Importance Of New Business Responsibility & Sustainable Reporting Framework

NGT has registered a suo-motu original application in response to a news article titled 'People Are Breathing In CancerCausing Chemicals in their cars study find' appearing in NDTV.com dated May 8, 2024.

With the rapid expansion of healthcare services and the adoption of advanced medical practices, the volume of biomedical waste being generated has seen a significant rise.

The Parent Rules required such wastes to be treated in the manner prescribed by the World Health Organization or National AIDs Control Organization.

Biodiversity conservation is crucial for maintaining ecological balance, preserving ecosystems, and ensuring sustainable development in India.

National Green Tribunal has directed Uttarakhand Government and National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) to give details about the financing of schemes for the Clean Ganga project.

India generates an estimated 25,000 to 30,000 tonnes of plastic waste every day, of which a substantial share, approximately 10,556 tonnes daily, remains uncollected and enters landfills or the open environment. To address this, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (“MoEFCC”) has notified a national Extended Producer Responsibility (“EPR”) framework for plastic packaging under the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016, as amended from time to time.

Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) considerations have increasingly become an important component of corporate decision-making, investor assessments and brand positioning in India. As businesses seek to demonstrate their environmental credentials, terms such as “green”, “eco-friendly”, “sustainable”, “carbon neutral” and “environmentally friendly” are increasingly used in advertising, product packaging, corporate communications and sustainability disclosures.

The article summarises recent Supreme Court judgment that provides important clarity on the law governing post facto environmental clearances by reaffirming the primacy of prior environmental clearance and delineating the narrow circumstances in which statutory regularisation may be permissible. It also draws a clear distinction between delegated legislation and executive action, limiting the scope for future administrative regularisation.

The E-Waste (Management) Rules, 2022 notified by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change on November 2, 2022, and effective from April 1, 2023, represent a comprehensive regulatory framework for addressing India's growing electronic waste challenge.

In a significant interim order impacting forest land disputes, urban development, and Transferable Development Rights (TDR) in Maharashtra, the Supreme Court has stayed the operation of the Bombay High Court’s judgment directing the release of approximately 193 acres of land at Manpada, Thane from acquisition under the Maharashtra Private Forests (Acquisition) Act, 1975.

India's DPDP Rules 2025 operationalize the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023, creating a balanced framework for privacy and data use. Notified on November 14, 2025, after extensive consultations, these rules emphasised citizens' rights alongside business compliance.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India passed an ex parte interim order dated 03.06.2026 directing Rajesh Exports Limited, a listed gold refining and jewellery company, to respond to a shareholder complaint pertaining to a long-standing issue relating to trade receivables spanning from April 2020 to March 2024.

The present legal framework in India to deal with the Insolvency and Bankruptcy situation is legislated in the provisions of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 ...

In the regime of insolvency and bankruptcy law in India, the question of when and how the liabilities of Personal Guarantors crystallize has become increasingly significant.

The present Article focuses on the applicability, implications and effect of the Corporate Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026 (“Bill”) introduced by the Union Government in the Lok Sabha on 23rd March 2026, proposing 107 amendments to the Companies Act, 2013 (“Companies Act”) and the Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008 (“LLP Act”).

The mandate on employers to provide crèche facilities to their employees was made effective from July 1, 2017 following the amendments made to the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 in April, 2017.

The payment of Gratuity Act, came into existence on 21st August, 1972. The Act applied to only certain establishments prior to its amendment.

This article covers the evolution of laws in India on sexual harassment in the workplace, starting from the shortcomings of the pre-1997 law and leading to the introduction of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 (“POSH Act”). It examines the impact of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; the lack of any specific remedy for sexual harassment at the workplace; the Bhanwari Devi incident; and, thereafter, the judgment in Vishaka v. State of Rajasthan on the constitutional and judicial recognition of sexual harassment at the workplace as a violation of fundamental rights.

Earlier, banks and financial institutions were burdened with the problem of Non-Performing Assets (NPA), which proved to be detrimental to the financial health of the institutions.

Insolvency and arbitration have traditionally occupied separate spaces: one collective and court-supervised, the other private and consent-based. That separation is breaking down. Across Asia, distressed companies are parties to ongoing arbitral proceedings, arbitral awards are being pursued against insolvent entities, and restructuring moratoria are colliding with arbitral proceedings in ways that neither the law of insolvency nor the law of arbitration has cleanly resolved.