of Personnel and Training and the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) are the question which require consideration in this appeal.
The Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee said that in the era of coalition politics, decisions are taken through consensus as you have to carry others with you. The Finance Minister said that the current year was a challenging year as we had to face the problem of inflation, fiscal deficit and maintenance of sustainable and inclusive growth.
Major credit rating agencies give out the sovereign credit rating of each nation as an absolute grade. How other nations fare does not matter in a particular nation’s rating score. This is very different from a comparative rating. An example of comparative rating is the percentile score—the way GRE results are at times given. If a student is described as belonging to the 99th percentile, it clearly says something about this student’s performance vis-à-vis other students.
The Central Statistical Office released the quick estimates of national income, consumption expenditure, saving and capital formation for 2010-11 today. Savings and investment data for 2010-11 are new and all other data are revisions to earlier releases. GDP at factor cost at constant (2004-05) prices (real GDP) grew by 8.4 per cent in 2010-11. This growth was at the same level of 8.4 per cent in 2009-10. (As per earlier data real GDP growth was 8.5 per cent and 8.0 per cent in 2010-11 and 2009-10). Demand side GDP at constant market prices grew by 9.6 per cent in 2010-11 over a level of growth of 8.2 per cent in 2009-10.
The government is trying to take up the issue of Indonesia proposing a tax of exports of coal at bilateral level, Coal Secretary Alok Perti said on Saturday. We have taken up the issues of export tax and restrictions in certain quality of coal by the Indonesian government with the Ministry of External Affairs and Finance Ministry, Perti said on the sidelines of the Fourth Asian Mining Congress and International Exhibition in Kolkata on Saturday.
TRAI today exempted the machine to machine and person to machine messages from the limit of 200 SMS per day per SIM. All the provisions of “The Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference Regulations, 2010” issued by TRAI on 1.12.2010 have come into force from 27th September 2011. As per the provisions of such regulations, no Access Provider shall permit sending of more than two hundred SMS per day per SIM.
The Unique Identification Authority of India, UIDAI, has asserted that its system is reliable and can achieve the task of providing unique ID cards to the entire population of the country. It dispelled fears that the biometric technology being employed for the Aadhaar project is flawed.
