The Competition (Amendment) Bill, 2022

Adhering to the principles of "due processes", Indian judicial and regulatory authorities have been taking steps to reduce delays in adjudicatory processes.

India’s proposed Digital Competition Law has evolved through several stages, from the 2022 Parliamentary Committee report and the 2024 Committee on Digital Competition Law’s draft Bill, through a 2025 government reconsideration, to renewed Parliamentary backing for an ex-ante framework in August 2026. Drawing on comparative experience from the EU, UK, and Japan, this article argues that legislative reform must be matched by a strengthened Competition Commission of India if ex-ante regulation is to work in practice.

Anti-competitive agreements are collaborations among market forces that negatively impact market competition. These agreements weaken fair competition in the market by implementing various restrictive...

The Competition Commission of India ("CCI") had on October 20, 2022, passed an order against Google LLC and Google India Private Limited ("Google") directing Google...

On 13 July 2026, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) imposed penalties exceeding ₹142 crore on HP India and several reselers under Section 27 of the Competition Act, 2002 (Competition Act) for cartelisation and bid rigging in the sale and supply of HP personal system products, including laptops, desktops, workstations and accessories (Computers Case), and ink and toner cartridges (Cartridges Case). The orders arose from lesser penalty applications filed by HP India under Section 46 of the Competition Act read with the CCI (Lesser Penalty) Regulations, 2009.

Indian competition law continued to mature in 2025, with courts playing a pivotal role in defining enforcement boundaries and providing doctrinal clarity.

On 20 May 2025, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) issued revised Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), providing essential clarifications to the updated merger control framework...

The Competition (Amendment) Act, 2023 introduced significant changes that strengthened the Competition Commission of India (CCI) to deal with contemporary issues concerning competition in the Indian markets.

Most visa applicants deal not with a consulate but with a single private provider they did not choose. Viewing visa facilitation through a competition lens, this article examines the concerns that exclusive contracts raise. While supporting outsourcing, it calls for advocacy with missions to open these services to more than one provider through better tender design.

As the world evolves, every economy is now making progress towards becoming a technology-driven economy and there is an ongoing debate to bring specific changes to the competition law for a technology-driven economy. The prevailing view, however, is that the existing Competition Act, 2002 (Competition Act) already reaches several technology-based claims, and major jurisdictions have stretched their competition statutes to cover platform conduct rather than wait for bespoke digital-market legislation.

The expressions ‘gross negligence' and ‘wilful misconduct' are used in almost every commercial contract. In most cases...

Private Security Agencies (Regulation) Act (Act) was enacted in 2005 to oversee and regulate security agencies operating in the country.

When it comes to dispute resolution, the paths one can take are numerous, yet two main avenues often dominate the landscape: arbitration and litigation.

Any law which has general applicability and lays down a general set of rules is considered to be a general law.

Law of arbitration as it has developed globally, recognizes that there is a difference between the law of contract and the law governing the conduct of the Arbitral Tribunal.

Despite being abundant in various renewable energy sources, the share of such sources in power generation in the country remains negligible.

A director of a company is prohibited from being involved in a situation where he may have a direct or indirect interest that conflicts, or possibly may conflict...

Compressed Biogas (CBG) projects involve the interplay of laws and regulations pertaining to environment, energy and land. Appropriate legal advice should be sought for the purposes...

Before the Information Technology Amendment Act 2008 came into force, the scenario in India was worse for intermediaries.

Risk is unavoidable, which is true for companies as well. The need for careful identification and assessment of risk cannot be over-emphasised.