A public authority can cancel a tender process and call for fresh bid in larger public interest to receive higher revenue. "When competing claims are private interest versus public interest, in the... Read more »

Measures to sensitise industry on commercial benefits of intellectual property to help step up domestic patent filing Read more »

The taxable event for service tax is the act of providing service; ownership is not relevant Read more »

A weekly selection of key court orders Read more »

Pankaj Chadha, Partner in a member firm, Ernst & Young Global, answers some key concerns around related party transactions Read more »

Sebi's corporate governance code and the new company law regime have some clauses that have many Indian companies in a bind Read more »

Whenever the market falls after a govt is sworn in, finance ministers take it as a personal affront Read more »

The Supreme Court has stated that procedural defects and irregularities, which can be cured, should not stand in the way of justice, in a case of cheque bouncing Read more »

Though the Direct Taxes Code is still work in progress - something that would be high on the agenda of the new government - the latest draft confirms industry's worst fears Read more »