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Google has more temp, contract workers than actual Employees

31 May 2019
May 31, 2019: Welcome to 2019, the era of the “shadow workforce.” A wide array of temps, contractors and contingent workers are playing an increasingly large role in offices across the globe. As...
 

Uber posts $1Billion loss in its very first quarter as a Public Company

31 May 2019
May 31, 2019: Ride-hail giant Uber lost more than $1 Billion in its first quarter as a public company. Though the eye-popping figure had been expected by investors, the company also confirmed Wall S...
 

Modi Government 2.0: Full list of Ministers with their names and Departments. Know who got what

31 May 2019
May 31, 2019: On Thursday, the world saw the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his re-elected Government. The Cabinet of the Prime Minister saw some new entries, some exists, s...
 

Delhi high court: Children can be evicted for abuse of elderly parents

31 May 2019
May 31, 2019: Observing that aging has become a social challenge, Delhi high court on Thursday upheld the power of the district administration to evict children from properties of ill-treated parents...
 

Nirmala Sitharaman appointed new finance minister, replaces Arun Jaitley

31 May 2019
May 31, 2019: The second Narendra Modi-led BJP government on Friday appointed Nirmala Sitharaman as the new finance minister. Sitharaman replaced Arun Jaitley who decided to opt out on health grounds...
 

Delhi High Court: How safe are coaching centres?

31 May 2019
May 31, 2019: Delhi high court on Thursday sought a response from the AAP government, Delhi Police and the fire department on a PIL seeking to know the fire safety preparedness of all private coachin...
 

Doctrine of Double Jeopardy: Citing Article 20(2) of Constitution, HC quashed order charging the accused for acquitted offences

31 May 2019
May 31, 2019: The Chattisgarh High Court has quashed the order given by Special Judge (SC / ST Act) to put a man on trial for charges he has been acquitted of citing Article 20(2) of Constitution w...
 

HC cancels bail granted to serial offender charged of cheating, forgery, criminal breach of trust etc. Read Judgement discarding 'lenient view' of lower court

31 May 2019
May 31, 2019: The Delhi High Court has cancelled the bail order of a serial offender overruling the lenient view of the Lower Court and ruled in favour of the petitioner (said to be his wife) who p...
 

Gender Justice: South African President’s new Cabinet has 50 percent Women

30 May 2019
May 31, 2019: South Africa’s president on Wednesday named a trimmed-down cabinet that is 50 percent women, making the country one of the few in the world to be “gender-balanced.” President Cyril Ram...
 

Google Maps now shows speed limits in more than 40 Countries, India will have to wait

30 May 2019
May 31, 2019: Almost six years after Google’s purchase of the Waze navigation app, one of the features previously exclusive to the latter now appears to be a staple of Google Maps in more than 40 cou...
 

Arnav Gupta, Indian origin Man who set himself on fire near White House in US, dies

30 May 2019
May 30, 2019: A man who set himself on fire near the White House has died of his injuries, authorities confirmed on Thursday. Arnav Gupta, of Bethesda, Md., erupted into a bright orange fireball at...
 

Guard warns Cops of sighting a ‘Terrorist’ in this City; but he turns out to be Movie Actor in costume

30 May 2019
May 30, 2019: In a case of mistaken identity, a watchman of a cooperative bank in Vasai called the Manickpur police on Monday to inform them that a “terrorist” was roaming the streets of Vasai. In r...
 

35-year-old booked by Police for giving instant Tripple Talaq to Wife

30 May 2019
May 30, 2019: A 35-year-old man was booked by the Sakinaka police on Saturday for using triple talaq to divorce his wife last year. The accused later married another woman. The Muslim Women (Pro...
 

Shopkeepers don’t have any Right to Park their Cars on Road rules this High Court

30 May 2019
May 30, 2019: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday said shopkeepers on Ajmal Khan Road in Karol Bagh do not have any “inherent and vested right” to park on the road. The court’s remarks came in respons...
 

HC declines interim hold on Gambling and Poker Websites

30 May 2019
May 30, 2019: The Delhi High Court Wednesday declined to pass any interim order for putting on hold the operation of websites which allow people to gamble, bet and play games of chance, like poker, o...
 

10% EWS quota cannot be applied to PG medical courses in Maharashtra for 2019-20: rules Supreme Court

30 May 2019
May 30, 2019: The Supreme Court on Thursday said that 10 per cent EWS quota cannot be applied to PG medical courses in Maharashtra for the academic year 2019-20 as admission process started long befo...
 

HC points out that Fire Clearnance norms of Delhi Govt are "moronic" and responsible for fire accidents

30 May 2019
May 30,2019: On  Thursday, Delhi High Court Bench stated that,"Fire clearance norms of AAP Government for operating restaurants here were "moronic" and responsible for fire accidents".Justice Vibhu B...
 

Pakistan has extended closure of its airspace along its Eastern border with India until June 15

30 May 2019
May 30,2019: Pakistan fully closed its airspace in February after an Indian Air Force strike on a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terror camp in Balakot.Pakistan opened its airspace for all flights except for...
 

PNB Fraud: UK Court asks,"Which jail will be Nirav Modi lodged, if extradited"

30 May 2019
May 30,2019: On Thursday, Westminster Magistrates Court sought information from India within 14 days on where fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi would be lodged, if extradited.The UK Court expressed the...
 

US District Court orders Australian Leather to pay damaged to UGG for willful infringement of Trademarks

30 May 2019
May 30,2019: A Jury for the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ordered Australian Leather to pay a huge amount to Decker’s for willfully infringing Decker’s 'UGG' trademark.The “...
 

SC expounds: In class action suits, oneness of the interest is akin to a common grievance against same person. Read Judgment

30 May 2019
May 30,2019: In the judgment of the case – Anjum Hussain & Others v. Intellicity Business Park Pvt. Ltd. & Others, delivered on May 10, 2019, Justice Arun Mishra and Justice Uday Umesh Lali...
 

High Court expounds: No conviction for Section 398 IPC unless identity of armed person is ascertained

30 May 2019
May 30, 2019: The Delhi High Court has modified the conviction of a man under Section 398 IPC  to Section 392 IPC after the key factor of Section 398 IPC found to be missing in the case.  The...
 

Fast Track Courts: High Court has issued warning to Delhi government

30 May 2019
May 30, 2019: The Delhi high court directed the AAP government on Thursday to comply with its previous order to place before the Cabinet the need for 18 more fast track and 22 commercial courts, fail...
 

Caste Issue: No relief to Ajit Jogi from High Court

30 May 2019
May 30, 2019: High Court of Chhattisgarh, Bilaspur on Wednesday has rejected the plea of state’s former chief minister and Janta Congress Chhattisgarh Supremo Ajit Jogi for permitting him to abstain...
 

Custody Battle: Supreme Court came to the rescue of father [Read the Order]

30 May 2019
May 30, 2019: Supreme Court came to the rescue of a father and directed the High Court to dispose the matter at the earliest.   A bench of Chief Justice Gogoi and Justice Bopanna has pas...
 

Courts cannot decide where wife of jailed man will reside: SC allowed the wife to reside with her in-laws

30 May 2019
May 30, 2019: On Wednesday, Supreme Court quashed the interim order by Madras High Court of keeping a woman at Family Counselling Centre and not allowing her to stay at her in-laws house stating th...
 

Arbitrators must share list of number of cases they have with them, says High Court

30 May 2019
May 30, 2019: In a significant observation in the backdrop of the spike in disputes that go into arbitration, the Bombay high court said that companies or their advocates often appoint the same advoc...
 

Supreme Court: No power to issue mandamus to MCI to lower percentile [Read the Order]

30 May 2019
May 30, 2019: Supreme Court has held that it is not for the courts to decide the percentile even if rules provide for lowering of standard in some circumstances.  A bench of Chief Justice Gog...
 

Know why Pakistan has again extended airspace closure on Indian border upto June 14

30 May 2019
May 30, 2019: Pakistani airspace on its eastern border with India will remain closed until June 14, a civil aviation official said on Wednesday, the latest extension months after a standoff between t...
 

Sikh School Bus driver recounts years of workplace abuse, bias in America

30 May 2019
May 30, 2019: Fellow workers called him “al Qaeda” & “Taliban” & sent him condolences on the killing of Osama bin Laden. Students he ferried to & back from school called him a “terro...
 

This High Court rejects Bail plea of a Man who morphed PM Modi's into an Obscene Pic

30 May 2019
May 30, 2019: Md Karim Khan has been lodged in an Assam jail since April 7, when he was arrested for posting an “obscene” photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Facebook. On May 24, the G...
 

CJI Gogoi to NRC Team: 'Don't rush the process', as a Veteran Solider declared Foreigner and Detained

30 May 2019
May 30, 2019: CJI made remarks a day after a retired soldier from Assam, who served in the Army for 30 years, was declared a foreigner by the state police.The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the N...
 

HC sets deceased man's sons free in a criminal case filed against them after charges don't prove. Read Judgement criticizing summoning orders passed without due application of mind

30 May 2019
May 30, 2019: The Delhi High Court has quashed the criminal case proceedings against the sons of a deceased man charged under Section 420/467/468/471 and 120 B IPC . The Court found out that the summ...
 
 

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