hack of SC website

Delhi HC Lauded, before the hack of SC website

Hack of SC website- Last week, the official website of the Apex court was crashed with allegations of being hacked surfacing. Initially, several people were posting images of Supreme court website saying “hackeado por HighTech Brazil HackTeam”, explicitly stating the allegations on Brazil Hacking team. Few days back, India’s Defence Ministry website and Home and Law […]

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Farmers suicide

Farmers suicide in Uttarakhand, the “Land of Gods”

Dr. Ganesh Upadhaya, filed the petition in Uttarakhand High Court for redressing the grievances of agrarian community highlighting the various incidents of suicide committed by farmers in the state of Uttarakhand. The averments made under the petition was “abject poverty, level of in-debt and high statistics of crop failure.  Four farmers in the State of […]

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investor protection

SEBI’s Role In Investor Protection and The Challenges Ahead

SEBI’s establishment was in the year 1988 but were given statutory power in the year 1992.  The basic aim of SEBI was to protect the investors in securities. There a lot of fraud being committed in the securities market wherein the investor’s money was misused and therefore SEBI was formed. Herein we will discuss about […]

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Aadhaar linking

Aadhaar- SIM card Linkage: SC order or Govt. Direction?

On the final Aadhaar hearing, Day 33, Rakesh Diwedi, senior counsel, referred to the Department of telecommunication’s circular, in his arguments, of date 23 March, 2017, directing all telecom operators for conducting re-verification of existing pre-paid and post-paid connection users, based on Aadhaar based KYC, in furtherance to the order of apex court in Lokniti […]

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secondary market

Secondary Market In India- Its Control and Management by SEBI

Secondary Market basically means a market where securities are traded after them being exchanged through the primary market. It is called a market where second-hand securities are sold. It includes both equity and debt market. Securities and Exchange Board of India as a regulatory authority was established under section 3 of SEBI Act 1992 in […]

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Health records digitization

DISHA: Proposed Health Security Bill

INTRODUCTION: India is in dire need of the legal framework for data protection, amid all the plans and talks of an IT framework for government’s new health protection scheme, union ministry released the draft, for upcoming act, to protect health data. In December 2017, the white paper on data protection framework for India was published […]

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government company

Government Company in India- Their Need and Legal Structure

Government Company as per section 2(45) of the Companies Act, 2013 means “any company in which not less than 51% of paid-up capital is held by the Central Government, or by any State Government, or partly by the Central Government and partly by one or more State Governments, and includes a company which is a […]

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Banking Company

Banking Company and Its Regulation in India

Banking Company as per section 5 of Banking Regulation Act, 1949 means “accepting, for the purpose of lending or investment, of deposits of money from the public, repayable on demand or otherwise and withdrawn by Cheque, Draft, Order, or otherwise.” Now, we all know that Indian economy is a bank based economy. The economic status […]

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kathua

Delhi HC lashes at Media Houses in Kathua case

The Delhi high court on 18th April, Wednesday lashed out at various media houses for revealing the name, identity and other information of the victim of the Kathua gang-rape case. Court further imposed the fine of Rs.1O lakh each and directed that the transferred amount will be a compensation fund to the victims of J&K. […]

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Amendment of POCSO Act

Amendment of POCSO Act: death penalty to rapist

Amidst the national wide indignation over the gang-rape of eight-year-old girl in Kathua, Jammu and Kashmir, Union cabinet, according to reports, has approved the ordinance of Amendment of POCSO Act, 2012 and promulgated to amend the punishment in the case of rape of minor, below 12 years of age. The present amendment would provide the […]

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Junior Legal Associates at Apollo Consultancy

JOB- Legal Analyst at Lakshmi Subramanian & Associates, Chennai- Apply by April 30

ABOUT- There are job vacancies for a legal analyst at Lakshmi Subramanian & Associates, Chennai. They are looking for a hardworking and knowledgeful candidate who can work with their legal team and assist them in different projects. ELIGIBILITY- Law Graduate/ Post Graduate. Final year students can apply. Good drafting skills knowledge of labour laws Good command […]

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transfer of securities

Legal regime over the transfer of securities- Electronic and manual modes

Transfer of securities means a change in the ownership of the shared title either through a private arrangement or through an exchange transaction. SECTION 56 UNDER COMPANIES ACT As per section 56 of the Companies Act, a company will register the transfer of securities only when it is duly stamped, dated and then executed by […]

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