Almost three months after the tussle between various lawyers associations and journalists first hit the headlines, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan today took a stand on the issue, urging lawyers to let the media do their job. “The lawyers should realize that they do wrong in blocking journalists from accessing the court premises,” Vijayan said […]
63 moons technologies ltd, formerly known as Financial Technologies, said it received a provisional attachment order from the Directorate of Enforcement, Mumbai, attaching securities amounting to face value of Rs 1,065 crore in its demat account. In India, shares and securities are held electronically in a dematerialized (or “Demat”) account, instead of the investor taking […]
63 moons technologies ltd, formerly known as Financial Technologies, said the Directorate of Enforcement, Mumbai has requested the National Securities Depository Ltd. and Central Depository Services (India) Ltd to freeze the Demat Account of the company maintained with them. In India, shares and securities are held electronically in a dematerialized (or “Demat”) account, instead of […]
The Supreme Court of India cancelled the bail accorded to Mohammad Shahabuddin, a convicted politician from Bihar. He was elected four times as a Member of Parliament from Siwan, Bihar, with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), and two times as MLA, to the Bihar Vidhan Sabha. The court asked the Bihar administration to transfer the […]
Flipkart, one of India’s top online shopping sites, has warned users not to click on suspicious links or otherwise give credence to purported offers from the website seen on social media platforms. “With the Flipkart Big Billion Days just round the corner, a host of fake offers and discounts are being offered on various fraudulent […]
Supreme Court of India today asked the Union of India to appear and assist on two PIL petitions seeking CBI and SIT probe in the non transparent purchases of VVIP Helicopters by various State government. The order came in the PIL filed by Swaraj Abhiyan which was argued by Lawyer Prashant Bhushan. It is argued […]
63 moons technologies ltd, formerly known as Financial Technologies said it received a provisional attachment order from the Directorate of Enforcement, Mumbai, attaching mutual funds amounting to Rs 306.70 crores. The company is taking appropriate steps in consultation with the legal counsel of the company in this matter, it said. The move comes a day […]
Comedian Kapil Sharma is set to be summoned by Mumbai Police after he sent off a tweet saying he was asked by local municipal authorities for a bribe of Rs 5 lakh when he was constructing his office. Sharma had asked BJP leader and Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking if this was the better days he […]
The National Payments Corporation of India, the country’s answer to VISA and MasterCard, today denied that its systems had been hacked. There were reports in the media that Chinese hackers had made off with data from NPCI servers. However, NPCI pointed out that it stores data only regarding its own products such as IMPS, UPI […]
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has imposed fine of Rs 6,320.6 cr upon ten cement manufacturers for forming independent organization to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of cement, said the Ministry of corporate affairs. The list of companies included ACC Cements, Ambuja Cements, Binani Cements, Century Cements, India Cements, J K […]
Delhi government is planning to bring Closed Circuit Television cameras (CCTV) not just for the purpose of security but to keep a tab on what is going on inside classrooms, said Punya Salila Shrivastava, Secretary, Education said at an ASSOCHAM event held in New Delhi today. Speaking on the Conference on Quality Education for All […]
In India, there has been a surge of approximately 350% in cybercrime cases registered under the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000 from the year of 2011 to 2014, a ASSOCHAM-PwC joint study said. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has also reported a surge in the number of incidents handled by it, with close […]
Keeping in line with its focus on national security, the government of India today approved increasing the central assistance paid to victims of terrorism to Rs 5 lakh from Rs 3 lakh. The compensation will be available to victims of communal violence, maoist extremist, cross-border firing and mine blasts. Civilian victims of cross border firing […]
Supreme Court Justice Madan Lokur launched a resource manual for child friendly court procedures at the National Workshop on Rehabilitation of Missing & Trafficked Children, held in Delhi, which was inaugurated by Chief Justice of India, T S Thakur & Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi. Almost 150 stakeholders of child protection from 12 states and […]
The Centre requested states to crack down on hoarders of essential commodities ahead of the festival season, and if necessary, create a special police department for the purpose. As of now, only Tamil Nadu has a special police department dedicated to prevention of hoarding and other price manipulation of essential commodities. At a meeting held […]
New waves of Cyber attacks called Operation Ghoul that started on the 8th and the 27th of June 2016 threatens the Middle East region, Kaspersky Lab said. “The attackers try to lure targets through spear phishing emails that include compressed executables. In the majority of cases, CEOs, COOs, managers, supervisors and engineers recieve the email […]
Kerala Police have cracked the controversial case of the brutal rape and murder of Jisha, a law student in Perumbavoor near Kochi in Kerala. Amiyur Islam, a Bengali-speaking migrant labourer with an Assamese address, was arrested three days ago in Palghat. The body of the girl, Jisha, was found on April 28. Her injuries totalled 38, […]
The latest horror story to come out of Kerala has forced residents in this largely peaceful state to rethink their reliance on migrants — mostly from Bangladesh — for carrying out labour-intensive projects. Over the last five days, gruesome details have emerged about how a law student was raped, tortured and killed in the afternoon […]
The administration panel of Kerala’s biggest anti-superstition and rationalist Facebook groups has come under death threats for prompting believers to desert the Islamic faith. The blog, named Mujahir 2015, is written in Malayalam, the language spoken in Kerala. “Those who insult the Prophet must be killed,” the blog said. “To carry out (such an act), […]
The government has replied to some of the criticisms about its handling of Agusta Westland probe, and said that the inquiry is taking time because the key accused are outside the country. The defence ministry also rejected AK Antony’s statement that it was the Congress government that blacklisted the companies involved in this alleged scandal […]
