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NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed MNC banks to charge hefty penal interest up to 49% on defaulted credit card payments, ending the respite that lakhs of card holders have had since September last year when the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission capped the penalty at 30%. The SC stayed the apex consumer forum's directive to banks not to charge more than 30% interest on..

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday termed bandhs as legitimate means of expressing people's feelings in a democracy, reversing a trend judiciary has followed since 1997 when it had come down hard upon political parties for causing inconvenience to the public by forcing shutdowns. The volte face, which will be celebrated by a political class which had chaffed at judiciary's opposition to ch..

NEW DELHI: Jitender Kumar Mohala could be suffering from what psychiatrists call a frustration aggression syndrome. Mohala was arrested on Sunday night and was sent to jail for 14 days for creating a hijack scare on board an Indigo flight, leading to a security crisis at the IGI airport. Mohala, a 42-year-old chartered accountant from Dwarka and son of a retired Air Force commodore, was ret..

Appalled by the indifference of state governments to the implementation of the national population policy to tackle the problem posed by rapid population growth that put dwindling food stocks under strain, the Supreme Court on Monday put their chief secretaries on notice. A Bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice P Sathasivam in a terse order asked the apex court Registr..

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has stayed criminal proceedings against a couple wondering how and why an "expression of love by a young married couple" in this case allegedly by stealing kisses in public should attract the charge of obscenity. Justice S Muralidhar stayed an FIR lodged against one Ajit (name changed) and his wife who were booked by the Dwarka police station cops for alleged..

NEW DELHI: Strange as it may sound but election commissioner Navin Chawla was in favour of issuing notice to Sonia Gandhi on her `Maut ke Saudagar' speech but did not want the outside world to know it. In fact, the entire event is part of the CEC's letter of recommendation seeking Chawla's removal. It is believed the CEC and the two election commissioners were in favour of issuing notice to..

Cheap Chinese mobile phones are posing as a security threat to India as unlike proper, branded handsets, these duplicate copies have fake International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number. They are also eating into earnings of branded manufacturers and posing as health risk to users. Kashmiri villagers take photographs with their mobile phones in a village near Srinagar. Cheap Chinese mobile..

Shocking constitutional overreach The “recommendation” of Chief Election Commissioner N. Gopalaswami to the President that Election Commissioner Navin Chawla should be removed on the ground of bias is a gross constitutional overreach that is shocking to the democratic conscience. In the crucial weeks before the general election, it has provoked needless hostility and brought a political twist ..

NEW DELHI: The timing of CEC N Gopalaswami's recommendation for the removal of his likely successor Navin Chawla is no doubt suspicious as it has been made barely three months before the general election and his own retirement. But the legal controversy over whether Gopalaswami was empowered to propose an EC's removal without any reference from the government seems misplaced. For, all that ..

New Delhi, Jan 31: The Election Commission has been spilt just few weeks before the LokSabha elections, according to a report in the national daily, Hindu. The report further states that the Central Election Commission has recommended the dismissal of Election Commissioner Navin Chawla for 'partisanship'. Chawla, according to sources had to succeed Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) N Gopalaswam..

Chennai, Jan 31 (UNI) The century-old history and prestige of the Madras High Court was lowered on January 30, when the advocates, who resorted to an indefinite boycott of courts over the Sri Lankan issue, created a ruckus by roughing up, manhandling and forcibly evicting those lawyers, who attended the courts. The atrocities was enacted by the group of lawyers in the name of so called 'agitation'..

NEW DELHI: The recently-installed Jammu and Kashmir government will drop its old Right to Information (RTI) Act in favour of a new legislation in tune with the Central Act. The present RTI Act is not applicable to J&K which has an old legislation. Chief information commissioner Wajahat Habibullah said, "The existing Act is very weak. If we consider J&K an integral part of India, it is their..

NEW DELHI: Information commissioners have chosen not to disclose their own assets' declaration on the CIC's website, in a development which may cause many to wonder whether the transparency watchdog has trouble following what it preaches to others. In a candid admission, chief information commissioner Wajahat Habibullah said, "All information commissioners have declared their assets but the..

NEW DELHI: Tension between India and Pakistan may flare up once again with India set to reject any claim by the latter that the Mumbai attacks were not planned from its territory. Such a response would be completely unacceptable, sources said on Friday amid growing indications of Pakistan's reluctance to accept that 26/11 was engineered by jihadi groups operating from its territory. The..

The Kerala High Court adjourned to February 2 a petition seeking declaration that no sanction was required in prosecuting the accused in the SNC Lavalin case, including former Electricity Minister and CPI(M) state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan, for hearing the Advocate-General (AG). A Division Bench of Justices J B Koshy and V Giri directed the AG to enlighten the court whether sanction was neces..