Immutability vs Accountability: Data Protection Challenges for Crypto, Web3, and Blockchain Platforms under India’s DPDP Regime
By Aniket Ghosh Introduction: The Collision Between Blockchain Design and Data Protection Law Crypto and Web3 technologies were built to reduce dependence on centralised intermediaries. By design, blockchains prioritise immutability, transparency, censorship resistance and trust minimisation. These strengths, however, sit in clear tension with modern data protection frameworks that emphasise consent, purpose limitation, data minimisation, …
India’s New IT Rules on Synthetic Media: A Comprehensive Legal Analysis
By Jidesh Kumar Contributed by Sindhuja Kashyap Executive Summary The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has introduced sweeping amendments to the IT (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, establishing one of the world’s most comprehensive regulatory frameworks for AI-generated content and synthetic media. These amendments impose strict obligations on intermediaries, particularly …
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DPDP Act Compliance for Logistics and Supply Chain Companies in India: GPS Tracking, Telematics and Workforce Data Risks
By Aniket Ghosh Introduction: Data Governance in Motion India’s logistics sector runs on precision, speed and visibility. From fleet optimisation systems to warehouse access controls and last-mile delivery apps, operational efficiency increasingly depends on granular, real-time data. What is often viewed as infrastructure data, however, frequently contains personal information about drivers, workers, customers and business …
DPDP Act Compliance for Tax and Accounting Firms in India: Data Protection, Cloud Risks and Professional Confidentiality
By Aniket Ghosh Introduction: When Confidentiality Meets Statutory Data Protection Tax advisors, chartered accountants, auditors and professional services firms operate on trust. Clients share highly sensitive financial and personal information with the expectation that professional confidentiality will protect it.
RBI Amendments 2026: A New Category for NBFC Registration and Exemptions
The Reserve Bank of India (“RBI”) has further amended the Directions through the RBI (Non-Banking Financial Companies- Registration, Exemptions, and Framework for Scale Based Regulation) Amendment Directions, 2026 (“Amendment Directions”), effective April 1, 2026.
Why UK Visa Processes Create Hidden Hiring Risk for Employers
Many employers assume that once an overseas candidate has “a visa”, the recruitment risk is largely resolved. In practice, that assumption is increasingly wrong. UK immigration permissions now sit across layered systems that extend well beyond the grant of a visa itself. Start dates, workforce planning and compliance exposure are frequently affected by issues that …
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Corporate Governance in Armenia: Legal Framework and Practice
In Armenia, corporate governance has evolved into a structured legal framework that blends specific corporate regulation with civil-law principles. Rather than acting as a purely theoretical framework, corporate governance directly shapes how companies are managed, how decisions are made, and how accountability is enforced.
Income Tax in Oman: How Residents Should Prepare Their Assets
The introduction of personal income tax in Oman marks a structural shift in the Sultanate’s fiscal landscape. For decades, Oman, like much of the GCC, has operated without personal income tax, allowing residents to hold local and international assets with limited tax friction.
AFTER TIGER GLOBAL: THE JUDGMENT THAT COULD REWRITE INDIA’S OFFSHORE INVESTMENT PLAYBOOK
I. WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED: THE FLIPKART EXIT On 15 January 2026, the Supreme Court of India (“SC”) delivered a judgment that materially alters how offshore investment structures into India are evaluated for tax purposes (“Tiger Global Judgement”)[1]. The SC recalibrated the very foundation of treaty entitlement by holding that the possession of a Tax Residency …
Panama Investor Programme: Residency by Investment with a Pathway to Citizenship
Panama has formally launched an enhanced Investor Programme designed to attract high-quality foreign capital, strengthen its position as a regional business hub, and offer internationally mobile investors a clear, regulated pathway to permanent residency and eventual citizenship.