Bhavya Arora The Commercial Paper exposure of NBFCs has fallen from 38.2% to 21.2% from Oct’18 to Oct’19. The funds parked by mutual funds in NBFCs have also fallen during the same […]
Non-Banking Finance in India – Regulatory challenges and concerns
COVID19-XX: The Pandemic and the Shutdown in Kashmir
Kavya Mathur & Varsha Raman This is the 20th post of our COVID19 series Introduction Almost all major world economies, including India, are at a standstill due to imposition of covid […]
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The Backbone of our Economy needs our help. Please support LSPR’s donation campaign. In the past few weeks, we have all observed the tribulations which migrants of our country have been undergoing. […]
SC’s interpretation of “perversity” in Seamec v. OIL: Increasing the subjectivity in challenge of arbitral awards
Ragini Agarwal Widening interpretation of “perversity” of Awards makes the exercise under s 34 subjective. In South East Asia Marine Engineering and Constructions Ltd. v. Oil India Ltd.[1] (SEAMEC) decided on May […]
Protecting the Hands that Heal: The Urgent Need for a Central Legislation
Siddhant Ranjan & Kartikey Gaur The Ordinance to amend the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 highlights the need to bring back discourse on the Draft Bill criminalizing violence against healthcare workers Doctors are […]
No Reason Why: Obliteration of Anglo-Indian Representation from the Indian Parliament
Vishwajeet Deshmukh In December 2019, the Indian Parliament passed the 126th Constitutional Amendment Bill, 2019 thereby placing the 104th Constitutional Amendment Act 2019. The Bill extends the reservation for Scheduled Caste (“SC”) […]
Voluntary but Unlawfully Mandatory: Aarogya Setu App in Bail Orders
Aparajita Kaul Mandatory imposition of the Aarogya Setu app as a condition in bail orders is unlawful and raises a concern regarding the courts’ discretion in conditional bails. The government-propagated Aarogya Setu […]
COVID19-XIX: Child Abuse in India amidst the Pandemic
Shubhankar Tiwari and Kaartikay Agarwal This is the 19th post of our COVID-19 Series. INTRODUCTION While everyone is concerned about maintaining social distance to prevent the spread of COVID-19, not much attention […]
Racial Discrimination: An Undiagnosed Sickness In India
Ritika Goyal Introduction The recent COVID-19 crisis has also had a disturbing effect on an increase in incidents of racial discrimination against North-East Indians are rising too. They are being forcefully evicted […]
The Reliance Jio – Facebook deal – A Challenge for Net Neutrality
Dhruv Jadhav In 2015 Facebook had attempted to launch the Free Basics programme in India in partnership with Reliance Communications. The programme was touted to give Indians free basic connectivity to the […]