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Last verified: June 2026 In October 2024, the US Securities and Exchange Commission settled charges against a former chief executive and chairman who had spent years on the board of a large US consumer-products company in the seat reserved for an independent director. On paper he was perfect for it: long retired from running anyone’s […]

Last verified: 16 June 2026 She had three offers on the table the week she graduated from a national law university in 2025: a litigation chamber in Delhi, an LPO role in Gurugram, and a vague promise from a cousin in Birmingham that “lawyers are in demand here, you should just come over.” The third

Last verified: 15 June 2026 Until April 2026, a small cosmetics maker in Ghaziabad could, on paper, be sent to prison for up to a year for a labelling or licensing slip under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940. No fraud. No injured customer. Just a procedural default that the statute, drafted in a different

Last verified: 15 June 2026 A grocery shop in a small commercial lane had been let out in 1953. For seven decades the tenant’s family ran the business, paid rent, and stayed put. Then the landlord, whose title came through a 1999 will left by her father-in-law, asked them to leave. The tenant’s answer was

Last verified: 8 June 2026 On 27 May 2026, the Supreme Court of India wiped out a penalty of Rs 202 crore. It was the largest combination penalty in the country’s history, and the Competition Commission of India had imposed it on a global e-commerce acquirer over a deal it had structured in an Indian

Last verified: June 2026 In July 2024, just days after India switched on a brand-new law of evidence, a large multinational technology company walked into the Delhi High Court with what looked like an open-and-shut point. It had WhatsApp screenshots showing exactly when a legal document had, and had not, reached it. The screenshots were

In April 2024, a SEBI order put a number on a problem that most boards prefer not to name. A listed beverage company’s independent directors, sitting on the audit committee, had signed off on financial statements largely by accepting the managing director’s explanations rather than scrutinising the numbers themselves. The regulator’s reading was blunt: the committee had

Last verified: April 2026 Picture this. A bail order, granted by a High Court, gets cancelled by the Supreme Court. Not because the accused was a flight risk. Not because fresh evidence of guilt surfaced. Not because any bail condition was violated. The cancellation came because the bail application itself had withheld facts the court

Last verified: June 2026 The cheque was for Rs 4.2 lakh, and it was supposed to clear a job a small fabrication unit had finished three months earlier. It came back stamped “funds insufficient.” The owner did what most people do first: he called the buyer, who apologised, blamed a “temporary cash flow issue,” and

Last verified: 2026-06-12 In early 2024, a Bengaluru SaaS founder needed Rs 1.5 crore to reach his next set of metrics. A priced round meant fixing a valuation he couldn’t defend with eight months of revenue. So he did what hundreds of early-stage founders do: he raised the money on a convertible note, agreed to