Summary: The India–New Zealand FTA offers significant trade opportunities, but tariff benefits depend on meeting origin rules, customs verification requirements and applicable quota conditions. Robust records, reliable supplier commitments and carefully drafted contracts are essential to secure these benefits and
Summary: India’s Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) (Amendment) Rules, 2026, effective January 1, 2027, tighten pricing transparency, ranking disclosures, and seller accountability on e-commerce platforms. Key changes include mandatory prior price disclosures, curbs on self-preferencing and bundled fees, stricter dark pattern compliance,
Summary: The article explores the applicability of India’s POSH framework and how employers can build a more inclusive workplace harassment policy without diluting statutory protections for women. It seeks to offer practical guidance on extending protections to men, transgender and
Summary: The recent recalibration of the investment regimes on both sides suggests that businesses may once again have opportunities to explore cross-border transactions between India and China. India’s selective relaxation of its land-border investment restrictions, coupled with China’s more structured
Summary: In a recent decision, the Supreme Court held that a taxpayer cannot ordinarily make a fresh claim for the first time before an appellate or revisional authority without having filed a revised return of income within the time prescribed
Summary: The NMC has issued Ethical Advertising Guidelines with immediate effect, but since the NMC Act only empowers the NMC and State Medical Councils to regulate doctors, hospital liability is routed through clinical establishments laws that vary by State and
Summary: A plea under Order II Rule 2 may defeat a plaintiff’s claim or relief arising from the same cause of action. However, the Supreme Court recently clarified in S. Valliammai v. S. Ramanathan that such a plea alone is
Summary: The 57th GST Council meeting has recommended a set of structural reforms aimed at addressing long-standing pain points in the GST framework that have constrained business operations. The recommendations collectively seek to unlock working capital by broadening the scope
Summary: The IFSCA has introduced a new framework allowing Venture Capital Schemes and Restricted Schemes in GIFT IFSC to issue senior and junior (or subordinate) unit classes with differential distribution rights, facilitating blended finance structures that combine concessional and commercial capital. The framework also prescribes minimum ticket sizes for junior unit holders, enhanced PPM disclosure requirements, and
Summary: As businesses become increasingly global, requests from foreign regulators, courts and law-enforcement agencies for information held in India are becoming a routine part of cross-border compliance. Businesses must now play the balancing act—comply with India’s Digital Personal Data Protection
