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Topic: Compensation

Meghalaya HC frames rules on compensation for custodial deaths — ‘will only stop when state bleeds’

Calling custodial deaths 'slur on civilised state', HC issued 6-month deadline for compensating families of custodial violence victims. Bench said compensation to depend on victim's age.

Consumer court orders Porsche to pay UP man Rs 18 lakh for selling him car with ‘wrong’ year of manufacture

Amounts to 'unfair trade practice', stated National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, rejected complainant demand for new car & Rs 1 crore damages for 'mental suffering'.

Death in the line of duty: How states allocate compensation for families of slain personnel

ASI Shambhu Dayal whose fatal stabbing was caught on CCTV to get additional ex gratia from Delhi Police. Kejriwal govt has already announced Rs 1 cr for family of the slain cop.

‘Only place we’ve ever known’: As Joshimath crumbles, the displaced demand ‘fair compensation’

Govt offering Rs 1.5 lakh, residents demand at least Rs 5 lakh. Protesters want to halt demolitions until agreement is reached on displacement & compensation.

Nitish Kumar is riding a tiger with prohibition in Bihar. Everyone knows it’s failed

Last week's hooch tragedy, which killed over 70, has again raised questions on implementation of prohibtiion law, with many blaming corruption in police & system for easy availability of liquor.

Not ‘unforeseeable’ — why Delhi HC rejected bank’s ‘act of God’ claim after signboard injured man

Court awarded Rs 18 lakh to the family of a man who was severely injured after a Bank of Baroda signboard fell on him, rejecting bank's claim that an 'Act of God' had led to accident.

‘Getting compensation a struggle’ — in Srinagar, a slain policeman’s family fights to survive

While the police officer's family continues to fight to get what's rightfully theirs, such targeted killings have demotivated youth in the Valley from joining the police force.

ThePrint’s story helps Shakti Mills rape survivor raise money—‘Ready for a new chapter’

Public personalities including film producer Manish Mundra, actress Richa Chaddha and film critic Stutee Ghosh offered to pay for her education.

Who gets what, will it measure up — the complexities of colonialism reparations & compensations

It might be enough if schools and universities in the former colonial powers acknowledged in their curricula the reality of how they became wealthy, and at what cost to whom.

Modi govt’s reluctance shows caste census is politically inflammable. But it’s also a necessary evil

ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

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Was India’s public sector born out of European envy?

For all its obvious blemishes, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever discovered, wrote BP Godrej in 1980.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.