Ghaziabad, June 16 (IANS) The Ghaziabad police has arrested the Assistant Inspector General (Stamps) for extorting money from property buyers by issuing notices on fake complaints. AIG (stamps) Rajesh Sharma was arrested for abusing his official position by way corrupt practices that led to loss of hundreds of crores to the state exchequer, police said. The police said that Naib Tehsildar Bhupendra Singh lodged a complaint on June 14 (Wednesday) with the Kavinagar police in which he alleged that AIG Rajesh Sharma along with former Sub Registrar Ajay Goel was engaged in extorting money by carrying on office work from Ajay Goel’s private residence Atar-2/231 Rajnagar in Ghaziabad. The officer was arrested on late Thursday night. He has been presented before the court which remanded him to 14 days judicial custody. Two complaints were filed in the district magistrate’s office against Rajesh Sharma by Rajesh Upadhyay, president of Deed Writer Association, and Anil Chaudhary...

“ Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; the female sex .” –  Mahatma Gandhi Regardless of our profession or our lifestyle, we are all justified in wanting to be treated right. When people are unable to assert their rights, it is the ultimate insult to humankind. It is a pre-conceived notion that Indian society is principally patriarchal in law, education and academics. Women’s lives in male dominated societies are entrenched with discrimination; holding women back from claiming equal rights. Since men enjoy preferential rights to property over women, male-centric societies suppress women’s demands for equal property rights. But advancement in India’s property law has led to a substantial boost in the importance of property rights for women. Although this article mainly deals with the rights of Hindu women in India the existence of limited rights to property for w...

Forty-three of the 55 McDonald’s outlets in Delhi are shutting down, media reports said on Thursday, blaming the tussle between the north Indian franchisee and the global food giant for the shock decision. “The ‘eating house licenses’ of a number of McDonald’s restaurants in Delhi have expired. The board of Connaught Plaza Restaurants Private Limited (or “CPRL”, McDonald’s licensee in North and East India) is working to obtain the required licenses. Pending this, CPRL is temporarily suspending the operations of the affected restaurants,” McDonald’s India Pvt Ltd (MIPL) said in a statement. Over reports saying the shutdown will result in a loss of 1,700 jobs, MIPL said, “We understand that CPRL is retaining the employees of affected restaurants and will pay them their salary during the period of suspension.” According to reports, falling revenues, lack of investment and a legal battle over ownership of the fastfood chain led to the trouble. “It’s unfortunate, but operation of ...

It’s been just five days since a boardroom coup ousted Travis Kalanick from Uber, and the leadership sweepstakes is in full swing with some big names being floated as possible successors. The board’s top choice reportedly is Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, whose name comes up any time there is a high-profile opening in Silicon Valley and who is said not to be interested. Even so, Sandberg is a lot likelier to replace Kalanick than another candidate being promoted by people who probably should know better: Travis Kalanick himself. On Friday, the best-selling biographer Walter Isaacson told CNBC that he thought Kalanick  could come back  because—well, it was hard to tell exactly why he thinks so, but his argument sounds like “because America.” Isaacson was joined by several  other take-   havers , as well as more than 1,000 of Kalanick’s employees, who signed a  petition  demanding that Uber’s board reinstate the comp...

Global search engine giant Google and Microsoft are said to be among the major global and domestic companies in Hyderabad said to be affected after the Telangana government initiated a series of legal cases questioning the legitimacy of the ownership of land holdings, according to an Economic Times report on Monday. The legitimacy of both private and government-auctioned land holdings have been called into question by the government, ET reported. The financial daily said that the latest episode that has triggered a fresh wave of panic among investors is the largest land scam in Telangana involving hundreds of acres valued at at least Rs 15,000 crore. After the Opposition raised a hue and cry, the government was forced to announce termination of suspicious land registrations. The accused in the latest land scam are said to have colluded with land registration officials to corner hundreds of acres of contentious land parcels in Hyderabad's Miyapur and a few other localities. ...