Higher EPS 95 Pension: For employees' higher pension, employer can’t contribute retrospectively to EPS above the statutory limit, rules Kerala HCKerala High Court ruled against retrospective higher pension claims for 67 CIAL employees. Despite CIAL offering retrospective contribution...
22 Dec, 2025, 11.39 AM IST
Teacher made to take unpaid leave instead of child-care leave; wins her case in Delhi High Court for this reasonA significant ruling from a Delhi court has brought relief to a dedicated teacher, as she successfully petitioned for her 303 days of unpai...
24 Nov, 2025, 12.28 PM 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
Tech cos oppose DCC call on E band allotment to telcosLast week, the DCC, the highest decision-making body of the DoT, accepted Trai’s recommendations on base prices of 5G airwaves. Among other...
04 May, 2022, 02.16 PM IST
Guwahati high court provides liberty to tea estates to pay workmen interim enhancement of their wagesGuwahati High Court has provided the liberty to tea estates to pay to the workmen any interim enhancement of their wages as they deem prope...
16 Mar, 2021, 11.33 PM IST
DoT calls meet on spectrum allocation roadmap; telcos, Apple, Google, FB among those to attendIn the past 10 years, the government has auctioned spectrum six times – in calendar years 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 – but has r...
04 Jan, 2021, 09.59 PM IST
Revisit UPA's 'ill-advised' spectrum charges on police: JayalalithaaJaya has demanded waiver of a Rs 140-crore levy by the Union Ministry for Communications and Information Technology.
25 Dec, 2015, 01.05 PM IST
1,598 PILs pending before SC; oldest goes back 23 yearsThe principle of PILs is founded on Article 39A of the Constitution to protect and deliver prompt social justice with the help of law.
10 Aug, 2015, 04.59 PM IST
- All India Radio stopped 'Gyan Vani FM' due to non-payment by IGNOU: Government
AIR had to stop the operation of Gyan Vani FM channels due to discontinuation of payments by IGNOU, which has now paid a major part of the ...
13 Mar, 2015, 06.25 PM IST
Make activities, finances public: Ministry to IOA, NSFs"...annual recognition for the year 2015 may be reviewed in case the above instructions are not complied with by 1st April, 2015," it said.
02 Mar, 2015, 01.55 PM IST
Ravi Shankar Prasad asks Fin Min to hasten I-T refund to BSNLIn parallel, the Telecom Commission (TC) is taking steps to arrange an early Rs 6,794 crore refund for BSNL's surrendered 4G airwaves.
19 Sep, 2014, 01.08 PM IST
Reliance Jio awards 50k-70k sites contract to Samsung: Credit SuisseRJIL, the telecom arm of Mukesh Ambani owned Reliance Industries (RIL), had earlier awarded a contract for 60,000 LTE base stations to Sams...
17 Sep, 2014, 05.15 PM IST
Microsoft to reinvent productivity to empower people: CEO Satya NadellaA recent study, he said, has projected the potential impact from greater technology adoption to be USD 56 billion in added economic output ...
15 Jul, 2014, 11.08 AM IST
Pench tigress release mired in red tapeThe already belated move to relocate Pench tigress into its natural habitat seems to be turning into a futile exercise due to inordinate de...
13 May, 2014, 02.06 PM IST
Airtel, Vodafone and Aircel may be charged for airwaves in Tamil NaduDoT is deliberating a market price for second-generation (2G) airwaves for all operators who merged their Chennai licence with Tamil Nadu.
03 Sep, 2013, 04.00 AM IST
Department of Telecom rejects defence demand on ‘efficient’ airwavesDoT has dismissed an armed forces demand for pan-India allocation of airwaves, since the spectrum is already allotted to MTNL and Railways.
11 Jun, 2013, 08.32 AM IST
- 2G spectrum auction: High reserve price justified only when there is lack of competition
Perceived scarcity of spectrum, its potential availability, commercial viability of a band, rollout speed and revenue determine bid prices.
02 May, 2012, 01.43 PM IST