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Corporate Law : ICAI held its Convocation 2025 across 13 locations, awarding 19,075 Chartered Accountants with membership. The Governor of West Be...
Corporate Law : The Indian government has not assessed the IBC’s impact on tax revenue loss and has no plans to amend tax priorities under insol...
Corporate Law : IBBI proposes key amendments to CIRP, liquidation, and personal guarantor insolvency, aiming to enhance efficiency, transparency, ...
Corporate Law : FIU-IND imposed a ₹9.27 crore penalty on Bybit for violating PMLA compliance. The platform operated without registration, leadin...
Corporate Law : Madras High Court held that Section 10-A of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 cannot be extended to cases where default con...
Corporate Law : Bombay HC quashes order by Additional CIT, emphasizing CBDT or its members must explicitly issue orders under Section 119(2)(b) of...
Corporate Law : NCLAT upholds rejection of IBC Section 9 application against HUL, citing pre-existing disputes and claims below the Rs. 1 crore th...
Corporate Law : NCLAT Delhi upheld the CoC's decision to extend CIRP and withdraw liquidation, rejecting the appeal against the Resolution Profess...
Corporate Law : NCLAT Delhi held that distribution of liquidation proceeds has to be in proportion to the admitted claim of secured creditors as p...
Corporate Law : IBBI updates reporting rules for insolvency professionals, requiring timely assignment updates on its portal for CIRP, liquidation...
Corporate Law : PFRDA issues a master circular on service charges for PoPs under NPS (All Citizen & Corporate) and NPS-Lite, consolidating past ci...
Corporate Law : IBBI issues a disciplinary order against Akash Shinghal for non-compliance with CIRP regulations. The case involves voting and CoC...
Corporate Law : IBBI Disciplinary Committee reviews the case of Insolvency Professional Anil Kumar Mittal for excessive fees during CIRP proceedin...
Corporate Law : IBBI releases Phase 9 syllabus for Limited Insolvency Examination. Applicable from May 5, 2025, details available on the IBBI webs...
Insurance companies are required to conduct detailed due diligence while taking insurance risk exposure to individuals/entities connected with countries identified by FATF as having deficiencies in their AML/CFT regime …
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) Chairman Shri Ashok Chawla has pointed out that competition advocacy is a critical function of competition agencies as it has a very important role to play in creating ‘competition culture’ in the economies. Addressing a one day long an international workshop organised yesterday in collaboration with Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on the theme “Advocating for Competition in Policies and in Practice” here Shri Chawla said continuous engagement with the various stakeholders including the government, at various levels, using tools such as policy advice, education, market studies, and competition impact assessment are imperative towards achieving the objective of competition law and policy.
Denel (Proprietary Limited) Vs. GOI, Ministry of Defence (SC) – Exercising its powers under Section 11 (6) of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 reiterated that right to appointment of an Arbitrator does not get automatically forfeited after expiry of 30 days as prescribed under Section 11(4) & 11(5) of the Act unless petition is filed for appointment of Arbitrator under Section 11(6) of the Act prior to appointment by opposite party. The SC appointed an independent Sole Arbitrator due to apprehensions of bias and impartiality, contrary to the clauses of the contract necessitating appointment of DGOF or government servant, as the Sole Arbitrator.
RPFC Vs. The Hooghly Mills Co. Ltd. & Ors.(SC) – .The question which falls for consideration before this Court in this case is whether the employer of an establishment which is an ‘exempted establishment’ under the Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 (hereinafter, ‘the Act’ ) is subject to the provisions of Section 14B of the said Act whereby in cases of default in the payment of contribution to the provident fund, proceedings for recovery of damages can be initiated against the employer of such an ‘exempted establishment’. The question was raised by the respondent before the High Court and both the Single Bench and the Division Bench of the High Court have recorded a finding in favour of the respondent and held that the respondent being an ‘exempted establishment’ cannot be subjected to the provisions of Section 14(B) of the Act.
Union Corporate Affairs Minister Dr. M.Veerappa Moily has called for making country’s growth more inclusive – a growth that benefits all regions and all sections of our society, particularly the poor and the under-privileged. Dr. Moily was addressing the 1st National Conclave on Corporate Social Responsibility here in New Delhi today. He said Corporates’ social responsibility is a matter intrinsically ingrained in the Constitution of India which envisages an economic development that does not result in the concentration of wealth and means of production to the common detriment and that material resources of the community are so distributed as best to subserve the common good.
Circular no. IRDA/AGTS/CIR/GLD/017/01/2012, A. As per clause 3 (b) of the guidelines only entities registered as Company under the Companies Act, 1956 and Societies and Trusts registered under Societies Registration Act shall be eligible to apply for accreditation as ATIs. The following is added in the above clause:
Central Provident Fund Commissioner Vs. Central Provident Fund Employees’ Union (Delhi HC)- Though some merit is found in the contention of the petitioner employer that the award does not render any finding of parity in educational qualification, method of recruitment, duties and responsibilities of the Assistants/Stenographers/Hindi Translators/Superintendents employed with the petitioner employer and persons with the same designation in the Central Secretariat and a perusal of the records of the
Hindustan Unilever Limited Vs Girnar Exports (IPAB)- The four appeals are against the orders passed by the Deputy Registrar, Trade Marks at Chennai in three proceedings and the Deputy Registrar at Kolkata in one. The mark is Red Label. Application No. 397359 is for registration of the mark which is a label consisting of the word Red Label with a colour scheme of red and yellow in Roman and Arabic character in respect of tea (Class 30) which is the subject matter of TA/47/2003/TM/CH.
In all other matters, the concerned DC, SEZ should take all necessary steps, including consultation with Government Counsel and represent the matter before the relevant Court on behalf of UoI also.
Present case appears to be one where prima facie the provisions of Section 22 of the SICA are taken undue advantage of. Therefore, at least in those cases where the reference was rejected in previous years on merits by the BIFR, guidelines can be issued to ensure that fresh references in subsequent years should not be mechanically entertained. Learned counsel for the respondent may be right in contending that while registering the references, the Registrar cannot act as quasi judicial authority which is the function of the Board.
