HDFC has bought a 25% stake in student housing venture Good Host Spaces from Manipal Integrated Services, for Rs 69.5 crore, reported Deal Street and others.

The appointment of Sukh Pal Singh, the vice chancellor of HNLU Rapiur, was illegal, the Chhattisgarh high court held today, annulling the 2014 five-year-extension of his term.

NLSIU Bangalore has been embroiled in an internal plagiarism row, when a professor allegedly plagiarised up to 48% of submissions from a number of websites in a part of its National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) submission.

NLSIU Bangalore has been embroiled in an internal plagiarism row, when a professor allegedly plagiarised up to 48% of submissions from a number of websites in a part of its National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) submission.

Large numbers of HNLU Raipur students have been assembled since 10pm last night outside of college, following the high court’s ruling that the 2014 extension of their vice chancellor’s tenure had been made illegally, as we had first reported yesterday.

DMD Advocates has promoted five of its senior associates to principal associate level: Divya Bhalla, Mrunal Parekh, Rahul Sateeja, Raja Kishore and Rohit Garg.

The Kolkata-based firm Fox & Mandal LLP as promoted 7 of its lawyers to partnership, growing its total partnership to 12, with nearly 60 fee-earners across its four offices.

Student bar associations (SBAs) from NLSIU Bangalore, NUJS Kolkata, Nalsar Hyderabad, NLU Delhi, NLU Jodhpur and NLIU Bhopal have made a joint statement in support of the protesting students of HNLU Raipur and other national law schools to “stand up against…

Billionaire ‘oracle’ Warren Buffett’s US-based investment fund Berkshire Hathaway is due to buy a $300-350m stake in One97 Communications, which owns Indian payment gateway Paytm, reported Mint. This would be Buffett’s first India investment, valuing the…

Colgate-Palmolive, via its Hong Kong arm, has made its first India venture capital (VC) investment, with an Rs 18 crore ($2.6m) buy of 14% in men’s grooming firm Bombay Shaving Company, reported the Economic Times.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) corporate communications senior manager, Rahul Gossain, has joined Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) as its Delhi-based marketing communications head.

Varde Partners and Aditya Birla Capital have announced a 50:50 joint venture to invest in distressed assets in India, reported Mint and others, initially investing Rs 100 crore of capital in the company.

“Wipro has won its largest information technology (IT) outsourcing contract, valued at $1.6bn over 10 years from Alight Solutions, the former benefits administration and human-resources outsourcing business of Aon,” reported Mint.

“Engineering company Greaves Cotton Ltd said on Wednesday it has signed definitive agreements to acquire a majority stake in electric two-wheeler maker Ampere Vehicles Pvt. Ltd. Mumbai-headquartered Greaves Cotton will initially acquire 67% of Coimbatore…

The six-year-old technology and corporate law firm TRA Law, co-founded by partners Anirudh Rastogi and Jitender Tanikella, has dissolved.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas associate and NLSIU Bangalore 2015 graduate Tarun Krishnakumar has been selected as one of Mozilla’s latest batch of 26 global fellows in “openness, science and tech policy”, spending up to a year “creating a more secure, inclusive…

Morgan Lewis Stamford has hired Simmons & Simmons of counsel and co-head of its India group Karun Cariappa as a corporate partner in Singapore, according to the firm’s press release.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) has instituted a novel HR policy: fee-earners who leave the firm within the next seven months will have to repay the firm three months’ worth of their retainer fees.

As it had widely signposted, the Supreme Court has taken a tragically overdue but also eventually progressive step by decriminalising consensual sexual acts between persons of the same sex today, which had infamously been prohibited under Section 377 of the…

The hire is the latest hire in the war of attrition between the Shardul and Cyril Amarchand brothers, this one striking at Shardul Amarchand’s crown jewel of Delhi disputes with a principal associate and his team.