Category: Politics

Johannesburg, India and Italy on Sunday announced a joint initiative for cooperation in combating financing of terrorism, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi held talks with his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni here and discussed ways to bolster bilateral ties in several areas, including trade, defence and security. During the meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit […]

The government has listed the Securities Markets Code Bill 2025 for introduction in the Winter session of Parliament starting December 1, according to a Lok Sabha bulletin. The unified legislation is aimed at boosting ease of doing business and reducing regulatory friction across India’s financial markets. The Bill proposes merging key securities laws, including the Securities […]

The Comptroller and Auditor General of India has initiated an audit of reforms implemented by states and UTs to improve the ease of doing business for the micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) sector. The pan-India horizontal audit cutting across states aims to evaluate how effectively states and Union Territories have implemented reforms to improve the […]

India’s goods exports to China rose every month in the first seven months of this fiscal year, peaking with a 42% rise in October, helping New Delhi partly soften the blow of steep US tariffs. Outbound shipments to the northern neighbour climbed 24.7% from a year earlier to $10.03 billion during April-October. Petroleum products, telecom instruments […]

The government is set to introduce draft legislations for initiating new generation reforms in atomic energy, higher education, insurance, the security markets and to ease land acquisition for highways, in the upcoming Winter Session of Parliament, starting December 1. The Atomic Energy Bill, 2025, probably the most consequential one, aims to open up India’s highly restricted […]

India’s new labour codes bring together dozens of workplace rules into a modern, simplified framework designed to make hiring, wages, social security, and working conditions more transparent and uniform across sectors. From universal minimum wages and gig-worker benefits to flexible work-from-home provisions and digitised compliance, the codes aim to balance worker protection with ease of doing […]

Four New Labour Codes: In a landmark move aimed at modernising India’s labour governance, the government on Friday implemented the Four Labour Codes—the Code on Wages (2019), Industrial Relations Code (2020), Code on Social Security (2020), and Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions (OSHWC) Code (2020)—repealing and rationalising 29 existing central labour laws. Calling it a […]

The Donald Trump administration of the US has unveiled a major set of sanctions aimed at dismantling Iran’s extensive shadow oil network, identifying entities and individuals across multiple countries, including an India-based shipping firm and an India-based petroleum products trader, as part of efforts to tighten financial pressure on Tehran’s military operations. “Today, the Department of […]

Several economists, citing record low consumer inflation, have urged the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to consider reducing policy rates in the upcoming December assessment. They conveyed this view during the two-day pre-review consultations that concluded on Wednesday. A cut in the repo rate now would boost growth in the months to come without impacting inflation, […]

The United States has cleared two major military sales of Excalibur projectiles and Javelin missile systems to India worth an estimated $93 million, strengthening defence ties between the two nations. According to the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the deal includes Excalibur projectiles and related equipment valued at $47.1 million, along with Javelin missile systems and associated […]