Sumit Roy promoted at Alpha from associate partner Alpha Partners has promoted associate partner Sumit Roy, who is heading the firm’s disputes practice, to partner. The promotion of the 2010 IMS Law College Noida graduate takes effect from 1 October. He had joined the firm in 2013, with a stint at erstwhile Seth Dua &
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Judicial halts to NLS, NUJS, NLU-D state reservations are very likely to end in the apex court The Calcutta high court has today issued an interim stay in the writ petition challenging the state government’s 30% domicile reservation at NUJS Kolkata. It is understood that the two-judge division bench headed by Justice IP Mukherjee said
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Kochhar & Co has hired two K Law Delhi partners – Pradeep Ratnam, who effectively headed its office in the city, and Parul Verma; both specialise in banking and finance. Verma and Ratnam had both joined very recently. Ratnam had moved to K Law in 2016 from Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services (ILFS), where he
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The Civil Services Exam scheduled on October 4th cannot be postponed over the coronavirus crisis, the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) told the Supreme Court today. The top court was hearing a request seeking the postponement of Civil Services Exam. The Court today asked the UPSC – the Central Recruiting Agency for appointments to and exams
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What is the role of RBI To control or handle the supply of money in the economy means to check that how much money is available for the industry or for the economy and ‘the cost of credit.’ which means the price that has to pay by the economy has to borrow that money. These
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A special court in Lucknow delivered the much-awaited judgment on Wednesday in the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition case. All the 32 accused, including BJP veterans L.K. Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi, have been acquitted. CBI Judge Surendra Kumar Yadav had on September 16th directed all the 32 surviving accused to remain present in the court
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In the Supreme Court of India Civil Appeal No. 639, of 2000 (Arising out of SLP(C) No. 16439 of 1998) Petitioner The Chairman, Railway Board & ors. Respondents Chandrima Das and Ors. Date of Judgement 28.01.2000 Bench Justice Saiyed Saghir Ahmad; Justice R.P. Sethi Introduction: Ms. Chandrima Das who filed the above petition under Article
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In the Supreme Court of India 1973 AIR 1227, 1973 SCR (3) 587 Petitioner The Workmen of Firestone Tyre and Rubber Co. of India (Pvt.) Ltd. Respondents The Management and Ors. Date of Judgement 06.03.1973 Bench Justice Vaidyialingam, C.A; Dua, I.D. Introduction The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 was initiated in April 1947 to regulate industrial disputes
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Journalist and Editor-in-chief of the Republic Media Network, Arnab Goswami moved the Supreme Court challenging the breach of privilege motion notice against him by the Maharashtra Assembly and the Legislative Council for criticizing the government inaction in Sushant Rajput’s death case. A privilege motion can be moved when an individual or an authority disregards or
... Continue Reading.[Ragini Agarwal is a graduate from National Law University, Jodhpur. The author would like to thank Mayank Udhwani for his inputs on the article.] Innoventive Industries v. ICICI Bank (2017) was the first landmark Supreme Court judgment that explained the ethos of the newly introduced Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (“IBC”) as a code that
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