Budget has several small steps which will boost growth
The Missionaries of Charity are unaffected by the recent comments of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat questioning Mother Teresa's motives
According to a source, banks have decided to infuse funds after Purnendu Chatterjee, chairman of The Chatterjee Group, agreed to invest Rs 100 crore (Rs 1 billion) as margin amount into the ailing plant.
With 2015 having multiple weekend breaks, travel agents and online travel portals expect a holiday rush this year.
Reports suggest that the police were unable to find any contact of the company's office and had to take a Uber cab to reach the company's training centre in Gurgaon, giving credence to the perception that Uber has grown too much too soon.
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Recently, the central bank has asked online cab service provider Uber to rework its billing system to enable two-step authentication system. Following this, many have dubbed the central bank's decision as regressive.
Bogged down by inefficient administration and unable to attract financing, the once legendary football clubs of Kolkata are fading into irrelevance.
Supreme Court must be less ambitious in the issues it chooses to take up, says M J Antony
The government must get rid of the clutter of old, obsolete laws.
Supreme Court advises temperance in criticising judges who make bona fide errors, says M J Antony
Constitutional questions referred to larger benches of the Supreme Court long ago have literally gathered dust, says M J Antony
Governments must give companies a hearing before blacklisting them.
The court ruled in a judgment running to over 100 pages that the commission can order an investigation into a complaint of an anti-competitive agreement or abuse of dominant position in the market.
The judges in criminal courts also suffer from tunnel vision and focus on the sentence to be given to the offender. If they are sensitive, they can award compensation to the victim while sentencing the lawbreaker. But it is rarely done, and the Supreme Court has often wondered why.
The SC laments that they spend most of their time in covering their back rather than in achieving their goals.
High courts should replicate for states what the Supreme Court has done for Delhi's environment, says M J Antony.
The rate of road accidents in India is so high that the chances of getting run over by a motor vehicle are higher than those of winning a bet at the club.
Borrowers can move civil courts to stall recovery proceedings as they have few other choices.
The accident compensation formula ignores inflation and the rise in life expectancy.
The principle of equal pay for equal work, made enforceable so far, that too by a Supreme Court fiat, is all but buried, says M J Antony.
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