Every post names the Act and the section it is about.
The DPDP Rules, 2025: the dates your business is actually working to — The Act has been law since 2023 and enforced almost nothing. The Rules notified on 13 November 2025 set the clock — one year for consent managers, eighteen months for everything that touches you.
The DPDP Act, 2023: what an Indian SMB actually has to do — Not a GDPR summary with the numbers changed. What the Act actually requires, in the order a small business runs into it.
The 45-day rule: what it actually costs to pay an MSME supplier late — Section 16 of the MSMED Act does not ask nicely. Compound interest, three times the bank rate, and a clause in your contract cannot waive it.
POSH compliance at 10 employees: what actually becomes mandatory — Not a policy you write once and file away. A constituted committee, a real annual report, and a headcount nobody is tracking.
Missed an ROC filing? What s.403 of the Companies Act actually does — There is no upper limit, and it runs per day, per form, for as long as the filing stays outstanding.
A cheque bounced. What section 138 actually gives you, and by when. — The Negotiable Instruments Act runs on three deadlines: 30 days, 15 days, one month. Miss any of them and the offence is gone, however good the debt.
Is an unstamped agreement valid? The honest answer is: valid, but unusable. — Section 35 of the Indian Stamp Act does not void your contract. It stops a court from looking at it, which in a dispute amounts to the same thing until you cure it.
Full and final settlement: what you owe a departing employee, and when — Two working days for wages, thirty for gratuity. The deadlines are statutory, and "we settle at the end of the quarter" is not one of them.