India has historically not had a strong compliance mechanism around insider trading. This is in stark contrast to developed countries.
Anjuli Bhargava's musings on why the national carrier is well beyond a turnaround.
India's Founding Fathers did not give absolute powers of enforcement to the court. It is most surprising that the Supreme Court has accepted this situation, cleverly designed by the political class to weaken the top court, for all these years without demur, says B S Raghavan.
The perpetrators of the 2008 Mumbai attack, who shot dead 166 people, had confessed to details that should have been enough to hang him, but Pakistan enjoyed his anti-India rhetoric and let him spread his tentacles. A revealing excerpt from Khaled Ahmed's Pakistan's Terror Conundrum.
The Telangana government's decision to organise its first Independence Day celebrations at Golconda Fort instead of the Secunderabad Parade Grounds has sparked off a political controversy with opposition parties questioning the motive behind the move.
Yakub Memon, who was hanged on Thursday for his role in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts, had reacted with an angry outburst saying "innocent people are being called terrorists" when a TADA court in Mumbai had pronounced him guilty on September 12, 2006.
People close to the erstwhile royal family underline that Jyotiraditya Scindia is neither as accessible nor as unpretentious as his father.
As per official data released on Friday, the national capital witnessed a whopping 200 per cent increase in crime in the last two years and Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi attributed the spurt to police registering all the complaints unlike in previous years.
As Centre cedes power to states in indirect tax, it wants to all ystaffers' worry of little work.
'Our strategy should be to 'hold the line' in the north on the Sino-Indian land frontier, but maintain and, if possible, enlarge India's current edge in the maritime south.'
In a statement, the CBDT, which is the apex policy making body for direct tax policies, said it has never asked IRS Association or these officers to prepare such a report and no permission was sought by them before making the report public. 'It is unequivocally stated that CBDT never asked IRS Association or these officers to prepare such a report.
Peter Mukerjea and his wife Indrani, arrested in Sheena Bora murder case, had approached a senior Mumbai Police officer in 2012 seeking help to trace the call location of Sheena.
Jayalalithaa, recuperating at a corporate hospital in Chennai, said she could not attend the meeting as she was hospitalised.
India's Supreme Court in April rejected a patent for Novartis AG's cancer drug Glivec, saying it was an amended version of a known molecule called imatinib, setting the precedent for more such cases in the country.
'Rather than 'consolidate' the Hindu majority votes, as the BJP-RSS combine has been known and wont to try, this time round PM Modi has himself taken the party to the next step, by seeking to create a new divide within the majority community, a la V P Singh in his time.'
Goods and services provided without any consideration are out of ambit of Consumer Protection Act; investors, too, cannot approach a forum. Tinesh Bhasin reports
This is, say tax experts, the first time that a car race circuit has been held to be the permanent establishment of an assessee.
Mallya said the allegations of money laundering and stealing money against him are 'completely false'.
The jury found Samsung violated several Apple patents including those related to iPhone's design and appearance
Dispute over IPR was a bone of contention in bilateral ties till a couple of months ago.
Spread over two days -- Friday and Saturday -- at a picturesque desert resort in Southern California, Obama, 51, and Xi, 59, had several rounds of meetings and a candle-lit dinner spread over nearly eight hours on a range of bilateral, regional and global issues.
Spanish bank denies credit line to bail Sahara boss.
With India, the last round of talks took place in February 2011.
It is expected to bring transparency and reinstate consumer faith in the industry, says Brotin Banerjee.
Real estate bill seeks to impose penalties, including de-registration of the project and other fines in case of a breach.
FCA has alleged that the Roxor, which M&M imports in the US from India as knocked-down kits, was "a nearly identical copy of the iconic Jeep design", adding that the product was modelled after the original Willys Jeep.
The Ministry of Finance's Directorate of Enforcement should also be made a part of the state-level coordination panels,
Constitutional questions referred to larger benches of the Supreme Court long ago have literally gathered dust, says M J Antony
From Rafale relief to heat on realtors, 10 landmark Supreme Court judgments in 2018.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the execution of two death row convicts in Karnataka scheduled for Thursday even as one of them allegedly attempted to commit suicide in jail.
Notification, FAQs likely after FM Jaitley returns from the US
The government now ends its mandate with reaffirmation in the vote-on-account of the same goals, for which it claims to have a clear line of sight.
The findings revealed the biggest threat to firms comes from within.
Amid reports that her appointment as secretary in-charge of Punjab has left the Congress embarrassed, Kumari met Sonia and accused the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Aam Aadmi Party and the Shiromani Akali Dal of unnecessarily making an issue out of a 'non-issue'.
Anil Pehelwan alias Leela, who was one of the three most wanted criminals of Delhi and had a cash reward of Rs 2 lakh on his arrest, has been arrested by the Crime Branch following a brief encounter.
Controversy at the Pejawar Mutt -- an integral part of the VHP and the Ram temple movement -- forces PM to stay away.
Sahara told the top court this week it was considering other proposals to raise funds, including selling a luxury development outside Pune.
SC wanted to know how it encashed securities deposited with RBI.
The 2015 World Bank group's Doing Business index ranked India at 142, down from 140, which it was the year before.
The only novelty in School Bus is the much publicised casting of Kunchakko Boban as the cop investigating the case of the missing child, writes Paresh Palicha.
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