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Corporate Law : The article explains visa requirements, documentation, and compliance obligations for foreign nationals seeking medical treatment ...
Corporate Law : The court ruled that using a registered trademark as a keyword to divert online traffic can amount to trademark infringement. The ...
Corporate Law : LMPC Registration is mandatory for manufacturers, packers, and importers of pre-packaged commodities. The key takeaway is that reg...
Corporate Law : The rise of GDPR, CCPA, and India’s DPDP Act is opening significant opportunities for Chartered Accountants. The key takeaway is...
Corporate Law : The document compiles 85 recent developments across financial regulation, anti-corruption enforcement, corporate investigations, a...
Corporate Law : The Competition Commission of India has proposed amendments to address administrative and procedural issues identified during impl...
Corporate Law : The Ministry of Corporate Affairs highlighted that the IBC resolution process facilitated creditor recoveries exceeding ₹4 lakh ...
Corporate Law : The IBBI has announced contractual vacancies for Research Associates and Consultants in law and business management disciplines. T...
Corporate Law : PFRDA has proposed major reductions in grievance resolution timelines under the NPS framework. The draft aims to improve accountab...
Corporate Law : The Supreme Court upheld joint insolvency proceedings against two interconnected real estate companies due to common management an...
Corporate Law : The Supreme Court ruled that Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act covers attempts to obtain undue advantage through subor...
Corporate Law : The Tribunal held that for a guarantee payable on demand, limitation begins from the date the guarantee is invoked and not from th...
Corporate Law : The Authority found that a pre-selected donation mechanism added charges unless consumers actively opted out, impairing informed c...
Corporate Law : CCPA held that a subscription renewal interface using the phrase Accept Risk amounted to multiple prohibited dark patterns, includ...
Corporate Law : The Supreme Court quashed the removal of a Mathadhipati after finding that relied-upon documents were not properly supplied and th...
Corporate Law : FSSAI has provided a transition period until 1 July 2027 for compliance with new vegan logo specifications. The amendment focuses ...
Corporate Law : FSSAI has amended the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restrictions on Sales) Regulations, 2011 by removing clause (8) o...
Corporate Law : The case involved a broker implementing substantial shareholding changes without obtaining IRDAI's prior approval as required by r...
Corporate Law : The regulator held that agreements lacking clear fee provisions undermined contractual clarity and regulatory compliance. A penalt...
Corporate Law : The First Appellate Authority held that details of the official who uploaded CIRP documents were exempt from disclosure under Sect...
Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan’s recent request to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to protect the judiciary from increasingly ‘‘intrusive’’ queries appears to have triggered an exercise to look for options to effect changes in the RTI Act. Following the CJI’s impassioned letter, which said questions asked by chronic litigants about the judiciary could erode its independence, the government has started looking into possible changesin the RTI Act, highly placed sources said.
The Enforcement Directorate(ED) on Friday claimed to have found evidence of “large-scale” violations of Foreign Direct Investment(FDI) guidelines by real-estate major Emaar MGF in purchase of land. During its searches carried out at 13 premises of the group on Thursday, ED also claimed to have recovered about Rs nine crore in cash, two kg of gold and foreign currency worth Rs 5 lakh.
The Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008 (‘the LLP Act’) was brought into force with effect from 31st March 2009 to permit formation of Limited Liability Partnerships (‘LLPs’) in India. The main focus of the LLP Act is to permit a partnership structure and at the same time, limit the liability of partners which was heretofore unlimited under the provisions of the Indian Partnership Act, 1932 (‘the Partnership Act’). This article discusses briefly the limitation of liability of partners under the LLP Act as compared to the limitation of liability of a shareholder of a limited company formed and registered under the Companies Act, 1956 (‘the Companies Act’) and the manner in which such liabilities are limited under the LLP Act.
The Revenue Department, which scrutinises all foreign investments from the tax angle, has asked the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) to ensure that FDI applicants furnish three years audited financial statements of the investor.Such disclosures will be useful to determine the source of funds as also to assess the ability of the actual and the immediate investor to make such investments.
RADIO broadcasters have expressed concerns over the proposed move to introduce Section 33A in the Copyright Act which would give unfair powers to the music societies to fix tariff and could potentially derail the radio industry already reeling under massive losses.
Absence of tax-free climate has affected inflows of foreign investment in the shipping sector, reducing its competitiveness, the government informed Rajya Sabha. “The Indian flag suffers from certain barriers in terms of tax and duty structures which may have impeded the growth of foreign direct investment (FDI),” shipping minister GK Vasan told Rajya Sabha. As per him new taxes in the form of service tax, FBT etc reduced its competitiveness.
Asking for transparency in functioning, leading broadcasters like Zee TV, STAR, Sony and others have taken a strong objection to a proposed move by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) to amend the existing Copyright Act without consulting them. Under the proposed changes, even news broadcasters may also have to cough up a similar amount for every telecast of matches and old clippings.
Meetings of all Zonal Development Commissioners under the chairmanship of AS(SEZ) would be held after BOA meeting in the Department of Commerce to discuss and clarify policy matters which required further discussion. Therefore, if Zonal DCs need any clarifications on SEZ Policy issues, they may bring up such matters along with full details of the case in these meetings.
It has been noted that developers/co-developers have been seeking permission of the BoA for carrying out such authorized operations, which are already covered in the default list of authorized operations, the powers for which have already been delegated to the DC’s/UAC’s. This results in the waste of precious time of the BoA.
The government has no plan to further liberalize foreign investment in retail sector, the commerce and industry minister said.India, currently, does not permit foreign direct investment (FDI) in multiple-brand retailers, restricting global firms like Wal-Mart Stores and Carrefour from selling directly to customers in the country. Foreign holdings in single-branded retailers are capped at 51%.
