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June 19, 2026
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The rupee appreciated in early trade against the US dollar, supported by optimism over India-US trade negotiations, firm foreign inflows and softer crude oil prices. Market sentiment remained positive as traders tracked developments suggesting momentum in talks on a proposed trade pact and an improvement in external flows. The foreign exchange market also reflected expectations that the Reserve Bank of India may use incoming dollar inflows to rebuild foreign exchange reserves and gradually reduce its forward dollar book.
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Direct tax collections rise on stronger advance tax mop-up and higher corporate tax receipts across key segments.
Net direct tax collection increased by 14.64 per cent to over Rs 5.21 lakh crore up to June 17 of the fiscal year, driven primarily by higher advance tax mop-up from corporates. Net corporate tax collection rose 22 per cent, while net non-corporate tax collection increased 8 per cent. Securities Transaction Tax collection also recorded strong growth, and advance tax collection rose 15.30 per cent, with corporate and non-corporate advance tax both showing gains.
June 18, 2026
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Aquaculture feed price stabilisation drives a committee plan, with manufacturers agreeing to reduce prices and review sector concerns.
Aquaculture feed pricing was addressed as a sectoral price-stabilisation issue, with manufacturers agreeing to reduce prices by Rs 4 per kg after a directive from the Chief Minister. A committee of aqua farmers, feed manufacturers and officials was proposed to develop a long-term mechanism for price stabilisation and to examine processing-related issues and pollution control measures, with recommendations due within 20 days. The discussion also covered subsidy awareness, insurance coverage, nursery ponds, water supply and strict quality control in aquaculture production.
June 18, 2026
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Interim free trade agreement negotiations advance as leaders urge swift conclusion of the India-US trade pact.
Trade negotiations between India and the United States were described as being in the final stages of an interim free trade agreement, with both leaders directing their negotiators to conclude the pact at the earliest. The discussions were said to have addressed uncertainty in bilateral trade and to have produced significant progress, with further talks expected to continue through an upcoming visit by the US Trade Representative.
June 18, 2026
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Direct tax collection growth drives higher net income tax mop-up, with corporate and non-corporate taxes both rising.
Direct tax collection recorded year-on-year growth during the early part of the fiscal year, with net income tax collection rising to over Rs 5.21 lakh crore by June 17. Net corporate tax collection increased sharply, while net non-corporate tax collection also posted growth; the non-corporate category covers taxes paid by individuals, HUFs and firms. Refunds were issued during the period and showed a marginal increase compared with the corresponding earlier period.
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Phased customs duty cuts on UK passenger car imports set quota limits, price bands and EV concession rules.
India-UK Comprehensive Economic and Trade Partnership provides for phased, quota-based reduction of customs duty on passenger car imports from the UK into India over the first 15 years of implementation. Conventional-engine passenger cars are subject to specified annual quotas across engine-size categories, with duty reductions tapering to a final 10 per cent, while electric, hybrid and hydrogen passenger cars receive concessions only from the sixth year, subject to price bands and quotas. Zero-emission two-wheelers, buses and trucks are excluded from any customs duty concession commitment.
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Bail petitions in alleged attack on ED officials dismissed amid continuing investigation and attempted murder charges.
Bail petitions filed by three accused in connection with the alleged attack on Enforcement Directorate officials were dismissed in proceedings arising from the CMRL money laundering probe. The accused argued that the allegations were baseless and that investigation against them had been completed, but the prosecution said investigation was still continuing. The matter relates to an alleged attack on ED and CRPF personnel after searches at the residence of the former Chief Minister, with police invoking multiple offences, including attempted murder.
June 18, 2026
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Swiss bank deposits by Indian clients fell overall, while individual customer accounts and tax information exchange continued to expand.
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June 18, 2026
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June 18, 2026
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Money laundering probe over alleged sham payments and loans, with proceedings under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
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June 18, 2026
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Social security exemption for temporary India-UK assignees will cut duplicate contributions and support skilled worker mobility.
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June 18, 2026
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Public offer classification of OFCD issuances and employee liability remain under challenge before the Supreme Court.
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June 18, 2026
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Gold import duty hike drives sharp fall in volumes as foreign exchange conservation becomes policy priority.
Gold imports in India declined sharply in volume terms after the customs duty on gold and silver was raised from 6 per cent to 15 per cent. Imports reportedly fell to about 25-30 tonnes in a month from earlier levels of 75-100 tonnes, while higher global prices kept import values elevated. The duty increase is presented as part of a broader policy response aimed at curbing gold purchases and conserving foreign exchange for essential imports.
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Money laundering probe over forged organ donation racket focuses on intermediaries, hospital transactions, and verification bypasses.
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ESDS Software Solution Launches Swaraj Cloud: India’s AI-Autonomous Architect Cloud Platform

July 2, 2026

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ESDS Software Solution Limited launches Swaraj Cloud, India’s AI-autonomous architect cloud platform built, and operated entirely on Indian soil. Designed for the enterprises, banks, government bodies and regulated industries that cannot afford to keep building India’s digital future on infrastructure governed by foreign law, Swaraj Cloud delivers the compute power, AI capability and developer tooling of a global hyperscaler with a key foundational difference: servers, data, and decisions are designed to remain under Indian ownership and Indian legal jurisdiction.

Mumbai, India, 2nd July 2026: ESDS Software Solution Ltd., India's Sovereign End-to-End AI Ecosystem Provider, today announced the launch of Swaraj Cloud an AI-Autonomous Sovereign Cloud Platform built, operated entirely on Indian soil. Running on ESDS-owned physical infrastructure housed in Indian Data Centers and governed under Indian jurisdiction, Swaraj Cloud delivers enterprise-grade compute, AI, security and developer capabilities with 100% Indian data residency and minimal foreign infrastructure dependency.

The platform addresses a regulatory and operational gap that has grown more acute with the enforcement of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act 2023, MeitY's Cloud Selection Framework for government workloads and RBI cloud guidelines governing data residency in the banking sector. Indian enterprises in regulated industries banking, government, healthcare and public services have been required to meet increasingly stringent data sovereignty obligations while operating on infrastructure not subject to Indian legal jurisdiction. Swaraj Cloud is built to resolve that gap at the infrastructure level, not through contractual overlays or data processing agreements.

"India stands at the defining inflection point of its digital century. Over the last decade, India has built one of the world's largest Digital Public Infrastructure ecosystems, yet the foundation powering our digital economy continues to rely on foreign cloud platforms, foreign AI ecosystems, and imported compute. Today, over 70% of India's workloads continue to run on foreign infrastructure , resulting in significant economic outflows and strategic dependence on technologies beyond our control. The cost of inaction as a nation is reflected in geopolitical risks, compliance obligations and the increasing need for digital self-reliance.

It is this vision that inspired the creation of Swaraj Cloud - India's AI Autonomous Architect Cloud Platform, built in India, governed in India, and engineered for global scale. Purpose-built to deliver sovereign cloud capabilities through autonomous intelligence, hyper-scale architecture and AI-driven automation, Swaraj Cloud harnesses a comprehensive sovereign AI digital IT ecosystem that brings together 30+ services and 80+ integrated intelligent capabilities, enabling organizations to scale their digital transformation through a single, unified sovereign platform.

A defining capability of Swaraj Cloud is its Prompt-to-Production architecture , powered by an integrated Solution Generator that enables organizations to transform a business requirement into a production-ready live environment.

Built on five foundational pillars - AI Intelligence, Scalability, Security, Compliance and Data Sovereignty - Swaraj Cloud seamlessly unifies Cloud Service Provider (CSP) and Managed Service Provider (MSP) capabilities into a single sovereign ecosystem.

The path ahead for India lies unequivocally in Digital Sovereignty , where our data, cloud, AI, compute, cybersecurity and critical digital infrastructure are developed, governed and continuously innovated within India. This is a collective national responsibility and ESDS is committed to enabling this vision by delivering a sovereign end-to-end AI and IT ecosystem that empowers large enterprises, governments and BFSI institutions. Our purpose extends to enabling the AtmaNirbhar Bharat mission and building sovereign digital foundations through platforms like Swaraj Cloud that will enable India's Sovereign AI future and strengthen its leadership in the age of Artificial Intelligence"— Piyush Somani Promoter, Managing Director and Chairman ESDS Software Solution Ltd.

ESDS owns and operates the physical servers, storage and networks that Swaraj Cloud runs on. It is not a rebranded or resold foreign cloud service. Workloads processed on Swaraj Cloud are designed to remain within Indian borders, under Indian law, seeking to minimise foreign legal exposure on data.

Prompt to Production: Redefining How Cloud Infrastructure Is Built The defining capability of Swaraj Cloud at launch is its Prompt-to-Production Solution Generator, a deployment engine designed to be a distinctive offering among Indian cloud platforms. An enterprise describes its requirement in plain language or through a guided input wizard. Swaraj Cloud's AI layer translates that input into a validated cloud architecture, maps it against applicable compliance frameworks including BFSI regulatory requirements, generates a complete Bill of Materials with line-item INR pricing and auto-deploys the entire environment in a single, uninterrupted automated run.

The complete workflow runs across six automated stages: requirements input, architecture recommendation with a visual preview, Bill of Materials generation in INR, compliance mapping and validation, auto-deployment of all components in sequence and a live billing preview the moment the environment goes live. The enterprise sees the architecture before a single resource is provisioned. It sees the cost before a single rupee is charged. And it receives a fully operational, compliance-validated cloud environment without a single infrastructure configuration step performed manually.

For Indian enterprises where procurement cycles, infrastructure provisioning timelines and compliance validation have historically been multi-week exercises, Prompt-to-Production is designed to compress that journey into minutes. It is a highly differentiated capability of the platform at launch and a clear expression of Swaraj Cloud's AI-autonomous design philosophy.

"Every regulated enterprise in India has been navigating a difficult trade-off, capable cloud infrastructure that does not meet sovereignty requirements, or sovereign infrastructure that does not meet capability requirements. Swaraj Cloud is built to remove that trade-off. With Prompt-to-Production, built-in compliance monitoring, and a sovereign AI platform, enterprises now have a single platform that meets regulatory obligations and operational demands without compromise." Komal Somani, Whole-time Director, ESDS Software Solution Ltd.

Beyond the Solution Generator, Swaraj Cloud launches with a service portfolio spanning the full enterprise cloud stack. The Enlight AIOps platform provides GPU-enabled virtual machines for AI model training, managed Jupyter Notebooks, fine-tuning-as-a-service, automated MLOps pipelines, model governance, drift detection, built-in AI safety controls and a [library of 20+ pre-built industry models all running on Indian infrastructure. Infrastructure services include a multi-hypervisor IaaS platform with Software-Defined Networking, DDoS protection and elastic IP management; Managed Kubernetes Service; an OCI-compliant Container Registry with automated vulnerability scanning; and agentless VM backup with point-in-time restore. Security operations are supported by a built-in SIEM platform with MITRE ATT&CK threat categorisation and CERT-In breach notification integration. Compliance-as-a-Service is embedded natively into the platform providing continuous monitoring against PCI DSS, NIST and TSC (Trust Service Criteria) frameworks, automated compliance scoring across all provisioned resources and one-click audit evidence export. Billing is managed entirely in Indian Rupees, with real-time usage dashboards, resource-level cost breakdowns and an in-platform billing calculator. A cloud marketplace with one-click deployment and a developer platform with multi-language SDKs, CLI tooling and an interactive API documentation portal complete the launch offering.

Swaraj Cloud is available immediately to Indian enterprises across Government, PSU, BFSI and regulated sectors. The platform is MeitY-empanelled and DPDP Act-aligned. Enterprises can access the platform at www.esds.co.in/swaraj-cloud or by contacting ESDS at 1800-209-3006.

About ESDS Software Solution Ltd.

ESDS Software Solution Ltd. Is India's Sovereign End-to-End AI Ecosystem Provider headquartered in Nashik, Maharashtra. ESDS operates Tier III certified data centers and serves enterprises across Government, BFSI, Healthcare and regulated industries with cloud infrastructure, AI platforms, cybersecurity solutions and managed services. Swaraj Cloud is ESDS's sovereign enterprise cloud platform. For more information, visit www.esds.co.in.

Important Disclosure ESDS Software Solution Limited is proposing, subject to receipt of requisite approvals, market conditions and other considerations, to make an initial public offer of its equity shares and has filed a Draft Red Herring Prospectus (“DRHP”) with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (“SEBI”). The DRHP is available on the website of the Company at www.esds.co.in, the website of SEBI at www.sebi.gov.in, as well as on the websites of the Book Running Lead Manager, DAM Capital Advisors Limited, the website of the National Stock Exchange of India Limited at www.nseindia.com, and the website of BSE Limited at www.bseindia.com, respectively. Investors should note that investment in equity shares involves a high degree of risk. For details, potential investors should refer to the Red Herring Prospectus which may be filed with the Registrar of Companies, Maharashtra at Mumbai, in future, including the section titled “Risk Factors”. Potential investors should not rely on the DRHP filed with SEBI in making any investment decision.

(Disclaimer: The above press release comes to you under an arrangement with NRDPL and PTI takes no editorial responsibility for the same.). PTI PWR PWR

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