The Financial Action Task Force plenary has finalised the modifications to its assessment methodology to reflect the recent revisions to its standards for the protection of non-profit organisations from potential abuse for terrorist financing. “The FATF has now agreed on changes to its assessment methodology for the next round of mutual evaluations, which clarify the existing obligations to apply risk-based …
India’s GDP growth rate for the first quarter of the current fiscal rose to 7.8%, up from 6.1% growth in the previous quarter. While most of the previous GDP growth numbers released during the Narendra Modi government have been criticised by opposition and left-liberals calling the methodology faulty, this time Princeton University’s visiting professor Ashoka Mody has gone ahead and …
A recent report by NITI Aayog on multidimensional poverty shows that the percentage of the poor has gone down from 25% in 2015-16 to 15% in 2019-21 and around 135 million people were lifted out of poverty during this period. The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index report of 2023 of the United Nations Development Programme and the Oxford Poverty & Human …
On March 29, 2023, Lok Sabha passed the Competition Bill, 2023. In 2017, the Supreme Court in Excel Crop Care put fetters on this powers of CCI by observing that the correct way of calculating the turnover to impose penalty would be ‘relevant turnover’ i.e., turnover of the tainted products or the products for which the parties indulged in anti-competitive …
About the Online FDP: The online Faculty Development Program has been framed to give to the participant knowledge of contemporary techniques for research in law and allied subjects of humanities and social sciences and research-based teaching. 1) To familiarize the faculty participants with innovative teaching-learning and legal research methods.2) To acquaint the participants with the intricacies of legal research and …