Reported rejection of Tata Sons' application to surrender its non-banking financial company licence is attributed to failure to satisfy applicable deregistration criteria. The company is consequently described as remaining classified as an upper-layer NBFC, a classification carrying a mandatory public-markets listing requirement. The reported position makes a listing of the holding company imminent.

United States final affirmative determinations in anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations concerning crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells and panels imported from India, Indonesia and Laos establish dumping margins and countervailing duty rates. A final injury determination remains necessary before duty orders may be issued. An affirmative injury determination will lead to anti-dumping and countervailing duty orders based on the established rates, while a negative determination will terminate the investigations.

BRICS opposes unilateral tariff and non-tariff measures that distort trade, disrupt supply chains and widen economic disparities. It also rejects unilateral, punitive, discriminatory or protectionist carbon border adjustment mechanisms that can restrict developing countries' market access and undermine climate-adaptation and resilience efforts. BRICS supports an open, equitable and rules-based multilateral trading system, including restoration of an accessible two-tier binding dispute-settlement mechanism. Its wider agenda links trade reform with resilient supply chains, sovereign control over critical minerals, higher-value manufacturing participation, and improved finance for export-oriented small businesses.

The consensus New Delhi Declaration calls for maximum restraint in West Asia, civilian protection, and dialogue and diplomacy for lasting regional peace. It urges cooperation to maintain global trade, supply chains and energy flows under applicable international law. It also commits members to zero tolerance for terrorism, including cross-border terrorism, terrorism financing and safe havens, while rejecting double standards. Unilateral tariff and non-tariff measures, indiscriminate tariff increases, and environmental protectionism are criticised where inconsistent with WTO rules or trade-distorting.

Upper age-limit eligibility prescribed in a recruitment advertisement cannot be relaxed unless an express statutory or advertised power permits relaxation. An erroneous acceptance of an online application, participation in selection, or provisional inclusion in a merit list does not create an indefeasible right to appointment for an ineligible candidate. Where an earlier proceeding has conclusively determined that the candidate exceeded the upper age limit, the same eligibility issue cannot be reopened in a challenge to non-appointment under res judicata. A relaxation plea that should have been raised earlier is also barred by constructive res judicata.

Marketing and technical support services supplied to an overseas group entity for consideration received in convertible foreign exchange are treated as exports of services rather than intermediary services. Consistent treatment of materially similar services supports export classification where the supplier provides the services directly to the overseas recipient. Consequently, denial of refund of accumulated CENVAT credit on the ground that the services are intermediary services is unsustainable.

Cash deposits during demonetisation require verification of bank statements, Form 26AS, the taxpayer's explanation and supporting business records before being treated as unexplained money. Telecom recharge-coupon resale activity reflected in available tax information may be relevant to establishing the source of deposits. Where the Assessing Officer has not obtained bank information through statutory information-gathering powers or reviewed departmental records and documentary material, the source explanation requires fresh examination. The deposit addition is consequently subject to fresh adjudication after consideration of the available evidence.

Bad-debt write-off is allowable where the debt was taken into account in computing the assessee's income in an earlier year, satisfying the requirement under section 36(2)(i) read with section 36(1)(vii) of the Income-tax Act. Ledger accounts, invoices, financial statements and prior income-tax returns established that the debt had been recognised as income. A contrary appellate finding, unsupported by the documentary record and by any remand objection on compliance with section 36(2)(i), could not sustain the addition. The bad-debt deduction was therefore allowable and the addition was deleted.

Penalties for non-compliance with information notices during scrutiny may be limited where later notices substantially duplicate information sought earlier. Failure to comply led to an ex parte assessment, but the explanation for non-compliance supported treating only the first notice as an independent default. The penalty was therefore restricted to the first non-compliance, and penalties imposed for the substantially repetitive later notices were deleted.

Declared agricultural income treated as unexplained money requires examination of relevant supporting material, including executed lease deeds, agreements for sale of rubber trees and teakwood, and bank records evidencing receipt of agricultural proceeds. Where this evidence was not adequately presented before the assessing authorities, verification of land ownership and the source and quantum of agricultural income remains necessary. The addition was restored for fresh examination after granting the taxpayer a reasonable opportunity to produce and substantiate the evidence.

Long-term capital gains from listed-share sales were not treated as unexplained cash credit after the taxpayer established allotment, banking, demat, broker and stock-exchange sale records, including securities transaction tax. A general investigation report, without evidence linking the taxpayer to manipulation or accommodation entries or enquiries disproving those records, did not support the addition. Acceptance of identical transactions in other years and deletion of a comparable same-scrip addition supported judicial consistency. The unexplained cash-credit addition and consequential unexplained-expenditure addition were deleted.

BRICS supports a rules-based multilateral trading system and seeks restoration of an accessible, effective, fully functioning two-tier binding dispute-settlement mechanism, including prompt appointment of Appellate Body members. It opposes unilateral tariff and non-tariff measures, trade restrictions, and economic or secondary sanctions not authorised by the UN Security Council. It also seeks reform of International Monetary Fund and World Bank governance through greater representation, quota and shareholding realignment, and increased voting power for emerging markets and developing economies.

Tax deduction at source on professional-service payments to a resident Chartered Accountant is governed by section 194J(1)(b) at 10%. The threshold is Rs. 50,000 per payee in a financial year. Once aggregate payments exceed that threshold, deduction applies to the entire amount. Tax must be deducted at the earlier of credit of the sum or payment.

Imported quality-testing equipment moved to customer locations for certification is treated as movement other than by way of supply. Transport documentation comprises a delivery challan and an e-way bill, with the customs bill of entry kept available for the imported consignment. Where equipment is imported directly to a customer location for testing and then returned, the same documents should accompany the consignment or remain readily available during transport.

E-way bill transaction-type selection turns on the actual dispatch location. Where a registered person invoices a customer but goods move directly from a farmer's premises, the suggested treatment is "Bill From-Dispatch From," with the registered person shown as Bill From and the farmer's address as Dispatch From. "Regular" treatment is suggested for dispatches from the registered person's own declared premises. An additional godown does not by itself require "Bill From-Dispatch From"; its actual address should be entered as the dispatch location where required.

A private discretionary trust with indeterminate beneficiary shares generally attracts the maximum marginal rate under section 164(1), while capital gains require separate examination under applicable special-rate provisions. A processing demand applying the maximum marginal rate to capital gains should be checked against the return, computation and section 143(1) intimation. An apparent rate error may be addressed through section 154 rectification supported by capital-gains details; an appeal and, where necessary, a separate stay request may also be considered.

Powers for provisional attachment under Section 83 and functions concerning recovery and payment of tax under Sections 78 and 79 of the Delhi Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017, may be exercised by all Assistant Commissioners and Goods and Services Tax Officers. Prior approval of the Commissioner, State Tax is mandatory on a case-by-case basis. The delegation partially modifies earlier orders and takes effect immediately.

Time-bound issuance of show cause notices is required to ensure completion of adjudication within statutory limitation periods for tax short payment, erroneous refunds, and wrongly availed or utilised input tax credit. Proceedings under Section 73 require notice at least three months before the order limitation, while fraud, wilful misstatement, or suppression proceedings under Section 74 require notice at least six months before that limitation. Ward and zonal in-charges should identify cases requiring notices and ensure timely completion of proceedings.

Bullion exchanges and bullion clearing corporations must maintain regulatory compliance, due diligence, risk management, good governance, customer protection, fair treatment and prompt reporting of violations. Governing boards must oversee critical operations, independent regulatory and control functions, risk-appetite frameworks, three lines of defence, product reviews and conduct culture. Directors, committee members and key management personnel must act with integrity, preserve confidentiality, disclose beneficial interests, avoid conflicts and misuse of position, and support regulatory compliance. Director appointments require prescribed disclosures, fit-and-proper confirmation, approval processes, training and familiarisation.

Regulation 79 repeals the International Financial Services Centres Authority (Bullion Exchange) Regulations, 2020 and supersedes specified circulars. Savings and deeming provisions preserve actions, approvals, pending applications, accrued rights, liabilities, penalties, investigations and proceedings under the repealed framework. References to the repealed regulations are construed as references to corresponding provisions, while earlier circulars and guidelines continue unless specifically superseded or modified.