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Justice delayed is justice denied: When Supreme Court issued fresh directions on delay in pronouncement of judgments by High Courts

In a major ruling on how High Courts should deal with chronic delays in delivering judgments, the Supreme Court has repeated and intensified its previous instructions on how such delays should be timely eliminated to bring about timely delivery of the reserved judgment. The Court placed special emphasis on the importance of ensuring that the…

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RBI replaces 9.5k circulars with 244 master directions

MUMBAI: Reserve Bank of India has hacked through its regulatory rulebook in what it describes as a once-in-a-generation overhaul, consolidating circulars issued over seven decades of instructions into 244 master directions tailored to 11 categories of regulated entities. The exercise has eliminated 9,446 circulars, some dating back to 1944, replacing a dense and scattered web…

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Ease of compliance: RBI scraps 5,673 circulars; issues 244 master directions to streamline rules

The Reserve Bank on Friday completed a nearly six-month regulatory consolidation, repealing 5,673 obsolete circulars and subsuming over 3,800 into 244 function-wise master directions (MDs), the central bank said.In all, 9,446 circulars have been repealed, subsumed or withdrawn as part of the exercise, Deputy Governor S C Murmu said, describing the review as a “mammoth…

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US markets today: Wall Street drifts near record highs as Big Tech results; Trump-Xi trade talks pull investors in both directions

US markets ended mixed on Thursday, with investors juggling upbeat and cautious signals from Big Tech earnings and renewed optimism around US-China trade ties.The S&P 500 slipped 0.2% from its all-time high earlier this week, while the Nasdaq composite lost 0.6%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, however, gained 199 points, or 0.5%, by mid-morning trade,…

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