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 23000 spamming subscribers, penalizes 94 telemarketeers while blacklisting 4 [Medianama]

Indian M&As to become expensive with the taxing of “declared services” such as non-compete fee [Mint]

FEMA regulations on transfer or issue of foreign security amended to give more flexibility to Indian party through rationalization of their overseas direct investments [Taxmann]

NY lawsuit targets stop-and-frisk abuse for being racist [Wall Street Journal]