To my ear, "what's the weather like today" sounds more natural than "what's the weather today". Himanshu (Querist) 11 March 2010 This query is : Resolved Whether any person working as Driver or Security Guard can work for 12 hours in a day and 6 days in a week. Please advice. However, it is up to the discretion of the management to give appropriate enhancement in salary from time to time only after review of the annual self appraisal form. However, pointwise reply to your queries is as follows: 1. Is the candidate is liable for increment? ANS: Only, if rate of increment is mentioned in the scale. The most common idiomatic phrase is "What time is it?" If you don't have a specific reason to say something different, you should simply say, "What time is it?" "What's the time?" is also correct, but maybe slightly less common. ("What is the time?" sounds slightly stilted and foreign to native speakers.) Other idiomatic phrases might be "Hey, Steve, what time do you have?" or "Hey, Steve, do you have the time?" or "Hey, Steve, do you know the time?" Source: I am a native US English speaker ... The respondent took the stand that the petition was within time permitted under Pondicherry Limitation (Repeal of Local Law) Act, 1994 (in short the Act ). Reference was made under Section 4 (b) (i) of the Act. The provisions for divorce under Section 13, HMA also provide for the remedy available to the second wife. Section 13 (2) (i) of HMA says that in cases of marriages before commencement of this Act, a second wife can seek divorce on the ground that her husband's first wife was alive at the time of the solemnization of the second marriage. ARUN KUMAR (Querist) 21 May 2012 This query is : Resolved Dear experts It has been more than 7 months since a friend of mine is waiting for charge sheet to be filled by police in magistrate court under IPC 420. Is there any time limit by court for police to file charge sheet ? Clarity between gratuity eligibility service (5 or 4.8 yrs)? The gratuity eligibility service as per Gratuity Act 1972 is 5 years. But as per the judgment from Supreme Court below and the quotation from the book quoted below it seems that the gratuity eligibility service is 4 years 240 days. "Judgment from Supreme Court: "Yes, by virtue of the judgment of Supreme Court rendered under the provisions of the Industrial Dispute Act in Surendra Kumar Verma vs. Central Govt. Industrial Tribunal ... If time was not of the essence or if the stipulation as to the time fixed for completion had, by reason of the waiver, ceased to be applicable then the only course open to the respondent was to fix some time making it the essence and if within the time so fixed the appellant had failed to complete the work,the respondent could have rescinded ... Purushottam and Ors also [8], the Supreme Court held that “a party cannot be permitted to approbate and reprobate at the same time”. It was further held that when the benefits of a particular contract or conveyance or order are knowingly accepted by the party, that party is estopped to deny the validity of such a contract or conveyance or ...