Karnataka: MFI Ordinance proposes 10-year jail for coercive recovery of loansThe proposed micro-finance ordinance aims to impose hefty fines and lengthy jail terms on micro-finance institution executives who use coer...
04 Feb, 2025, 07.49 PM IST
Pakistan to impose new taxes worth Rs 20,000 crore to comply with IMF conditionsThe IMF has estimated a shortfall of Rs 300 billion under the petroleum development levy and asked the finance ministry to increase this le...
30 Jan, 2023, 07.12 AM IST
Shiv Sena hits out at Centre over OBC quota issueThe Shiv Sena thanked Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari for signing the ordinance that seeks to restore the OBC quota ahead of som...
24 Sep, 2021, 03.27 PM IST
Allahabad High Court seeks UP govt reply on plea against anti-conversion lawAccording to the petition, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had announced on October 31 that his dispensation would bring a law against "love...
18 Dec, 2020, 05.13 PM IST
Haryana sets up 3-member drafting committee to frame law on 'love jihad'The minister's statement comes days after the Uttar Pradesh government cleared a draft ordinance against conversion through force or fraudu...
26 Nov, 2020, 03.37 PM IST
Haryana cabinet clears draft ordinance to reserve 75% private sector jobs for localsHowever, the employers will have the option to recruit local candidates from one district to only 10 per cent. Exemption clause shall also ...
06 Jul, 2020, 08.40 PM IST
Opposition doubts purpose behind law to regulate UP private varsities, government defends moveAccording to the draft, private universities will have to give an undertaking that their campuses will not be allowed to be used for "any a...
19 Jun, 2019, 07.12 PM IST
ET View: Junk the Uttar Pradesh Private Universities Draft OrdinanceIndia's higher education has been on shaky ground for some time now.
19 Jun, 2019, 12.12 PM IST
Draft ordinance plans death for child rape in J&KJ&K chief minister Mehbooba Mufti has also reiterated that she is determined to bring in the new law awarding capital punishment to child r...
23 Apr, 2018, 09.44 AM IST
Government readies ordinance on SC/ST ActThe draft is being prepared in case the government decides to bring one to overturn the Supreme Court order. No final decision taken on the...
17 Apr, 2018, 09.39 PM IST
Compulsory 80% attendance for 9 to 12th standard students of Uttar Pradesh schoolsYogi Adityanath-led govt has readied a draft of the ordinance planned to regulate school fees charged by private schools and put it up on t...
06 Apr, 2017, 07.33 PM IST
UP Governor withholds nod to controversial ordinance, sends to PresidentThe draft ordinance proposes to give the right of appointment of officers and employees in different categories from mayors and Nagar Palik...
20 Nov, 2016, 05.35 PM IST
Maharashtra to invoke stringent law against illegal sand mining, black marketingThe draft ordinance provides government enforcement agencies powers to make preventive detention of those involved in black marketing of es...
02 Sep, 2015, 10.19 AM IST
Maharashtra cabinet clears proposal for booking black marketing of commodities under MPDA ActThe ordinance says that an Advisory Board would be constituted comprising a sitting High Court Judge and two retired judges.
01 Sep, 2015, 09.24 PM IST
Amendments to arbitration law to come before Cabinet tomorrowAmid talk that some arbitrators were opposed to amendments proposed, Gowda had recently said that the bill will be almost the same as the d...
15 Jul, 2015, 04.24 PM IST
Not violating statutory norms in CBCS implementation: Delhi UniversityDU claimed that it has not violated any statutory norms in the implementation of the Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) from the upcoming ac...
04 May, 2015, 09.52 PM IST
Subramanian Swamy raises questions on proposed draft ordinancesSwamy today termed the proposed draft ordinances "ultra vires" of the Constitution and urged President Pranab Mukherjee to seek legal opini...
01 Mar, 2014, 06.14 PM IST