
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev The Man: The founder of Isha Foundation loves his motorbikes, is as comfortable in jeans as in yogic garbs, and competes with businessmen on the golf course. His methods for self transformation are drawn from tradition. A regular speaker at the annual World Economic Forum at Davos. He says that businesses need to be governed by a simple set of rules where everyone knows what can be...

11:29 AM, May 24, 2012

New Delhi: Amid the opposition demand to make divorce more women-friendly, the government on Thursday approved fresh amendments in a bill pending in Rajya Sabha to give the wife a clearly defined share in husband's immovable residential property. A meeting of the Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, took up new amendments to the Marriage Laws (Amendment) Bill introduced in the Rajya Sabha earlier this month. The government...

09:59 PM, May 17, 2012

New Delhi: The much delayed Bill, providing for certain important amendments to the Copyright Act, was on Thursday approved by the Rajya Sabha to remove operational difficulties and address newer issues related to the digital world and internet. The Copyright Amendment Bill, 2010, moved by HRD Minister Kapil Sibal, also seeks to bring Indian laws originally enacted in 1957 in conformity with international norms and World Intellectual Property Organisation. Replying...

09:07 PM, May 17, 2012

New Delhi: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is expected to reply on Tuesday to various proposals in his 2012-13 budget. The Finance Minister will be seeking Parliament's approval to move the Finance Bill and is likely to relook at some of the controversial proposals, such as changes in the tax laws that would impact Vodafone and the implementation of the General Anti-Avoidance Rules (GAAR). Sources point out that a major rollback...

07:14 AM, May 08, 2012

Helsinki: Wounded cellphone maker Nokia has turned on one of its former allies in the patent protection battlefield by filing lawsuits against rival smartphone maker HTC as it steps up its efforts to raise funds. Nokia, based in Finland, filed several lawsuits in Germany covering 45 hardware and software patents, ranging from power management to data encryption technologies against HTC, Canadian rival Research In Motion and tablet-maker ViewSonic. In the...

11:37 AM, May 03, 2012

New Delhi: Days ahead of the Finance Bill coming up in Parliament for passage, Vodafone group CEO Vittorio Colao on Wednesday met Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee seeking reconsideration of the move to retrospectively amend laws that will have a tax implication of Rs 11,000 crore on the firm. Speaking to reporters after meeting, Mukherjee said, "Vodafone made a presentation of their case." Emerging out of the meeting, Colao said, "We...

11:17 AM, May 02, 2012

New Delhi: A bill was on Monday introduced in the Rajya Sabha to amend existing laws to make divorce easier, with BJP opposing the legislation on the ground that certain provisions could be "dangerous" for women. Introducing the Marriage Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2010, Law Minister Salman Khurshid said by amending the Hindu Marriage Act, 2007, and the Special Marriage Act, 1954, the government proposes to make divorce easier in case...

08:00 PM, Apr 30, 2012

New Delhi: The Cabinet on Thursday okayed the Banking Laws (Amendment) Bill seeking to raise voting rights ceilings in private banks. The cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh cleared the bill as recommended by the parliamentary standing committee on finance. The Banking Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2011 was tabled in Parliament in 2011 and sent to the parliamentary standing committee for its views. The committee headed by former finance minister...

08:28 PM, Apr 26, 2012

New Delhi: British telecom major Vodafone on Tuesday described a reported statement of Finance Secretary RS Gujral as "completely untrue" on the tax issue and said it had never received any communication from authorities to withhold tax while making payment to the Hutchison. "This is completely untrue. At no point before the transaction concluded and the payment was made did any entity of the Vodafone Group receive any communication at...

09:10 PM, Apr 24, 2012

San Francisco: A Google engineer, testifying in a high-stakes trial pitting Oracle Corp against Google Inc, denied that he referred to Oracle or any other company when he wrote in an email that Google should take a license to use the Java programming language. The trial entered its fourth day on Thursday, with Google engineer Timothy Lindholm taking the stand to answer questions about a 2010 email that has become...

12:59 PM, Apr 20, 2012

New Delhi: Vice-President Hamid Ansari on Monday stressed on the need to train law students in international laws, saying it would help India stand in "good stead" and hoped senior judges will prove to be the best guides for the new breed of lawyers. Addressing a gathering at the release of selected speeches and writings of former Chief Justice of India, Justice PN Bhagwati, he said India has "in a...

03:24 AM, Apr 03, 2012

New Delhi: Batting for Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's proposal to tax Vodafone type deals, the World Bank president Robert Zoellick on Friday said that India wants the company should pay tax at some place and investors must give some time to the Government to explain the details. "The Indian Government is sensitive that they want to have an environment that draw both domestic and foreign investment and so I hope...

09:45 PM, Mar 30, 2012

New Delhi: Willful denial of sex, including that on the first night after wedding, by either of the spouse amounts to cruelty and can be a ground for dissolution of the marriage, the Delhi High Court has ruled. Justice Kailash Gambhir gave the verdict, upholding the lower court's decree of divorce to a man having a "sex-starved marriage" as his wife refused to have sexual intercourse with him on the...

09:24 PM, Mar 24, 2012

New Delhi: A Bill seeking to give a woman a share in her husband's property was approved by the Union Cabinet on Friday. Apart from giving women the right to their husband's property, the Marriage Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2010, also aims at giving rights to adopted children on par with biological off-springs. The cabinet meeting was chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The Marriage Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2010, was introduced...

10:31 PM, Mar 23, 2012