
New Delhi: A modern immigration and visa registration project, aimed at bringing all the information of foreigners under one platform, will be inaugurated in New Delhi by Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday. "The project envisages facilitation services to the travellers including online application forms, 24X7 online channel, phone support for grievance redressal and e-mail/SMS support for dissemination of information, application status and feedback," a Home Ministry statement said....

02:59 AM, May 25, 2012

New Delhi: Kingfisher Airlines has been ordered by a Delhi district consumer forum to pay Rs 12,000 to one of its passengers for booking him on a non-operational flight and telling it only when he went to the airport to catch it. The New Delhi District Consumer Grievances Redressal Forum ordered the airlines to pay the compensation to Delhi resident RP Singh, while holding it guilty of rendering deficient service...

04:19 PM, Apr 26, 2012

New Delhi: Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) V Narayanswamy on Tuesday introduced the Citizens' Charter Bill in the Lok Sabha. The Bill was cleared by the Union Cabinet earlier this month. The bill will spell out a citizens' charter containing a category of goods and services to be delivered in a time-bound manner and setting up a public grievance redressal panel. The government had proposed the...

12:24 PM, Dec 20, 2011

New Delhi: Awarding a record compensation in a medical negligence case, the country apex consumer panel has directed that a US-based Indian origin doctor be paid Rs 1.73 crore for the death of his wife who had undergone treatment at a prominent hospital in Kolkata in 1998. The National Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission (NCDRC) asked three Kolkata doctors and the Advanced Medicare and Research Institute to share the compensation to...

05:26 PM, Oct 21, 2011

The insurance companies will have to redress grievances in two weeks or face penal action, the IRDA said. ...

07:53 PM, Jul 29, 2010

The lab had delayed a crucial report of a patient needed to begin a surgery. ...

08:32 PM, Jun 13, 2008

Manchester: England Twenty20 skipper Stuart Broad reckoned that taking wickets was the key to his side's six-wicket win over India in the one-off Twenty20 international. Taking wickets is the best way to stop scoring rates. We didn't hit our length in the first 10 overs but the way we came back and bowled them out showed the character and skill of our bowlers, said Broad on Wednesday. India were 104...

11:29 AM, Feb 26, 2008

An Air Deccan flight developed a technical snag, due to which passengers dragged the airline to a consumer court. ...

07:32 PM, Dec 28, 2006