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Aiyer V.L. Varadarajan, a Mysuru-based advocate and chartered accountant who served for years as auditor of ISKCON’s Bengaluru operations, has asked the Supreme Court to allow him to withdraw a counter-affidavit filed in January 2026 in Review Petition (Civil) No. 1896 of 2025. The affidavit contained allegations concerning the alleged fabrication of accounts and other records linked to the Bengaluru temple dispute. The reversal is significant because the January affidavit contained serious allegations about the creation of backdated accounts, audit reports and other records relating to the society registered in Bengaluru in 1978. Varadarajan had attributed the alleged acts principally to…

Former Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) official Ravinder Singh Sangwan set up three LLPs within 23 days of retirement; one became an intermediary in ₹278.29 crore of licensing transactions involving entities associated with the Kamla Pasand Group, while his family accumulated properties worth ₹50.87 crore Barely two weeks after retiring from government service, Ravinder Singh Sangwan entered the world of private business with remarkable speed. On May 6, 2022, just six days after he retired from the DGGI, Indus FMCG Goods LLP was incorporated. Two more LLPs followed within the next 17 days: Indus Prompt Legals LLP on May…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi turned the first day of the 18th BRICS Summit into a hectic round of diplomacy, holding a string of bilateral meetings with leaders from Africa, Southeast Asia and the Gulf as India sought to use its BRICS presidency to deepen strategic partnerships well beyond the grouping itself. With the BRICS summit bringing together leaders and senior representatives from 11 member countries and partner nations, Modi’s meetings with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, Vietnamese Prime Minister Le Minh Hung and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al…

India seeks to push practical cooperation as an expanded grouping grapples with divergent geopolitical interests The 18th BRICS summit in New Delhi this weekend will bring together leaders of an expanded grouping that has acquired considerable economic weight since its enlargement, but whose members remain divided on several geopolitical issues confronting the world. India, which assumed the BRICS chair for 2026 on January 1, will host the summit on September 12 and 13. The year also marks two decades of BRICS cooperation. The grouping, which began in 2006 with Brazil, Russia, India and China, now has 11 members — Brazil,…

Vagish Pathak, a retired Central Excise official, received ‘professional fees’ from tobacco and pan masala businesses while corporate records show his association with 18–19 companies A “Cobrapost” analysis of statutory filings, Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) records, sworn election affidavits and other relevant documents reveals that Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council member Vagish Pathak did not disclose his business ties with any of the 18–19 corporate entities with which he was associated in his 2022 sworn election affidavit. His wife, Sonali, is a director in eight entities. Together, the couple share directorships of 27 companies. Six of these entities are linked…

ABOUT THE BOOK History is often shaped as much by those who remain outside the spotlight as by the names that dominate textbooks. In It Takes a Tribe: 25 Inspiring Tribal Leaders of India, Ramendra Kumar turns his attention to twenty-five remarkable individuals whose stories deserve to be far better known. What makes the book distinctive is its range. It travels across centuries and across fields, bringing together revolutionaries, environmentalists, sportspersons, artists, educators, social reformers and grassroots changemakers. From Birsa Munda and Mary Kom to Tilka Majhi, Gaura Devi, Vasamalli K, Dhaniram Toto and Poorna Malavath, the reader encounters people…

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has withdrawn its decision to halt the advocate enrolment of NALSAR University of Law’s 2026 graduating batch, just hours after issuing the controversial direction. The action followed a campaign by a section of NALSAR students opposing the invitation of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant as the Chief Guest at the university’s convocation. BCI Chairman Manan Kumar Mishra, who is also a BJP Rajya Sabha MP, had initially directed State Bar Councils not to enrol any student graduating from NALSAR in 2026 as an advocate until further orders. The BCI had also sought details…

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sajid Mohamed is a practising lawyer and the founder of a law firm in India, with extensive experience of law as an instrument embedded in wider institutional and social frameworks. This perspective, attentive to how legal principles operate in the real world and affect real people, informs the analytical approach of this book. He examines the racial framework of the world order through its intellectual origins, colonial application, legal codification and contemporary persistence. He writes with the conviction that the view from a formerly colonised society can be more illuminating than the view from the centre. He…

A ‘Cobrapost’ investigation into government filings reveals DLF Limited and five group entities paid ₹52.45 crore to a farming LLP after cancelling plot purchase agreements. No sale deed was registered, no property was transferred, and the payments were reportedly booked as professional fees, raising questions that could warrant regulatory scrutiny A review of statutory filings, annual reports and records filed with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) has raised serious questions over a series of transactions in which DLF Limited and five of its group entities paid ₹52.45 crore as “compensation” to a farming LLP (Limited Liability Partnership) promoted by…

Following India’s invitation to Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman to attend the BRICS Summit in India, Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Dinesh Trivedi has expressed confidence that bilateral relations would move forward constructively once Rahman visited India. “I am looking forward to everything positively; there is no bilateral issue that cannot be resolved through mutual understanding.” Indian high commissioner hold separate meetings with Bangladesh Foreign Affairs Minister Khalilur Rahman and State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shama Obaed Islam on Wednesday in Dhaka. Describing the meetings as highly positive, Trivedi said: “We had remarkably good meetings, which were a very positive…