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While hearing a bail, which he granted, a packed courtroom prompted the Allahabad HC Judge, who had earlier observed that “scientists believe cow is the only animal that inhales and exhales oxygen” and urged parliament to declare cow protection as a ‘Fundamental Right of Hindus’, first praised and then requested PM and Election Commission for postponing UP Assembly election, so as to duck third wave of pandemic.

FTC advances antitrust probe into Amazon.com, Inc. relating to Amazon Web Services (‘AWS’), seeking clarity on “whether Amazon has an incentive to discriminate against software companies that sell their products to clients of AWS, while at the same time competing with Amazon”.

The Delhi High Court, on 21.12.21, while granting bail to an undertrial, having spent 9 years in jail, after being charged under NDPS Act, 1985, said, “In such cases, in absence of the pronouncement of conviction, the process itself becomes the punishment. Nine years cannot be said to be a short period of time”.

One Sultana Begum, claiming to be the widow of the great grandson of the last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar-II lost her petition seeking possession of Red Fort, for 150 years delay.

With clearance of takeover of Air India by Tata Sons, through a subsidiary, by CCI, the airline which started as Tata Airlines in 1932 is closer to Tata homestead.

Accepting the suggestion of a task force for this purpose, the age for marriage for men & women is being uniformly fixed at 21, justification being some more time for opportunities for financial independence to women. Proposal passed by Union Cabinet.

Bayer’s takeover of US seed manufacturer ‘Monsanto’ suffers from legacy of a large number of law suits of more than 250 institutional investors linked to weed killer ‘Roundup’ and faces a $1.13 Billion class action in Germany. It is alleged that, Bayer deceived shareholders about the risks of thousands of pending lawsuits, by Roundup users because of the alleged carcinogenic effect of the drug.

The tie-up between the largest car rental company ‘Localiza Rent a Car’ & the second largest car rental company ‘Unidas’ in Brazil, criticized by the rivals, approved by CADE will go through only when the companies divest assets and CADE approve the buyer of the assets, to avoid overly dominant position in the market.

Two notifications dated 18.11.2021, modifying the earlier notification of 2017 levying GST on supplying of transportation of passenger service, through an E-Commerce operator, provided by autos, has been challenged in Delhi HC. Notice issued.

Caught in a catch-22 situation where acknowledgement of BPAD was making a candidate ‘eligible’ for the post of judicial officer but, at the same time, making him ‘not suitable’ for carrying out the judicial work in the opinion of the recruiting authority, the selected BPAD candidate knocked the door of Hon’ble SC. Hon’ble SC upheld the appointment & decided in favour of the candidate who will join as a judge in the Delhi Judicial Service.