CCI issues order against CIL and its subsidiaries for abusing dominant position, imposes penalty

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has found Coal India Limited (CIL) and its subsidiaries to be in contravention of the provisions of Section 4(2)(a)(i) of the Competition Act, 2002 for imposing unfair/ discriminatory conditions in Fuel Supply Agreements (FSAs) with the power producers for supply of non-coking coal.




CCI finds the conduct and practice of Association of Malayalam Movie Artists (AMMA), Film Employees Federation of Kerala (FEFKA), FEFKA Director’s Union, FEFKA Production Executive’s Union and their five Office Bearers to be in contravention of the Competition Law.

The Informant, T. G. Vinayakumar, a movie director, had approached CCI alleging anti-competitive conduct by the above associations. On different occasions, the said associations allegedly tried to force various actors, technicians, producers, financers, not to work or associate with the Informant in any of his project due to the Informant’s efforts to streamline working conditions




Adoption Services through CARINGS portal continue to remain secure and functional inspite of “unauthorised intrusion” into CARA Website

On 24 Mar 2017 around 1:45 pm, CARA website faced “unauthorised intrusion” wherein the Home page of the website www.cara.nic.in was defaced and a message was posted by the Hacker. Although there wasn’t any disruption in the services being provided, the website was




Defence Minister Hands Over Indigenous DRDO Naval Systems

The Minister of Defence, Finance and Corporate Affairs Shri Arun Jaitley handed over three Naval Systems indigenously developedby Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) to the Chief of the Naval Staff,




Workshop on Trade Facilitation on Services

The two day workshop on Trade Facilitation on Services organised by the World Bank Group in partnership with the Department of Commerce,