The government was forced to allow unhindered withdrawals from employee provident fund accounts till end of July after protests against the restrictions erupted in Bangaluru. In February, the government had decided against allowing withdrawal of employer’s contribution to an EPFO Read More …
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Supreme Court fines three firms Rs.25 lakh each for loss of 'judicial time'.
he Supreme Court on Tuesday slapped a fine of Rs 25 lakh each on three companies, including a German firm, which have been involved in legal battles emanating from their contracts, saying it was a classic case of “unscrupulous litigants Read More …
HC asks civic bodies to give sanitation workers their salaries.
Delhi High Court today directed three civic bodies here to ensure that the March wages be paid to all the sanitation workers “within a week without fail”. A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath also directed Read More …
President Can Be Wrong, Says Uttarakhand High Court Firmly To Centre.
“Even the President can go wrong,” said the judges today who are deciding whether President’s Rule was used in the hill state of Uttarakhand to get rid of the Congress government. In successive hearings, the judges of the Uttarakhand High Read More …
Gujarat HC restores jobs of 53 women
The Gujarat HC quashed the termination of 53 women, employees of health department and asked the state to pay Rs.5000 to them each. The court blamed the state to needlessly forcing ordinary employees to move to courts and lose time Read More …
15 tainted judges sacked by Allahabad HC
Showing ‘zero tolerance’ against tainted judges posted in different district courts of Uttar Pradesh, the Allahabad High Court has punished 15 judicial officers by removing them from their posts. The HC has removed the judges after a full court meeting prescribed Read More …
Marital rape may become crime: Maneka Gandhi
In a reversal of her earlier stand, Maneka Gandhi said the Centre was considering criminalizing marital rape. The issue is under consideration of the law commission. Maneka Gandhi has gone back and forth on this controversial issue.On March 10, Maneka had Read More …
Bombay High Court expresses concern about students and institutions who waste time in litigation in courts.
Expressing concern about the students and Institutions who waste their time in litigation in Courts, the Bombay High Court has directed the State Government and the Universities in the State of Maharashtra to evolve a mechanism by which the students Read More …
Temporary relief for drugmaker Glenmark, Delhi High Court grants interim stay.
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday, 15th March,2016 granted interim injunction to the drug-maker Abbott’s India unit, and domestic companies Glenmark Pharmaceuticals and Macleods Pharmaceuticals, on the prohibition on sale of several combination drugs. India banned 344 drug combinations over Read More …
Google wins book-scanning copyright case against Authors Guild.
Google’s massive book-scanning project has cleared its final legal hurdle, with the US Supreme Court denying an appeal from an authors group which claimed the tech company was breaching copyright laws. In a decade-long case, authors and their backers claimed Read More …