CHENNAI: In a shake-up, two-wheeler market leader Hero MotoCorp has slipped to the second position behind Japanese arch rival Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India, wholesale dispatch data showed. In retail sales, however, Hero remains the two-wheeler king.Honda clocked just over 18.53 lakh units in domestic wholesales in the April-July period, while Hero logged over 18.31…
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday nudged state-run banks to step up deposit mobilisation and conduct special drives so that it can keep pace with the growth in loans.The minister’s comments at a meeting with public sector bank chiefs came amid data by SBI Research suggesting that bank deposits, traditionally favoured for their…
MUMBAI: In a significant ruling, the Income-Tax Appellate Tribunal’s (ITAT) Mumbai bench has held that a gift of Rs 20 lakh received by a taxpayer from his non-resident brother, based in the UAE, is not subject to tax. This judgement underscores that Indian tax laws exempt certain gifts from being taxed, particularly those received from…
An Ahmedabad civil court dismissed a suit filed by a Hindu man seeking declaration that his Muslim brother was not entitled to a share in their parents’ property because he had converted to Islam and was disinherited by their parents.The case involved Kamal Sathwara and his younger brother, Julesh alias Junaid Sathwara, who converted to…
An Ahmedabad civil court dismissed a suit filed by a Hindu man seeking declaration that his Muslim brother was not entitled to a share in their parents’ property because he had converted to Islam and was disinherited by their parents.The case involved Kamal Sathwara and his younger brother, Julesh alias Junaid Sathwara, who converted to…
NEW DELHI: Amid growing convergence on strategic issues, particularly the common agenda of ensuring a free and open Indo-Pacific, India and Japan are in talks to revise and update the joint declaration on security cooperation they signed in 2008. The third India-Japan 2+2 foreign and defence industrial meeting on Tuesday will look to carry forward…
NEW DELHI: The Union government on Monday told the Supreme Court that Parliament was compelled to enact a law in 2019 to make Muslim men who instantaneously divorce their wives through ‘triple talaq‘ liable to imprisonment as the SC’s 2017 ruling declaring it unconstitutional did not prove to be a deterrent against such unilateral sudden…
Report of 3-member panel of retired HC judge K Hema, star Sharadha and retired IAS officer K B Valsala Kumari was released following a HC observation THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Justice Hema Committee report paints a sordid picture of humiliating “compromises” that women are forced to make to survive in Malayalam film industry, including being subjected to ‘casting…
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Justice Hema Committee report paints a sordid picture of humiliating “compromises” that women are forced to make to survive in Malayalam film industry, including being subjected to ‘casting couch‘ – having to dole out sexual favours to industry’s high and mighty or risking a premature end to careers. It shows that disparity in remuneration…
BENGALURU: The Karnataka high court Monday asked a special court hearing private complaints against CM Siddaramaiah in the alleged Mysuru Urban Development Authority (Muda) site allotment controversy, to defer its proceedings and not to take any precipitative action till the next date of hearing on August 29.Justice M Nagaprasanna passed this interim order after the…
