Pension, gratuity withheld on caste misrepresentation charge, retired govt officer fights and wins case in Bombay High CourtA retired Central Excise officer has won a significant legal battle. The Bombay High Court has ordered the release of his pension and gratu...
07 Nov, 2025, 02.37 PM IST
Tribal daughters can’t inherit ancestral property under Hindu Law, must follow tribal customs: Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court ruled that tribal daughters in Scheduled Tribes are not governed by the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, and must follow custo...
04 Nov, 2025, 10.58 AM IST
Daughter's application for compassionate appointment after father's death is objected by a lady claiming to be 'widow'; she fights back and wins in HCA daughter successfully secured her late father's job on compassionate grounds after a woman claiming to be his widow objected. The Odisha ...
30 Oct, 2025, 06.54 PM IST
Rs 1.5 crore tax refund withheld by Income Tax Dept due to mismatch between ITR and Form 26AS; taxpayer files case, wins in High CourtThe Allahabad High Court ruled that tax officers cannot withhold refunds solely due to mismatches with Form 26AS. Taxpayers can provide For...
30 Oct, 2025, 11.21 AM IST
Wife to get central government pension under CCS rules as husband went missing for more than seven years: Chhattisgarh High Court orderA Chhattisgarh High Court order grants a wife her husband's central government pension. The husband, a senior technician at Bhilai Steel Pl...
29 Oct, 2025, 11.27 AM IST
Children of second wife also entitled to inherit their late Hindu father’s ancestral property: Odisha High CourtChildren from a late Hindu husband's first and second marriages will share his ancestral property. The Odisha High Court clarified that off...
27 Oct, 2025, 05.15 PM IST
Bank withholds retired employee’s gratuity for someone else’s loan default; she wins in Odisha High CourtA bank employee's gratuity was wrongly withheld after she acted as a guarantor of someone else's loan and that person defaulted on the loan...
23 Oct, 2025, 11.16 AM IST
Six years after receiving arrears of salary, employees were asked to pay it back—but Supreme Court says no need, and here’s whyThe Supreme Court granted relief to five retired Odisha judiciary employees, ruling that excess salary arrears mistakenly paid to them cann...
08 Oct, 2025, 12.20 PM IST
Wife files case 24 years after husband's death in govt job; Rajasthan High Court orders pension, gratuity payout with interestA widow won a Rajasthan High Court case for her husband's family pension and gratuity, 24 years after his 1990 death. Despite his "temporar...
04 Oct, 2025, 07.15 AM IST
Wife seeks maintenance payment; husband says he can't pay because of second wife and mother's responsibility; court rules in her favourThe Odisha High Court ruled in favor of a wife seeking maintenance from her former husband, despite his claim that he couldn't pay due to s...
27 Sep, 2025, 01.59 AM IST
How new Labour Codes will impact your salary, gratuity and provident fund payments once implementedAlthough all four Labour Codes were notified by 2020, their implementation has been pending for over four years. State governments are requ...
08 Jul, 2025, 10.30 AM IST
Labour ministry exempts Vedanta Coal block in Odisha from certain provisions of Contract Labour Act for three yearsIn a notification dated April 29, the ministry of labour and employment said this exemption has been given by the Centre in exercise of the...
01 May, 2025, 02.38 PM IST
Odisha enhances gratuity limit to Rs 20 lakhOdisha CM Mohan Charan Majhi has increased the gratuity limit for state government employees from Rs 15 lakh to Rs 20 lakh, effective from ...
08 Oct, 2024, 10.10 PM IST
New labour codes will impact salary structure but when will they come into effect?The codes also seek to expand the coverage of social security (such as pension) to include the unorganised sector, the self-employed, migra...
24 Aug, 2022, 03.06 PM IST
High time govt looks at existing definitions of informal labour force: SBI EcowrapIn India, informal employment is defined as someone who is not eligible for at least one social security benefit among provident fund (PF),...
29 Nov, 2021, 05.08 PM IST
RSS-backed BMS calls for protest on 20th against new labour lawsThe move is a blatant violation of labour laws and democratic rights of workers, and has pushed them to a wall, the organisation said. Seve...
15 May, 2020, 09.04 AM IST
Opposition set to corner govt in Parliament on financial scamsOpposition parties would seek an answer from PM Modi on how the PNB fraud and other banking scams took place and how the govt failed to sto...
04 Mar, 2018, 08.15 PM IST