India’s telecom regulator TRAI has issued its recommendations on Net Neutrality in India. The recommendations are largely along expected lines, and prevent telecom companies from slowing down the Internet to ease the traffic of their video apps, messengers and other ‘over-the-top’ services. The move comes even as an Indian-origin bureaucrat in the US is facing […]
With the central government breathing down the necks of telecom operators to link all connections with Aadhaar numbers, Vodafone has launched Aadhaar verification vans in Rajasthan to ease the process. The vans were initially launched with the purpose of easing the 4G SIM upgrade process. Over the past 10 months, mobile vans have helped thousands […]
Real estate major DLF reported a sharp decline in its revenue and profit for the July-September quarter after it stopped taking new bookings due to the implementation of RERA in May. The company’s net profit fell by 94% to Rs 12.57 cr in July-September quarter from Rs 204.60 cr a year ago. Even in the […]
Former union home minister P Chidambaram today said India should ‘seriously consider’ giving autonomy to the state of Jammu & Kashmir. Chidambaram, who was in charge of maintaining law and order in the hill state for several years as part of his role as India’s home minister, is the head of his party’s standing committee […]
In a first for the country, pet animals in urban areas of Punjab will be taxed at the rate of Rs 250-500 per head, television channel AajTak reported. UPDATE: The Punjab government has denied the AajTak report and said it had no plans to tax animals or pets. Hindustan Times reported that the government backed […]
Gender activists and others waiting for today’s Supreme Court judgment on the entry of women into Kerala’s Sabarimala temple were slightly disappointed today after the court refused to rule one way or the other, instead referring the matter to a constitutional bench. The bench of Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra and Justices R Banumathi […]
The Indian supreme court has held that sexual intercourse with a girl below the age of 18 years will automatically qualify as rape, even if the woman is the wife of the accused. At present, it is considered rape only if the wife is below 15 years. The ruling, by a bench headed by Justice […]
The Kerala ‘Love Jihad’ case saw a twist today with the Supreme Court making pointed observations while hearing the appeal against a decision by the Kerala High Court to annul the marriage of a Hindu girl who converted to Islam. The court observed that it will examine the question of whether the High Court overstepped […]
Laws to protect Indian women who are abandoned by their NRI (non-resident Indian) husbands or foreign partners to be finalised soon, said Rakesh Srivastava, Secretary, Ministry of Women & Child Development at an ASSOCHAM event held in New Delhi today. India has taken a lead role in gender budgeting in the world, he added. Effort […]
The External Affairs ministry of Government of India has said that India and China have agreed to an ‘expeditious disengagement’ of border personnel at the Doklam plateau in Bhutan. In a statement, the external affairs ministry said: “In recent weeks, India and China have maintained diplomatic communication in respect of the incident at Doklam. During […]
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar seems to be facing mounting pressure to step down, with BJP leader Subramanian Swamy hinting that the CM does not enjoy total support of BJP leaders. “The question of (Khattar’s) resignation has to be taken up by the prime minister, because he selected him,” said Swamy. He went on […]
Supporters of religious leaders Ram Rahim have gone on rampage in Panchkula in Haryana after a court there convicted him of rape. At least three supporters of the guru have been shot dead by the police so far. UPDATE – The number of dead has reached eight and injuries are in their hundreds. According to […]
A medical student in Kerala was fined Rs 5,000 and his car impounded for three days after the driver of a State Road Transport Corporation bus complained that the student forced the bus to go slow. Faizal, from Azhiyoor near Mahe, was accused of blocking the way and forcing the ‘Lightning’ service bus to go […]
The Maharashtra unit of Forum for IT Employees said 13 disputes over forced resignations and layoffs at IT organizations have been moved to the labor courts after failed mediation attempts by state labor authorities. 11 of the 13 cases were filed by employees of Tech Mahindra, and one each by those of Wipro and Vodafone, […]
In the old days, wars were fought using armies standing face to face, such as in the first world war. Then came the aeroplanes and the jets, which allowed wars to be fought in the air, and far inland from the front lines, as was seen in the second world war. Fast forward to the […]
The Forum for IT Employees, arguably the IT workers rights organization with the largest number of well-wishers and supporters, accused IT companies of using illegal and unethical means to force their workers to submit their resignations. In a meeting with Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, the organization accused the companies of using harassment techniques that […]
The Supreme Court has refused the request for an early listing of a petition that questions permitting descendants of people who migrated to Pakistan to come back to India. The petition seeks the quashing of the Jammu and Kashmir Rehabilitation Act of 1981 that would give the right of return to anyone who moved to […]
TP Senkumar, who stepped down as the head of Kerala’s police force a week ago, has stirred a hornet’s nest in the southern states by expressing alarm over the relatively higher fertility rate of Kerala’s Muslim community compared to others. Quoting government of Kerala’s statistics, Senkumar pointed out that 41.5% of the children born in […]
Packaged food company Nestlé said it would pass on to consumers any reduction in tax rates due to the introduction of the goods and services tax tomorrow. Companies are not obliged to pass on the benefit of lower taxes to consumers, and many are unlikely to. The Swiss giant said it won’t be one of […]
Union ministry of women & child development has expressed its consternation at its minister Maneka Gandhi being painted as insensitive by the media following a rather lively interaction between the minister and citizens. Media headlines today screamed that Gandhi, who has a reputation as a champion of the oppressed, said she had never heard of […]
