{"id":130823,"date":"2021-09-02T17:23:27","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T11:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=130823"},"modified":"2021-09-02T17:23:27","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T11:53:27","slug":"india-to-offer-indemnity-to-flag-carrier-bidder-over-cairn-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-to-offer-indemnity-to-flag-carrier-bidder-over-cairn-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"India to Offer Indemnity to Flag Carrier Bidder Over Cairn Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article \u201c<strong>India to Offer Indemnity to Flag Carrier Bidder Over Cairn Claim<\/strong>\u201c pu<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">blished in <strong>Livemint<\/strong> on <strong>2nd September 2021<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Indian Government has planned to offer <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">indemnity to the financial bidders of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Air India Ltd<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ndemnity <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">means security against a loss or other financial stress.<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Must Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-is-indemnity-and-why-vaccine-manufacturers-are-demanding-that\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What is \u201cIndemnity\u201d and why vaccine manufacturers are demanding that?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>Why is India planning to provide indemnity to Air India bidders?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In 2020, Britain\u2019s Cairn Energy Plc had won an arbitration award for $1.2 billion-plus interest over a controversial retrospective tax demand from the Indian government. Recently, Cairn has secured an order from a <strong>French court<\/strong> authorizing the<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cairn-says-it-has-got-court-nod-to-attach-20-indian-assets-in-paris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> freezing of 20 Indian government properties in Paris<\/a>. This <strong>includes the assets of Air India also<\/strong>. Cairn Energy has also registered the arbitration award in several countries.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read more<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cairn-energy-dispute-and-indias-disputes-with-private-entities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cairn Energy dispute and Government disputes with private entities \u2013 Explained, pointwise<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>Similarly, <\/b><strong>Devas Multimedia <\/strong>has won a case against Antrix Corporation (a subsidiary of the Indian Space Research Organisation) for arbitrary cancellation of a contract.<b>\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Devas Multimedia Pvt<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<strong>is also <\/strong><\/span><strong>seeking to seize<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong> Air India\u2019s assets abroad<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Due to this,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the potential<strong> bidders of Air India are afraid<\/strong> of encountering any<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> surprises on further liabilities. <\/span><b style=\"font-family: var(--list--font-family); background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Hence, <\/b>t<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o give them assurance from any liability, the Government has <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">planned to offer <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">indemnity to the financial bidders of <\/span>Air India Ltd<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Note<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: India has recently passed the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taxation Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2021, in Parliament. The bill <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">allows firms relief from the retrospective tax demands if they agree to drop litigation. The government is also in talks with Cairn to settle the dispute.<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read more<\/strong>:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/retrospective-taxation-and-the-taxation-laws-amendment-bill-explained-pointwise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Retrospective taxation and the Taxation Laws (Amendment) Bill \u2013 Explained, pointwise<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: This post is based on the article \u201cIndia to Offer Indemnity to Flag Carrier Bidder Over Cairn Claim\u201c published in Livemint on 2nd September 2021. What is the News? The Indian Government has planned to offer indemnity to the financial bidders of Air India Ltd. Note: Indemnity means security against a loss or other&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-to-offer-indemnity-to-flag-carrier-bidder-over-cairn-claim\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India to Offer Indemnity to Flag Carrier Bidder Over Cairn Claim<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704771541},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}