Region: India

Air India will maintain capacity levels on seven domestic and four international routes to allay concerns that its merger with a rival Indian airline will lead to higher prices, the Competition Commission of India has revealed.

27 September 2023

Local lawyers have praised the diversity of three newly appointed members of the Competition Commission of India.

20 September 2023

Tata Sons can proceed with the tie-up of its subsidiaries Air India and Tata SIA Airlines subject to complying with a suite of voluntary commitments offered to mitigate competition concerns.

04 September 2023

Draft regulation in India proposes to allow businesses to end abuse of dominance investigations with settlements or remedies following the early stages of a probe.

24 August 2023

A consumer group’s request for the Competition Commission of India to investigate a below-threshold transaction that created the country’s largest cinema operator is misplaced since antitrust rules can tackle post-merger anticompetitive conduct, a court has held.

11 August 2023

Only the Competition Commission of India can adjudicate claims that Google has violated an order prohibiting it from abusing its dominance over payment processing, a court has held in dismissing 14 lawsuits against the tech company.

07 August 2023

Featured in Asia-Pacific Antitrust Review 2023

The Competition (Amendment) Act 2023 bestows more powers and tools on the CCI and director general than ever. While the appellate courts will be expected to keep these in check, it is imperative that businesses adjust to evolving boundaries.

18 July 2023

An Indian court has quashed separate abuse of dominance probes into Ericsson and Monsanto, ruling that the country’s competition watchdog does not have jurisdiction to intervene in patent-related disputes.

14 July 2023

Google has urged India’s top court to throw out a judgment by the country’s specialist competition tribunal confirming that the technology giant abused its dominance over its Android operating system.

27 June 2023

India’s top court has ruled that the country’s antitrust law applies to state-owned companies, finding the Competition Commission of India was entitled to probe a government coal producer for abuse of dominance.

16 June 2023