This Essay is submitted by – The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 (“PDP Bill”) introduces the concept of privacy by design policy for the first time in the Indian legislation governing data protection and privacy laws. This article examines the concept of privacy by design and the manner in which the PDP Bill attempts to
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K.Manjunath – Advocate, Bombay High Court. As the novel CORONA virus incubated in Wuhan from Mid- December to the Mid- January the Chinese state made evidently international misrepresentation to its people & to the world about concerned out break hence The republic of china led entire mankind to the unprecedented biological calamity. Which has been
... Continue Reading.A Public Interest Litigation has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking to pass directions to the Union Government to review the testing criteria adopted for COVID-19. Brief Facts A PIL has been filed by Prakhar Dixit and Siddharth Kumar Singh requesting the Supreme Court to pass directions to the Union Government to review the
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April 17, 2020 RBI Directions to NBFCs – Change of Shareholding Rule A clear, bright-line rule that retains the 26 per cent threshold but targets the acquirer rather than the company will remove the unintended consequences that have crept into the COSR… Non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), as the name suggests, are companies that aren’t licensed
... Continue Reading.[Mani Gupta and Shelja Pradhan are lawyers at Sarthak Advocates & Solicitors, New Delhi] In Standard Retail Private Limited v. G.S. Global Corp (8 April 2020), the High Court of Bombay has pronounced possibly one of the first orders interpreting the impact of force majeure clauses on parties’ contractual obligation due to COVID-19. In this
... Continue Reading.[Announcement on behalf of the NALSAR Student Law Review] The NALSAR Student Law Review (NLSR) is now accepting submissions for its upcoming Volume XV. The NSLR is an annual, student-edited, peer-reviewed law journal that is the flagship publication of NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, India. It is indexed on Hein Online and SCC Online. The
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FIR or a First Information Report is a report of information that first in point of time reaches the police. It is a written document that the police prepare after receiving the information about the cognizable offence. In general terms it is the complaint of a cognizable offence lodged with the police by the victim
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The Delhi High Court has restrained the Punjab and Sind Bank from declaring an educational society, which defaulted in repaying loan instalments, as a Non-Performing Asset during the nationwide lockdown. Prior Facts: The Petitioner, Shakuntla Educational & Welfare Society, had moved the court seeking a direction to Punjab & Sindh Bank to not declare its
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A plea has been filed in Supreme Court seeking for the welfare of the healthcare workers who are in the frontline helping to fight the battle against COVID-19. Brief Facts Supreme Court of India will hear a plea on 15th April, 2020. The plea filed seeks directions for a formulation of comprehensive policy framework for
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The Supreme Court on Monday said the ‘sordid tale of political life‘ exemplified by the toppling of state governments by switching of loyalty by ruling party MLAs and the spectacle of ‘flocked rebel MLAs being flown to safe destinations’ are denting the ‘democratic polity’ while suggesting legislative measures to remedy these evils. Prior Facts: An
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