New Delhi: Victims of rape and acid attacks in the capital will be given a compensation of Rs 3-5 lakh, the Delhi government announced on Monday. The relief will come under the central government's Victim Compensation Scheme, which was given a go-ahead at a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Monday. "The cabinet has decided to implement the union government's Victim Compensation Scheme and has also decided...
02:40 AM, May 15, 2012
New Delhi: The families of the two Kerala fishermen shot dead by Italian marines in February this year agreed to withdraw their cases on Friday after an Italian compensation offer of Rs 1 crore. However, in more drama, the Centre's lawyer in the Supreme Court faulted the Kerala Police for detaining the ship, a comment later clarified by the Ministry of External Affairs. Additional Solicitor General Haren Rawal told the...
09:38 AM, Apr 21, 2012
New Delhi: Norway's Telenor ASA, whose India joint venture is among companies that are set to lose their telecoms licences, on Tuesday said it sought to claim compensation for all investment, guarantees and damages from the Indian government. An earlier report had claimed that the Norwegian company had served a notice to the Indian government, claiming damages of nearly USD 14 billion. However, the Telenor ASA refuted the reports saying...
11:48 AM, Mar 27, 2012
Hyderabad: Air India is negotiating for more compensation from Boeing Co for delayed aircraft delivery, a senior government official said, after the planemaker agreed to pay the cash-strapped airline more than $500 million. "Two weeks back they (Boeing) agreed to pay a little over $500 million. We are asking for more, we are talking to them," joint secretary at the ministry of civil aviation, Prashant Sukul, said on Wednesday. State-owned...
03:05 AM, Mar 15, 2012
New Delhi: The Union Ministry of Civil Aviation was asked on Friday by the Supreme Court to respond to a plea challenging the Centre notification, which fixes Rs 7.5 lakhs as compensation in case of a domestic air passenger's death against Rs 75 lakhs for international fliers. A bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Dipak Misra issued notice to the ministry on a plea challenging a 1973 notification of the...
07:54 PM, Feb 24, 2012
New Delhi: Indian Oil Corp (IOC), the nation's largest oil firm, on Monday said it along with other state-owned fuel retailers has asked the government to compensate them for revenue losses incurred on selling petrol below imported cost. "We have requested (the government) to make good of our losses on petrol," IOC Chairman RS Butola told. IOC has lost about Rs 443 crore since the last revision in petrol price...
01:08 AM, Feb 14, 2012
Hyderabad: They are the worst victims of physical and mental torture by police in the Mecca Masjid blast case. But like justice, compensation too seems to elude them till date. A few hours before Mohammed Raeesuddin was to receive a cheque of Rs 300,000 along with 15 others, his name was deleted from the list. Syed Imran Khan and his uncle Shoaib Jagirdar, who were among the first to be...
06:40 PM, Jan 09, 2012
Puducherry: Opposition AIADMK in Puducherry has said that the Union Territory suffered Rs 2500 crore damage in the wake of the cyclonic storm that crossed the coast on December 30. In a memorandum submitted to the inter-ministerial Central team during its visit to Puducherry on Sunday, the AIADMK demanded that each house fully damaged in cyclone Thane should be paid compensation of Rs 25,000 while a partially damaged dwelling unit...
12:36 PM, Jan 09, 2012
Kolkata: Paromita Guha Thakurta, the daughter of one of those who died in the AMRI fire tragedy has asked for strict punishment to the hospital staff saying they were highly irresponsibly in carrying out their duties. ...
01:53 PM, Jan 03, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to Air India and the Union of India on compensation payable to those who died in Mangalore air crash in 2010. One petitioner, whose son Mohammad Rafi died in the air crash, had approached the apex court saying that he should be given a minimum compensation of Rs 75 lakh. A division bench of Kerala High Court on August 25, 2011...
11:52 AM, Jan 03, 2012
Kolkata: Families of 29 dead in the AMRI hospital fire on Monday received Rs 3 lakh each as compensation from the Kolkata police, a top police official said. Families of the other dead in the December 9 fire disaster would receive an identical amount as compensation in phases after verification of documents, city police commissioner RK Pachnanda said. Many of those receiving the cheques from the police commissioner at the...
09:52 AM, Jan 03, 2012
Kolkata: The West Bengal government on Monday started paying compensation to the family members of the victims of AMRI hospital fire which left 93 people dead. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had announced compensation of Rs 300,000 for the family members of the victims. On Monday, family members of 29 victims were handed over the cheques at the Kolkata Police headquarters in Lalbazar. Family members of some of the victims decided...
11:40 PM, Jan 02, 2012
Hyderabad: In perhaps the first instance of victims of police torture in a terror case being paid compensation in India, Andhra Pradesh has released Rs 7 million for innocent Muslim youths arrested and tortured in the 2007 Mecca Masjid blast case. A day after Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy announced in the state assembly that the compensation would be paid, the minorities welfare department on Tuesday issued an order...
01:26 PM, Dec 07, 2011
CHENNAI: Three years after 66 villagers from Villupuram lost their vision after attending a free cataract surgery camp, held at the Perambalur unit of Tiruchy-based Joseph Eye Hospital, the Madras High Court has directed the hospital, to pay an interim compensation of Rs 1 lakh to each of the villagers. A just and reasonable compensation was yet to be decided and this amount is to be paid by the hospital...
08:24 AM, Nov 16, 2011
CHENNAI: The death toll due to rain-related incidents since the northeast monsoon set in TN reached 44 on Tuesday with the drowning of seven persons in flash floods in Tirupur. Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has doubled the solatium for the families of the victims. Expressing condolences at Tirupur, the CM said Rs 2 lakh would be given to the families of the victims immediately. Currently, 2,110 persons affected by flash...
07:58 AM, Nov 09, 2011
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