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Last verified: June 2026 An NRI in New Jersey wanted to sell his late father’s flat in Pune. To save himself a trip, he signed a “general power of attorney” in favour of his cousin, got it notarised at a UPS store, couriered it to India, and told the cousin to find a buyer and […]

A man was accused of moving sand worth about ₹1,500. The police registered a first information report against him under Section 303(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, and Section 21 of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957. On paper, an ordinary petty-theft case. In practice, it became a lesson in how

Last verified: 24 June 2026 Every time a state High Court opens its judicial services examination, the numbers tell the same story. A few hundred Civil Judge (Junior Division) vacancies draw tens of thousands of law graduates, all chasing the same goal: a seat on the bench before they turn thirty-five. It is one of

Last verified: June 2026 A Pune software engineer rented a two-bedroom flat, signed an 11-month rent agreement his landlord had downloaded and filled in by hand, and moved in. Eleven months later the landlord refused to return the deposit, claiming damage to the flooring that the engineer knew was already there when he arrived. He

Last verified: June 2026 Here’s a scene that plays out in boardrooms more often than it should. A finance professional with twenty years behind them accepts their first independent directorship. The company files the appointment, the name goes into the IICA databank, the chairman shakes hands, everyone moves on to the next agenda item. What

Last verified: June 2026 A man accused of a serious offence walks out on bail. Within weeks, the prosecution’s main witness stops returning calls from the investigating officer. Then she files a complaint: the accused has been waiting outside her house, reminding her that he knows where her children study. The trial that looked solid

Last verified: 23 June 2026 In December 2025, a record 92,344 people registered for a single law entrance exam. That was CLAT 2026, the Common Law Admission Test, and almost all of those candidates wanted the same thing you probably do: to become a lawyer in India, starting right after the 12th. The number was

Last verified: June 2026 Something changed on 21 November 2025 that most HR teams are still catching up with. On that date all four of India’s new Labour Codes came into force, and one of them, the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020, made the appointment letter a statutory obligation. Not a courtesy.

Last verified: 23 June 2026 Arbitration is sold on a single promise: finality. You agree to keep a dispute out of court, a tribunal decides it, and that decision – the award – binds you. So for nearly 25 years a deceptively simple question split India’s courts: if a judge spots a clear, fixable error

Last verified: 22 June 2026 A law student can read a textbook on mergers and acquisitions and still not understand how a deal actually moves. The textbook tells you what an open offer is. It does not tell you what it feels like when a foreign bank pumps three billion dollars into an Indian lender,