Formula One income taxable in India, says Supreme Court

Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court said the Formula One motor racing championship had a permanent establishment in India, making income generated taxable in the country, marking a key victory for the tax department. The decision is seen as having wide implications for foreign companies that do business in the country. The apex

Courts cannot decide school curriculum: Supreme Court

Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has ruled that judiciary is not the forum to decide what should be included or excluded from school syllabus or what should be taught in educational institutions. Refusing to entertain a PIL seeking inclusion of teachings of ten Sikh gurus in school curriculum, a bench of Justices

Supreme Court to hear WhatsApp privacy policy case

Source – hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court on Thursday will hear the WhatsApp privacy policy case. Assuring the Supreme Court that it was actively considering a law on protecting data imprint of individuals on WhatsApp, Facebook and other social networking sites, the Centre had, on April 18, sought deferment of the hearing. Attorney general Mukul Rohatgi

Supreme Court no to special powers to Army

Source –Ā asianage.com New Delhi:Ā The Supreme Court has declined the Centreā€™s curative petition seeking protection to the Army in dealing with militants and insurgency situations in Manipur from the purview of registration of FIR for alleged fake encounters. A five-judge Bench of Chief Justices J.S. Khehar and Justices Dipak Misra, J. Chelameswar, Madan Lokur and Uday

Village common land not corporationā€™s: High court

Source –Ā indiatimes.com GURUGRAM: A five-judge bench of the Punjab and Haryana high court has ruled that common land (shamlat deh) in villages that have been notified under municipal corporations but have been contributed by individual land owners to the panchayat for agrarian purposes belong to the original individual owners. Thus, if a municipal corporation wants