Haryana's SGST collections increased by 29 per cent during April-August of financial year 2026-27, exceeding the national growth rate of 16 per cent. August 2026 post-settlement SGST revenue rose by 21 per cent, compared with national average growth of 13 per cent. Haryana accounted for less than 4 per cent of national GST taxpayers but contributed approximately 7.7 per cent of aggregate national SGST, CGST and IGST collections. VAT/CST collections rose by 13.8 per cent during the same period.

Lokta Next 100 offers RBI-registered NBFCs with loan books up to Rs 100 crore post-approval loan servicing, accounting, reporting, analytics, collections, recovery and partner-management functions, excluding pure-play microfinance NBFCs. Credit, approval and money decisions remain with the lender. Maker-checker approval applies to every change, and migration requires line-by-line reconciliation before cutover. Records remain lender-owned, hosted in India and exportable. AI may propose changes but cannot post to the ledger; deterministic lender-policy rules decide changes. Platform fees are deferred for up to 24 months, subject to stated loan-book thresholds.

UIDAI did not maintain separate Aadhaar data on date-of-birth updates in Bihar following the announced social security pension enhancement, including month-wise or district-wise compilations. No internal review or flagging of unusual update patterns was available or applicable in its records. The Central Information Commission clarified that the RTI framework does not require a public authority to create, compile or generate information that it does not maintain in the form requested. The initial CPIO response treating the information as outside the RTI Act was considered inappropriate.

An optional FORM GSTR-1A facility permits registered persons to add or amend current-period outward-supply particulars after furnishing FORM GSTR-1 and before filing the corresponding FORM GSTR-3B. The facility covers invoice-level, consolidated, debit-note, credit-note, advance and e-commerce supply details, but does not permit an amendment involving a change in the recipient's GSTIN. Details furnished through GSTR-1A feed into GSTR-3B and the next open GSTR-2B, with consequential changes to credit availability, reversal, refunds, export reporting, scrutiny and annual-return processes.

Nominated Agency under Notification No. 26/2018-State Tax (Rate) is redefined to include entities listed in Lists 13, 14 and 15 appended to Table I of Notification No. 45/2025-Customs. The substituted definition operates within the exemption framework under the Arunachal Pradesh Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 and takes effect from 1 November 2025.

Tamil Nadu GST registration administration designates 49 facilitation centres for applicants mapped to specified assessment-circle jurisdictions. The centres undertake biometric-based Aadhaar authentication, photographing of applicants, and verification of original documents corresponding to copies uploaded with registration applications. Chennai, adjoining districts, northern, eastern, western and southern assessment circles are allocated to identified CGST or Commercial Tax facilitation centres at specified addresses. The revised jurisdictional arrangement supersedes the prior arrangement and takes effect from 29 March 2025.

The State Government empowers the Principal Bench of the Appellate Tribunal at New Delhi to hear appeals within the statutory GST appellate jurisdiction. The bench is constituted under the applicable tribunal-constitution provision, and the empowerment applies to appeals made under the prescribed appellate mechanism. This authority is deemed to have taken effect from 1 April 2026.

GSTR-3B return filing deadline for March 2026 is extended until 21 April 2026 for registered persons required to furnish the return under the prescribed monthly return framework. The extension takes effect from 20 April 2026.

Arunachal Pradesh GST rate schedules are amended to place biris within the 9% Schedule II. Pan masala, specified tobacco products, tobacco substitutes, and specified non-combustible inhalation products are inserted in the 20% Schedule III. Schedule VII prescribing a 14% rate is omitted. The revised rate classification takes effect from 1 February 2026.

Commencement of the Delhi Goods and Services Tax (Amendment) Act, 2025 is fixed through separate effective dates. Sections 7, 38 and 40 take effect on publication in the Official Gazette. Sections 3 to 6, 8, 10 to 31, 33, 34, 36, 37 and 39 take effect from 1 November 2024, while section 32 takes effect from 1 August 2023. Specified amendment provisions therefore receive retrospective commencement.

Revision under Section 263 requires an assessment order to be both erroneous and prejudicial to the interests of the Revenue. Where the Assessing Officer has examined the taxpayer's share of sale consideration, indexed acquisition cost and improvement cost through notices, replies, transaction documents, calculations and supporting receipts, revision cannot be based solely on a different view of the same verified material. A permissible assessment view that is not unsustainable in law does not satisfy the conditions for revisional jurisdiction. The revision order was therefore invalid and quashed.

Section 87A rebate for assessment year 2024-25 applies where a resident individual's total income is within the prescribed threshold, even if that income includes capital gains taxed at special rates. The rebate is linked to tax computed on total income, and the concessional regime under section 115BAC(1A) does not restrict that independent entitlement. A later restriction excluding special-rate income from rebate applies prospectively and does not affect the relevant assessment year.

Legal and regulatory issues include safeguards for arrest and detention of transgender persons, consultation requirements in Bar Council policy-making, and procedural accountability in electoral administration and policing. Personal insolvency proceedings raise questions about tribunal powers to constitute an expanded bench. Hospitality operators are expected to comply strictly with food-safety and hygiene norms. Proposed restrictions on minors' social-media accounts address cyberbullying, online exploitation, and harmful screen exposure.

IC Electricals Company Limited has secured railway purchase orders for electrical and electronic supplies and an export order, creating combined order inflow across domestic railway operations and international markets. Its product portfolio includes regulators, battery chargers, emergency lights, inverters, microprocessor-based control systems, alternators, traction motors, and permanent magnet alternators with controllers. Forward-looking statements on business plans, projects, and research and development remain subject to risks and uncertainties and may differ materially from actual results.

Tax demand determination is reorganised by confining the existing determination provisions to periods up to Financial Year 2023-24 and introducing a unified mechanism for Financial Year 2024-25 onwards. Tax not paid or short paid, erroneous refunds, and wrongly availed or utilised input tax credit may be determined through notice, representation and order procedures, subject to prescribed notice and order timelines. The mechanism distinguishes cases not involving fraud, wilful misstatement or suppression from those involving such conduct, with separate penalty consequences and structured payment options.

Form II requires an appeal against an adjudication order to identify the applicant and impugned order, state the facts and grounds, and specify the relief sought. The appeal must include particulars of the appeal-fee deposit and, where applicable, the penalty deposit, with receipt details. It must be dated and signed by the applicant or authorised representative, with copies of relevant documents and a list of attachments.

Double deflation in manufacturing separately deflates gross output and intermediate consumption, with real GVA derived from their difference. Where input prices rise faster than output prices, nominal GVA may grow more slowly than real GVA, producing a negative implicit GVA deflator despite rising output and input prices. A negative manufacturing GVA deflator therefore does not establish a fall in manufactured-product prices or lower real growth. The implicit GDP deflator is a derived ratio between current-price and constant-price GDP and differs from CPI and WPI because of their distinct coverage, weights, and price concepts.

Appeal procedure under section 17 of the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 requires submission of Form I against an order of the Adjudicating Authority. The appeal must identify the applicant and impugned order, state relevant facts and grounds, and specify the prayer and relief sought. It must include applicable supporting documents, appeal-fee deposit particulars, and signatures of the applicant or authorised representative.

Ease-of-doing-business reforms for India's data-centre ecosystem focus on faster and sustainable infrastructure deployment through reliable power, ready-to-use land, streamlined approvals and suitable building regulations. Proposed power measures include cluster-based transmission planning, first-day sanctioned load, dual feeders and cross-border renewable-energy procurement. Data-centre-ready land banks and power-ready parcels are intended to reduce development timelines. The National Building Code 2026 recognises data centres under Group E and contains a dedicated annex on fire-risk assessment and data-centre-specific performance indicators.

Long-term capital gain from listed-share transactions cannot be treated as unexplained credit merely because of unusual price movements or unverified statements concerning alleged intermediaries. Where share allotment, dematerialisation, stock-exchange sale and banking-channel receipts are undisputed, denial of exemption requires cogent evidence linking the taxpayer to market manipulation or unaccounted funds. Failure to produce underlying investigation material, establish such involvement, trace unaccounted money, or prove that unknown exchange purchasers lacked creditworthiness leaves only suspicion, which cannot sustain an addition. The gain remains eligible for long-term capital gain treatment and the related exemption.