Training Officer Qualifications establish mine-specific competency and experience standards for vocational training centres serving coal, metalliferous and oil mines.
Whole-time training officers heading Vocational Training Centres for coal, metalliferous and oil mines must meet mine-specific qualification and experience standards. Coal-mine centres require mine experience and prescribed coal competency certification, with unrestricted certification and below-ground experience for centres serving underground mines. Metalliferous-mine centres require relevant experience and competency certification or mining-engineering qualifications, subject to enhanced requirements for mechanised opencast and below-ground operations. Oil-mine centres require an engineering degree and oilfield experience, with enhanced experience requirements for larger or multi-mine centres.

Vocational training centre standards require sector-specific staff, simulators, digital systems and safety facilities for mine-worker training.
Vocational Training Centres for coal, metalliferous and oil mines must provide sector-specific staffing, training equipment, digital training-management systems and physical facilities. Coal and metalliferous mine centres require a Training Officer, designated instructors, practical trainers, demonstration resources, classrooms, work sheds and trainee transport. Oil-mine centres require multidisciplinary instructors, authorised on-the-job trainers and supervisors, blowout prevention models, advanced operational simulators, virtual-reality hazard training and occupational health and safety facilities. Additional staffing and infrastructure apply where centres serve employee numbers above the applicable thresholds.

Training centre approval requires prescribed disclosures and employee-based application fees for vocational training of mine employees.
Training centres established under laws other than the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 must use the prescribed application proforma to obtain approval for vocational training of mine employees. Applications for fresh approval or renewal must disclose staff, mines served, infrastructure, accommodation, furniture, training aids, training-shop facilities, reference materials, supplies, simulators and fee-payment details. Application fees are graded by the number of mine employees catered to, across separate bands for centres serving up to 2,000, more than 2,000 up to 4,000, and more than 4,000 employees.

Mine vocational training approval requires eligible external training centres to maintain prescribed staff, equipment and facilities.
Training centres established under laws other than the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 may be approved to impart vocational training to persons employed in mines. Approval is conditional on compliance with prescribed infrastructure and facility standards, including the staff, equipment and other facilities required under the applicable rules for mine vocational training.

Refresher training exemption allows oil mines to train on off periods with compensatory leave and training allowances.
Oil mines employing persons on an "on-and-off" work pattern may provide refresher training during employees' off periods instead of during normal working hours on a full-day release basis. Where such training occurs beyond normal working hours during an off period, employees must receive compensatory off equal to the training days attended, in addition to applicable training allowances.

Income-tax payer information sharing enables identification of eligible beneficiaries under the farmer loan waiver scheme.
Income-tax payer information sharing is authorised under section 258(1)(b) of the Income-tax Act, 2025. The Principal Secretary, Cooperation, Marketing and Textile Department, Government of Maharashtra, is specified for receiving information to identify eligible beneficiaries under the Punyashlok Ahilyadevi Holkar Farmer Loan Waiver Scheme, 2026.

IFSC tax withholding exemption allows non-deduction on specified payments when eligible units furnish annual declarations and meet registration conditions.
Specified payments to eligible IFSC Units may be made without tax deduction at source where the unit claims the section 147 deduction and furnishes a verified Form No. 1(N) declaration. Covered receipts include interest, professional or technical fees, commissions, brokerage, dividends and specified financial-service fees. The payee must remain a registered IFSC Unit, satisfy the applicable regulatory requirements, and declare its opted twenty consecutive tax years. The payer may stop deduction only after receiving the declaration and must report the non-deducted payments in the prescribed tax-deduction statement.

Customs event-import exemption permits extension of the prescribed period where sufficient cause is shown in an individual case.
Customs exemption for goods imported for display or use at specified events is amended to allow the Board, on sufficient cause being shown in an individual case, to extend the prescribed two-year period by such further period as it considers fit. The amendment inserts an additional proviso in the relevant condition and consequentially renumbers the following proviso.

Anti-dumping duty extension keeps the levy on arylides imports in force until January 2027 unless amended earlier.
Anti-dumping duty on Aceto Acetyl Derivatives of aromatic or heterocyclic compounds, also known as Arylides, originating in or imported from China, is continued by amending the principal customs notification. The inserted paragraph provides that, notwithstanding the earlier duration specified in the notification, the anti-dumping duty remains in force up to and inclusive of 13 January 2027, unless revoked, superseded, or amended earlier.

Electronic evidence examination now includes naval cyber laboratory expertise for computer media and mobile device forensics.
Cyber Forensic Laboratory, Navy Cyber Group, Naval Headquarters, is notified as an Examiner of Electronic Evidence within India under section 79A of the Information Technology Act, 2000. Its authorised scope covers computer media forensics, excluding floppy disk drives, and mobile device forensics. The earlier 2024 Gazette designation is rescinded.

Drone forensic electronic-evidence examination is assigned to a designated laboratory with authority limited to drone forensics.
Designation of the Special Instruments Wing, Border Security Force, Central Drone Forensic Lab as an Examiner of Electronic Evidence is made under section 79A of the Information Technology Act, 2000. The designation applies within India, with its authorised scope limited to drone forensics.

Electronic evidence examination covers computer media and mobile device forensics, while floppy disks remain outside the authorised scope.
Section 79A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 designates the Cyber Forensic Division of the State Forensic Science Laboratory, Jaipur, Rajasthan, as an Examiner of Electronic Evidence within India. Its authorised scope covers Computer (Media) Forensics, excluding floppy disks, and Mobile Devices Forensics. Examination authority is confined to those specified electronic-evidence categories.

Electronic evidence examination expands through designation of a specialised forensic university for computer media and mobile device forensics.
National Forensic Science University, Goa, is designated as an Examiner of Electronic Evidence under section 79A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, with effect throughout India. Its authorised scope is confined to Computer (Media) Forensics and Mobile Devices Forensics. The designation identifies two distinct forensic domains for electronic-evidence examination.

Electronic evidence examination is assigned to a designated forensic laboratory for computer-media and mobile-device forensics.
Central Government designates the Directorate of Forensic Science Laboratories, Mumbai, Maharashtra, as an Examiner of Electronic Evidence within India under section 79A of the Information Technology Act, 2000. The authorised scope comprises computer-media forensics and mobile-device forensics.

Electronic evidence examiner designation covers computer media and mobile-device forensics within India's authorised institutional scope.
Central Government designates the Central Forensic Science Laboratory, Kolkata, as an Examiner of Electronic Evidence within India under section 79A of the Information Technology Act, 2000. Its examination authority is confined to computer-media forensics and mobile-device forensics, establishing its electronic-evidence examination remit within those specified technical areas.

Special Economic Zones compliance period extended as Form H and Annexure-I are amended under the revised rules.
The Special Economic Zones (Second Amendment) Rules, 2026 amend the Special Economic Zones Rules, 2006 with effect from publication in the Official Gazette. Form H, Condition 7 is changed by substituting "one hundred eighty days" with "nine months", extending the prescribed compliance period. Annexure-I, item (1) is also revised by replacing "second quarter" with "third quarter".

GSTR-3B return filing deadline for March 2026 is extended for registered persons under the prescribed monthly return framework.
The GSTR-3B return filing deadline for March 2026 is extended until 21 April 2026 for registered persons required to furnish returns under the prescribed monthly return framework of the Delhi Goods and Services Tax law. The extension takes effect from 20 April 2026.

Customs exemption for lithium ion cell manufacturing capital goods is consolidated through a revised and expanded equipment list.
Customs exemption notification amends the principal entry for capital goods used in the manufacture of Lithium Ion Cell by substituting the existing serial entries with a single consolidated list. The revised entry expands and reorganises the specified plant, machinery, systems and ancillary equipment covered under the notification, including equipment for mixing, coating, pressing, winding, filling, testing, welding, sorting, formation, recovery, treatment and inspection in lithium-ion cell production.

BCD exemption for wireless charging components extends to specified inputs used in inductor coil module manufacture.
BCD exemption is extended to specified goods used in the manufacture of Inductor Coil Module for wireless charging of cellular mobile phones, subject to the stated condition of end use. The amendment covers nano-crystalline assembly, E-shield, PET liner, PC shim with Z-liner, main stranded coil and NFC coil, and NdFeB magnets, and the exemption is time-bound, ceasing after 31 March 2029.

Customs exemption for display assembly inputs expands to automotive, medical and industrial applications with specified exclusions and time limit.
Customs exemption is extended to specified goods used in the manufacture of display assemblies falling under heading 8524 for automotive, medical or industrial applications. The covered inputs include Cell, Flexible Printed Circuit Assembly (FPCA), Backlight Unit, Frame and Anisotropic Conductive Film (ACF), while the exemption excludes display assemblies of cellular mobile phones or smart watches, LCD or backlight for LCD of smart meters, LCD and LED TV panels, and Interactive Flat Panel Display modules. The exemption remains in force only up to 31 March 2029.