Legal

The merger scheme between Reliance Industries Limited’s (RIL) Viacom18, its wholly owned subsidiary Digital18 and The Walt Disney Company’s Star India has been admitted by the Mumbai bench of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT). In an order passed on May 7, Viacom18, as part of internal restructuring, has proposed to transfer the various businesses conducted by it into its wholly-owned subsidiary, namely Digital18. Viacom18 proposed to be the holding company for the various businesses.

Dec 14, 2017 10:12
MUMBAI: Embattled liquor tycoon, already dealing with extradition charges, now also has to deal with a parallel litigation around an estimated USD 1.5 billion worldwide freeze order on his assets well into 2018.
Dec 09, 2017 12:12
DUBAI: The International Cricket Council appears to have taken the pollution levels in Delhi seriously.  PTI reports the ICC might incorporate air pollution in its ‘playing conditions’ clause after taking serious note of the plight of the Sri Lankan cricketers during the third and final Test against India recently.
Dec 06, 2017 15:12
NEW DELHI: The Badminton Association of India (BAI) president Himanta Biswa Sarma has asserted that this season's Premier Badminton League (PBL), which is scheduled from December 23, will take place "as per the announced and scheduled date". 
Dec 05, 2017 12:12
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has asked the Archery Association of India (AAI) to amend its constitution in conformity with the National Sports Development Code (NSDCI) within one week.
Dec 02, 2017 17:12
MUMBAI: It was in the last week of October that the BCCI for the first time put a figure on the minimum amount it would have to pay in damages for the termination of IPL franchise Kochi Tuskers Kerala in 2011. Having exhausted all legal avenues, the richest board in the world reckoned it stood at something over Rs 8.5 billion.  
Dec 01, 2017 11:12
MUMBAI: The information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry is working on a proposal that will make the Indian Premier League (IPL) available on state broadcaster Doordarshan and has asked the sports ministry to weigh in on the matter.
Nov 30, 2017 15:11
KARACHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Thursday sent a legal notice to the International Cricket Council (ICC) to set up a dispute resolution committee for adjudicating the matter of the BCCI's failure to honour the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the two boards in 2014.
Nov 30, 2017 11:11
NEW DELHI: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has been penalised Rs 522.4 million  by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) for anti-competitive practices with respect to the Indian Premier League. 
Nov 28, 2017 11:11
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Soccer Association (DSA) has been declared a "public authority" by the Central Information Commission, after a plaint filed against it under the Right to Information Act.
Nov 25, 2017 19:11
NEW DELHI: After shooting barbs at the Lodha Committee reforms over the last few days, arguing that the BCCI had been "diminished" as a result of the Supreme Court's interventions, former board president Anurag Thakur Friday delivered a shot that had sufficient substance to warrant a serious hearing.