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Last verified: 9 May 2026 In February 2025, the Enforcement Directorate published an adjudication order that ought to be pinned to every founder’s office wall as a working primer on FEMA compliance for Indian startups. The order imposed a Rs 3.44 crore penalty on a foreign-funded Indian media company for keeping FDI at 100 per […]

Last verified: 08 May 2026 In a Madhya Pradesh district jail, an undertrial waited. Almost two years had passed since the police seized a commercial-quantity consignment from a vehicle he was travelling in. No prior antecedents, no flight risk on record, no ongoing trial. His Section 37 NDPS bail application had failed twice, once at

Last verified: 8 May 2026 On the morning of 20 September 2024, a leading listed Indian health insurer (market capitalisation around USD 4 billion, roughly 30 million policyholders on the books) filed a stock-exchange disclosure that reads, in retrospect, like a regulatory training manual. Customer data, the disclosure said, had been compromised. By the time

Last verified: 6 May 2026 On 6 February 2025, the Securities and Exchange Board of India confirmed a personal penalty of Rs 30 lakh on a former non-executive independent director who had served on the audit committee of a then-listed Hyderabad advertising-technology firm. Three weeks earlier, the Securities Appellate Tribunal had refused to stay the

Last verified: 2026-05-05 In November 2015, a budget-hotel aggregator and a hostel-network startup signed a single document that read “non-binding except for confidentiality, exclusivity, governing law and approvals.” The two companies parted as collaborators. They reunited as litigants. The term sheet, the foundational document of term sheet drafting for Indian startups, was meant to bind

Last verified: 2026-05-05 A late 2024 order of the Bengaluru bench of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal cited three Supreme Court judgments and one Madras High Court ruling. None of them existed. The order was recalled within a week. The tax department’s representative had asked a generative chatbot for “supporting authorities,” pasted the answer into

Last verified: May 2026 On 29 October 2025, a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India, comprising Justice Aravind Kumar and Justice N.V. Anjaria, took up an unremarkable special leave petition. The accused had been in judicial custody for nearly a year. His case had been committed to the Court of Session months before.

Last verified: May 2026 In November 2008, an elderly couple was attacked during a house-breaking in Delhi. The husband did not survive. The wife did, and what she saw that night became the centre of a criminal trial that would run for more than fifteen years. Eight years and six months after the incident, the

Last verified: May 2026 On the morning of 25 December 2023, while most of India was on Christmas break, the Gazette of India quietly carried Notification No. 47 of 2023. With it, a statute that would replace one of the country’s oldest laws received Presidential assent. Nobody waved a flag. Nobody held a press conference.

Last verified: 30 April 2026 On 1 April 2025, a Mumbai-headquartered tier-1 Indian law firm celebrated its 25th anniversary by elevating eight Counsels to Equity Partner. The firm’s equity bench reached 142. For anyone trying to map the law firm partnership track in India, those numbers are the starting clue, not the headline. That headline