After six years of pendency, the Supreme Court on Wednesday referred to a five-judge Constitution Bench the question whether disclosure of information about judicial appointments, transfers of Supreme Court judges amounts to interference in judicial independence. The reference by a three-judge Bench led by Justice Ranjan Gogoi came on an ... Read More »
Accountants, lawyers and consultants whose multibillion pound industry provides advice on how to aggressively avoid tax could face large financial penalties under government proposals. Plans set out in a consultation document released on Wednesday will suggest that tax advisers whose schemes are defeated in the courts might pay a fine ... Read More »
Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Wednesday reiterated that the evident delay in relation to a file banning the use of Chinese manjha in the Capital did not occur on part of the Delhi government but at that of Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung’s. The L-G’s office, however, responded with an immediate ... Read More »
Former Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro unloaded on the right-wing website’s chairman, Stephen K. Bannon, on Wednesday after news brokethat Donald Trump had appointed him as campaign CEO. “Bannon is a legitimately sinister figure,” Shapiro, who left Breitbart earlier this year in a fiery exit, wrote on his website. The conservative ... Read More »
Cervical cancer has the possibility of elimination and can be eradicated from many countries in the world in four to five decades, said Dr. R. Sankaranarayanan, Special Advisor on cancer control and head of screening group with the World Health Organisation (WHO), at the Asia-Oceania Research Organisation in Genital Infection ... Read More »
Hiren Tambe, who owns a 500-sqft store in Navi Mumbai, has at least 800 stock keeping units (SKU). Having run the store for over 15 years, he has always understood his typical customer’s requirements. Or so he thought. But with modern retail arriving in his vicinity, Hiren realised that many ... Read More »
Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on Wednesday announced four new categories of trains, one for unreserved passengers and three for reserved ones, which will be operational in the next couple of months. “The reason behind starting new train for unreserved passengers is to ensure that those belonging to the ‘Antodya ... Read More »
The Goods and Services Tax Network, the information technology backbone that will implement the new indirect tax regime, will become a data analytics powerhouse in the months after the roll-out. “Once sufficient amount of data is generated, we will be able to generate analytics based on the requirements of various ... Read More »
FOR good or for ill, the start and end to a working day is increasingly blurred. Smartphones and wi-fi mean that even an airline cabin, once the last respite of the business traveller, no longer guarantees escape. But the push is not all one way. Sometimes leisure time can impinge ... Read More »
Cisco is laying off about 14,000 employees, representing nearly 20 percent of the network equipment maker’s global workforce, technology news site CRN reported, citing sources close to the company. San Jose, California-based Cisco is expected to announce the cuts within the next few weeks, the report said, as the company ... Read More »
The last two months have been busy ones for the marijuana community. Most recently, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) declined to loosen restrictions on medical marijuana, and kept the drug classified in the same ‘Schedule 1’ category as LSD and heroin. There was much handwringing before and after the decision ... Read More »
Bollywood actor Salman Khan, the goodwill ambassador of the Indian contingent at this year’s Olympics in Rio, will present a cheque of Rs. 1,01,000 to each of the athletes. “As a gesture of appreciation for our Olympic athletes, I will present each one with a cheque of Rs. 1,01,000,” Salman, ... Read More »
