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A tier-one Indian engineering company once tried to enforce a carefully negotiated non-disclosure agreement against a departing senior employee. It went to the Bombay High Court to get an arbitrator appointed. And there it stalled, not because the confidentiality covenant was weak, not because the employee had a clever defence, but because nobody had stamped the document. Und...

Last verified: May 2026

India had roughly 7.7 million gig and platform workers in 2020-21. NITI Aayog projects that number will nearly triple to about 23.5 million (2.35 crore) by 2029-30, with the Indian freelance-platform market tracking from around $187.5 million in 2023 toward $775.6 mi...

FY25 was the year India Inc.’s independent directors started walking. According to reported figures, roughly 549 independent directors resigned across the year, the overwhelming majority of them mid-term, premature exits well before their five-year terms ended. The exits clustered in the technology and startup space, part of

On 1 July 2024, India quietly changed how every criminal case is run. The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, the procedural rulebook that had governed police investigations and criminal trials for more than five decades, was repealed. In its place came the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, the BNSS.

Overnight, the familiar landmarks of a criminal case did not di...

Last verified: May 2026

The money was gone in eleven minutes. A retired schoolteacher had clicked one link in a message that looked like it came from her bank, entered an OTP, and watched her savings move out in three quick transfers. By the time she understood what had happened, the first hour, the only hour that really mattered, was already ticking away. In ...