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Let us start with some statistics about India’s economy: (a) Starting from USD 452 billion in 1999, India’s GDP crossed USD 2.6 trillion by 2017 – a growth of almost 6 times1 during a period when global GDP increased by only 2.5 times; (b) Per capita income nearly trebled in the past two decades; and (c) Total exports from India (merchandise and services) have increased 8.73 per cent year-on-year in 2018-19 (up to February 2019) to reach USD 483.92 billion, while total imports have increased by 9.42 per cent year-on- year to USD 577.31 billion2.Increasing protectionism, the US-China trade dispute and uncertainty around Brexit have contributed to the lowest global trade volumes in 9 years.
UK firm Travers Smith has introduced “That's not cool” as a phrase and hashtag that anyone at the law firm is intended to be able to use in response to anything that a colleague has said or done that makes them uncomfortable, reported The Lawyer (requires free registration to read).
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) is closing its transaction support group (TSG), which was set up 2013 in Mumbai to explore providing volume-focused transactional support at lower rates on work such as due diligence and other commoditised advice, with its TSG head Ami Parikh joining AZB & Partners to start a TSG there.
And here’s one of the problems with the opaque collegium and judiciary, which rarely if ever officially confirms anything to journalists, leaving reporting on the bench to often be sourced on hints and whispers.
TRA managing partner Anirudh Rastogi has advised on a so-called satellite launch contract for Team Indus, which is the only Indian team competing for the Google-sponsored Lunar XPRIZE, which has set aside $20m for the first 90% privately-funded company to land a robot on the moon and send video footage of its 500m drive on the lunar surface back to earth.
The Bihar government on Wednesday announced reservation in jobs to the third gender and set up a welfare board for them.
“The third gender will be provided reservation in government jobs and Bihar Rajya Kalyan Board will be set up soon,” Bihar Social Welfare Minister Manju Verma made the announcement in the state assembly.
After the state government recognised eunuchs and transgenders as “the third gender” following the Supreme Court order last year, the latest move to provide reservation in government jobs is hoped to give them more opportunities to become part of the mainstream.
Last year, the state government recognised them as the third gender by putting them in the Annexure 11 of the Other Backward Classes category.
According to officials, the third gender was included in the Schedule 2 of the list of Backward Castes in Bihar and will be given reservation in government jobs according to the rules and regulations.
Anindita Mukherjee, the Nalsar Hyderabad graduate who successfully requested the university to issue her graduation certificate with the gender-neutral honourific Mx, rather than Mr or Ms, has explained her decision and the issues involved in a personal column on the website Orinam.
Nalsar Hyderabad has possibly granted India’s first ever graduation certificate with the gender-neutral honourific “Mx”, instead of “Mr”, “Ms” or “Mrs”.
The second half of the Budget Session began this week. Here are the highlights.
The police had fired the policewoman after compelling her to take medical exams several years ago that determined she was transgender.
The Madras high court, relying on this week's Supreme Court judgment, told the police to reinstate her in service [TOI]
Nalsar Hyderabad student Anindita Mukherjee analyses today’s Supreme Court judgment recognising the “third gender” and points out what the apex court may have missed.
The Supreme Court has ruled that all government departments must recognise a third gender, and not discriminate against transgender people in the provision of services.
Singh & Associates (S&A) has responded to Delhi-based advocate Pratibha Singh’s Delhi high court claim of passing off her firm’s name Singh & Singh Advocates, asserting that she misrepresented facts, had no exclusive rights to the name “Singh”, and that her firm stood to gain from S&A’s reputation, and not the other way around, in the event of firm name confusion.
S&A also filed an application for rejection of her plaint, for lack of cause of action.
Khaitan & Co, alongside Travers Smith, advised legal process outsourcing (LPO) company CPA Global in its acquisition by European buyout firm Cinven which was advised by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
Legally India has today filed right to information (RTI) requests with India’s seven oldest national law schools, seeking full financial accounts, council meeting minutes and other information.
Dear Aunty & Uncle. I am at the Delhi office of [a third-tier law firm] doing general corporate commercial work. I graduated four years ago from a reputed law school. I know I am good enough to join [a first or second-tier firm] that does more corporate transactional work. Please revert back.
Khaitan & Co has picked up the Indian mandate to advise private equity group Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) on the $440m purchase of legal process outsourcing company CPA Global, alongside a raft of international firms.
AZB & Partners is sending four associates for training at Clifford Chance's European training centres as the start of a more organised "knowledge transfer" programme between the best friend firms.