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Government is working on an Incentive Scheme wherein seven weeks wages shall be reimbursed to employers who employ women workers and provide the maternity benefit of 26 weeks paid leave, as provided for in the Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Act, 2017. To enable an entity to avail of the incentive, the women employees working in ..

Disciplinary proceedings can be initiated against the All India Services Officers (i.e. Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Police Service (IPS) and Indian Forest Service (IFoS) for misconduct including corruption charges, under the All India Services (Discipline and Appeal) Rules, 1969; apart from liability for prosecution under Prevention of Corruption Act..

Central Vigilance Commission (CVC)  has informed that the details of complaints received in CVC, under PIDPI or otherwise, having specific and verifiable allegations of vigilance nature/offences of corruption against various Central Government officials including officials of appropriate levels serving in CPSUs, PSBs, PSICs, Societies and other local authoritie..

The doctrine Uberrimae Fidei is originated from English law to the formation of the insurance contract. The principle of Uberrimae Fidei (a Latin phrase), or in simple English words, the Principle of Utmost Good Faith, is a very basic and first primary principle of insurance. Contract of Insurance is basically a contract for discharging indemnificatory liability ..

The details of complaints received in National Commission for Women and closed under category of Cybercrime against women during last four years are as under: Year/..

As per the report submitted by the States / UTs (as on 18.09.2018), 539 institutions were closed on account of non-compliance of provisions of Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 as found by inspection committee during inspections. The Ministry had commissioned a mapping exercise to ascertain the number of Child Care Institutions (CCIs) in 2..

An Investment Company (IC) is a financial institution which carries on its principal business of acquisition of securities. More [particularly, an investment company is a non-banking finance company (NBFC) which primarily deals with the acquisition of securities. Those who want to start a Private Equity Business or Venture Capital Fund, using the services of an NBFC..

Animal abuse is a very sensitive issue which needs to be dealt with, yet the people who commit cruelty against animals are not aware of the extent of how inhuman their acts are. The conditions which these innocent animals undergo due to these selfish acts of humans is really very upsetting. Such issues shall be addressed as soon as it is possible. p style="tex..

'Law and Order exist for the purpose of establishing Justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress”.  - Martin Luther King, Jr. In a common law legal system like ours, there are three w..

The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) order authorising ten security and intelligence agencies to intercept, monitor, and decrypt information has been challenged in the Supreme Court. Issued on December 20, it has been challenged by Advocate ML Sharma as being illegal, unconstitutional and contrary to public interest. ..

What is happening in West UP? Who is safe in West UP when police officers are themselves not safe here and can be murdered so openly and brazenly by criminals as we saw for ourselves just recently in Bulandshahr? Why is no one really bothered to address the core issue? Why the litigants of West UP are compelled to travel more than 700 km on an average all the way to A..

At the outset, it has be said with deep dismay, dejection and disappointment that Centre has repeatedly poured cold water on the legitimate demand of the more than 9 crore people of West UP for a high court bench in West UP which lawyers of 26 districts are unitedly raising under the banner of “Central Action Committee” formed in May 1981 to pursue the dir..

First and foremost, the latest landmark and laudable judgment delivered by the Delhi High Court in Shambhir & Ors v State in CRLA 152/1996 along with others on 28 November, 2018 upholding the conviction and punishment of over 80 rioters has brought some solace to all those affected people who lost their near and dear ones in the ghastly 1984 anti-Sikh riots which ..

IPO Funding is a short-term loan that banks and other financial institutions provide to the investors to fund their Initial Public Offer (IPO) application. Investors who would like to apply for equity shares in an IPO, but do not have required money can borrow the remaining amount from the financial institutions as a loan. In general, the banks and Non-Banking Finan..

In a latest, landmark and laudable judgment titled Naman Singh alias Naman Pratap Singh and another vs. State of Uttar Pradesh and others in Criminal Appeal No. 1620 of 2018 (arising out of S.L.P. (Crl.) No. 3383 of 2018 delivered by the Supreme Court on December 13, 2018, it was held clearly, categorically and convincingly that, “A reading of the FIR reveals ..