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Corporate Law : Punjab & Haryana HC grants relief to son of a soldier injured in anti-terror operation in J&K, asserting his entitlement to a job ...
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Corporate Law : The National Pension System (NPS) offers flexible, low-cost pension options with digital accessibility, aiming to expand coverage ...
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...
1. From January 1, 2012 only SHA-256 Hash Algorithm and 2048 bit RSA Key Digital Signature Certificates will be issued. 2. However, from 4th April 2011, Certifying Authorities should issue Digital Signature Certificates with SHA-256 Hash Algorithm & 2048 bit RSA Key, to any applicant who requests for the same. 3. All other Digital Signature Certificates issued during 4th April 2011 to 31st December 2011 will have a validity period of one year only. 4. All other stipulations made in the Interoperability Guidelines must be adhered to.
Foreign investment in India rose by USD 22.7 billion in the quarter ending December 2010 to USD 628 billion, mainly on account of increase in portfolio investment and FDI. Total foreign fund inflows, including FDI, portfolio investment and external commercial borrowings (ECB), rose to USD 628.6 billion on December 31 from 605.9 billion during the end of September, according to RBI data.
If the owner of a motor vehicle has shown due diligence while appointing a driver and examined his licence, the insurance company cannot deny the insured amount on the ground that the licence was fake. The ruling of the National Consumer Commission to the contrary in the case, Mrs Rubi Dutta vs United India Insurance Co, was set aside by the Supreme Court and the company was asked to pay Rs 2.70 lakh as compensation for the damage to a bus in an accident. The insurer argued that the driver’s licence was fake. But it was a duplicate issued after following the legal procedure. The court stated that at the time of giving employment to the driver, “the owner of the bus must have examined the licence issued to him and after satisfaction thereof, he must have been given employment. Nothing more was required to have been done by the owner. After all, at the time of giving employment to a driver, owner is required to be satisfied with regard to correctness and genuineness of the licence he was holding. After taking the test, if the owner is satisfied with the driving skills of the driver then, obviously, he may be given an appointment.”
Glodyne Technoserve Ltd. Vs. State of M.P. & Ors. (Supreme Court) – The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal of Glodyne Technoserve Ltd, which had bid for a project for issuing identity cards for the public distribution system in Madhya Pradesh. The government rejected it offer as it did not produce the latest ‘quality certificate’ with the bid document. The firm argued that it did have the latest certificate and therefore it was eligible to be considered. It also contended that the requirement for producing the latest certificate was added later by the government in a corrigendum to the bidder check list. Rejecting these arguments, the Supreme Court stated that in such circumstances, the authority inviting bids has the discretionary power to accept the bid or not. The decision can be quashed only if it was proved to be arbitrary or perverse. In this case, it was neither, the court declared.
The Supreme Court last week directed Glaxo India Ltd to deposit Rs 71.21 crore in the Drug Prices Equilisation Account, asking it to comply with the demand of the government. The central government had issued drug price control orders under the Essential Commodities Act fixing the maximum selling price of bulk drugs. Those notifications were challenged by the pharma company as arbitrary and illegal. The Supreme Court allowed the appeal of the government and stated that several drug companies were overcharging the consumers and the notifications were meant to control prices to benefit consumers.
The Supreme Court has stated that the debt recovery appellate tribunal has no power to exempt a defaulter from making a pre-deposit before entertaining his appeal under the Securitisation & Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act. In this case, Narayan Chandra vs UCO Bank, the tribunal granted exemption. The Calcutta high court set aside the order. He appealed to the Supreme Court which upheld the high court ruling.
The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal of New India Assurance Company which had rejected the claim of a ship-breaking firm for compensation. The firm bought a Belgian vessel and was bringing it from Singapore on its ‘funeral voyage’ to Alang port in Gujarat for demolition. It wrecked on way in high seas due to bad weather. The ship was covered by marine insurance and the ship-breaker invoked the policy. The insurer rejected the claim leading to litigation in the consumer forum. The National Consumer Commission asked the insurance company to pay Rs 14 crore with 9 per cent interest to Priya Blue Industries, the scrap dealer in ships. However, the insurer appealed to the Supreme Court. It ruled that the loss suffered due to the ship wreck was properly assessed by the surveyors and the commission order was correct.
No NBFC shall contribute to the capital of a partnership firm or become a partner of such firm. A NBFC, which has already contributed to the capital of a partnership firm or was a partner of a partnership firm, shall seek early retirement from the partnership firm.
Pricing of Convertible instruments. Issue of Shares permitted against specified non-cash considerations under Approval Route. Approval / conditionalities surrounding previous joint venture/collaborations done away with. Guidelines relating to Down-Stream investments. Sector Specific policy for FDI- Agriculture. The revised FDI policy does carry the process of liberalization further and would assist in augmenting FDI into the Country. However, the revised FDI policy has kept at bay significantly expected changes such as permitting FDI in Limited Liability Partnership, Multi-Brand Retail Trading and several other subjects on which draft discussion papers were released earlier for public comments. It is important that these areas are also taken up the Government for liberalisation towards making India one of the most favourable FDI destinations in the world.
The government has called a Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) meeting on April 20, the first one after it announced major changes in FDI norms, to approve proposals for foreign direct investment. While the agenda of the 165th FIPB meeting was being finalised, sources said the Board may also consider those cases on which decisions were deferred in the past.
