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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has held that phone chargers sold with mobile phone should be taxed separately as it is not part of phone but an accessory and turned down a plea by Nokia for treating charger and mobile as a composite product. The apex court said that merely making one package of cell […]

NEW DELHI: Recovery of excess amount paid to Class-III and Class-IV employees due to employer’s mistake is not permissible in law, the Supreme Court has ruled saying that it would cause extremely harsh consequences to them who are totally dependent on their wages to run their family. The apex court said employees of lower rung

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday strongly condemned grant of bail to 26/11 key plotter Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, saying India’s disappointment had been conveyed to Pakistan in the sternest of words as the relief to the top Lashkar terrorist soon after the murder of school children in Peshawar comes as a shock. Speaking in

HYDERABAD/NEW DELHI: For a government that claims only bureaucrats above board will be appointed to senior positions, it came as an embarrassment on Friday as education secretary SN Mohanty appeared before a special CBI court in Hyderabad along with 11 other accused in a disproportionate assets case against YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy. Charge-sheeted

Former BSP MP Dhananjay Singh was on Friday acquitted by a Delhi Court of the charges of raping and criminally intimidating a woman after the alleged victim turned hostile. Additional Sessions Judge Sarita Birbal freed Singh, a former MP from Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh, noting that the 42-year-old woman had deposed in the court that

JODHPUR: A local court here on Thursday rejected an application of actor Salman Khan seeking permission to summon the then DCP and DM of Mumbai as witness in a case filed against him under Arms Act. The case has to do with the expiry of the licence for guns used by him to the allegedly

NEW DELHI: A special court’s order on the coal block allocation case has raised fears of a fresh round of policy paralysis as scared bureaucrats may drag their feet on decisions involving large contracts and projects. Earlier this week a special court hearing the coal block case asked the CBI to record the statement of

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday scrapped an inquiry committee set up by the Madhya Pradesh high court chief justice to probe the sexual harassment complaint filed by a former woman additional district judge posted in Gwalior. Observing that the HC chief justice didn’t have the “authority” to set up the panel, the apex

LUCKNOW: The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court has said that “courts should ensure that religious conversion has not been done forcibly or frequently or under allurement as conversion from one religion to another is a tricky issue.” The Bench of Justice DP Singh and Justice Rajiv Sharma was hearing the plea by a

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today gave green signal to Uttar Pradesh government to appoint 70,000 assistant teachers in primary schools on the basis of 2011 Teacher Eligibility Test on merit basis. A bench of justices Dipak Misra and U U Lalit said all general category candidates who scored 70% marks in TET would be