This article contains various Compliance requirements for the Month of July, 2021 under various Statutory Laws. Compliance Requirement Under  Income Tax Act, 1961  Goods & Services Tax Act, 2017 (GST) and Important Updates / Circulars Other Statutory Laws and Updates 4 Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 (FEMA) and Important Notifications SEBI (Listing Obligations & Disclosure Requirements) (LODR) Regulations, 2015 SEBI Takeover Regulations 2011 SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations, 2015 SEBI (Issue of Capital and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2018 S ..read more

Anant Gupta is CEO of Memo Punits.  He has practiced law at one of India’s largest law firms for 2 years before founding 2 startups – Memo Pundits, the ed-tech startup, and Infinite Detours, a high-end trekking startup for travelers across the world.  Memo Punits is an ed-tech venture for law students across the world. The venture’s goal is to create easy access to the education required for becoming proficient in the field of law. It is currently one of the fastest-growing ed-tech platforms for law students with a base in over 200 law schools. It’s going to be an interesting journey ..read more

Recently, the Calcutta High Court in a writ petition held that a complaint on sexual harassment is maintainable even though both petitioner and respondent ARE OF THE SAME GENDER. In this case of “MALABIKA BHATTACHARJEE Vs. INTERNAL COMPLAINTS COMMITTEE, VIVEKANANDA COLLEGE AND ORSâ€, the petitioners contended that the respondent (Internal Complaints Committee) acted without jurisdiction in entertaining a complaint on alleged sexual harassment on the grounds that both the parties involved were of the same gender. Mr. Kallol Basu, learned counsel appearing for the private respondent submitted ..read more

Abhinav Mehrotra is working as Assistant Lecturer at Jindal Global Law School, O. P. Jindal Global University. Previously, he has studied LL.M. at the University of Leeds, UK specialising in International Human Rights Law. It’s going to be an interesting journey reading how he looks at the smallest things of life and the few principles he follows.  Why legal academics ?  The reason why I chose legal academics is the opportunity that it offers to help students and have a positive impact on them . Moreover, the freedom it offers to choose areas of research and the University environmen ..read more

Ashish Bhakta is Founding Partner of ANB Legal. He has been appointed as Amicus Curiae by the Securities Appellate Tribunal and also acts as Conciliator / Arbitrator in case of various commercial and family disputes. He has been a part of a diverse practice and headed teams on several high profile M&A, Private Equity and Project Finance deals apart from working on media related documents.He is also a visiting faculty professor at the KC College of Law and Siddharth College of Law, Mumbai. He firmly believes that, “there is no substitute to the combination of hard work and being humane in y ..read more

Introduction  The Insurance laws in India and the United Kingdom  have seen sweeping changes over the years. A series of changes and reforms have been made in both countries, and multiple acts and rules  govern and regulate the Insurance industry in these countries. The United Kingdom recently introduced the  The Consumer Insurance (Disclosure and Representations) Act (CIDRA) 2012 and the Insurance Act 2015. This paper would seek to discuss these reforms, through a discussion of these reforms and its impact on  the following , components of Insurance law, which  a ..read more

Twisted Fable with Dr. Vidyottma Jha Dr. Vidyottma Jha is a lawyer practicing in the Supreme Court of India. She is also an author and public speaker.  It’s going to be an interesting journey reading how she looks at the smallest things of life and the few principles she follows to be an accomplished person. Why law ? Do you think being a lawyer makes you more powerful as compared to other people ?   Law is a very interesting discipline and inculcates within its purview a wide dimension of every aspect of life that we deal with be it family or property, constitutional issues, environ ..read more

RBI allows banks not to make any dividend payment on equity shares from the profits pertaining to the financial year ended March 31, 2020. The decision has been taken so that banks could continue to conserve capital to support the economy and absorb losses. Additionally banks will be able to its balance sheet and at the same time support lending to the real economy.    ..read more

Advocate Shivangi Prasad is an author Founder Partner of POSH at Work (a legal cum psychology firm assisting organizations in complying with the law against sexual harassment at workplace and related topics). POSH at Work is empanelled by the Ministry of Women & Child Development, Government of India since February, 2017. Shivangi Prasad has assisted more than 300 organizations with compliance such as formulating of anti-sexual harassment policies, structuring/restructuring of Internal Committees, providing solutions for creating healthier work environment, recommending unique initiatives ..read more

Megha Chandra is Counsel at Bombay High Court. She has expertise over Civil and Commercial litigation, Intellectual property rights law, Media and entertainment law, Labour Law, Family and matrimonial law and Human rights law.  It’s going to be an interesting journey reading how she looks at the smallest things of life and the few principles she follows to be an accomplished person. Why Law? Because it is the most mentally stimulating profession out there. Every day, the law evolves a little bit to catch up with the changing times that we are living in and every case is like a new puzzle ..read more