Kia Sonet owner to get Rs 10.99 lakh refund, 9% interest and compensation over repeated DPF issues in his car during warranty period: Consumer commission orderRepeated DPF issue in BS6 Diesel car under warranty period with no solution amounts to deficiency in service, rules consumer commission and...
01 Oct, 2026, 06.30 PM IST
America’s power grid is heading toward a difficult electricity crunch. Could the answer already be sitting quietly in millions of parking lots?American power grids face a severe double strain. Surging electricity demand from new data centers and industrial electrification is collid...
24 Sep, 2026, 01.50 AM IST
Lok Adalat in New Delhi postponed to October 25: What will happen to cases and traffic challans now?The National Lok Adalat in New Delhi has officially rescheduled its cases for October 25, 2026, impacting all civil and criminal compoundab...
11 Sep, 2026, 09.33 AM IST
Passengers robbed at gunpoint in reserved sleeper coach: NCDRC holds Railways responsible for safety lapse, orders Rs 20,000 compensationThe National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission found Railways deficient in service. Passengers were robbed at gunpoint inside a reserv...
10 Sep, 2026, 05.48 PM IST
Insurer can't reject claim if alcohol habit disclosed before policy purchase: Consumer commissionA consumer commission ordered Edelweiss Tokio Life Insurance to pay over fifty lakh rupees. The company rejected a widow's claim despite di...
04 Sep, 2026, 05.37 PM IST
SC flags consumer forums’ slow justice, seeks urgent performance reviewThe Supreme Court expressed concern over slow consumer case resolutions. It stated consumer forums should not be used for retired officials...
14 Aug, 2026, 12.38 PM IST
Bank liable for wrong done by its employees: SC orders bank to compensate manSupreme Court holds District Cooperative Bank liable for employee actions, orders compensation of Rs 25,000 to a man after three decades. B...
06 May, 2024, 01.12 PM IST
Karnataka's state consumer courts cry for infrastructureGiven the constraints of the lone principal bench, a request was made to the state government for an additional bench three months ago.
06 Jun, 2017, 11.59 AM IST
Consumer forums filled with men backed by netas, bureaucrats, calls themselves 'judges': SC PanelA bench headed by Chief Justice T S Thakur had set up a committee under former SC judge, Justice Arijit Pasayat, to know the state of consu...
03 Nov, 2016, 10.41 AM IST
CDRC to function from this month in BerhampurLawyers had been agitating since August,2014, for the circuit bench and this affected functioning of Ganjam district consumer forum.
15 Jul, 2015, 01.06 PM IST
Consumer rights campaigns fine, but district forums in sleep modeIn Manipur, many presidents of district forums do not know how to write orders. Several forums don't have postal stamps to send notices and...
20 Mar, 2015, 11.33 AM IST
EPFO asks its offices to focus on consumer forum casesIn view of rising complaints against it in district consumer forums, retirement fund body EPFO has asked its field formations to focus on t...
01 Mar, 2015, 02.07 PM IST
Consumer forums in Bengaluru in dire straitsNone of the four district consumer forums in Bengaluru city have been active for the last two years, as a result of which as many as 60,000...
26 Dec, 2014, 06.53 AM IST
- Unitech held guilty of unfair trade practice, told to pay Rs 6.6 lakh by consumer forum
Real estate firm Unitech has been held guilty of resorting to unfair trade practice by a consumer forum here and directed to pay Rs 6.6 lak...
09 Apr, 2012, 02.10 PM IST
- Standard Chartered Bank to pay Rs 55K to customer as damages
The District Consumer Forum (Central) gave the order on a complaint of Ajit Kumar that the bank had sent a bill demanding over Rs 90,000 an...
14 Feb, 2012, 02.53 PM IST
- Discom to pay Rs 10K to woman for inflated bill :Consumer forum
BSES Yamuna Power Ltd has been asked by a consumer forum here to pay Rs 10,000 to one of its customers as compensation for "harassing" her.
08 Feb, 2012, 03.33 PM IST
- ICICI Bank fined Rs 25,000, ordered to compensate customer
ICICI Bank has been slapped with a fine of Rs 25,000 by a Delhi district consumer forum for wrongly deducting Rs 40,578 from the account of...
18 Aug, 2011, 02.54 PM IST