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<title>Banking sector has key role to play as India on way to become 3rd largest economy: Gujarat CM</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Banking-sector participation is emphasised through last-mile credit access for MSMEs, women entrepreneurs, rural artisans, small farmers and other underserved beneficiaries. Banks are urged to expedite government-scheme applications, maximise coverage and use technology for timely financial support. Industrial-policy assistance and incentives cover startups, SC/ST entrepreneurs, persons with disabilities and first-generation entrepreneurs. Greater coordination, expanded village banking access, and vigilance against cyber fraud and mule accounts are also prioritised.]]></description>
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<title>Historical stress-testing thresholds for commodity derivatives are lowered, capping extreme price movements at a Z-score of five.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Historical-scenario stress testing for commodity derivatives now caps extreme peak historical price movements at the level corresponding to a Z-score of 5, replacing the previous Z-score threshold of 10. The cap applies to maximum percentage price rises and falls over the applicable margin period of risk, using the mean and standard deviation of returns across the preceding 15 years for Z-score calculation. Recognised clearing corporations with commodity derivatives segments must apply the revised stress-testing parameter with immediate effect.]]></description>
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<title>GST registration and TDS compliance require government bodies to deduct tax, report payments, and obtain supplier tax clearance.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Government departments, governmental societies and agencies engaging contractors or suppliers must obtain GST registration as tax deductors if unregistered. They must deduct GST TDS at 2% on contracts and government supplies exceeding the prescribed threshold and file Form GSTR-7 online by the 10th of the following month. For contracts below the TDS threshold, departments must submit prescribed details to the Commissioner of Taxes. Future contracts may be awarded to contractors or suppliers only upon submission of a Tax Clearance Certificate confirming payment of prior tax dues. Officers may be held personally liable for omissions or commissions causing revenue loss.]]></description>
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<title>NBFC factoring remittances require prescribed reporting to prevent duplicate IRMs and enable exporters' self-certified eBRC reconciliation.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Draft SOP requires NBFC Factors to use the specified SWIFT message text when remitting foreign-currency factoring proceeds to AD-I Banks, so those banks do not create Inward Remittance Messages (IRMs) for such receipts. Where Factors discount export bills and release INR funds, customers seeking IRMs must approach the Factors rather than AD-I Banks. Factoring agencies must correctly identify factoring-related transactions when remitting funds. Exporters will be able to view NBFC Factor-related IRMs on the DGFT portal and self-certify eBRCs by matching remittances with invoices or Shipping Bills. Stakeholder comments are invited within 30 days of publication.]]></description>
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<title>India's exports to US rise 12.85 pc in Jul; shipments to China jump 64.57 pc: Govt data</title>
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<description><![CDATA[India's merchandise trade data records increased July exports to the United States and China, alongside growth in imports from both markets. Exports to Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, the Netherlands, Germany, South Africa, Tanzania, Australia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Italy and Vietnam showed positive growth, while July exports declined for the United Kingdom, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia and Nepal. Imports also increased from Russia, Korea, Singapore, Germany, Oman, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brazil. India and the United States are negotiating a trade pact amid an additional United States tariff on India.]]></description>
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<title>Supersession of Notification no. 97/XI-2-26-9(47)/17-T.C.-302-U.P.Act-1-2017-Order-(371)-2026 dated February 28, 2026</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The filing deadline before the Appellate Tribunal is reset for specified pending GST appeals and applications, replacing the earlier deadline arrangement. Appeals against orders communicated before 1 May 2026, and applications relating to orders passed before 1 February 2026, may be filed up to 31 July 2026. Appeals and applications concerning later orders remain governed by the statutory filing periods of three months from communication and six months from the order date, respectively.]]></description>
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<title>50 tonnes of copper without e-way bills seized by Delhi GST, Railways joint team</title>
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<description><![CDATA[GST enforcement action led to the seizure of copper and aluminium ingots transported by freight train without valid e-way bills and invoices. The metals were found in three train wagons during inspection of parcel cargo. Further proceedings are to be undertaken under applicable GST rules concerning movement of goods without prescribed transport documentation.]]></description>
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<title>India's exports surge 19.6 pc in Jul; trade deficit widens to six-month high</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Merchandise trade in July 2026 saw exports rise 19.63 per cent and imports increase 17.52 per cent, widening the trade deficit to a six-month high. Petroleum products, electronics, engineering goods and marine goods supported export growth, while crude oil and several commodity and capital-goods categories increased imports. During April-July 2026-27, faster import growth widened the cumulative merchandise trade deficit compared with the corresponding prior-year period.]]></description>
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<title>Interstate Sale by Composition Dealer</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Inter-State sales by a GST composition dealer are considered as a compliance issue where payment is received from another State for goods sold. The issue concerns whether the dealer may continue such supplies under the composition scheme and whether any lawful alternative or practice permits ongoing inter-State sales. No substantive legal conclusion is provided.]]></description>
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<title>CBI ARRESTS CGST SUPERINTENDENT IN BRIBERY CASE</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Bribery allegations involving GST enforcement led to the arrest of a CGST Superintendent after a complaint alleged that payment was demanded from a private company to avoid issuance of a tax-liability demand notice and to close the matter. A trap operation resulted in the public servant being apprehended while allegedly accepting part of the demanded bribe, and the amount accepted was recovered. Searches were undertaken, and investigation remained ongoing.]]></description>
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<title>The cumulative exports (merchandise  services) during April-July 2026-27 is estimated at US$ 316.42 Billion, as compared to US$ 279.63 Billion in April-July 2025-26, an estimated growth of 13.16%.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[India's combined merchandise and services exports and imports increased in July 2026 and April-July 2026-27, while the overall trade deficit widened. Cumulative exports were estimated at US$ 316.42 billion and imports at US$ 365.85 billion, resulting in a trade deficit of US$ 49.43 billion. Merchandise exports, non-petroleum exports, and exports excluding petroleum and gems and jewellery grew, led by petroleum products, electronic goods, engineering goods and chemicals. Services trade recorded a cumulative surplus of US$ 69.17 billion.]]></description>
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<title>Unlimit Mobile Ties Up with ICICI Bank Canada, RBC Royal Bank to Add Mobile Connectivity Benefits to Student GIC Journey</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Referral arrangements connect mobile connectivity benefits with the Student Guaranteed Investment Certificate application journey. Applicants may access an online portal through a referral link, submit documents, complete know-your-customer verification, and fund the GIC from permitted Indian bank accounts in no more than two transactions. After arrival, students may activate the GIC account and open a linked bank account for receipt of GIC transfers. Eligible verified applicants receive non-cash mobile credits usable only against mobile bills, subject to a cap on the bill portion payable through credits.]]></description>
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<title>Standard Chartered Accelerates India's GCC Growth with its Global Banking Expertise and 25 Years of GCC Experience</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Global Capability Centre banking support is positioned around connected offshore and onshore banking, international network access, digital banking platforms, and expertise in treasury centres, cross-border corporates, and evolving GCC operating models. The approach seeks to simplify financial operations and support GCC expansion across global markets. India's GCC ecosystem is characterised as a leading global capability hub, with capability centres evolving into strategic enterprise hubs requiring support for operational and financial complexities across markets.]]></description>
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<title>IFSCA Grants Nexent Capital GIFT City Investment Banking License</title>
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<description><![CDATA[IFSCA registration under the IFSCA (Capital Market Intermediaries) Regulations, 2025 authorises Nexent Capital IFSC Private Limited to operate as an investment banker from GIFT City. Permitted activities include management of initial and follow-on public offerings, SPAC and secondary listings, depository receipt issuances, debt capital-market transactions, and other capital-market advisory mandates. The firm proposes to provide transaction structuring, listing-readiness, execution and post-listing capital-markets support for companies seeking capital raising and listing opportunities through GIFT City's exchanges.]]></description>
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<title>India's exports rise 19.63 pc to USD 44.24 bn in Jul; trade deficit widens to $31.98 bn</title>
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<description><![CDATA[India's merchandise exports increased in July, while imports also rose and widened the trade deficit. Export growth was attributed to higher overseas shipments of petroleum products, electronics, engineering goods and marine goods. Exports and imports both recorded growth during the April-July fiscal period, and exports to West Asian countries increased in July.]]></description>
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<title>Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Amendment Rules, 2026.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The amendments expand Ind AS 107 disclosures for investments, contingent cash-flow features and contracts referencing nature-dependent electricity. Entities must provide a single note on qualifying electricity contracts, covering cash-flow uncertainty, commitments, onerous-contract assessments, electricity purchases, unused electricity and related sales. Ind AS 109 defines these contracts, permits specified hedge-accounting designations, and sets expected-usage and transition requirements. Classification and measurement changes refine derecognition through electronic payment systems and the assessment of contractual cash flows as solely payments of principal and interest.]]></description>
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<title>Vizhinjam port to commence EXIM operations from Aug 18: Kerala CM Satheesan</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Vizhinjam International Seaport is scheduled to commence EXIM operations after Customs clearance, issuance of Customs notifications, establishment of a Customs-bonded area, and temporary connectivity to NH-66. The port had previously handled transshipment operations. A proposed transfer of a stake in the port concessionaire to a foreign shipping company remains under committee examination and requires Central Government consideration of strategic and security aspects.]]></description>
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<title>Ratul Puri: Beyond Low-Cost Power to Clean Energy Reliability</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Renewable energy procurement is shifting beyond lowest tariffs towards dependable, dispatchable and affordable clean power, assessed through capacity value, balancing capability and system economics. Storage-backed renewable and hybrid projects can improve renewable utilisation, reduce variability and curtailment, and support peak demand. Higher renewable penetration also requires supportive storage policies, timely approvals, aligned intrastate transmission planning, stronger distribution infrastructure, and market mechanisms for ramping reserves, frequency response and fast-response balancing services.]]></description>
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<title>GST search powers: Sealing cannot retain seized material after search, and prohibition orders cover confiscable goods only.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[GST search powers require seized documents, books and things to remain with the proper or authorised officer only while necessary for examination, inquiry or proceedings; returning custody while retaining seizure is inconsistent with that scheme. Material still required may be taken into fresh custody through a fresh seizure order linked to the original seizure. A prohibition order may apply only to goods liable to confiscation where physical seizure is impracticable, not to office equipment, files, documents, books or things that are not confiscable goods; the prohibition order was quashed. Sealing premises is permissible only during an ongoing search when access is denied, not after search completion to store seized material; de-sealing and restoration of possession were directed.]]></description>
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<title>GST registration revocation requires fresh consideration after returns, taxes and late fees are fully complied with.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[GST registration cancelled for non-compliance may be considered for revocation where pending returns are filed, tax liabilities are paid and late fees are deposited. Filing returns shortly after cancellation supports fresh consideration because permanent cancellation can restrict the taxpayer's ability to conduct business. Revocation applications should be assessed by the competent authority after compliance with return-filing, tax-payment and late-fee requirements. The appellate and revocation-rejection orders were set aside, and the revocation application was remitted for fresh consideration within two months.]]></description>
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<title>Natural justice in GST adjudication requires consideration of the assessee's reply before an ex parte demand order is made.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Non-consideration of an assessee's detailed reply to a GST show cause cum demand notice violates principles of natural justice. An ex parte adjudication order passed without addressing that reply is infirm and perverse. The High Court therefore quashed the order and remitted the matter for fresh, independent and reasoned adjudication after an effective opportunity of hearing. No merits of the underlying GST demand were decided.]]></description>
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<title>Alternative statutory remedy under GST prevails where factual and evidentiary objections require appellate review of adjudication orders.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Writ jurisdiction against CGST Orders-in-Original is unavailable where the statutory appeal provides an efficacious and comprehensive remedy for reviewing facts, law, evidence and adjudicatory correctness. Objections concerning hearing, notice service, technical difficulties, evidentiary authentication, corroboration, cross-examination and voluntary payment require record-based factual assessment by the appellate authority. Neither patent lack of jurisdiction nor a manifest, common breach of natural justice was established to justify bypassing that remedy. Petitioners who had already invoked the statutory appeal could not simultaneously pursue writ relief over the same order without exceptional circumstances. The writ petitions were dismissed, with merits left open for appellate consideration, including any request to exclude time spent in writ proceedings according to law.]]></description>
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<title>Input tax credit entitlement survives delayed rectification where returns meet the retrospective statutory filing cut-off for credit eligibility.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Input tax credit under section 16(5) of the CGST Act is a retrospective statutory entitlement where relevant returns were filed within the prescribed cut-off. Failure to submit a rectification application within the period set by a departmental circular does not by itself defeat that entitlement. The denial of credit was quashed because the show-cause notice acknowledged timely filing under section 16(5), and the claim was remitted for reconsideration, subject to satisfaction of other eligibility conditions.]]></description>
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<title>Conditional refund release pending departmental appeal protects revenue recovery while preventing unjustified withholding of an allowed refund.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Refund allowed in an assessee's appeal may be released despite a pending departmental appeal before the Tribunal where no hearing has been fixed. Withholding was considered unwarranted given the petitioner's status as a manufacturing company and its undertaking to deposit any liability ultimately arising if the departmental appeal succeeds. Release was made conditional on furnishing that undertaking and a certified copy of the order, with the Revenue directed to issue the refund within six weeks. The departmental appeal remained subject to adjudication by the Tribunal.]]></description>
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<title>Electronic GST service requires acknowledgment or response; portal-only upload cannot replace formal service of notices or adjudication orders.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Electronic service of GST show-cause notices and adjudication orders requires more than uploading them to the 'View Additional Notices and Orders' tab of the GST Common Portal. Portal-only uploading does not constitute proper service under the CGST Act unless the recipient acknowledges receipt or responds. A retrospective amendment permitting functions under the GST Rules to be performed through the portal does not expand the portal's specified functions or replace formal statutory service. The writ petition was disposed of consistently with the established position on deficient portal-only service.]]></description>
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<title>Additional input tax credit benefit was not established where post-GST credit ratio declined and transitional VAT credit was inapplicable.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 171(1) requires suppliers to pass any additional input tax credit arising from GST implementation to recipients through a commensurate price reduction. Project-specific CA-certified data was accepted because statutory records consolidated figures across projects and could not provide a project-wise split. The post-GST ratio of credit availed to purchase value had declined, showing that no additional input tax credit accrued. Transitional VAT credit passed to eligible purchasers did not concern the applicant, whose agreement was executed after GST implementation and for whom no corresponding VAT credit arose. The DGAP report was accepted and profiteering was not established.]]></description>
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<title>Appealability of advance ruling rejections is limited: only rulings pronounced on merits may be appealed.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Appeals under the advance ruling mechanism lie before the Appellate Authority only against an advance ruling pronounced under section 98(4) of the CGST Act. An order rejecting an advance ruling application under the first proviso to section 98(2) does not constitute such a ruling. Consequently, an appeal against rejection of the application is not maintainable under section 100(1), and was held inadmissible.]]></description>
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<title>End-use exemption for uncoated paper requires actual qualifying use; purchaser declarations alone cannot establish entitlement.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Entry No. 128 exempts uncoated paper and paperboard under Heading 4802 only when actually used to manufacture exercise books, graph books, laboratory notebooks or notebooks. Tariff classification alone does not establish eligibility: the use-based condition requires a factual end-use relationship, and purchaser declarations, purchase orders or contractual terms evidencing intended use are not conclusive. Exemption notifications require strict construction and cannot be expanded through unstated certification or verification requirements. As no statutory framework prescribes end-use certificates, bonds, monitoring, diversion consequences or records, the Advance Ruling Authority cannot recognise purchaser documents as a legally sufficient compliance mechanism. The manner of availing the exemption falls outside advance-ruling jurisdiction.]]></description>
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<title>Compostable polymer bags remain plastic packing articles and cannot claim biodegradable-bag GST concession without prescribed biodegradable certification.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Compostable polymer bags and packing materials made from PLA and PBAT blends are classifiable as plastic articles for the conveyance or packing of goods under heading 3923 2990, rather than as paper products under Chapter 48. Eligibility for the concessional GST rate applicable to biodegradable bags depends on compliance with the separate standards for biodegradable plastics, including IS 17899 T:2022 and the required CPCB certification. Certification as compostable under IS/ISO 17088 does not establish that the goods are biodegradable, particularly because the biodegradable-plastics standard excludes compostable plastics within that regime. Such compostable bags are therefore outside the concessional entry for paper sacks, bags and biodegradable bags.]]></description>
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<title>Reassessment limitation bars extended-period reopening when erroneous bank deposit data is the sole basis for initiating proceedings.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Erroneous bank information concerning a term deposit could not support reassessment for assessment year 2015-16 when it was the sole basis for the notice and the normal three-year period had expired. Extended-period reassessment required satisfaction of the statutory conditions, which technical or system-generated erroneous data could not meet. The notice seeking an explanation, together with the consequential reassessment, assessment and penalty orders, was set aside. The writ petition succeeded, and costs were directed against the Bank for providing the incorrect information.]]></description>
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<title>Binding Dispute Resolution Panel directions require fresh assessment where the final order relies on a superseded transfer-pricing order.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Dispute Resolution Panel directions bind the Assessing Officer when an eligible assessee files timely objections to a draft assessment order. A bona fide failure to separately intimate the Assessing Officer of those objections, where it causes no advantage or prejudice, does not justify ignoring the Panel's directions. Where the transfer-pricing order forming the sole basis of the final assessment has been revised pursuant to those directions, an assessment based on the superseded order is unsustainable. The final assessment, consequential demand and penalty-initiation notices were set aside, and the assessment was restored for fresh completion in conformity with the Panel's directions and revised transfer-pricing order.]]></description>
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<title>Faceless reassessment jurisdiction cannot be cured by a later faceless assessment order; objections remain for statutory appeal consideration.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Reassessment notices must be initiated through the faceless assessment framework rather than by the Jurisdictional Assessing Officer where algorithm-based random allocation governs reassessment proceedings. A final assessment order issued under the faceless regime does not cure the initial jurisdictional defect. Where the final order is already challenged before the Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals), the jurisdictional objection should be raised and considered in that statutory appeal, applying the relevant High Court precedents. The assessment order need not be independently quashed in writ proceedings when the pending appeal can address the objection.]]></description>
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<title>Penalty proceedings remain independent of assessment, preventing revision solely for failure to initiate underreporting penalty.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Penalty proceedings for underreporting are independent of assessment proceedings. Failure to initiate penalty proceedings under section 270A while completing a reassessment does not, by itself, make the assessment order erroneous or prejudicial to the interests of the Revenue for revisional purposes. Revisional jurisdiction was therefore held unjustified where it rested solely on that omission, and the revisional order was quashed. A contrary Tribunal decision relied upon by the Revenue was distinguished. The assessee's appeal succeeded.]]></description>
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<title>Mechanical approval invalidated search assessments, while consistent project completion accounting and protection against double addition prevailed.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Material seized from a company director who managed its day-to-day affairs and was searched simultaneously could be used for the company's assessment under section 153A; separate proceedings under section 153C were unnecessary. The Tribunal found the consolidated section 153D approval for four assessment years mechanical because it showed no year-wise application of mind, quashing the assessments. For unabated years, the consistently accepted Project Completion Method could not be replaced by the Percentage Completion Method without relevant seized material, rejection of accounts under section 145(3), or a cogent factual basis; the resulting additions were deleted. Additions for both receipts and payments reflected in the same seized papers were also deleted as double taxation of income already offered and accepted.]]></description>
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<title>TNMM segmental comparability, LIBOR loan pricing and working-capital-adjusted receivables guide transfer-pricing adjustments for associated-enterprise transactions.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[TNMM comparability for marketing-support commission should primarily rest on functional, asset and risk analysis where reliable segmental data exists. A low-risk indenting-services segment without inventory or credit risk may be comparable despite the entity's wider trading activity or different products. LIBOR is the appropriate benchmark for foreign-currency loans to wholly owned subsidiaries; additional risk mark-up requires demonstrated differential risk, and contractual LIBOR-plus rates may be arm's length. Delayed associated-enterprise receivables remain separately examinable international transactions, but notional interest should not be charged where working-capital adjustment already captures the receivables effect and the tested party's adjusted margin exceeds comparable margins, subject to verification.]]></description>
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<title>Benami consideration source requirements upheld land attachment where alleged lenders lacked proven financial capacity and genuine funding evidence.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 2(9)(D) treats a transaction as benami where the person providing consideration is untraceable or fictitious. For immovable property, claimed loans may fail to establish the source of consideration where alleged lenders' financial capacity and fund sources are unproved, supporting loan documentation is absent, and no repayment or interest payment is evidenced. Failure to explain the balance consideration and validation fee can further support the conclusion that the consideration provider was untraceable or fictitious. On these stated grounds, provisional attachment of the land as benami property was confirmed and the appeal was dismissed.]]></description>
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<title>Future benefit in benami transactions need not exist at provisional attachment, supporting confirmation where funds trace to beneficial owner.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The third limb of a benami transaction, requiring property to be held for the beneficial owner's future benefit, carries no fixed time limit and need not be established when provisional attachment is made. Provisional attachment may occur immediately to prevent alienation or transfer. Funds supplied by the beneficial owner for relatives' property purchases, coupled with their failure to substantiate independent income or a documented loan arrangement, supported treatment of the transactions as benami. Love and affection did not establish a genuine loan explanation where no supporting evidence existed. The transactions were treated as benami, and the confirmation of provisional attachment was sustained.]]></description>
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<title>Tariff classification of diagnostic laser imagers follows the residuary accessory heading where equipment serves machines under different headings.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Laser imagers that merely print diagnostic data received from other equipment lack independent diagnostic capability and are accessories rather than diagnostic instruments or apparatus. Chapter 90 Note 2(b) permits classification of an accessory with a machine only where it is solely or principally suitable for use with a particular kind of machine or machines under the same tariff heading. Because the imported laser imagers were compatible with equipment classifiable under both CTH 9018 and CTH 9022, they could not be classified with either group and fell under the residuary rule in Note 2(c). They were consequently classifiable under CTH 9033 00 00, not CTH 9018 90 19.]]></description>
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<title>Provisional customs clearance requires full duty bond and partial bank guarantee while appellate issues await final determination.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Provisional clearance of ongoing and future imports claiming specified customs exemption benefits was made conditional during the pendency of an appeal. Arguable issues were identified for final hearing, while Revenue's interest in securing potential duty liabilities required protection. High Court therefore adopted an equitable interim arrangement rather than granting an unconditional stay of the customs appellate order. Importers may clear consignments provisionally by furnishing a bond covering the full differential duty, including applicable duties, cess and surcharges, and a bank guarantee for half of that differential duty. The arrangement is without prejudice to the final appeal, and all rights and contentions remain open.]]></description>
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<title>Customs Broker authority cannot substitute importer consent, invalidating assessment and penalties where misdeclaration lacks evidentiary support.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A Customs Broker's acceptance of classification and valuation cannot bind an importer without proven authority to do so. Examination conducted in the Broker's presence therefore did not amount to examination in the importer's presence, and the assessment was vitiated by breach of natural justice. Visual examination alone did not establish that imported heavy melting scrap was misdeclared as to classification or value, particularly where the Department lacked specialist opinion, market enquiry or testing to support its assessment of secondary and defective coils. Confiscation, redemption fine and penalty were consequently unsustainable.]]></description>
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<title>PMS Bazaar Collaborates with NSDL Database Management Limited (NDML Accreditation Agency) to Expand Access to SEBI Accredited Investor Certification</title>
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<description><![CDATA[SEBI's Accredited Investor framework enables eligible investors and entities to obtain certification that may allow lower minimum investment thresholds for Portfolio Management Services, Alternative Investment Funds and other alternative investment products, along with applicable regulatory flexibilities. PMS Bazaar and NSDL Database Management Limited's Accreditation Agency facilitate end-to-end applications, subject to required documentation and prescribed payment. Assistance is available to individual investors and eligible clients of investment providers without additional platform, service or processing charges, while prescribed certification fees remain payable.]]></description>
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<title>Penalty for duty-free jewellery shortages fails without proof of intentional diversion, reliable statements, or separate liability for proprietors.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Penalties for shortages of duty-free gold and silver jewellery require evidence of intentional diversion to evade customs duty. Where the proprietorship concern itself reported the shortage, theft was indicated, and differential duty with interest was paid, penalties on the concern and the person supervising manufacturing operations do not sustain. Statements from persons unavailable for permitted cross-examination cannot be relied on without compliance with statutory conditions and corroboration; an unmatched police recovery does not conclusively establish involvement in removal of the goods. A proprietorship concern and its proprietor are legally the same entity, preventing separate penalties on both. Differential customs duty and interest remain payable, while all penalties are set aside.]]></description>
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<title>Limitation for customs appeals permits exclusion of time before a wrong forum and validates timely electronic filing.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Limitation for customs appeals permits exclusion of time during which appeal papers, filed within the prescribed period, remained before an incorrect forum; the first appeal was treated as timely and remanded for merits determination. An appeal emailed and dispatched within the statutory period could not be rejected as time-barred; alternatively, any marginal delay in physical receipt fell within the condonable period. Refund of customs duty paid under protest was available for finally assessed bills of entry where assessment accepted the importer's declared classification and no reclassification proceedings displaced the protest. Each bill of entry constituted a separate assessment, so proceedings concerning other bills could not defer refund. Refund was confined to finally assessed bills, excluding provisionally assessed bills.]]></description>
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<title>Transaction value of imported brass scrap cannot be rejected on visual inspection without contemporaneous identical-import evidence.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Rejection of the declared transaction value for imported brass scrap required specific evidence of contemporaneous imports of identical goods under Rule 5. The Tribunal found that the authorities had not explained the revised classification of secondary defective brass pipes or supplied the requisite valuation particulars; visual examination alone could not displace the declared description, particularly where no tariff size restriction applied to brass scrap. The enhanced value and differential duty demand were therefore unsustainable. Misdeclaration was also not established because the contractual specification, broad tariff coverage, and chartered engineer's report conflicted with the departmental visual assessment, while no documentary evidence proved serviceability or misdeclaration. Confiscation, redemption fine and penalty were consequently set aside.]]></description>
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<title>Fraudulent duty-free diversion defeats advance-licence exemption, enables extended recovery, and supports penalties for firms and active partners.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Fraudulent diversion of duty-free SEZ scrap into the DTA vitiates advance-licence exemption, permits recovery of customs and central excise duty with interest, and supports invocation of the extended limitation period. Non-existent buyers, forged, cancelled or suspended licence documentation, and cash-funded payment arrangements establish fraudulent availment where goods were neither received by stated recipients nor used to meet export obligations. Recovery proceedings for duty not levied or short-levied remain available despite prior assessment and clearance of bills of entry. DRI-issued show-cause notices and adjudication by the Commissioner of Customs are valid under the statutory jurisdictional position. Segregating and processing mixe.....]]></description>
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<title>Invoice-based recovery claims remain time-barred despite separate winding-up proceedings, absent valid acknowledgment or part-payment of the disputed invoices.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Registration of a partnership firm was proved by the Registrar of Firms' memorandum and a certified Form-VIII admitted as additional evidence because it enabled judgment and furthered justice. The firm was therefore competent to institute the suit. Limitation for invoice-based recovery was not extended or suspended by winding-up proceedings, which are independent of a civil money-recovery suit. The claim was based on individual invoices rather than a running account, and the relied-on communication neither acknowledged the disputed debt nor constituted part-payment for those invoices. As the relevant invoices were already time-barred, the recovery suit was dismissed.]]></description>
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<title>Insider trading presumption applies when persons possessing UPSI trade, with disgorgement available for losses averted through the contravention.</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:43:06 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Insider trading liability under the 2015 PIT Regulations arises where a person possesses unpublished price sensitive information and trades in the company's shares, subject to a rebuttable presumption that the trade was motivated by that information. The listed defences are illustrative rather than exhaustive, but any additional defence must be comparable in nature. The intended use of sale proceeds and absence of profit do not negate liability. Disgorgement may equal wrongful gain or loss averted through the contravention. Breach of the prescribed insider-trading code of conduct may also attract penalty, while penalties may be reduced to the statutory minimum where circumstances justify it.]]></description>
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<title>Limitation for EPC operational debt runs from each payment default, preventing insolvency proceedings on time-barred claims.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Limitation for operational-debt insolvency applications runs from the individual date of default for each due and payable invoice or payment claim, not from continuing non-payment or subsistence of an EPC contract. A written acknowledgment by the corporate debtor before limitation expires is required to reset limitation; unilateral legal notices do not do so. Completed contractual milestones may constitute operational debt, while suspension, idling and demobilisation claims are uncrystallised damages unless adjudicated. Prolonged suspension does not automatically frustrate or terminate an EPC contract where termination requires election and time is not essential. A genuine pre-existing dispute must be evident from prior conduct or communications. The time-barred insolvency application was set aside, without affecting contractual dispute-resolution remedies.]]></description>
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<title>Pro rata resolution-plan distribution by admitted claims prevails over individual security interests for dissenting secured financial creditors.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Distribution under a resolution plan among secured financial creditors may be determined through the Committee of Creditors' commercial wisdom, subject to the statutory minimum payable to dissenting financial creditors. A dissenting secured creditor cannot demand a larger share solely by relying on the value of its individual security interest. Pro rata allocation based on claims admitted by the resolution professional during CIRP, including stage-wise receipt of plan funds, is consistent with this principle. The approved distribution according to admitted claim ratios, rather than individual security interests, was sustained and the appeals were dismissed.]]></description>
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<title>Prima facie FEMA contravention can support equivalent-value property seizure despite overseas accounts and an income-tax settlement.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 37A of FEMA permits seizure where available material establishes a prima facie Section 4 contravention; final proof is reserved for adjudication. Tally data, emails, witness statements and overseas bank deposits may support an allegation of unauthorised foreign-exchange transfers without proving the ultimate use of every remitted amount. Property in India may be seized at equivalent value even where overseas accounts are held by a separate foreign entity, because that entity's legal personality does not displace FEMA's seizure power against the alleged contravener. Income-tax settlement provisions operate separately and do not override FEMA consequences. The refusal to confirm seizure was therefore interfered with and the appeal succeeded.]]></description>
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<title>Money-laundering proceedings can survive compromise quashing, while PMLA bail fails where twin conditions and flight-risk concerns remain unmet.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Money-laundering proceedings may survive compromise-based quashing of a scheduled-offence FIR because such quashing does not establish that the predicate offence never occurred or that no proceeds of crime exist. Quashing, discharge or acquittal on merits finding that the scheduled offence did not occur would remove that foundation. The PMLA inquiry may extend beyond the predicate investigation to property derived directly or indirectly from scheduled criminal activity, including allegations linked to a wider conspiracy. Bail requires satisfaction of the statutory twin conditions on a probabilistic assessment, without a mini-trial. Alleged control of forex entities, dummy directors, fund conversion and flight-risk conduct may defeat bail. Parity is unavailable where a co-accused's circumstances differ materially.]]></description>
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<title>Property of equivalent value remains vulnerable to freezing when direct proceeds of crime are unavailable and sources remain unexplained.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Property of equivalent value may be seized or frozen where direct proceeds of crime are unavailable; prior acquisition alone does not exclude property from action under the proceeds-of-crime definition. Retention of seized documents, digital devices and cash, and freezing of bank and Demat accounts were sustained where a majority shareholder and authorised signatory was linked to the company involved in alleged investment fraud, failed to deny material particulars, and did not disclose the property's source. A connected person likewise failed to establish an independent source for held funds and shares. The appeals challenging retention and freezing were dismissed.]]></description>
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<title>Goods Transport Agency classification accepts bills as consignment notes, while unverified Form 26AS demands and extended limitation fail.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Goods Transport Agency classification does not depend on a document being expressly titled a consignment note. Bills containing essential transportation particulars may qualify as consignment notes, and recipients' certificates confirming receipt of GTA services and reverse-charge tax payment support that classification. Service tax demands cannot rest solely on differences between ST-3 returns and Form 26AS or other Income Tax data without verification of books of account and underlying transactions, because such data do not determine taxable turnover under service tax law. Extended limitation cannot be invoked for alleged suppression where relevant facts were already available to the Department and ST-3 returns were regularly filed. The impugned demands were set aside with consequential relief.]]></description>
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<title>Copyright exclusion from intellectual property right service prevents pre-2008 taxation of software licence royalties and defeats extended limitation.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Copyright was expressly excluded from the scope of intellectual property right service, which covered only rights recognised under Indian law. Royalties for a non-exclusive licence to pre-install and sub-license Microsoft operating software therefore concerned copyright exploitation rather than taxable intellectual property rights. Commercial use of information technology software became separately taxable only from 16 May 2008. Extended limitation could not apply where departmental audit and correspondence established knowledge of the activity, and reverse-charge tax would have been available as CENVAT credit, supporting revenue neutrality and absence of intent to evade.]]></description>
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<title>Extended limitation fails without specific suppression allegations, while overseas employee secondment remains taxable as manpower supply within normal limitation.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Service-tax show cause notices based on foreign-currency expenditure remain valid where they identify the alleged services sufficiently for the assessee to provide service-wise and amount-wise replies; further elaboration during adjudication does not exceed the notices' scope. Extended limitation cannot rest on a bare statutory reference without pleaded facts showing fraud, collusion, wilful misstatement or suppression with intent to evade tax, particularly after an earlier audit-based notice and where employee secondment involves interpretive issues. Overseas employee secondment constitutes manpower supply, subject only to the normal limitation period. Other service-tax demands require fresh reasoned determination after considering submissions, accounting evidence, the Chartered Accountant certificate, and relevant accounting standards and procedures.]]></description>
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<title>Time-share accommodation classification excludes Club or Association Service where purchasers receive contractual occupancy rights without genuine membership attributes.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Time-share accommodation arrangements fall outside Club or Association Service where purchasers receive only contractual occupancy rights for specified periods, without ownership, voting, management or other club-membership rights. Contractual use of the term "member" does not determine classification; consideration linked to accommodation categories, absence of conventional subscriptions and resort access for ordinary guests support treatment as accommodation services. A later distinct taxable entry for short-term accommodation further supports that conclusion. Pre-notice payment of tax and applicable interest, absent fraud, collusion or wilful suppression, attracts statutory protection and precludes penalty-only proceedings. Suppression penalties also require evidence of deliberate evasion, not merely a bona fide classification dispute disclosed in regular audited accounts.]]></description>
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<title>CENVAT credit for trading requires reversal, while taxable-service rental credit remains proportionately available and limitation issues await resolution.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[CENVAT credit attributable exclusively to trading is inadmissible because trading is not an eligible output activity. Common input-service credit used for trading and taxable output services requires reasonable reversal, with the rule 6(3D)(c) formula proposed for quantification even before trading was expressly included as an exempted service. Proportionate credit on rented premises remains available where evidence establishes use for taxable services; a landlord's service-tax default does not by itself defeat that credit. Short-payment demands based on discrepancies between service-tax and income-tax returns require proof of deliberate intent to evade for extended limitation. Conflicting views remain on whether trading-related credit permits invocation of the extended period and consequential penalties, requiring Third Member determination.]]></description>
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<title>Vicarious liability for dishonoured company cheques may extend to non-signatory directors where complaints contain foundational responsibility averments.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 141 of the Negotiable Instruments Act extends liability for dishonoured company cheques beyond the signatory to directors who were in charge of and responsible for the company's business when the offence occurred. At the summoning stage, a Magistrate need only determine whether the complaint and supporting material disclose a prima facie case, not whether conviction is supported. Allegations that directors controlled company affairs, together with the petitioner's directorship during relevant transactions, were treated as sufficient foundational averments for trial. Questions concerning actual managerial involvement and non-participation require evidence before the Trial Court. The challenge to the summoning orders and cheque-dishonour proceedings was rejected.]]></description>
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<title>Compounded annual growth rate of Manufacturing GVA at constant prices (2022-23 base) as per revised series during 2022-23 to 2025-26 is 10.88%</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Manufacturing performance is assessed under the revised National Accounts Statistics series using 2022-23 as the base year. Manufacturing's share of total Gross Value Added at current prices remained broadly stable through 2025-26, and Manufacturing GVA at constant prices achieved a compounded annual growth rate of 10.88% from 2022-23 to 2025-26. Production Linked Incentive schemes, logistics and industrial-corridor measures, semiconductor initiatives, and MSME support seek to strengthen domestic manufacturing, diversify supply chains, reduce import dependence, and improve resilience.]]></description>
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<title>National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) Launches e-Inspection and e-Certified Copy Services</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:43:06 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[NCLT has launched e-Inspection and e-Certified Copy Services for faster and more convenient access to judicial records and certified copies by advocates, litigants and other stakeholders. The services support a technology-enabled Registry framework and transparent, efficient justice delivery. Pendency monitoring, workload redistribution, Special Benches, maximisation of court time, and registration and listing guidelines are intended to improve case management, optimise limited judicial resources and reduce avoidable delays.]]></description>
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<title>The Government of India to launch the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)-based Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) in the Union Territories of Chandigarh and Dadra  Nagar Haveli</title>
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<description><![CDATA[CBDC-based Direct Benefit Transfer under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana will credit eligible beneficiaries' food subsidies as programmable Digital Rupee tokens directly into CBDC wallets. Beneficiaries may use these credits to purchase foodgrains from empanelled merchants through secure, real-time and traceable payments, replacing conventional bank-account transfers. The model is intended to improve traceability, reduce leakages and cash handling, enable real-time monitoring of subsidy use, and provide a scalable framework for CBDC integration with welfare schemes.]]></description>
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<title>India and the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) sign Terms of Reference (ToR) for negotiations towards a Preferential Trade Agreement</title>
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<description><![CDATA[India and the Southern African Customs Union have signed Terms of Reference to commence negotiations for a Preferential Trade Agreement. Negotiations are envisaged on trade in goods and market access, rules of origin, customs procedures and trade facilitation, trade remedies including bilateral safeguards, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, technical barriers to trade, dispute settlement, and legal and horizontal provisions. The Terms of Reference establish the negotiating framework only; preferential tariff treatment and other operative commitments depend on conclusion of a final agreement.]]></description>
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<title>ANALYSIS OF SECTION 141 OF THE NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS ACT, 1881</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Vicarious criminal liability for cheque dishonour requires clear factual averments that each accused was, at the relevant time, in charge of and responsible for the entity's business conduct. Mere status as a director, executive member, committee member or other office-holder does not create presumed liability. A complaint need not repeat statutory language verbatim if, read as a whole, it discloses the factual basis for liability. A cheque signatory is ordinarily connected with the incriminating act, whereas liability of other officers requires material linking them to the transaction and business affairs.]]></description>
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<title>Sales Tax Bar Association Represents for Early Enablement of GSTR-9  GSTR-9C for FY 2025-26</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:43:06 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Early enablement of GSTR-9 and GSTR-9C filing utilities for FY 2025-26 is sought to facilitate reconciliation of GSTR-1, GSTR-3B, books of account and income-tax data before income-tax returns are finalised. Delayed availability may increase inconsistencies between GST and income-tax reporting, with consequential notices and litigation. A predictable annual release schedule before income-tax return due dates would support meaningful reconciliation, accurate statutory disclosures and compliance planning.]]></description>
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<title>GST  Mining: Crackdown and Taxability</title>
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<description><![CDATA[GST enforcement in mining is strengthened through coordination between State Mining Departments and CGST field formations, including nodal officers, information sharing, joint reviews, and action where evasion is indicated. Illegal mining, suppressed supplies, non-registration, undervaluation, and short payment may invite GST scrutiny and related Income Tax proceedings. Royalty is contractual consideration under mining leases, and mine leasing with royalty is treated as licensing of rights to use minerals, taxable under the Reverse Charge Mechanism with liability on the mining lessee.]]></description>
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<title>Interest Under GST - When Does The Clock Start, When Does It Stop, And On What Amount? Part III (Concluding Part) - From Liability to Recovery: When Can GST Interest Be Enforced?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[GST interest may arise automatically under section 50, but a disputed interest base, period or quantum must be determined before coercive recovery. Recovery under section 79, including garnishee notices through Form GST DRC-13, can enforce only an amount that has become payable and cannot adjudicate an unresolved dispute. Admitted interest may be recovered without unnecessary proceedings. Payments during investigation require assessment of genuine voluntariness. Conversely, delayed refunds attract statutory interest under section 56 after the prescribed period, without requiring a separate claim.]]></description>
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<title>Interest Under GST - When Does The Clock Start, When Does It Stop, And On What Amount? Part II - Wrongly Availed ITC and Interest: Why Availment Alone Is Not Enough</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:43:06 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Interest on wrongly availed input tax credit under Section 50(3) arises only when the credit is both wrongly availed and utilised. Under Rule 88B(3), utilisation is determined by the extent to which the Electronic Credit Ledger balance falls below the wrongly availed amount before reversal or payment. For IGST credit, IGST, CGST and SGST balances are considered together, while Compensation Cess credit is excluded where it was not legally usable for the relevant liability. Reversal before utilisation may prevent interest; ledger records must establish the usable balance throughout the relevant period.]]></description>
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<title>IInterest Under GST - When Does The Clock Start, When Does It Stop, And On What Amount? Part I - Delayed Tax Payment and the Electronic Cash Ledger: When Does Interest Really Begin and End?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Delayed-payment interest under Section 50 of the CGST Act is computed on the net cash component of tax liability, subject to the statutory exception for returns furnished after commencement of specified proceedings. Deposit into the Electronic Cash Ledger is distinct from formal discharge of tax through ledger debit, but Rule 88B recognises that eligible cash credited by the return due date may be excluded from interest computation. Determination requires review of the cash liability, ledger deposits, available balance, balance movements and final appropriation date.]]></description>
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<title>Building a Surprise-Proof Corporation: A 360 Framework to Prevent Accounting Fraud, Tax Shocks, Circular Trades and Unethical Business Practices.</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:43:06 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Corporate resilience requires governance that tests the legality, accounting and tax treatment, economic substance, and ethical defensibility of significant transactions. Controls should identify fraud indicators through data analytics and timely scrutiny of unexplained anomalies. Tax risk registers, documented reasoning, exposure assessment, and independent review should support material transactions. Circular trades and third-party dealings require beneficial-ownership mapping, commercial-purpose assessment, verification of actual performance and funding, and counterparty due diligence. Management override requires independent review, while effective speak-up mechanisms and Board oversight support early risk identification and remediation.]]></description>
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<title>Export of Deep Fried Onions from India to the Rest of the World.</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:43:06 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Deep-fried onion exports require verification of the applicable HSN classification based on product composition and processing, compliance with food-safety and buyer specifications, and completion of registration, Customs and documentation requirements. Exporters generally need PAN and GST registration, an Import Export Code and APEDA registration where applicable, followed by Shipping Bill filing, Customs clearance and receipt of export proceeds through authorised banks. Documentation may include commercial and GST invoices, packing list, transport document, certificate of origin, inspection certificate and transaction-specific phytosanitary or fumigation certificates. Incentive, refund, insurance and export-finance facilities may apply subject to conditions.]]></description>
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<title>Layers of Customs Valuation: A Comprehensive Guide to the Sequential Methodology under Customs Law.</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:43:06 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Transaction value is the primary basis for customs valuation, subject to a genuine export sale, sole consideration, absence of prohibited restrictions, unaffected related-party pricing, and reliable documentary support. Prescribed additions include relevant commissions, packing, containers, royalties, buyer-supplied assists, resale proceeds, freight, handling, and insurance. Declared value may be rejected only on legally sustainable grounds supported by procedure, evidence, reasoned findings, and an opportunity for the importer. If unavailable, valuation must proceed sequentially through identical goods, similar goods, deductive value, computed value, and finally residual valuation without arbitrary or fictitious values.]]></description>
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<title>Airtel ends all prepaid mobile plans offering 1.5 GB data per day with unlimited calls</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Bharti Airtel has discontinued prepaid plans combining 1.5 GB daily data allowances with unlimited calling, directing subscribers towards higher-priced plans with expanded data access, including unlimited 5G data. The restructuring reduces low-priced unlimited-data offerings and changes the pricing architecture for customers using discontinued mid-tier plans. Management links tariff repair to differentiated mobile-plan categories and sustained average revenue per user growth.]]></description>
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<title>ED arrests IBC resolution professional</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Enforcement action under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act concerns allegations that an insolvency professional re-admitted claims earlier rejected as spurious and fraudulent during the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process. The alleged re-admission altered the Committee of Creditors' composition and facilitated consideration of a resolution plan allegedly submitted for, and funded through an entity controlled by, a company promoter under investigation for diversion of bank-loan funds. Adverse findings reportedly included acting beyond authority by relying on fabricated and improperly submitted material.]]></description>
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<title>Mumbai cops bust fake documents racket; four arrested</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:43:06 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Alleged forgery and misuse of identity-related records are under investigation following operations at Aadhaar centres. Seized materials reportedly include forged birth, educational, residence, caste and citizenship certificates, records bearing forged signatures and seals, and equipment used for Aadhaar updates. Four persons were arrested in two operations for allegedly preparing forged records and using them to update Aadhaar cards. Cases have been registered under relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita, with investigation continuing into the extent of the alleged network.]]></description>
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<title>Customs tariff values for edible oils, brass scrap, areca nuts, gold and silver take effect from 11 August 2026.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Tariff values for specified imports are substituted under the customs valuation framework, effective 11 August 2026. The prescribed values remain unchanged for crude palm oil, refined and other palm oil, crude and refined palmolein, soybean oil, brass scrap and areca nuts. Tariff values are also prescribed for eligible gold and silver imports, including specified gold bars, coins and findings, and specified silver forms, medallions and coins, subject to the stated exclusions for postal, courier and baggage imports where applicable. These values apply for customs valuation of the covered goods.]]></description>
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<title>Municipal debt securities rules revise private-placement face values, pooled-finance escrow safeguards, and financial-results disclosure timelines with immediate effect.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Privately placed municipal debt securities may have a face value of either Rs. One Lakh or Rs. Ten Thousand; securities issued at Rs. Ten Thousand must have fixed maturity and no structured obligations, and their exchange trading lot must equal face value. These requirements do not apply to public issues. Pooled finance vehicles or SPVs must implement a two-step escrow arrangement through constituent-municipality accounts and maintain an interest payment account and sinking fund account, including one year's interest obligation throughout the securities' tenure. Permitted credit enhancement includes cash collateral, state program equity, devolutions, guarantees and other suitable structures. Listed municipalities must submit half-yearly unaudited results within 60 days and annual audited results within 90 days, with immediate effect.]]></description>
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<title>Enhanced due diligence for dealings with identified Bhutanese firms is advised to manage potential trade and payment risks.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[DGFT advises heightened vigilance when dealing with two identified Bhutanese firms following a complaint and the absence of substantive responses through diplomatic and administrative channels under the Foreign Trade Policy 2023. Export Promotion Councils, Regional Authorities, ECGC, authorised dealer banks and other stakeholders should conduct comprehensive due diligence, alert trade participants to the concerns, assess transaction risk before providing trade, credit, certification or facilitation support, and report adverse experiences, payment issues or contractual disputes. The advisory is precautionary and seeks to protect Indian exporters and trade stakeholders from potential risks.]]></description>
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<title>After nine years at helm, N Chandra to exit Tata Sons amid expansion, governance standoff</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Tata Sons' leadership succession and governance framework have become central following the chairman's decision not to seek reappointment when his term ends in February 2027. The board has been asked to decide on a successor promptly. Unresolved matters include the strategic roadmap, losses and capital requirements in newer businesses, board representation, capital allocation, an exit route for the Shapoorji Pallonji Group, and the possible listing of Tata Sons. Future leadership must manage these issues while improving returns from investment-intensive businesses and maintaining established operations.]]></description>
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<title>RBI invites comments on the Draft “Reserve Bank of India (Interest Rates on Loans and Advances) Directions, 2026”</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:43:06 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Interest-rate regulation for loans and advances is proposed to be harmonised across all regulated entities through a principles-based framework for fixed-rate and floating-rate loans. The framework would be calibrated to each entity's nature, complexity and scale, while supporting monetary policy transmission, credit-risk-based pricing, and fair, non-discriminatory borrower treatment. It addresses divergent commercial-bank practices in determining the marginal cost of funds-based lending rate and its components, alongside limited regulatory coverage of fixed-rate loans. Separate final directions are intended for each category of regulated entity after consideration of feedback.]]></description>
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<title>Review of Inclusion of Historical Scenarios in Stress Testing for Commodity Derivatives Segment</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Commodity derivatives stress testing now requires extreme price movements in peak historical return scenarios to be replaced where they exceed a Z-score of 5 rather than 10. Maximum percentage price rises and falls for each underlying over the applicable margin period of risk during the preceding 15 years remain the relevant historical scenarios. Z-scores continue to be calculated using the mean and sigma of returns over that period. The revised methodology applies immediately to recognised clearing corporations in the Core Settlement Guarantee Fund framework.]]></description>
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<title>Inviting comments/suggestions on Draft Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for reporting of Inward Remittance Messages pertaining to NBFC Factors.</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:43:06 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[NBFC Factors remitting foreign-currency factoring proceeds to AD-I Banks must use the specified SWIFT message text so that AD-I Banks do not create Inward Remittance Messages for those funds. For Indian-currency funds released after export-bill discounting without a SWIFT message, customers seeking IRMs must approach the relevant Factor. Exporters may view NBFC Factor-linked remittance data on the DGFT portal and self-certify Electronic Bank Realisation Certificates by matching remittance details with invoices or shipping bills.]]></description>
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<title>Sensex falls 188 pts amid elevated crude oil prices; Tata Group stocks decline after N Chandra's exit</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:43:06 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Indian equity markets declined amid elevated crude oil prices, inflation concerns and broad risk-off selling. Tata Group shares, particularly TCS, came under pressure after N. Chandrasekaran announced that he would not seek reappointment as Tata Sons Chairman when his current term ends. Crude oil prices approaching the USD 90-per-barrel level affected investor confidence because of potential inflationary effects, while uncertainty over United States-Iran negotiations and Strait of Hormuz shipping disruptions added to global energy market concerns.]]></description>
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<title>SJM urges govt to stand firm against US tariff pressure, calls for boycott of American products</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Trade sovereignty and energy security are advanced as grounds for resisting tariff pressure linked to Indian purchases of Russian crude. Bilateral trade negotiations should proceed through equality, reciprocity and mutual respect without compromising agriculture, dairy, energy security or strategic autonomy. Concerns are also raised over removal of e-commerce inventory restrictions for foreign direct investment and over proposed Merchant Discount Rate charges on UPI transactions. Withdrawal of the inventory measure and opposition to payment-provider charges are urged, alongside possible restrictions on United States technology and social-media companies and consumer boycotts of American goods and services.]]></description>
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<title>Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Shri Piyush Goyal Calls for Fair Trading Practices and Taking ‘Make in India’ from Local to Global</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:43:06 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Trade and industrial policy messaging encourages businesses to digitise operations, adopt good manufacturing practices, follow fair trading practices, and promote recycling, reuse and a circular economy. Nine free trade agreements are identified as creating preferential market-access opportunities for Indian industry and businesses. MSMEs, entrepreneurs, farmers, fishermen, workers and the services sector are encouraged to expand Indian products and services globally, improve competitiveness through scale, and strengthen the quality, design and brand value associated with Make in India.]]></description>
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<title>Union Minister for Finance  Corporate Affairs Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman delivers keynote address at Seminar on “Role of the New Development Bank in Mobilising Private Capital in Member Countries” in Jaipur, today</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:43:06 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Private capital mobilisation in infrastructure and development finance depends on credible long-term frameworks, investor confidence, project bankability, and balanced risk allocation. Public capital is intended to catalyse rather than replace private investment. Key financing mechanisms include Viability Gap Funding, the Hybrid Annuity Model, credit enhancement, and Infrastructure Investment Trusts. Long-term investment visibility and coordinated connectivity are supported through the National Infrastructure Pipeline and PM Gati Shakti framework, alongside investment measures for freight, rail, waterways, and coastal cargo.]]></description>
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<title>Delhi HC halts processing of IT-returns of Supreme Court, high court judges</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:43:06 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Tax treatment of specified judicial allowances under the new income-tax regime is disputed. Statutory service-condition provisions are asserted to exclude allowances, including official residence, conveyance, sumptuary allowance and leave travel concession, from income computation and to override the Income-tax Act. Pending consideration, affected judges may show these amounts as receipts not in the nature of income, and their returns are not to be processed further. Any resulting demand remains in abeyance, while refundable amounts are withheld subject to the pending proceedings.]]></description>
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<title>Query Regarding ITR 3 for NRI's</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:43:06 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Permanent-establishment disclosure in ITR-3 for a non-resident independent consultant working from India is fact-sensitive. Working from a residence does not automatically create a PE. Relevant factors include dedicated premises, use of the address for GST or invoicing, client access, authority to conclude contracts, employees or subcontractors, separate office premises, business continuity and home-office expenses. PE and the India-US DTAA fixed-base concept for independent professional services are distinct. Section 92F should not be mechanically applied outside its transfer-pricing context. The position should be supported by contemporaneous documentation and treaty-residence analysis where relevant.]]></description>
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<title>Over 36,000 firms shut operations in Maharashtra in 5 yrs; Oppn claims graft, govt interference</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:43:06 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Corporate closure data recorded 36,211 private companies in Maharashtra as liquidated, dissolved or struck off during the preceding five financial years. Central information is not maintained on workers affected by closures or special rehabilitation packages. In corporate insolvency resolution, employee and worker claims are adjudicated under orders of the adjudicating authority. In winding-up or liquidation, the liquidator deals with pending wages and other admissible statutory dues, subject to available funds and the statutory order of priority.]]></description>
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<title>RETROSPECTIVE AMENDMENT: THE CONSTITUTIONAL AND ECONOMIC HAZARD</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Retrospective restriction of input tax credit under section 17(5)(d) is characterised as a substantive narrowing of the exception for plant or machinery, rather than a clarificatory drafting correction. The analysis contends that retrospectively removing credit eligibility for commercial properties used to generate taxable rental income divests taxpayers of accrued statutory benefits and disrupts completed investment, leasing and cash-flow arrangements. It urges prospective operation of any tightened credit restriction and recommends that coercive recovery and final adjudication of related show-cause notices remain in abeyance pending factual consideration of the functionality test.]]></description>
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<title>Export of Services - Remittance recieved on personal Savings account.</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:43:06 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Export proceeds for software services must be realised and routed through an Authorised Dealer bank, but no identified RBI/FEMA provision expressly requires a sole proprietor to use a Current Account. No identified FEMA provision or RBI notification expressly prohibits correction of an erroneous purpose code where supporting evidence establishes that the remittance relates to software export services. A mismatch between family-maintenance and software-services classification may affect export documentation and compliance. The bank should be asked in writing to record the correct purpose and cite any regulatory basis for refusing correction.]]></description>
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<title>Powering India's Energy Freedom</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:43:06 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[CBG development is presented as a route for converting agricultural and organic waste into biomethane, bio-fertiliser and briquettes while reducing fossil-fuel imports, crop-residue burning and waste-management burdens. NexGen Energia's asset-light land-partner model uses landowner-provided sites while the company designs, installs and operates plants, including gas upgrading and offtake logistics. Anaerobic digestion and alternative gas-purification technologies support use of agricultural residue, food waste, manure and distillery effluent. Expansion is linked to the GOBARdhan National Circular Bioenergy Scheme, despite capital, feedstock-aggregation and commissioning constraints.]]></description>
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<title>THE MAJESTY OF TAX AMNESTY FINALITY</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Statutory tax-amnesty schemes are presented as finally settling specified tax arrears when the taxpayer pays the prescribed principal liability and fulfils the scheme conditions. The original assessment or reassessment is treated as merged into the settlement or waiver certificate, preventing rectification, reassessment or suo motu revision from reopening the settled dispute. Procedural defects, including an incorrect payment head caused by clerical error, may not defeat waiver where full payment and substantial compliance exist. Promissory estoppel and statutory finality are advanced as restraints on administrative attempts to disturb completed settlements.]]></description>
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<title>Notification Granting Tax Exemption to the District Legal Service Authority, Panchkula under Section 11 of the Income-tax Act, 2025</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Tax exemption under Schedule III read with section 11 of the Income-tax Act, 2025 applies to specified income of the District Legal Service Authority, Panchkula, for the tax year 2026-27. Covered income includes institutional and government grants, court-ordered receipts, recruitment application fees, and bank-deposit interest. The Authority must not undertake commercial activity, must file its income-tax return as prescribed, and must maintain unchanged activities and specified income; non-compliance leads to withdrawal of exemption and proceedings.]]></description>
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<title>Granting Tax Exemption to District Legal Service Authority, Panchkula (PAN: AAAGC0054R) in respect of the specified Income under Section 10(46) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 and section section 536(2)(a) to (c) and (e) of the Income-tax Act, 2025</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Specified income of the District Legal Service Authority, Panchkula is exempt under section 10(46) of the Income-tax Act, 1961, preserved through repeal-saving provisions of the Income-tax Act, 2025. Exempt income includes statutory grants, government grants or donations, court-ordered amounts, recruitment application fees and bank-deposit interest. The Authority must not undertake commercial activity, must maintain unchanged activities and income nature, and must file returns as required. Non-compliance may result in penal action and withdrawal of exemption.]]></description>
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<title>DTA removal of duty paid goods by SEZ Developer after exit of Unit</title>
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<description><![CDATA[DTA removal of goods by an SEZ Developer may not attract a second customs-duty or customs-IGST incidence where duty and IGST were paid through a Bill of Entry for home consumption, the goods remain identifiable, and they were not processed in the SEZ. Rule 49(4)(a) permits such duty-paid goods to be cleared without processing, while Rule 14 extends relevant Unit procedures to Developers. Depreciation need not apply where this relief operates. Specified Officer permission, clearance documentation, duty-payment evidence, SEZ admission records, and identity records should be maintained.]]></description>
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<title>GST registration cancellation appeals may be restored for merits review where genuine delay explanations justify condonation of limitation.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[GST registration cancellation appeals dismissed solely as time-barred may be restored where a genuine explanation establishes that non-compliance and delay arose from lack of awareness of online requirements and reliance on advisers who failed to act. Cancellation that brings business operations to a standstill supports consideration of the appellate remedy on merits. The appellate authority must entertain and decide the appeal in accordance with law, subject to payment of applicable late fee, penalty and other statutory deposits.]]></description>
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<title>Fresh GST proceedings after quashed notices remain within limitation, but prejudged show cause notices require neutral reissuance.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Fresh GST proceedings under Section 74 may be initiated within two years from communication of an earlier writ order that quashed a prior notice while expressly permitting fresh action, provided fraud, wilful misstatement or suppression of facts to evade tax exists. Section 75(3), read with that binding direction, preserves the period for consequential adjudication; an earlier dropped Section 73 notice does not bar the fresh proceedings. However, a show cause notice containing unnecessary accusations that the taxpayer misled the Court demonstrates prejudgment and breaches the requirement of neutral adjudication. Such a notice must be set aside, with any fresh action undertaken by a different officer.]]></description>
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<title>Proper officer jurisdiction for a combined GST demand supports one waiver application covering operations across multiple States.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Jurisdiction over a GST waiver application arising from a combined demand order was not defeated merely because part of the operations concerned another State. Sections 79 and 128A refer to the relevant proper officer, but neither the recovery provision nor the GST Rules prescribe a basis for identifying that officer in this situation. Rule 164 contemplates a single waiver application in Form GST SPL-01 or GST SPL-02 rather than multiple applications. Where one officer issued a combined demand order covering Chennai and Maharashtra operations, no statutory basis existed to refuse jurisdiction over the Maharashtra waiver claim. The rejection of that limited claim was set aside and remanded for fresh consideration after reasonable opportunity.]]></description>
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<title>Duplicate GST assessment orders for the same return mismatch cannot coexist; earlier assessment remanded subject to tax payment.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Duplicate assessment orders arising from the same GSTR-3B and GSTR-1 return mismatch cannot coexist where both concern the same assessment period and identical tax liability. The later order was quashed because it duplicated the earlier assessment, notwithstanding the absence of an SGST-CGST bifurcation. The earlier assessment order was set aside and remanded for fresh consideration to provide a reasonable opportunity to contest the tax proposal on merits. That remand was conditional on payment of the entire tax demand within the stipulated period.]]></description>
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<title>GST amnesty waiver covers self-assessed tax determined under Section 73, while Rule 164 deadlines and approval safeguards remain mandatory.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 128A permits waiver of interest and penalty where proceedings under Section 73 determine unpaid or short-paid self-assessed tax; direct recovery under Section 79 without Section 73 proceedings does not support a waiver application. Circular No. 238 cannot narrow that statutory scope. Rule 164 limits voidness of an approved waiver in Form GST SPL-05 or GST SPL-06 to specified failures to make additional payment; authorities lack power to issue void orders outside those circumstances. Rule 164 creates mandatory filing and disposal timelines. Failure to decide within the prescribed period may result in deemed approval, subject to fulfilment of Section 128A, whereas late applications or late payment cannot be cured through substantial compliance.]]></description>
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<title>Distinct legal entity principle bars GST recovery from company bank accounts for deceased proprietor's unpaid dues.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[GST recovery for a deceased proprietor's dues cannot be pursued against a private limited company that is legally distinct from the proprietary concern; Form GST DRC-13 notices attaching the company's bank account were therefore quashed. Adjudication against the deceased proprietor's family members required examination of the statutory conditions governing liability on a taxable person's death under Section 93(1)(a) and 93(1)(b) of the CGST/KGST Act. Because those material circumstances were not considered, the adjudication orders were quashed and remitted for fresh consideration after the family members may respond to the show-cause notices on all available grounds.]]></description>
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<title>Export turnover mismatches require documentary substantiation and a meaningful opportunity before ex parte GST adjudication is finally sustained.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Discrepancies between export turnover reported in Forms GSTR-3B and GSTR-1 require a registered taxable person to receive an opportunity to produce documents establishing the nature of the transactions and substantiating export turnover. Where non-participation in GST adjudication is explained and applicable Board Circulars contemplate such documentary verification, an ex parte determination may require fresh consideration. The appellate rejection based on inability to condone delay beyond 120 days and the adjudication order were quashed, with the proceedings restored for reconsideration after production of supporting documents and issuance of a reasoned order.]]></description>
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<title>Communication date for limitation follows the dealer's unrebutted declaration, requiring fresh consideration of the dismissed statutory appeal.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[For limitation purposes, a dealer's declared date of communication of an adjudication order must be treated as the actual communication date unless the Revenue rebuts it with cogent material. Treating the order date itself as the communication date, despite an unrebutted assertion of later receipt, cannot justify dismissal of the statutory appeal as time-barred. The appellate order was quashed, and the appeal was remitted to the appellate authority for fresh consideration after hearing the parties.]]></description>
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<title>Mandatory settlement limitation period runs from first Interim Board allotment; administrative transfers cannot revive expired disposal time.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The eighteen-month period for an Interim Board to dispose of a pending settlement application runs from its first allotment to, and action by, an Interim Board. An administrative transfer to another Interim Board does not restart or extend that limitation, because repeated transfers would undermine the statutory time-bound settlement framework. Exercise of the power to call for a report indicates that the application had already been allotted to and was within the first Interim Board's jurisdiction. The limitation period is mandatory; settlement and consequential rectification orders made after its expiry are time-barred and void. Questions concerning abatement and its consequences remain open.]]></description>
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<title>Identity-theft defences do not bar reassessment, but Revenue must prove disputed transactions through primary evidence during proceedings.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Reassessment under the amended scheme may be initiated where portal information links transactions to an assessee's PAN, provided the material is relevant and the assessing authority applies its mind to objections. Detailed reasons to believe are not required at the initiation stage. A GST communication does not bar an independent income-tax enquiry where identity theft has not been conclusively established. Reassessment may therefore continue, while the identity-theft defence remains open for examination. Although the assessee must substantiate that plea with evidence, the Revenue must first establish through positive primary evidence that the disputed transactions were undertaken by the assessee rather than another person.]]></description>
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<title>Discounted Cash Flow valuation for newly incorporated companies was accepted despite later notification under the prescribed valuation rule.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Discounted Cash Flow valuation of shares issued by a newly incorporated company was recognised as a valid method for section 56(2)(viib) purposes, even before its later notification under Rule 11UA. Recognition by valuation professionals was distinguished from legislative notification, and the Net Asset Value method was considered unsuitable for a newly incorporated company. Although the valuation rule used mandatory language, the Assessing Officer was required to identify defects in the valuation report or methodology and could not replace projected returns with an independent estimate. Procedural valuation rules could not defeat substantive rights without a substantial legal breach. The share-premium addition was deleted and that deletion was affirmed.]]></description>
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<title>Internal CUP method upheld for project-office transactions where contract risks, rewards and revenue were fully attributed to India.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Internal CUP was treated as the most appropriate method for determining the arm's length price of project-office transactions under a turnkey power-project contract. Where the Indian project office bore the contract's risks and rewards, all revenue was attributed to India, and the unrelated customer regarded the head office and project office as one entity, the contract with that customer satisfied the comparability requirements for an internal CUP. CUP was preferred over TNMM as a more direct and suitable method, while the proposed TNMM comparables were rejected. The transfer-pricing adjustment was consequently not sustained, and the appeals were dismissed for lack of a substantial question of law.]]></description>
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<title>Revisional relief for double taxation requires merits review where the same income is assessed in two different years.</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:43:06 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Section 264 provides beneficial and remedial revisional relief against over-assessment, including errors in a taxpayer's return. Relief is not dependent on filing a revised return within the prescribed time or on whether the error arose from the taxpayer's voluntary action or a departmental order. Taxing the same income in two assessment years can create an over-assessment where the combined effect of the relevant orders results in double taxation. A revisional authority must examine the claim and reconciliations on their merits rather than reject relief solely because an intimation accepted the returned income in isolation.]]></description>
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<title>Charitable registration turns on predominant purpose and genuine activities, while incidental fees and related-party rent require supporting adverse material.</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:43:06 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Charitable registration under section 12AB depends on the predominant purpose, the manner of carrying on activities and application of income; incidental fees for public facilities, medical relief, poverty relief, education or skill development do not by themselves establish a commercial purpose. Rent paid to a trustee's related person for premises with mixed residential use does not alone make activities non-genuine without material showing fictitious or excessive rent or return of funds. Expenditure reasonableness and compliance with sections 11 to 13 ordinarily remain assessment issues. CBDT's extended Form 10AB deadline allowed section 80G approval applications filed within the relaxation period.]]></description>
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<title>MAT book-profit adjustments exclude disallowances for exempt-income expenditure and demerger expenditure unless expressly listed under the statutory computation rules.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[MAT book-profit computation under section 115JB does not permit adding back expenditure disallowed under section 14A merely because it relates to exempt income. The Special Bench ruling in Vireet Investment establishes that section 14A disallowance is not an adjustment to book profit. Explanation 1 to section 115JB(2) exhaustively specifies permissible additions and does not include demerger expenditure disallowed under section 35DD in the regular tax computation. Consequently, neither the section 14A disallowance nor the section 35DD disallowance is added back while computing MAT book profit.]]></description>
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<title>CSR donation deductions and treaty-limited dividend tax support relief for eligible contributions and UK shareholder distributions.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Eligible CSR donations qualify for deduction where they are made to institutions covered by section 80G and are not contributions to Swachh Bharat Kosh or Clean Ganga Fund. Explanation 2 to section 37(1) prevents CSR expenditure from being claimed as business expenditure, but does not bar relief under other provisions. A statutory CSR obligation does not remove a payment's character as a donation when an eligible mode is voluntarily selected; the deduction was therefore granted. Dividend distribution tax on dividends paid to a UK holding company is limited to the beneficial rate under Article 11 of the India-UK tax treaty. Tax retained above that rate was required to be refunded.]]></description>
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<title>TDS non-deduction under binding interim directions does not make an employer-bank an assessee in default.</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:43:06 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Tax deduction at source on foreign-travel leave fare concession was not required where judicial interim directions prevented the employer-bank from making the deduction. The bank had sufficient and reasonable cause because it could not lawfully act contrary to those directions. Consequently, the conditions for treating it as an assessee in default and imposing consequential interest for non-deduction were not met. The demand raised for default and interest was cancelled, and the bank was not liable for the impugned non-deduction during the subsistence of the interim directions.]]></description>
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<title>Reassessment based on search and independent enquiry sustained, while unverifiable purchases were limited to the estimated profit element.</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:43:06 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Reassessment based on search-related information may be initiated under reassessment provisions where the Assessing Officer also relies on independent enquiries into transactions with an alleged entry provider, rather than on search material alone. Approval for the reassessment notice was treated as procedurally valid and non-mechanical, and the challenge to reassessment failed. Where sales are accepted but purchases from an alleged accommodation-entry provider remain unverifiable, the entire purchase amount need not be disallowed, particularly where the relied-on statement was retracted. The addition was confined to the profit element reflected in the taxpayer's gross-profit position, fixed at 6% of the disputed purchases. The appeal was partly allowed on the quantum of addition.]]></description>
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<title>Reasonable cause for cash land-transaction receipts and repayments supported deletion of penalties for statutory cash-payment breaches.</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:43:06 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Reasonable cause was established for cash receipts from farmers and subsequent cash repayments connected with a proposed agricultural-land purchase that could not be completed after the purchaser's father died. Bank records, the death certificate, affidavits and farmers' land records supported the explanation that the amounts were returned after six months. Penalties for contraventions of the statutory restrictions on accepting and repaying loans or deposits in cash were deleted, and the penalty orders were set aside.]]></description>
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<title>Specific misreporting charge under section 270A is mandatory; failure to identify the statutory limb invalidates enhanced penalty.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 270A requires a specific statutory charge before enhanced penalty for misreporting can be imposed. Under-reporting is distinct from under-reporting resulting from misreporting, and misreporting must fall within one of the exhaustively listed instances in section 270A(9)(a) to (g). Where the charge shifts during proceedings and the applicable statutory limb is not identified, the defect is non-curable and vitiates the penalty proceedings. Enhanced penalty for alleged misreporting was therefore deleted because the precise charge and statutory basis were not specified.]]></description>
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<title>Assessment quashing extinguishes linked cash-loan penalty, while limitation runs from the Assessing Officer's recorded initiation.</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:43:06 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Penalty under section 271D for contravention of section 269SS cannot survive where the underlying assessment is quashed and the satisfaction recorded in that assessment is obliterated. The principle applied to section 271E in Jai Laxmi Rice Mills Ambala City extends to section 271D because the provisions are pari materia. Further, where the Assessing Officer records satisfaction to initiate penalty in the assessment order, limitation under section 275(1)(c) runs from that initiation, not from a later notice or initiation by the Additional Commissioner or Joint Commissioner. The penalty was therefore unsustainable on both merits and limitation.]]></description>
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<title>Omitted specified domestic transaction provision invalidates related-party expenditure transfer-pricing references and assessments based on consequential proceedings.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Omission of the specified domestic transaction provision for related-party expenditure, without a saving clause for pending actions, treats the omitted provision as if it had never existed. Consequently, transfer-pricing cognizance taken under that omitted provision, the reference to the Transfer Pricing Officer, and consequential transfer-pricing proceedings lack validity. Applying this settled position, the Tribunal allowed the taxpayer's grounds and did not sustain the assessment founded on the impugned transfer-pricing reference.]]></description>
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<title>Section 153C jurisdiction requires year-specific satisfaction and seized material; unabated assessments cannot sustain additions without incriminating evidence.</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:43:06 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Section 153C jurisdiction requires a valid, year-specific satisfaction note identifying seized material belonging to or relating to the assessee and its bearing on income. A consolidated note based only on surrender letters does not satisfy this requirement, as surrender letters are not seized material. The six-year assessment block is reckoned from the deemed search year; years outside that block cannot be assessed under section 153C. Years within the block must be assessed through section 153C rather than regular assessment proceedings. For completed, unabated assessments, additions require incriminating material found during search; a change in revenue-recognition method without such material cannot support an addition.]]></description>
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<title>Assessment against a deceased taxpayer is void from inception despite the legal heir pursuing appellate proceedings.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Assessment proceedings initiated and completed in the name of a person who had died before the second-round proceedings began lack legal validity. The legal heir's participation in appellate proceedings does not cure the foundational defect of assessing a non-existent deceased assessee. Consequently, the search assessment for the relevant assessment year was treated as void ab initio and quashed, while the remaining grounds were left open as academic.]]></description>
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<title>Steamer-agent liability for manifested cargo deficiency applies when the agent files and verifies the Import General Manifest, supporting penalties.</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:43:06 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Steamer agents who lodge and verify an Import General Manifest as agents of a vessel's master may be treated as persons-in-charge of the conveyance for Customs purposes. The statutory responsibility covers proper accounting for manifested cargo, and liability for a cargo deficiency may arise where the agent cannot satisfactorily explain the shortfall. Import General Manifest filing is a verified declaration rather than mere notice of arrival; contractual terms in bills of lading do not displace that obligation. High Court answered the legal questions in Revenue's favour, restored the penalty for the unexplained deficiency, and set aside the Tribunal's contrary order.]]></description>
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<title>Fourth Session of the India-Namibia Joint Trade Committee held in New Delhi</title>
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<description><![CDATA[India-Namibia economic cooperation is being progressed through agreed follow-up mechanisms focused on value addition, investment facilitation and sectoral collaboration. Investment focal points have been designated, and a Services Working Group is to prepare a work plan for the Joint Trade Committee. Priority areas include health and pharmaceuticals, critical-mineral processing, gems and jewellery, digital payments, FinTech, railways, renewable energy and green hydrogen. Terms of Reference for the India-SACU preferential trade agreement were finalised, with negotiations to begin after signature and conclude within one year.]]></description>
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<title>Winning in the AI Era: The New Playbook for Indian Banks - Inaugural Address by Shri Sanjay Malhotra, Governor, Reserve Bank of India at the FIBAC 2026 Conference, Mumbai, August 11, 2026</title>
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<description><![CDATA[AI adoption in banking should be governed through a principles-based and proportionate framework that aligns innovation with financial stability, customer protection and accountability. Banks should maintain inventories of AI systems, adopt board-approved governance policies, ensure explainability for material lending and fraud decisions, conduct periodic red-teaming and stress testing, and preserve meaningful human oversight. Key risks include opacity, bias, vendor concentration, third-party dependence, data misuse, cyber vulnerability and loss of institutional accountability. Vendor arrangements require audit and explanation rights and credible exit plans.]]></description>
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<title>Subsequent Pre-Deposit Cures the Defect: Can a Service Tax Appeal Be Dismissed Without Considering Subsequent Compliance?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mandatory pre-deposit is a condition for entertaining a Service Tax appeal, but filing an appeal within limitation is distinct from entertaining it for adjudication. Where the prescribed deposit is subsequently made before final disposal and the appeal has not been decided on merits, the later compliance is a material circumstance requiring consideration. This is not a request for waiver of pre-deposit. A dismissal based solely on absence of deposit at filing, without considering subsequent payment and satisfaction of the statutory condition, may amount to non-application of mind.]]></description>
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<title>CLUBBING OF FIRST INFORMATION REPORTS</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Clubbing of FIRs is ordinarily unavailable where separate complaints disclose distinct occurrences rather than one transaction. The same-transaction inquiry turns on unity of purpose, proximity of time and place, and continuity of action, without requiring all factors cumulatively. In cyber fraud matters, different complainants, separate inducements and occasions, and no live transactional link may support separate investigations. Transfer of alleged proceeds into a common bank account alone does not establish a single transaction. Separate inquiries may be needed to examine electronic evidence, banking records, money trails, and the persons involved.]]></description>
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<title>All orders passed by the first appellate authority in GST appeal to be revisited during August 2026.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[GST appellate limitation must be computed in calendar months where the prescribed periods are expressed as "three months" and "one month"; the order date is excluded under the General Clauses Act. A first appeal should not be rejected by converting those periods into fixed days. Prompt GSTAT appeals are emphasised where first appeals were dismissed on limitation or where fraud-based recovery was invoked without material evidence of fraud, wilful misstatement, or suppression with intent to evade tax. Other identified grounds include denial of hearing and demands exceeding the show-cause notice.]]></description>
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<title>ITC on Telecommunication Towers Under GST - Excluded From "Plant And Machinery", But Are They Immovable? Part II (Concluding Part) - From Bharti Airtel to GST: When Does the ITC Restriction Apply?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Input tax credit on telecommunication towers requires a two-stage enquiry. First, the asset must be classified as movable or immovable by examining its attachment, intended permanence, functionality, and capacity for dismantling and relocation. Exclusion of towers from "plant and machinery" does not itself make them immovable. Only if a tower is immovable do the blocked-credit restrictions for construction under Section 17(5)(c) or Section 17(5)(d) arise, where the exclusion becomes material. The retrospective alignment of "plant or machinery" with "plant and machinery" resolves terminology but does not deem towers immovable.]]></description>
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<title>Learning for Assessee and authorities from recent judgment. Wrongly quotedg PAN of HUF in purchase documents, lead to addition in hands of HUF there can be further litigation also.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Misquotation of an HUF PAN in property-purchase records may initiate reassessment, but PAN reference alone does not establish that the property or investment belongs to the HUF. Determination of ownership requires examination of the purchaser's capacity, purchase documentation, patta, encumbrance records, and the accounts of both the HUF and its Karta. The article also raises concerns over additional evidence at the appellate stage, the need for opportunity to the Assessing Officer, and correct identification of the assessee where an HUF assessment is pursued but an individual legal heir is named in appeal proceedings.]]></description>
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<title>ITC on Telecommunication Towers Under GST - Excluded From "Plant And Machinery", But Are They Immovable? Part I - From Statutory Exclusion to the Test of Immovability</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Input tax credit for telecommunication towers requires a prior determination of whether the tower is immovable property. Exclusion of telecom towers from the statutory definition of plant and machinery does not itself establish immovability. Construction-related blocked-credit provisions apply only where goods, services or works contract services relate to construction of immovable property. Immutability depends on annexation, purpose, intention, functionality, permanence, dismantling capability and marketability. Towers fixed for operational stability may retain their movable character if they can be dismantled, relocated, reassembled and sold without losing their essential identity.]]></description>
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<title>Interest Disputed, Recovery Rushed: GST Garnishee Action Must Wait for a Reasoned Decision</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Disputed GST interest must be determined before garnishee recovery is initiated. Section 79 recovery presupposes an amount payable and cannot be used to determine a contested liability. Where a taxpayer raises reasoned objections to interest computation, including the effect of deposits in the Electronic Cash Ledger, the authority must examine competing legal positions and issue a reasoned determination. Rule 145 and Form GST DRC-13 cannot convert an undecided interest dispute into a crystallised recoverable amount.]]></description>
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<title>Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report (BRSR): A Comprehensive Guide.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BRSR is a standardised ESG reporting framework for eligible listed companies, structured around nine responsible business conduct principles and designed to move reporting from policy commitments towards measurable performance. It includes general, management-process and principle-wise performance disclosures covering environmental, social, governance and stakeholder matters. BRSR Core emphasises key measurable ESG indicators and, where applicable, assurance or independent assessment. Effective compliance requires clear data ownership, standardised collection, validation, supporting evidence, value-chain consideration, management review and continuous improvement.]]></description>
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<title>Layers of Customs Classification within the WCO Legal Framework.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Customs classification is governed by the HS Convention and the legally operative HS text comprising headings, subheadings, Notes and the GIRs. Classification begins with heading terms and applicable Section or Chapter Notes; titles are only reference tools. The GIRs provide a sequential method for incomplete goods, mixtures, competing headings, composite goods, containers and subheading classification. Explanatory Notes and Classification Opinions provide authoritative international interpretative assistance but cannot override the Convention, headings, Notes or GIRs. National tariff subdivisions, advance rulings and judicial interpretation operate domestically while remaining consistent with the internationally harmonised six-digit HS structure.]]></description>
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<title>National Traders' Welfare Board (NTWB): A Comprehensive Guide.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[National Traders' Welfare Board operates as an advisory and consultative mechanism to address traders' concerns and recommend reforms concerning taxation, licensing, compliance, infrastructure and business regulation. It promotes trader welfare through social security, formalisation, digital compliance, skill development, financial inclusion and credit access. Stakeholder consultation, awareness of pension, insurance, loan and digital-payment schemes, and adoption of e-commerce, electronic billing and inventory-management practices are central functions. Its effectiveness depends on policy adoption, stakeholder participation and awareness among small traders.]]></description>
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<title>ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management System (EMS): A Comprehensive Guide to Environmental Compliance, Sustainability, and Pollution Prevention.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ISO 14001:2015 provides a framework for establishing and continually improving an Environmental Management System. Organisations identify environmental aspects and significant impacts, determine compliance obligations, set measurable objectives, and implement operational controls, training, documented processes and emergency preparedness. The Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle requires performance monitoring, compliance evaluations, internal audits, management review and corrective action for nonconformities. The framework supports pollution prevention, resource efficiency, waste and emissions reduction, environmental risk management and integration with other ISO management systems.]]></description>
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<title>Lighting Beyond Shop Limits: Electricity Misuse and Municipal Violations.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Extension of wine-shop lighting into roads, pavements or other public areas may constitute unauthorised use of electricity, encroachment and a public-safety violation. Commercial electricity connections are ordinarily limited to approved premises and sanctioned load; exterior use beyond those limits may result in penalties, disconnection or legal action. Lighting crossing shop boundaries may obstruct public access, affect traffic and create safety hazards. Where exterior illumination increases visibility and customer footfall beyond normal shop lighting, it may also support an inference of indirect advertising.]]></description>
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<title>Statutory provisional release discretion prevails over executive instructions, with revenue safeguarded through duty payment and bond conditions.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 110A of the Customs Act governs provisional release of seized imported goods through statutory discretion that executive circulars may supplement but cannot override or replace. Pending investigation into alleged misdeclaration, import-policy violations, and tariff classification does not by itself require continued detention, as those matters remain for adjudication. Revenue interests may be protected through conditions such as payment of duty at the departmental rate and execution of a personal bond for the remaining differential duty. Provisional release may therefore be granted without prejudicing investigation, adjudication, classification, import-policy compliance, or final duty liability.]]></description>
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<title>DFIA classification of Vital Wheat Gluten as wheat flour defeated customs seizure based on unsupported exemption ineligibility allegations.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Vital Wheat Gluten imported under a transferable DFIA authorisation permitting wheat flour is treated as wheat flour where the description, quantity and value conditions are satisfied. Exact correspondence of the ITC (HS) code is not required, and commercial or duty-rate differences do not alter eligibility. Customs seizure requires a reason to believe based on relevant and legally sustainable material; reliance on a public notice suspended before import and contrary to binding DFIA classification principles cannot support seizure. The seizure memo was quashed, with release and discharge of the bank guarantee and indemnity bond.]]></description>
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<title>Automotive ECU classification follows distinct functions, requiring Revenue evidence before reclassifying control units as motor-vehicle parts.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Classification of automotive electronic control units depends on their distinct functions rather than the generic label "ECU". Body Control Modules and Integrated Body Units fall under the tariff entry for electronic automatic regulators, following an earlier Tribunal order in the same party's matter; absent any superior forum order altering that position, judicial discipline requires consistent treatment. Tyre Pressure Monitoring Systems were also accepted under that entry because the proposed motor-vehicle-parts classification lacked evidence establishing the functional characteristics required for reclassification. Revenue bears the burden of proving classification under a tariff heading different from that claimed, and the related demand and interest were set aside.]]></description>
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<title>Preventive suspension requires an immediate continuing threat and cannot become indefinite without inquiry, fresh evidence, or proportionate safeguards.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Regulation 11(2) of the Handling of Cargo in Customs Areas Regulations, 2009 permits exceptional preventive suspension of Customs Cargo Service Provider approval only where an independently recorded, explicit satisfaction establishes an immediate and continuing threat to revenue or customs-area security. Allegations supporting regular proceedings or a pending DRI investigation do not replace the Regulation 12 inquiry. Continued suspension without verification of deficiencies, fresh evidence of a subsisting threat, prompt inquiry, or reasonable departmental action may become punitive and disproportionate. Restoration may be made subject to revenue-protection conditions and continued corrective measures, without preventing regular action under Regulation 11(1) following a proper inquiry.]]></description>
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<title>Post-decisional hearing deadlines govern continued Customs Broker licence suspension; delayed hearings invalidate continuation without deciding underlying allegations.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Immediate suspension of a Customs Broker licence is an exceptional power subject to the mandatory safeguard of a post-decisional hearing within fifteen days. Administrative postponement cannot extend that statutory period. Where the licensing authority conducts the hearing after the prescribed period, continuation of the suspension lacks legal sanction and must be revoked. This does not determine the merits of the underlying allegations, which may be pursued through proceedings in accordance with law.]]></description>
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<title>Functus officio bars intervention in disposed writ proceedings where applicants show no tangible subsisting right or necessary-party status.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Leave to appeal was unnecessary because the appellants had applied for intervention and were parties to the order rejecting those applications; the rule requiring strangers to obtain leave did not apply. Their appeals were therefore maintainable without leave. Intervention in the already disposed writ petitions was nevertheless unavailable: erstwhile directors showed only apprehensions, not a tangible subsisting right making them necessary or proper parties in proceedings concerning defreezing of company bank accounts. Pending disputes did not justify intervention or recall, and final disposal rendered the writ court functus officio, precluding further revisiting of the writ petitions. The intervention rejections and dismissal of the intra-court appeals were sustained, without barring appropriate independent remedies against the final writ order.]]></description>
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<title>Pre-emptive rights under articles invalidated outsider share transfers that bypassed mandatory notice, valuation and existing-member sale procedures.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Article 15 of the Articles of Association required a selling member to notify the Board in writing, enabled the Board to act as agent for sale to existing members, and required pricing at an agreed or auditor-certified fair value. Transfers by individual shareholders and a Trust to outsiders without following that procedure disregarded existing shareholders' pre-emptive rights and were treated as void. The same restrictions applied to both categories of shareholders, and acquiescence could not waive the mandatory process. The transfers were set aside, the company was required to rectify its registers and make consequential declarations, and any fresh sale had to comply with Article 15.]]></description>
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<title>Default bail and PMLA bail denied where timely supplementary complaint and statutory twin conditions defeated release.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Default bail was unavailable because the supplementary complaint was filed within the prescribed period; its later return for compliance did not by itself create an indefeasible right to release. Bail under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act was also refused because the material prima facie linked the accused to activities connected with proceeds of crime, including alleged interference with the auction of attached properties. The statutory twin conditions were not met: there were no reasonable grounds to believe the accused was not guilty or unlikely to commit an offence while on bail. The cited Supreme Court ruling was distinguished on facts, and the bail petition was dismissed.]]></description>
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<title>Floating-rig service classification determines refund entitlement where tax was collected under Mining Service without legal authority.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Floating-rig services are classifiable as Supply of Tangible Goods Service, taxable only from 16 May 2008, rather than Mining Service. Service tax collected under the erroneous classification and borne by the service recipient lacked legal authority under Article 265, supporting refund even though the service provider had not challenged its assessment. Statutory refund limitation did not justify retention where payment arose from a mistake of law caused by misclassification. Certificates establishing that the recipient bore the tax burden supported the finding that refund would not result in unjust enrichment. Appellate authorities and the Tribunal could correct the classification error and grant refund without requiring a civil suit or writ petition.]]></description>
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<title>Assam Cabinet okays funds for land acquisition for Guwahati satellite city</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Assam Cabinet approvals include first-phase funding for land acquisition and development of the Aerotropolis Satellite City Project and a lease deed for a hotel supporting the Jagiroad semiconductor ecosystem. Measures also provide Aadhaar enrolment relaxation for Moran and Matak communities, zero agricultural tax up to the prescribed net-income threshold, OBC Non-Creamy Layer certificates, and trainee and graduate-assistance funding. Government jobs will be provisionally held pending police verification, with automatic confirmation where no report is submitted within six months. Jail rules will be amended to promote non-discrimination, sanitation, security and fair work allocation.]]></description>
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<title>ED arrests Chhattisgarh Congress leader in liquor 'scam' case; sent to 7 days' custody</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Money-laundering investigation concerning an alleged liquor scam led to the Enforcement Directorate's arrest of Ramgopal Agrawal and seven days' custodial remand under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. The agency alleged his connection with proceeds of crime, non-attendance despite multiple summonses, and evasiveness during questioning. Allegations concern purported control of the state excise department, illegal liquor sales, and sharing of commissions. The Congress has denied the allegations and described the investigation as politically motivated.]]></description>
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<title>Sales Tax Assistant Commissioner arrested for demanding bribe of Rs 8 lakh</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Alleged bribery in GST inquiry closure led to the arrest of a Sales Tax Assistant Commissioner after a scrap trader complained of a demand for illegal gratification to close an inquiry initiated through a GST show-cause notice. Anti-corruption officials reportedly verified the allegation through intermediaries, during which the officer allegedly agreed to accept payment for closing the matter. A criminal case was registered under the Prevention of Corruption Act, with further investigation ongoing.]]></description>
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<title>Net direct tax kitty grows 23 pc to Rs 8.11 lakh cr on slower refunds, higher non-corp taxes</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Net direct tax collections increased by 23 per cent to over Rs 8.11 lakh crore through August 10, driven by higher non-corporate tax collections and slower refund growth. Gross direct tax collections grew by 19.75 per cent to about Rs 9.55 lakh crore. Net corporate tax collections rose about 20 per cent, net non-corporate tax collections rose 23 per cent, and Securities Transaction Tax collections increased 51 per cent. Refund issuances grew by 3.8 per cent year-on-year.]]></description>
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<title>Delhi court sets aside summon order in cheque bounce case</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Vicarious criminal liability for cheque dishonour under section 141 of the Negotiable Instruments Act does not extend to a trust, because a trust is not a juristic person. A person cannot be summoned merely for alleged active involvement in a trust where the person was neither drawer nor signatory of the cheques, trustee, office-bearer, authorised account operator, guarantor, or executor of transaction documents.]]></description>
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<title>BRICS grouping discussing linking CBDCs, fast payment systems: RBI Guv Malhotra</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Cross-border payment integration is under discussion through potential linkages between central bank digital currencies and fast payment systems, including UPI-type platforms. These approaches seek faster and less costly trade and remittance transfers, particularly retail payments, but remain at a discussion stage. Rupee internationalisation is also being pursued through central-bank memorandums of understanding for bilateral trade settlement in local currencies, with existing arrangements covering Indonesia, Maldives, Mauritius and the UAE.]]></description>
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<title>PM GatiShakti National Master Plan Enables Integrated and Coordinated Infrastructure Planning</title>
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<description><![CDATA[PM GatiShakti National Master Plan provides an integrated, data-driven infrastructure planning framework using geospatial data, satellite imagery and API integration. Project approval, implementation and funding remain with the respective Central Ministries, Departments and States or Union Territories under their own plans and budgetary provisions; the framework sets no separate budgetary allocation or quantified targets. The Network Planning Group evaluates critical Central Government projects at the planning stage for multimodality, synchronisation, last-mile connectivity, comprehensive local development and coordinated decision-making.]]></description>
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<title>TMI Updates - Newsletter dated: August 13, 2026</title>
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