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The government is set to soon notify changes under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) that will ease foreign direct investment (FDI) norms for overseas companies with up to 10 per cent Chinese shareholding, a senior official told news agency PTI on Thursday.Once notified by the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA), the revised framework will…
NEW DELHI: Amid energy supply chain disruptions due to the West Asia conflict, govt will soon issue a fresh notification laying down test requirements for vehicles compliant for E85 to E100 fuel, or Flex Fuel Vehicles (FFVs), a move that will allow OEMs — original equipment manufacturers — to produce automobiles that can run on…
NEW DELHI: Delhi govt is set to declare human rabies a notifiable disease under the Epidemic Diseases Act, with the objective of achieving zero human deaths from dog-mediated rabies in the national capital.The proposed notification aims to strengthen disease surveillance, ensure early reporting and a swift public health response.“Rabies is a preventable disease, and no…
CBDT Chairman Ravi Agrawal has said that the government will notify the new income tax return forms and rules under the simplified Income Tax Act, 2025, by January 2026, giving taxpayers sufficient preparation time before the law comes into effect on April 1,. Speaking at the inauguration of a taxpayers’ lounge at the India International…
CBDT Chairman Ravi Agrawal has said that the government will notify the new income tax return forms and rules under the simplified Income Tax Act, 2025, by January 2026, giving taxpayers sufficient preparation time before the law comes into effect on April 1,. Speaking at the inauguration of a taxpayers’ lounge at the India International…
NEW DELHI: Aiming to strengthen the existing regime for tiger protection, the Supreme Court on Monday issued a slew of directions to the states including giving a six-month deadline to demarcate and notify core and buffer areas of tiger reserves and put in place within three months comprehensive tiger conservation plans (TCPs).In one of his…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Jharkhand govt to notify 314 sq km of the Saranda Forest, marked by dense growth of pristine Sal trees, as a wildlife sanctuary within three months and said this would not in any manner impede the rights of forest dwellers and tribals.In its first decision in 1996…
KOCHI: A Muslim man cannot register his second marriage under Kerala Registration of Marriages (Common) Rules, 2008, without notifying his first wife as long as his marital relationship with her is valid, Kerala HC has held.Justice P V Kunhikrishnan passed this order on Oct 30 on a petition filed by a Kannur man (44) and…
Justice Surya Kant (Picture from Supreme Court) NEW DELHI: CJI B R Gavai on Monday recommended the name of his Supreme Court colleague and the senior-most judge after him, Justice Surya Kant, as his successor for the post of Chief Justice of India.CJI Gavai has sent the letter of recommendation to the Union law ministry.The…
SC to UGC on caste discrimination: Consider stakeholder suggestions, notify rules in 8 weeks Nearly a decade after the death of Rohith Vemula and four years after the death of Payal Tadvi, the Supreme Court has moved to embed their mothers’ voices in the country’s regulatory framework against campus discrimination.On Monday, a Bench of Justices…
