Foreign investment rules: revised definitions, expanded FII derivative access, and tightened reporting and approval obligations. Amendments modify definitions to treat capital as equity, preference shares and convertible debentures including compulsory convertibility; expand FII trading in approved exchange-traded derivatives subject to limits, margins and collateral; require reporting of rights and bonus issues in Form FC-GPR; mandate Reserve Bank approval for certain transfers (non-automatic route activities, financial services sector, takeover-triggering transfers, and transfers outside RBI pricing guidelines); and revise schedules to restate sectoral entry routes, caps, exceptions to prior-central-government permission and updated reporting/forms for ADR/GDR and foreign investment returns.