The Supreme Court has agreed to hear next week a PIL alleging siphoning of Rs 18,000 crore funds meant for granting Post-Matriculation scholarship to students belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. A bench comprising Chief justice Dipak Misra and Justice A M Khanwilkar considered the submission of lawyer M [...]
On 25th May 2018, The EU, after 2 years of its adoption, enforced the General Data Protection Regulation, which created waves globally with respect to Personal Data Protection. The GDPR, while replacing the Data Protection Regime governing the EU (Data Protection Directive), aims at harmonizing rules across 28–nation EU block. [...]
The MSME sector in India, consisting of 36 million units, provides employment to over 80 million persons. The sector through more than 6,000 products, contributes about 8% to GDP, besides 45% of the total manufacturing output and 40% to the exports from the country. Due to the remarkable contribution of [...]
A representative democracy is the kind of democracy where people rule through their representatives, wherein these representatives make laws and policies and ensure their implementation. In a country like India, the citizens seldom have a say in the legislation process. It is to be noted that, where the Government should [...]
The Competition Act, 2002 under section 4 specifically forbids any enterprise from abusing its dominant position. The term ‘Dominant Position’ means a position of strength enjoyed by an enterprise in a relevant market, in India, which enables it to: Operate self-sufficiently irrespective of the competition forces prevalent in the relevant [...]
Referring to an appeal filed by the State Bank of India against a judgment of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal, the Supreme court ruled that the creditors can proceed against personal guarantors of a corporate debtor even while insolvency proceedings are on. The law mandates a limited moratorium of [...]