• CLOTHING
    Sudanese judge clears girls of indecent clothing charges

    A Sudanese court on Sunday acquitted 24 girls accused of wearing indecent clothes at a women’s party in Khartoum. Sudanese journalist Lubna Hussein, right, who faces 40 lashes on the charge of “indecent dressing”, flashes a victory sign to her supporters as she enters the court in Khartoum Tuesday Aug. 4, 2009 (AP) The young […]

  • NEWS
    Ola gets notice from Karnataka govt on complaints over peak hour charges

    On 1 June, the state transport department gave an undertaking to court not to impound Ola. Photo: Mint Bengaluru: Barely a month after cab aggregator Ola received a permit under the Karnataka On-demand Transportation Technology Aggregators Rules 2016, the state transport department has issued a show cause notice to the company over complaints of charging […]

  • ALL DEALS
    Telecom Ministry to Approach Cabinet to Reduce Spectrum Usage Charges

    Telecom Ministry is expected to approach the Cabinet for its nod to reduce spectrum usage charges from existing 5 percent to 3 percent of the revenue earned by companies from telecom services. “The Telecom Commission has agreed to charge SUC (spectrum usage charges) at 3 percent level of adjusted gross revenue on spectrum that will […]