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Nidhi Rani (l), Priyanka Kumar become TTA partners
Talwar Thakore & Associates (TT&A) has elected counsel
Nidhi Rani and
Priyanka Kumar to become partners in the firm.
Rani had joined TT&A in 2010 directly after graduating from NLSIU Bangalore. She specialises in banking and finance, working in the practice alongside partners Sonali Mahapatra and Rituparno Bhattacharya.
She primarily advises lenders and borrowers on financings, as well as acquisition finance, structured finance and syndicated lending.
Kumar, a 2008 NLU Jodhpur graduate, had worked at TT&A since joining from Trilegal in 2014.
Kumar specialises in debt capital markets practice, including in international high yield and project bonds issuances. She has worked for lead managers on international debt offerings by Indian renewable energy companies and has also worked on financing and hedging deals.
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A look at the law that does not work and the lives at stake. 4 hours ago In 27 years till 2020, 1,013 persons died while working as manual scavengers in India. | Chandan Khanna / AFP
In September 2020, on the eve of the monsoon session of Parliament, a news agency reported that the government was proposing to introduce a new bill that would strengthen the law against manual scavenging. The new Bill proposed “to completely mechanise sewer cleaning and provide better protection at work and compensation in case of accidents’’.
The aim appeared laudable, but the Bill had been drafted without any discussion with those involved.