Employment and Labour Laws Newsletter - January 2026

A recent decision of the Supreme Court of India has far reaching ramifications for arbitration law in the country. While the decision in the BGS Soma[1] case has seemingly set out the ���correct law�۝ concerning the venue and seat dichotomy which has been the subject matter of a high volume of contested litigation over the years, its clarity and efficacy may come undone due to issues touching on the law of precedent.

The European Union (���EU�۝) is a major source of revenue for the information technology and business process outsourcing industry in India. However, there are several challenges that India faces with respect to transfer of personal data from EU to India. Presently, the data protection regime in India does not provide the same level of protection as the data protection regime in the EU, in particular because the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 has not been enacted yet.

With the advent of technology, there have been a lot of developments and inventions which have blurred the concepts of physical presence and boundaries that were prevalent a couple of decades ago. Today, even traditional games like rummy, flush, poker, ludo, cricket, etc. are played online, some of which include real money as stakes. ��

In the context of increased liberalisation of various foreign exchange laws in India, the country has seen a surge in the investment from abroad. Whereas, in case of divestments by foreign investors, the Indian foreign exchange laws have not been as liberalised as the foreign investors would have preferred, especially with regards to an assured exit price.

A captive generating plant is a power plant set up by any person to generate electricity primarily for his own use and includes a power plant set up by any co-operative society or association of persons for generating electricity primarily for use of members of such co-operative society or association (���CGP�۝).