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Finance Minister okays 8.65% interest on EPF

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The Finance Ministry is believed to have permitted the Labour Ministry to go ahead with 8.65 per cent rate of interest on employees’ provident fund for 2016-17, which will benefit over four crore EPFO members. The Finance Ministry in its communication to the Labour Ministry has, however, put a rider that the interest rate should […]

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India to appeal against Jadhav’s death sentence: Envoy

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India said today it would appeal against the death sentence to Kulbhushan Jadhav and demanded from Pakistan a certified copy of the charge-sheet as well as the army court order in the case, besides seeking consular access to the retired Indian navy officer. This was conveyed by Indian High Commissioner in Islamabad Gautam Bambawale to […]

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Pak fully capable to respond to any spectrum of threat:Sharif

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Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today said Pakistan’s armed forces are fully capable and prepared to respond to any spectrum of threat. The remarks by Sharif come against the backdrop of spike in Indo-Pak tensions over the death sentence awarded to Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav by a military court and on a day when New Delhi […]

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Bombay HC asks railways to compensate woman who lost legs in mishap

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The Bombay High Court has asked the Railways to take a decision on granting compensation to a woman who lost both her legs while trying to board a moving train at Khandala railway station two years ago. A division bench of justices Abhay Oka and Anil Memon, while hearing a petition filed by the victim, […]

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Policeman declines SC’s offer for reinstatement if he shaves

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A policeman from Maharashtra, who was suspended for not adhering to no-beard policy of the state reserve force, has not agreed to the offer of the Supreme Court that it would revoke his suspension if he shaves. Zahiroddin Shamsoddin Bedade had approached the top court in 2013 after the Bombay High Court did not find […]

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Delhi HC convicts man for raping minor, terms the crime horrendous

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The Delhi High Court has convicted a man for kidnapping and raping a minor girl and then endangering her life by leaving the child in a deserted place after committing the “horrendous” crime. Justice S P Garg awarded 10 years jail term to the convict, a rickshaw puller, while modifying the trial court’s decision to […]

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Magistrate can’t direct lodging of FIR outside jurisdiction: Delhi HC

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The Delhi High Court has held that a magistrate cannot direct the officer in-charge of a police station to investigate a cognisable offence in an area which is outside his jurisdiction. It was contended before the high court that a magistrate exercising jurisdiction under section 156(3) CrPC cannot direct registration of FIR and investigation, thereafter, […]

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Editor-in-Chief of Sudarshan TV granted bail

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Editor-in-Chief and Chief Managing Director of a news channel, who was arrested for allegedly promoting enmity between different groups here, was today granted bail by a court here. District Magistrate of Sambhal Bhupendra S Chaudhary said Suresh Chavhanke was produced before junior division judicial magistrate, where he was granted bail. Chavhanke on the other hand […]

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Imposing only fine on woman convict in serious case unfair: SC

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The Supreme Court has held that imposing only a fine in serious offences, which entail award of jail terms and fine both, on women convicts would lead to “unfair” and “unjust” consequences. Observing this, the apex court set aside the Himachal Pradesh High Court verdict imposing only a fine on a woman, who was convicted […]

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Police rapped for revealing identity of sexual offence victims

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A city court has rebuked Delhi Police for blatantly violating the law on confidentiality by revealing the identity of minors subjected to sexual violence and their parents in a series of cases. Taking serious note of the names of the child victims and the names and addresses of their parents being mentioned in the charge […]

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‘Wife’s capability to earn, no ground to reject maintenance’

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Interim maintenance cannot be denied to a woman by her estranged spouse on the ground that she is capable of sustaining herself, a Delhi court has said. The sessions court made the observation while allowing a woman’s appeal against a magisterial court order that had refused her interim maintenance from her husband in a domestic […]

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Okhla plant complying with specified parameters: NGT

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Okhla waste-to-energy plant, which was cleared by NGT, is functional and complying with all the specified parameters, the National Green Tribunal has been informed. A joint inspection team comprising officials from Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) told a bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar that the incinerator […]

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