Bharti Airtel’s director legal Sameer Chugh leads, in his words, a “fast-paced” industry.

For B4U Television’s director and head legal Natasha Fernandes, sustaining a small TV and movie distribution company’s business in the face of a regulatory threat to its main revenue model – advertisements – is the biggest challenge.

The Supreme Court today struck down a Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) notification obligating telecom service providers to compensate consumers for dropped calls. Striking down the notification dated 16 October, 2015, an apex court bench of Justice Kurian Joseph and Justice Rohinton Nar...

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has asked Reliance Communications, which partnered with Facebook to put their ‘Free Basics’ on hold reported BBC on 23 December. Free basics is pitched as a service which would provide internet accessibility to people who cannot afford high costs of i...

The Delhi high court was on Tuesday informed by the TRAI that no coercive steps would be taken against telecom companies till 6 January in connection with call drop compensation norms. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) told the division bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jaya...

Vodafone has, through senior advocate K Vishwanathan, challenged the telecom authority’s new rules which deprive it of charges paid to it by other operators on outgoing calls from their network to the Vodafone network, reported The Indian Express . In its challenge to the Telecom Regulatory Authorit...

BCI cozies up to NaMo A delegation led by Bar Council of India (BCI) chief Manan Kumar Mishra met Narendra Modi on Saturday, inviting him to address the valedictory function of the Gujarat bar Council. According to a Gujarat state press release, the BCI respected Modi’s nationalism, while Modi calle...

8 new Bom HC judges: The Bombay HC elevated eight lawyers to judgeship. The new judges: Advocates Suresh Gupte, Z A haq, K R Shriram, Gautam Patel, Atul Chandurkar, Revati Mohite Dhere, Mahesh Sonak and Ravindra Ghuge [ TOI ] DoT V TRAI: Telecom regulator TRAI and the Department of Telecommunication...

No Reliance on reportage: Anil Ambani’s ADAG threatened legal action against monthly magazine Caravan while they were reporting their 11,000-word profile on attorney general Goolam Vahanvati. Delhi law firm Agarwal & Associates acted for ADAG, The Hoot published the deets. Feel me once, shame o...

TRAI-ing new approach: On enforcing the 12 min/hour advertising cap on TV, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India head Rahul Khullar says: “I don’t have to win a fucking election. I am a regulator, I am answerable to Parliament, my job is to enforce the law. Once the regulation is issued, it is law. ...

Writ extorts 500 Rupee JEE key: The CBSE has today notified that it will provide the JEE-mains answer key to interested candidates for Rs 500. Legally India had yesterday reported the listing of a writ in the Delhi HC against the CBSE, by a JEE candidate, to force the CBSE to disclose the answer key...

ITAT Bar seeks SC judge appointment to save face of mother of all Indian tribunals [ ITAT Online ] North-east and J&K make their way to SC as Punjab-Haryana HC’s Assamese CJ Gogoi, and Kashmir’s Kalifulla appointments cleared. Gogoi likely to make CI 2018 [ The Hindu ] TRAI disconnects nearly 2...

Chandigarh sessions court set to hang Punjab CM assassin who hasn’t asked mercy, initiates contempt against non-complying executioner [ First Post ] SEBI exempts IDBI bank from Takeover Code’s mandatory minority shareholder public-offer in bond to equity conversion, in the interest of capital adequa...

Vodafone refunded Rs 2500 crore with four per cent interest by SC; S.E Dastur opines on second review, CBDT on forgoing billion dollar tax [ Mint , ITAT Online , Business Standard ] Naz finally buried as Vahanvati and co “enlightened”; govt argument goof-up also blamed on miscommunication [ Mint ] N...

There exists a Mad HC judgment on copyright infringement by Nani palkiwala of Sampath Iyengar’s book “The Law of Income Tax” [ Tax Titans ] The tax bill that will go easy on individuals, tough on corporations – summarized [ PRS India ] [ Standing Committee Report’ ] SEBI doesn’t want the risk of wha...