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Gujarat: 7 get jail terms for harassing lioness in Gir forest India Updated: Tuesday, March 9, 2021, 11:08 [IST] Gir, Mar 09: A court in Gir Somnath district of Gujarat has convicted seven people, including three tourists from Ahmedabad, and awarded them different jail terms for harassing a lioness in Gir forest in 2018. Representational Image In an order issued on Monday, Judicial Magistrate First Class at Gir Gadhada, Sunik Kumar Dave, awarded three years'' rigorous imprisonment to six of the accused, while another accused was sentenced to one-year in jail. The court also directed the distr...

MCAs Now Demand Additional 500K to Pass BBI 14 February 2021 - 12:48 pm ANC Party leader Musalia Mudavadi (Left) and Bungoma Senator Moses Wetangula at an event in 2019. Daily Nation Members of County Assembly (MCAs) from the Western Region are demanding Ksh 500,000 each in order to pass the Building Bridges Initiative Bill (BBI). The MCAs from Kakamega, Bungoma, Vihiga and Busia counties warned that if their demands are not met, they will shoot down BBI when it gets to the region. Some Members of County Assembly from Western Region The Standard Vihiga MCA Tom Adingo said that the ward repres...

Thursday, February 4, 2021 Primary HSR filing threshold will be decreased to $92 million The Federal Trade Commission has announced revisions to HSR Act and Clayton Act Section 8 thresholds, which are indexed annually to account for inflation. As is our annual practice, this alert identifies the adjustments that are likely to be the most relevant to our clients, and reiterates several important practice tips. The Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, commonly known as the HSR Act, requires parties to certain transactions to notify the Federal Trade Commission and Dep...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has revised the thresholds that govern pre-merger notification requirements under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (HSR Act), as well as the thresholds for interlocking directorates under Section 8 of the Clayton Act. The new HSR Act thresholds will become effective for all transactions closing on or after March 4, 2021. The new Interlocking Directorate thresholds became effective on January 21, 2021. HSR Act Thresholds The HSR Act requires parties to transacti...

Tucked into the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) 1  passed over a presidential veto on January 1, 2021, 2  on page 1,238 of the 1,480-page bill, was a modification to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act) 3 that constitutes a response to a couple of recent Supreme Court cases that had limited the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) ability to obtain disgorgement from defendants in enforcement actions. Prior to the NDAA, the SEC did not have explicit statutory authority to obtain disgorgement from securities law violators; instead, federal courts have...