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The Hyderabad consumer commission has held a bank branch manager deficient in service for allegedly failing to return a retired woman employee s original property papers after she repaid her housing loan, and directed the branch to return the original document
Nepal Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal on Wednesday launched a diplomatic push to seek climate-related compensation from major global greenhouse emitters specifically India, China, and the United States for the devastation caused by the August 26 flash floods. T
India is preparing for the Eighth Central Pay Commission, whose recommendations will shape public finances for years to come. Yet before debating how much governments should spend on public employees, a more fundamental question deserves attention: how much do
As we grow older, the decrease in social invitations often indicates a conscious choice to nurture deeper relationships and prioritize personal well-being instead of seeming unfriendly. Theories like Socioemotional Selectivity and Self-Determination highlight
The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Gurgaon, has directed Axis Bank to refund Rs 2.34 lakh to a customer who allegedly fell victim to cyber fraud after making payments through an email that sought website renewal. A bench of president Sanjeev
A Kerala consumer body has directed two overseas employment agents to pay at least Rs 5.8 lakh to a man after they allegedly promised him a job in Israel, repeatedly postponed his travel and even gave him a fake flight reservation, noting that even after the I
Shimla apple grower wins Rs 3.52 lakh relief after buyers withhold payment for 352 boxes Shimla District Consumer Commission, Himachal Pradesh apple grower, Shimla apple, apple farmers, consumer court order, A R Transmissions Pvt Ltd, Baldev Singh Nidhi Sharma
LUCKNOW A divorce petition and demands for the return of dowry have emerged as central factors in Thursday s triple shooting in Gomti Nagar, where a man allegedly murdered his estranged wife and sister before turning the gun on himself. Relationship manager Di
A consumer commission in Punjab has directed an airlines to refund ticket price and pay an additional Rs 30,000 to a passenger after finding the airline liable for deficiency in service for failing to provide any valid justification for allegedly refusing boar
The Centre has directed the Punjab government to immediately assist the families of the men from the state who were allegedly lured to Russia by travel agents on the promise of jobs, later forced into the Russian armed forces, and died during the ongoing confl
We want justice, said a teary-eyed Sunita, 37, as she sat cross-legged on the road in a street near the Emergency Block at the Lal Bahadur Shastri (LBS) Hospital on Monday. Her brother, Anil Kumar, a 27-year-old Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) contractual
New Delhi, A Delhi Motor Accident Claims Tribunal has awarded over 32.74 lakh compensation to the family of a 49-year-old man who died after his motorcycle was hit by a speeding truck in Delhi in 2023. Presiding Officer Manish Sharma was hearing a claim petiti
An ailing 80-year-old woman who paid extra for a premium front-row seat and wheelchair assistance so she could travel comfortably after undergoing two surgeries instead found herself shifted to a middle seat in the 28th row just before boarding an IndiGo fligh
The Gurugram District Consumer Commission directed a gym to refund Rs 10,000 to two members who alleged the gym was excessively overcrowded during evening hours, despite assurances of adequate equipment availability. A bench of president Sanjeev Jindal and mem
The Fatehabad District Consumer Commission of Haryana has directed Cigna TTK Health Insurance Company to pay Rs 50 lakh to the widow of a man whose critical illness claim was allegedly rejected, and observed that the Insurer caused the widow huge monetary loss
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Tehran: Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei on Thursday called for environmental protection to be made a core part of any future administration of the Strait of Hormuz, citing recent oil pollution along Iran's coast.In a post on X, Baqaei refe
The Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) has initiated action to recover 1.06 crore in environmental compensation from the Sirhind Municipal Council over continued violations of the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016, including alleged dumping of municipal wa
The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Mohali, has directed Ola Fleet Technologies and Shahwar Motives to pay 1 lakh compensation and 3,860 towards third-party insurance charges to a Zirakpur resident after finding that they sold him a car that h
The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) has held a Ludhiana hospital and two doctors liable for allegedly failing to promptly treat a 36-year-old woman for her severe post-procedure pain and numbness and ordered Rs 15 lakh in compensation
A Hyderabad consumer commission has held officials of Aditya Birla Health Insurance guilty of deficiency of service after finding that they allegedly wrongly rejected a senior citizen s claim and cancelled the policy over alleged non-disclosure of hypertension
The Himachal Pradesh High Court on Monday directed the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and a contractor to equally share Rs 2.23-crore compensation for the collapse of a multi-storey residential building during the construction of a four-lane highw
A consumer body in Chhattisgarh has held State Bank of India (SBI) guilty of deficiency in service for allegedly failing to act on a customer s complaint of unauthorised online transactions worth nearly Rs 1 lakh, and directed the bank to refund the amount wit
Karnataka Chief Minister DK Shivakumar offered landowners 3 crore or more per acre, or 50% of acquired land as developed plots, for the proposed AI township near Bidadi, as the JD(S)-BJP launched a three-day protest against the project. The umbrella seller as
The Maharashtra State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has directed a builder to refund Rs 25 lakh and pay Rs 2 lakh compensation to a businessman who waited over three decades for possession of 11 commercial units that were never constructed. Presiding
A Rohtak consumer commission has ordered the insurance company to honour a Rs 4.8 lakh theft claim for a crane stolen in 2019, ruling that the insurer could not reject the claim merely because the vehicle s registration number had changed from commercial to pr
A Srinagar consumer commission has directed SpiceJet to refund the ticket cost of Rs 10,078 and pay Rs 52,000 as compensation after a couple returning from the Haj pilgrimage was allegedly denied boarding despite having valid boarding passes and had to spend t
The Allahabad High Court upheld the conviction of two men for a 1984 armed robbery in which villagers apprehended them at the spot; however, considering their age, lack of criminal history, and the 39-year delay in appeal disposal, the court released them on p
A bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) BR Gavai, along with justices Joymalya Bagchi and K Vinod Chandran, entrusted the vigilance wing to take over investigation into six FIRs registered on the SIT s recommendation three relating to the alleged conspi
A consumer body in Punjab recently directed the postal authorities to compensate a customer after a parcel containing clothes worth Rs 35,360 reached its destination in a torn condition with nearly half its contents missing. President Kiranjit Kaur Arora and m
President Trump announced the United States will guard the Strait of Hormuz. He stated America will act as the waterway's guardian and receive payment
Rescue teams have recovered the bodies of all eight people trapped inside a collapsed waste-to-energy plant building in the Moshi area of Pimpri-Chinchwad, bringing the total death toll from the disaster to nine. The last body was retrieved from the rubble ear
Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday refused to describe Indrajeet Mondal s killing after the recovery of the 11-year-old girl s body as lynching, saying his identity had been established before the murder . He also alleged that those who lost the recen
The Jammu and Kashmir Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has held insurance company ICICI Lombard General Insurance Co. Ltd
Just 17 minutes before a scheduled departure, a Himachal Pradesh passenger's confirmed bus booking was cancelled, leaving him stranded at night and forcing him to take an emergency flight to Delhi. Holding that online booking platforms cannot escape liability
The Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT), Panchkula, has awarded a compensation of 66.22 lakh, along with 7.5% annual interest, to the families of two brothers who died after being struck by a bus in Pinjore. The claim petitions were filed by the legal heirs
A consumer body in Kerala recently directed Southern Railway to pay Rs 60,000 to a complainant after a travelling ticket examiner (TTE) was alleged to have illegally occupied a passenger s reserved seat. President D B Binu and members Ramachandran V and Sreevi
The Karnal District Consumer Commission held online retail giant Myntra and the shoe seller liable for deficiency in service after a customer received replacement shoes with the original size-8 relabelled as size-7 instead of a genuine exchange. A bench of pre
The Bombay High Court s Aurangabad bench Monday directed the Maharashtra Government to pay Rs 30 lakh each to the families of two workers who died while cleaning a septic tank in Nanded district in 2021, observing that the continued existence of manual scaveng
In a plea for justice, a civil rights group has turned to the National Human Rights Commission concerning five maternal deaths that occurred in Kota, Rajasthan. These women were given oxytocin injections that were later revealed to contain no active substance
A practising advocate from Mumbai purchased a Skoda Superb Elegance, one of Skoda's premium sedan offerings, from Autobahn Enterprises, an authorised Skoda dealer in Mumbai. The car was delivered on June 4, 2013
A consumer court in Maharashtra has directed an insurance company to pay a man in Nagpur Rs 7 lakh with interest, over a decade after an LPG cylinder leak killed his wife. It also directed Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) to pay Rs 60,000 to his fam
The Shimla Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has ordered the Himachal Pradesh state electricity board to pay a widow Rs 40,000 towards mental agony and harassment after she was slapped with a Rs 51,000 electricity bill a massive jump from her usual monthl
A Delhi court has sentenced a 67-year-old security guard to 20 years rigorous imprisonment for raping a six-year-old girl, holding that courts must send a strong, deterrent message that rising offences against children shall not be tolerated under any circumst
Pulling up the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation over inadequate measures related to potholes, and non-installation of protective grills on manholes leading to the death of a man, the Bombay High Court Monday questioned if the civic body did not value lives o
Hours before the illegal four-storey structure collapsed onto adjoining shanties in Mumbai s Mankhurd on Sunday night, killing six people, including a woman and her four children, it had begun tilting, prompting the three families living inside to evacuate. Re
A consumer who waited nearly 11 years to get his accident-damaged Maruti Suzuki Ertiga repaired has won Rs 98,000 in compensation after the Madhya Pradesh State Consumer Commission dismissed an authorised dealer's appeal, holding that the dealership failed to
The Chandigarh Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission recently directed Airbnb India to refund more than Rs 70,000, along with interest and compensation, to a woman after finding that she did not receive a refund despite cancelling her booking for an accommoda
Four of India's six largest IT services companies widened the gap between chief executive officer (CEO) pay and median employee remuneration in FY26, even as the broader workforce saw muted salary growth amid an industry slowdown.Annual report disclosures of T
A Hyderabad-Mydukur bus journey booked in July 2024 for just Rs 1,320 ended in frustration after a travel company cancelled the service at the last minute without informing its passengers, leaving a lawyer and his ailing wife stranded overnight in the city. Ne