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A third-year student at a national law university sits across from a recruiter at a Bengaluru contract-automation company. She expected questions about the Indian Contract Act. Instead she’s asked how she’d map a 40-clause master services agreement into reusable templates, what she’d automate first, and whether she can read a simple workflow diagram. She has […]

Last verified: 8 July 2026 On her wedding night, a young bride from Kerala handed over 89 gold sovereigns: a lifetime of her family’s savings, worked into the ornaments she wore to the mandap. Her husband took them “for safekeeping” and passed the lot to his mother. Within a few years the sovereigns were gone,

Last verified: July 2026 A marketing manager in Bengaluru, pregnant with her first child, is told by her startup’s HR that the company is “too small” for maternity leave and that, in any case, she has not been on the rolls long enough. A government schoolteacher, expecting her third child after remarriage, has her leave

Last verified: July 2026 In May 2017, an arbitral tribunal handed the operator of the Delhi Airport Metro line an award worth roughly Rs 2,800 crore against the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation. With interest, the figure climbed towards Rs 8,000 crore over the years that followed. The Delhi Metro challenged it under Section 34 of

Last verified: July 2026 Two companies sign a supply contract worth eight crore rupees. Eighteen months in, the buyer stops paying, the seller stops shipping, and each blames the other. Neither wants to spend the next six years in a civil court watching the file gather dust. So they reach for a single clause buried

Every murder case in India is really two cases stacked on top of each other. The first is about the killing: did this death amount to murder under Section 101 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, or only to culpable homicide not amounting to murder under Section 105? The gap between those two answers is

Last verified: July 2026 Two people walk into the same police station on the same morning, and both are there because of the same three digits: 498A. The first is a woman who has spent two years being told she is worthless because her father could not add a car to the dowry, who has

Last verified: July 3, 2026 On 26 May 2026, the rules of corporate rescue in India shifted more than they had in almost a decade. That was the day most of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Act, 2026 came into force, and with it a creditor-led resolution route, a 14-day deadline for tribunals to

Last verified: 2026-07-06 On 2 July 2026, the Supreme Court of India said something no lawyer working with artificial intelligence should ever forget. Setting aside orders of the National Company Law Tribunal and the appellate tribunal that had relied on fabricated, AI-generated case citations, a bench of Justices P.S. Narasimha and Alok Aradhe held that

A head of department at a university in Goa was dismissed from service after an Internal Committee found sexual-harassment allegations against him proved. On paper, the system had worked. A complaint was made, a committee inquired, a finding was returned, and the employer acted. Except the committee had rushed. It ran the inquiry in a