Articles and Updates

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What’s in a name? For those answering ‘not a lot’, think again. Global media behemoth, the Financial Times of United Kingdom is currently engaged in a nearly two decade long legal battle with leading local player Times Publishing House to secure for itself the exclusive usage of the marks ‘Financial Times’ and ‘FT’ in India. Central to their argument is that they enjoy a transborder reputation in respect of the disputed marks. That is, irrespective of modest circulation figures in India or its clie

• Sawant Singh -

In recent years, captivated by the Indian growth story, the global investor community has been keen to participate in the Indian capital markets. However, until recently, access to investment opportunities in India was by and large limited to foreign institutional investors (FIIs) and foreign venture capital investors (FVCIs).

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In recent times, the Jan Lokpal movement has captured popular imagination with its premise of establishing an effective mechanism to prevent and check corruption in the public sphere. However, the resultant ‘Anti-Corruption, Grievance Redressal and Whistleblower Protection Bill, 2011’ (Jan Lokpal Bill), which is currently being debated by the Parliament, excludes from its purview ‘white collar’ offences involving the private sector. This issue has recently come into the spotlight with a spurt of alleged

• Siddharth Hariani -

A silver lining of the recent global financial crisis has been the subsequent introspection on market structures and institutions, and how their interplay could impact systemic stability. In 2010, India’s securities regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), received the report of the Bimal Jalan Committee (chaired by a former governor of the Reserve Bank of India), which reviewed ownership and governance of market infrastructure institutions such as stock exchanges and clearing corporation

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Civil aviation has been hugely responsible for India’s globalisation. Ironically, India’s own civil aviation sector is far from globalised. On the one hand, the number of passengers who can afford flights in India has swelled dramatically over the last decade; newer airports have opened up across the length and breadth of the country. On the other hand, a pall of gloom hangs over almost all of India’s airlines, barring just one low-cost, no-frills, private carrier. India’s aviation minister recently esti