General Budget 2009-10The Finance Minister, Shri Pranab Mukherjee has proposed to abolish Fringe Benefit Tax on the value of certain fringe benefits provided by employers to their employees. This was announced by Shri Mukherjee, while presenting the ..
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has presented Budget 2009-10 in Parliament.Beginning his Budget speech, Pranab first thanked the voters for reposing faith in the UPA government. Here are the Budget highlights even as it’s presented in Parliam ..
The body of Ranbir Singh, gunned down by Uttarakhand police in an alleged fake encounter, bore 12 marks of bullets fired from close range and 27 other injuries showing that he may have been tortured, according to an autopsy report.Chief Minister Rame ..
To allow Cenvat credit for welding electrode The benefits of the highly liberal Cenvat Rules, 2004, has not percolated to manufacturers using welding electrode. This article analyses the eligibility of welding electrode to Cenvat credit and how the c ..
The Government may extend the tax holiday for software exporters beyond March 2010, in the Budget today. Analysts said extension of tax benefits will be a great relief to the IT sector, which is reeling under the impact of global financial crisis, wh ..
Union Law and Justice Minister M Veerappa Moily said steps would be taken to fill vacant posts of High Court judges and funds would be provided to modernise courts.Inaugurating the Planting of Millions of Saplings organised by the High Court Circuit ..
Advocate Srikant Shivade, counsel for Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja, today said the actor has not admitted before the court that he had consensual sex with his domestic help and he was a victim of a ‘well-hatched conspiracy’.‘What th ..
With a view to bringing in far reaching judicial reforms, the UPA government is seriously thinking of introducing the National Judicial Service on the lines of Indian Administrative Service, Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily has said.Addressing a fun ..
The Madras High Court has upheld an order of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) for quashing the orders of the Railway Board of 2006 by which the upper age limit of 38 years, plus training period, was applied to all class of candidates, irresp ..
A local court granted bail to incarcerated former RJD MP Mohammed Shahabuddin in connection with murder of a Mukhiya in 2002.Additional district and sessions Judge Gyaneshwar Srivastav granted bail to Mohammed Shahabuddin after hearing arguments of h ..