Power of Tax Officials to Arrest

The promoters of some companies were arrested by the Tax officials on the allegation that the shell companies were inflating the turnovers to claim the input tax credit. Many of the promoters approached various high courts and got anticipatory bails. ..

EC asks Political Parties to Comply with SC s order on Electoral Bonds

In an interim order given by the Supreme Court (SC) in response to petitions filed by the NGO Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) challenging the electoral bond scheme, the political parties were asked to furnish the details of receipt through ..

Trends with NOTA Votes

With the results of the 2019 Lok Sabha Election results are out, the following trends are observed with NOTA: The number of NOTA votes polled was about 1.04% in 2019 against the 1.08% of the NOTA votes in 2014. The ..

Reservation in Promotions

The Supreme Court has upheld the law of Karnataka which provides reservation in promotions in favour of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. The court upheld the law which provides consequential seniority .i.e. a person promoted would also get seniority as a ..

Reservation based on Economic Backwardness

The 124th Constitutional Amendment Bill passed by parliament provides the quotas for the economically weaker sections (EWS). This marked a departure from the earlier precedence from the reservation system for SC, ST and OBCs by delinking caste or community identity ..

Arjan Kumar Sikri appointed as new chairperson of News Broadcasting Standards Authority (NBSA)

Justice Arjan Kumar Sikri, the former judge of Supreme Court of India (SCI), has been appointed as the chairperson of News Broadcasting Standards Authority (NBSA) by the News Broadcasters Association (NBA). He will succeed Justice (Retd.) R. V. Raveendran, and ..