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The great jewel scam that is rocking the nation has opened up a Pandora Box on how the banks have become soft target for unscrupulous scam creators in connivance with the bank officials. It is apparent from the modus operandi of the operations that it is a systematic, well conceived and planned loot of the Indian Banking system. It is termed as 'system failure' by man..

  173rd meeting of ESI Corporation held ESIC vision 2022 approved in principal target of covering 10 crore workers till 2022 New Hospital at Bhubneshwar and Raigarh Sanctioned Many important decisions were taken in 173rd meeting of ES..

Credit profile management has become the buzz word today and there are a host of people who are claiming themselves to be an expert. While you might be able to hear a few beneficial, few not so beneficial and a few utterly off the mark advises on how to manage your profile. We have drawn the list of four most important rules that each of the experts vouches for...

Let me start shaking my pen by first and foremost pointing out that the Supreme Court on January 22 said that the court 'can't rest' its 'hands' on the death of CBI Special Judge BH Loya in 2014 in view of the controversy swirling around it since a long time ever since it was first reported in the Caravan magazine. The death of Loya came under the spotlight in Novem..

Let me get moving the nib of my pen by first and foremost pointing out that a Special CBI court in Ranchi on January 24 awarded five years of rigorous imprisonment in jail and a fine of Rs 10 lakh to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief and former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav in a third fodder scam case RC 68(A)/96 for fake withdrawal of Rs 33.61 crore from Ch..

Introduction Coming straight to the crux of the matter, let me begin first and foremost pointing out that a new Consumer Protection Bill has been tabled in the Lok Sabha on January 5, 2018. This was presented on the last day of the winter session of Parliament. The Union Minister for Consum..

Coming straight to the nub of the matter, let me begin at the very beginning by pointing out that after an unprecedented press conference by four senior-most Supreme Court Judges on January 12 over 'selective' allocation of cases and amid subsequent parleys to resolve the huge rift, the frozen ice and the huge deadlock has now finally been broken. The Chief Justice ..

Which of the contesting parties should provide evidence in a judicial proceeding is determined on the basis of some judicial principles that are laid down in the Indian Evidence Act.  This write up is exclusively about such principles included in Part III of Indian Evidence Act.   Who holds the burden of provi..

Do you know what is the first thing you need to do if your client is looking to merge with another company? Or maybe acquire a company? If you are a corporate lawyer, chances are that you must have gone through this process before. And if not, let me point it out. The very first th..

How are brick and mortar casinos regulated? Are the card games organised during Diwali legal? Can you distinguish between skill-based games and gambling? Does GST apply to the gaming businesses? I..

As per Section 2(57) and Section 65 of Juvenile Justice(Care and Protection of Children) Act,  2015, [JJ Act] each State/UTs is to establish/recognize one or more “Specialised Adoption Agency” (SAA) in each district for housing orphans, abandoned and surrendered children, placed there by order of the Committee, for the purpose of adoption. Further a..

There are 701 Juvenile Justice Boards (JJBs) in the country which are supported under the Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS) of the Ministry of Women and Child Development. The primary responsibility of setting up the JJBs vests with the State Governments/UT Administrations concerned. Section 4 (1) of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Chi..

More than 1700 Special Juvenile Police Units(SJPUs) have been established in the country. Each district and city in the country has atleast one SJPU. The Police officers of the Special Juvenile Police Unit are trained by their respective State Governments and State Police Academies. A m..

  Ministry of WCD issued advisories to all States/UTs to ensure effective implementation of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act. In order to ensure the effective implementation of the ..

Let me begin at the very beginning by expressing my utmost and deepest sympathies with the families of those three young stone pelters - Suhail Lone, Javid Bhat and Rayees Ahmed in their 20s who were killed in firing by army soldiers in Shopian in South Kashmir. The families lives stands completely devastated and nothing can compensate for the invaluable loss that t..