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He said that the PM Modi-led government has taken various steps to strengthen contract enforcement and commercial dispute resolution in the country.Addressing the inaugural session of the International Lawyers’ Conference organised by the Bar Council of India, he mentioned that the government enacted the Commercial Courts Act in 2015 soon after it came into power.Also, Megwal highlighted that various amendments were undertaken in the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 to institutionalize arbitration and set up an arbitration ecosystem.He said Parliament also enacted the Meditation Act, 2023 to statutory deal matters relating to meditation.The ‘compliance burden’ was reduced to enhance ‘ease…

According to Entrackr, citing sources, the decision comes in response to a Reserve Bank of India (RBI) directive that prohibited the use of the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) in a co-branding arrangement.“Akudo is likely to wind up its operations and shut down completely in a few weeks from now,” a person familiar with the matter was quoted as saying.“The company has already stopped onboarding new users and intimated its PPI issuer LivQuik and infra partner M2P Fintech about the shutdown,” it added.According to the report, UPI accounts for the majority of Akudo’s business (over 70 per cent), with cards accounting…

The incident had taken place on September 4 when V.K. Guruswamy, a DMK leader, was sitting with a broker and chatting with him at a hotel in Kammanahalli in Bengaluru. The footage shows a gang of five persons barging inside the hotel and launching a brutal attack on him.Though Guruswamy notices the gang and tries to escape, he gets caught bythe gang. The gang thrashes him as he runs all across the hotel.Police explain that the 64-year-old Guruswamy was hit by a sword more than 70 times.He was rushed to the hospital and surprisingly, Guruswamy survived the attack and he…

Fellow passengers got concerned when they were unable to wake up the elederly woman after which they alerted the crew.The crew in turn informed the paramedics who tried to revive her but in vain.The woman was declared dead at 10 p.m, and suspected to have died of heart attack, French news outlet ‘The Connexion’ reported.The woman had died mid-air but the passenger realised it after the flight landed.Confirming the death, British Airways told Daily Mail: “Sadly, a customer passed away on a flight from London Heathrow to Nice. Our thoughts are with the customer’s family at this difficult time.”–IANSint/svn

Following the acquisition, Airkit.ai will become a subsidiary of Service Cloud and will be led by Adam Evans, Co-Founder and CTO of Airkit.ai.Adam was the Co-Founder and CTO of RelateIQ before it was acquired by Salesforce in 2014 and became a key component of Sales Cloud Einstein.“The future of customer engagement will be powered by a new set of AI-driven customer experiences,” Bill Patterson, EVP & General Manager of C360 Applications at Salesforce, said in a statement.Airkit.ai empowers Fortune 500 and fast-growing businesses to create flexible, omni-channel customer engagement apps and AI-powered customer service agents.The addition of Airkit.ai to Salesforce…

A senior official of Tamil Nadu forest department told IANS that they have already completed a joint inspection work with the Southern Railway officials regarding the elephant underpass.Sources in Southern Railway told IANS that an amount of Rs 7.49 crore has been allocated for the construction of the two rail underpasses. While one is completed and opened, the second one is likely to be completed soon.Elephants are facing difficulties while crossing the railway tracks in the forest lane and a couple of years ago three elephants died after being hit by a running Express train.Tamil Nadu forest department officials told…

“We’re playing pretty good cricket at the moment, we’re feeling pretty confident, and it’s great to get to a new ground and see some dry conditions. We’re at full strength, so we’ve got everyone we need to put in some good performances.”“We’re at the start of a new four-year cycle, so we have a long time to prepare for the next World Cup. It’ll be an exciting time as we’re looking down new avenues in our ODI cricket,” Tucker was quoted as saying by Cricket Ireland.He shot into limelight by making 71 not out off 48 balls and rescuing Ireland…

According to state health department sources, 3,803 fresh cases were registered till September 22 in the state capital, which stood at 2,790 on September 12.Overall, the figure has crossed 29,000 in the state. Besides Kolkata, the situation is also quite alarming in the adjacent North 24 Parganas district, the sources informed.The health department of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has cancelled the leaves of all its staff for the next two months.They will also not be entitled to leave during the forthcoming festive seasons of Dugra Puja and Diwali, deputy mayor of KMC and Member-Mayor-in-Council (health) Atin Ghosh has confirmed.According to…

Hrithik took to Instagram, where he shared a string of photographs and mentioned that he is keeping away from sweets. In the images, he is seen with his parents, sister and Saba.Hrithik can be seen in a white T-shirt and pants paired with a jacket and a baseball cap. His father Rakesh Roshan chose to be in casuals. All the women, however, wore Indian wear for the celebration.He wrote: “Ganpati Bappa Morya. ‘Tis the season for our home and hearts to be filled with joy & modaks (Modaks for everyone else).”Speaking about his upcoming projects, Hrithik will be seen next…

A division bench of the High Court on Saturday pronounced orders on a batch of petitions by candidates who had appeared in the exam.The court directed the TSPSC to conduct the exams again.Over 2.32 lakh candidates had appeared in the exam conducted by TSPSC on June 11 for recruitment to 503 Group 1 posts.The petitioners had approached the court seeking cancellation of the exam due to loopholes in the conduct of the written test. They alleged that the authorities did not collect biometric details of the candidates. They also told the court that OMR sheets given to them did not…