2.5 Days Grace Period for Making Remittances to EPFO by Employers is Withdrawn, Effective Feb 2016 - 19.01.2016
Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has withdrawn the grace period of 5 days for depositing of contribution and administrative charges. This shall apply from February, 2016.
Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has withdrawn the grace period of 5 days for depositing of contribution and administrative charges. This shall apply from February, 2016.
Cabinet has allowed amendments to national tariff policy that provide for differential power prices in a day, allow companies to pass on change in domestic taxes to consumers and expand generation capacity by 100%.
Union Cabinet has cleared imposition of President’s Rule in Arunachal Pradesh.
Govt. has relaxed norms that define the size of tract of an engineering college in a metro from 2.5 acres to 1.5 acres now.
Centre has introduced a set of new Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) aiming to put an end to police harassment of ‘Good Samaritans' who choose to assist an injured person or a person in distress.
Corporate Affairs Ministry has launched Central Registration Centre (CRC) to speed up company incorporation related services.
Government has notified a new policy of granting Environmental Clearance (EC) for minor minerals to combat illegal sand mining.
Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has said that all Central Secretariat Service officers are requested to submit property returns for year 2015 at earliest without waiting for last date to approach, otherwise vigilance clearance will be denied for empanelment, deputations, etc.
Labour and Employment Ministry has decided to exempt start-ups from inspections related to key labour laws—including Industrial Disputes Act, Contract Labour Act, ESI Act, Trade Union Act and Employees Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, in order to dispel fear and encourage businesses.
Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) has tightened norms for Cross-Border Re-Insurers (CBR) operating in India. It has said that the CBR should have credit rating of at least BBB (with Standard & Poor's) or equivalent for the past five years.
Indian Patent Office has dismissed application of Lee Pharma for a compulsory licence to make a copy of AstraZeneca's antidiabetes drug saxagliptin, which is branded Onglyza.
Ministry of Information & Broadcasting has framed a new business policy for Publications Division with the objective to streamline business practices in line with the contemporary trends prevailing in publications industry.
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has said currency chest holding branches can raise service charges to be levied on cash deposited by non-chest bank branches to 5 per packet of 100 pieces from existing rate of 2 per packet. Revised charges will come into effect from February 1.
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has directed banks that a pensioner's account should not exceed more than 14 credit transactions in a calender year for retirement and arrear payments.
Maharashtra, the First State to Grant 180 Days Maternity Leave in Surrogacy Cases - 21.01.2016
Maharashtra Government has sanctioned a special childcare leave provision for its women employees who have had a child through a surrogate.
SC has held that Rajasthan Government will take back possession of a mine from Gotan Limestone Khanji Udyog Pvt Ltd (GLKUPL), which was transferred to Ultra Tech, saying that competent authority was misled by concealing the real transaction.
SC, while taking note of India’s substantial role as a defence power and need to keep lives of its personnel safe, has upheld Government’s policy against having any open advertisements inviting tenders for critical and specialised defence spare parts.
SC has ordered Centre to bring out comprehensive chart on status of environmental clearance and building projects of 7 builders from Tamil Nadu. The court also asked all the construction companies to deposit 5 % of project cost, imposed as fine by NGT.
Supreme Court, while rejecting a woman IAF officer's plea for permanent commission even though she had failed to clear the medical test, has said a physically-unfit person cannot be allowed to work for the defence forces.
Supreme Court has directed a CBI inquiry into murder of Bahujan Samaj Party leader Raju Pal in 2005 in Uttar Pradesh.
Supreme Court has imposed provisional fine on erring builders who constructed buildings and then applied for green clearances.
Supreme Court directed Sanskriti school to admit wards of all central government employees with transferrable jobs for upcoming academic year 2016-17 within the 60 per cent quota, as an interim measure.
Supreme Court has denied three petitions filed by private individuals to review its May 7, 2014 judgment banning jallikattu (bull-taming sport) as an inherently cruel act.
SC has clarified that it has not stopped National Green Tribunal (NGT) from passing any order in matters pertaining to pollution in Delhi and asked a body, which wants to organise a vintage car rally for a social cause, to approach the green panel instead.
SC has dismissed Uttar Pradesh Government’s plea to defer hearing on a plea challenging appointment of Justice (retd) Virendra Singh as Lokayukta, saying the apex court has to function in a certain manner.
Supreme Court has held that a man would not be entitled to claim properties and stridhan gifted to his wife if she dies under mysterious circumstances within seven years of marriage, bring the case within the ambit of dowry death.
Supreme Court, while setting aside Punjab and Haryana High Court order, has upheld acquisition of land by Haryana Government in 2003-04 for the expansion and systematic development of the Surajkund Tourist Complex, holding that it was meant for a public purpose.
SC has directed Centre to maintain status quo on proposed disinvestment of Hindustan Zinc Limited.
SC has asked Delhi Police to ensure safety of the petitioner in Sabarimala case. The court told police to ensure safety of lawyer Naushad Ahmed Khan after he claimed that he is receiving death threats for challenging the decision of Ayyappa temple, Sabarimala, Kerala to ban the entry of women.
Bombay HC has suggested that family courts have to sympathetically consider the financial, physical, mental stress while awarding custody of child to warring parents.Further the court said that they should balance changing social, financial dynamics and progressive gender equations.
Delhi High Court has junked a British-era criminal law designed to put agitators/protesters behind bars for long if they disobey public servants.
Delhi High Court has refused to stay a lower court's order that directed Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to return a few files it seized during a December 2015 raid at offices of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's Principal Secretary Rajendra Kumar.
Delhi HC has asked AAP Government to clarify its stand on point system for nursery admission in light of its recent circular.
Delhi High Court has asked Centre and Police, “people in Delhi are paying taxes but are they getting safety in return" and irked over Union Government’s attitude towards the national capital.
Delhi HC has scrapped failed scheme of old-age pension floated by North, South and East civic bodies in Delhi, who have defaulted in payment for the past three years.
Delhi HC has junked bail application moved by Bhawna Arora, accused of throwing ink on CM Arvind Kejriwal with due intention to malign his reputation and remanded her to judicial custody after the investigating agency said she was not required for further custodial interrogation.
Delhi HC has restrained around 203 websites from showing, broadcasting or providing online access to film 'Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3'.
Delhi High Court has ruled that private unaided schools on land allotted by DDA have to take prior government sanction before hiking fees, while saying that schools cannot indulge in profiteering and commercialisation of education.
Gujarat HC has directed Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) to shut down around 1,800 units involved in manufacturing ornaments without licence in Manek Chowk area.
Gujarat High Court, while acting on a petition filed by an Australia-based petitioner to set aside an FIR of dowry harassment filed against him by his spouse, has observed that a husband cannot skip obligations towards his wife.
Karnataka High Court has set aside 300 per cent increase for non-BEML category of students of the Kendriya Vidyalaya in BEML Nagar of KGF.
Karnataka High Court, while observing that it can’t interfere in policy decisions, has dismissed petition which questioned grant of an Indian Institute of Technology to Dharwad instead of Raichur.
Kerala High Court has quashed criminal case registered against actor Prithviraj for not properly displaying statutory warning against liquor consumption in a particular scene in a Malayalam film.
Madras High Court has irked over a nationalised insurance company vehemently resisting payment of a claim for angioplasty under a medical insurance cover for a maximum of Rs. 50,000 just because the claimant had undergone the medical procedure within nine months of taking the insurance policy.
Madras High Court has adjourned by two months a PIL seeking to declare a rule of State HR & CE department preventing women from entering temples during a particular period in which they are not by custom and usage allowed to do so.
Madras High Court has passed an order for attachment of assets of cellphone service provider M/s Aircel Cellular limited.
Madras HC, while taking note of death of four people in a septic tank of an eatery on Old Mahabalipuram Road, has declared that Government would have resposibility of paying compensation to relatives of victims even deaths occurred on private property.
Punjab and Haryana High Court has junked anticipatory bail petition filed by liquor baron Shiv Lal Doda, accused in the murder of a Dalit, Bheem Taank, on December 11 last year at his farmhouse in Abohar.
Competition Commission of India (CCI) has granted approval to proposed investment by FIL Capital Investments (Mauritius) II Limited in Cipla Health Limited.
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