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Counting On Law

NCLT is caught up in wasteful govt-to-govt litigation. Here’s how to change that

NCLT has over 30,000 pending cases. Reducing its load requires changes to Companies Act

60% shareholder battles in India are settled or withdrawn. It’s the model corporate law

The design of India’s oppression and mismanagement regime balances the dual objectives of corporate law: protecting minority shareholders and curtailing opportunistic use.

NCLT bottleneck hinders India’s M&A boom. Govt’s fast-track framework ignores the real problem

The question is no longer whether India can create fast tracks. It already has. The question is whether the main track—and the regulators who feed into it—can be fixed.

Winners’ remorse in Indian litigation—2 ways to resolve execution delays

A 19th-century system that forces the winner of a litigation to run from pillar to post to enforce a hard-won decree, poses an existential question for the judiciary.

Why district judges almost never make it to India’s Supreme Court

Indian judiciary has a corrosive imbalance between the bar and the bench. Those who supervise the district judiciary do so without the lived experience that is essential for meaningful reform.

Holding judges to account can’t be about collective conscience. It must fix a broken system

In this climate of populism, the clamour for accountability can easily transform into evaluation becoming a lever of control rather than a tool for feedback and improvement.

We blame the government for being too litigious. Data tells a very different story

Real gains can be achieved when the government focuses its reforms upstream in better contract design, stronger capacity to monitor performance and maintain documentation.

10 years of the Commercial Courts Act—has the law delivered on its promise?

More than 60 per cent of the suits remain pending after two years of having been filed, and this proportion is agnostic to whether the suit is a commercial or ordinary suit.

On Camera

A stronger Iran has emerged from the rubble. US learned the lesson 40 days late

The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.

Data centre gold rush risks blackouts, central electricity body warns states against tripping grids

India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.

Theaterisation proposal to be shared with defence ministry in a week or so—CDS Gen Anil Chauhan

Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.