Regular wage employment growth signals improved job formalisation and expanded skill training boosting female workforce participation.
The government's PMKVY skill initiative and Apprenticeship Rule reforms expand short-term training and apprenticeship outreach to improve employability. These measures, alongside women-focused training institutes, have accompanied a rise in the share of regular wage/salaried employees, substantial net job additions in rural and urban areas, and increased female representation in regular employment. Policy complements include extended paid maternity leave and mandatory cre che facilities for larger establishments to promote formalisation and female labour participation.

Fraudulent trading: regulator penalises non genuine option trades that created artificial volume and enforces insider disclosure rules.
The securities regulator found Scan Steels executed repetitive non-genuine stock option trades that created artificial trading volume, violating Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices norms and resulting in a monetary penalty. Separately, a director breached Prohibition of Insider Trading norms by failing to disclose disposals promptly and by trading within a six-month restricted period without documented compliance officer relief, contravening the company's insider trading code.

Competition approval permits foreign investor subscriptions to InvIT units, affecting tower infrastructure control and governance implications.
Approval under Section 31(1) of the Competition Act, 2002 is granted for subscription of Tower Infrastructure Trust units by Jarvis, BCI, Anahera and Valkyrie; the transaction concerns foreign investor subscriptions into an InvIT that holds a majority interest in a company providing passive tower infrastructure services, prompting competition review due to changes in unit-holder composition and control over a key infrastructure asset.

Block Development Council elections expand local self-government participation and direct implementation of central welfare schemes to the grassroots.
Conducting Block Development Council elections in Jammu and Kashmir restored local self-government participation in decision-making and tasked BDC members with accelerating local implementation of centrally sponsored schemes. The release stresses achieving implementation targets for welfare and infrastructure programmes, enhancing transparency through Direct Benefit Transfer, and prioritising execution, monitoring and public outreach so central schemes deliver measurable grassroots development.

Eligibility restrictions for resolution plan proponents bar ineligible persons from compromises and receiving secured assets.
Amendments restrict that persons not eligible under the Code to submit resolution plans cannot be parties to compromises under the Companies Act or recipients of secured assets sold or transferred by secured creditors; secured creditors who realise security must pay prescribed shares of insolvency and liquidation costs and remit excess proceeds within specified periods or the asset/proceeds will form part of the Liquidation Estate, and liquidators must deposit unclaimed dividends and undistributed proceeds into the Corporate Liquidation Account with a withdrawal process for stakeholders.

Core settlement guarantee fund rules limit non-defaulting members' replenishment obligations and cap monthly additional contributions.
Contributors must make monthly Core SGF contributions before month start and immediately replenish used amounts, limited to one replenishment per 30 calendar day period from the clearing corporation's notice of default. Failure to replenish will be temporarily met by the clearing corporation and then the stock exchange. Clearing corporations may call capped additional contributions from non defaulting members only once a month, with segment specific caps and required systems and guidelines to implement these default waterfall provisions.

Reinstatement order modification under review as appellate tribunal reserves decision on plea over company conversion and paid-up capital.
Appellate review is reserved on a plea to modify an order reinstating an executive chair, with the bench considering the ministry's defence of a lawful conversion from public to private and requesting clarification on paid-up capital requirements relevant to that conversion; the reinstatement order remains subject to a separate higher court challenge.