The Modi government is accelerating efforts to decriminalise hundreds of minor offenses across various laws, aiming to replace jail terms w...

Many of these infractions attract fines between Rs 500 and Rs 1,500. They sit far below the headline offences under the Motor Vehicles Act ...

NITI Aayog proposes significant reforms to the Income Tax Act, 2025, including decriminalizing 12 minor offenses and reducing mandatory min...

In its Tax Policy Working Paper Series - II: Towards India’s Tax Transformation: Decriminalisation and Trust-Based Governance, released on ...

India’s markets continue to reflect a balance between global confidence and domestic conviction, Sebi chief Tuhin Kanta Pandey said. While ...

A Hyderabad-based employee has alleged that he was wrongfully terminated after refusing to work on weekends due to his grandmother’s critic...

The Delhi government is planning to introduce an amnesty scheme offering a 50-70% waiver on outstanding traffic challans for non-serious vi...

The Trump administration's intensified audits of work eligibility records are putting US employers under pressure, focusing on the complex ...

Man Wah Holdings, a Chinese furniture company, has sparked outrage with its draconian workplace rules. Employees face fines for minor infra...

Delhi has formally introduced 12 types of community service as alternative punishment for minor offences under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita ...

International students in the US face increasing risks of visa revocation due to stricter enforcement and policy changes. Violations, secur...

The government has set up a working group to decriminalise laws to further promote ease of doing business. The group will look at areas whe...

India's Legal Metrology Act (LMA) 2009, a law governing weights, measures, and product labeling, has become a deterrent to business due to ...

At a meeting with Sibal, operators raised the issue of the Department of Telecom levying the maximum penalty of Rs 50 crore for even minor ...

Govt plans to introduce a bill in Parliament that aims to create a pool of "DNA profiles" of "offenders" in a bid to make crime detection m...

Allowing errant players to get away without either admitting guilt or making sufficient recompense, merely by paying some monetary penalty,...

A short-haired, heavyset woman of 59, rings flashing from every finger and both thumbs, glares from the witness stand at a conservatively s...