In an effort to shore up revenue streams for Air India, the finance ministry on Monday ordered all central government employees to fly only on the state-owned flag carrier for their official travel—both domestic and international.This is one o ..
In an article which appeared on 29 June 2009 in these columns, it was suggested to enlarge the scope of Advance Ruling to provide a more effective mechanism for resolution of tax disputes between the tax department and foreign companies operating in ..
The Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008 inter-alia include provisions for addressing protection of critical information infrastructure; privacy of information held in computer system and networks, breach of confidentiality and privacy, audit ..
In all, 37 cases were referred to the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) during the last three years i.e. during the years 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2008-09.Out of these 37 cases, investigations in respect of 9 cases have been completed. The number ..
India’s second-largest lender, ICICI Bank, has shot off a legal notice to a senior official of HDFC Bank, for airing views on ICICI in a business magazine. Mandeep Maitra, the officer in question, who is the head of human re ..
The Madras High Court has said international companies operating in India cannot claim any extra legal rights over Indian people and cannot prevent the public from holding demonstrations in front of their office.Passing orders on petitions filed by D ..
CBI special court allowed the prosecution to make an accused, approver in connection with much hyped fodder scam.Special CBI judge Virendra Mohan Srivastav ordered the prosecution to turn an accused Sailesh Prasad Singh approver after hearing the arg ..
Hyderabad court allowed the CBI probing the multi-crore fraud in the Satyam Computer Services (Satyam) to conduct forensic, lie-detector and brain mapping tests on Satyam founder B Ramalinga Raju and two other accused in the case.The designated CBI c ..
Additional solicitor general Mohan Parasaran is set to represent the government in the Supreme Court in the Reliance Industries (RIL) versus Reliance Natural Resources (RNRL) case. “Mr Parasaran has been reappointed as additi ..
The battle for gas between the two Ambani brothers has clearly shifted base from Mumbai to the national capital. It’s not just the legal case that has landed in Delhi, both the brothers and their associates are frequenting th ..