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Last verified: July 2026 When Dr. B.R. Ambedkar rose in the Constituent Assembly on 9 December 1948, he was asked which article of the draft Constitution he valued most. His answer has echoed for three-quarters of a century: Article 32, the right to move the Supreme Court itself, was “the very soul of the Constitution […]

Last verified: July 2026 Two partners in a family jewellery business fell out. One of them relied on a “Deed of Admission and Retirement” to claim she had been brought into the firm and the others eased out. The other partner said she had never signed any such thing, that the deed was forged and

A screenshot takes about ten seconds to fake. Open a chat, change the words in the browser’s developer tools, grab a picture, and you are holding a message that was never sent. Video is harder, but not by much. With a free app and one clear photo, a face can be made to say things

Last verified: July 2026 A cloth trader in Nagpur sells 12 lakh rupees of fabric to a garment unit and never gets paid. He files a recovery suit, and because of the amount involved, it lands before the Court of the Civil Judge (Senior Division). He loses on a technicality about how the invoices were

Last verified: July 2026 The word “company” does a lot of quiet work. It covers a two-person consultancy run out of a spare bedroom, a stock-exchange-listed giant with a lakh of shareholders, a farmers’ collective pooling their turmeric harvest, a members-only lending society in a Tamil Nadu town, and the Indian branch office of a

Last verified: July 1, 2026 For decades, an Indian bank could not lend against shares to bankroll a takeover, and a company still cannot give financial assistance to buy its own shares (Section 67(2) of the Companies Act, 2013, for public companies). That single constraint is why the leveraged buyout, the engine of global private

Last verified: 30 June 2026 A final-year LLB student in India gets sold a clean, attractive dream: one year in Britain, a master’s in law from a university whose name everyone recognises, and a global career on the other side. The brochure shows the tuition fee converted into rupees, lists a few specialisations, and stops

Last verified: June 2026 A scooter goes missing from outside a Pune apartment building on a Tuesday morning. The owner walks to the nearest police station, explains what happened, and is told to come back later, or to try a different police station because “the theft did not happen in our area.” He leaves without

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When the business press reports that one company has “merged” with another, the word does a lot of hiding. A telecom operator absorbing a rival, a foreign bank buying a controlling stake in an Indian lender, a holding company folding its wholly-owned subsidiary into itself: these are all called mergers in everyday speech, yet each