-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Insurance firms often lack a heart when dealing with claims, the chief of India's apex consumer protection body said on Saturday. Justice D K Jain, president of the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC), also cited examples of surveyors doing their best to delay or deny compensation. "Insurance companies should have a heart. I feel they lack it," said Justice Jain at an event on National...

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court questioned the Centre on Thursday on the way it had handled the aftermath of demonetisation and asked why there was unequal distribution of new currency notes among people. Indirectly pointing towards recent raids in which people were caught with stash of new notes, a bench of Chief Justice T S Thakur and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud said that demonetisation...

-Hindustan Times New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Centre whether its decision to bring in demonetisation was taken in absolute secrecy while hearing a bunch of petitions questioning the Narendra Modi government’s rationale behind the implementation of the policy. “When you made the policy on demonetisation, was it confidential?” the top court asked. Chief Justice TS Thakur also asked why the Centre’s order granting limit of Rs 24,000 per day...

-Deccan Herald An NGO on Monday approached the Supreme Court against the Union government’s decision to appoint Gujarat-cadre IPS officer Rakesh Asthana as acting director of the CBI. New Delhi: ‘Common Cause’, the NGO through advocate Prashant Bhushan contended that the government in “deliberate dereliction” did not convene meeting of the Collegium comprising the prime minister as chairperson and Leader of Opposition and the Chief Justice of India as members to select...

-The Hindu Affidavit in SC denies any lack of preparedness in implementing the demonetisation policy Curb on money transactions, including withdrawals and wedding expenses, are “only reasonable restrictions” imposed on the rights of the public for a limited time, the government said in its latest affidavit. “Cancellation of legal tender of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 notes is only a reasonable restriction and regulatory in nature. Merely because there is a restriction on...