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India's foreign investment rulebook is up for a significant rewrite. The Reserve Bank of India put out draft rules on July 21, 2026 that could change how regulators decide whether a company operating in India is actually under foreign control, a ques

India's central bank moved to simplify one of its more complex regulatory frameworks last week. The Reserve Bank of India issued revised guidelines on June 24, 2026, for identifying Non-Banking Financial Companies that fall into the upper layer of it

Over 100 days of conflict had already done considerable damage, global energy supplies were disrupted, financial markets were unsettled, and crude prices had climbed well above levels most economies could absorb comfortably. Then came a memorandum of

Every May, the Reserve Bank of India holds a board meeting that rarely makes front-page headlines but deserves far more attention than it typically gets. This is when the central bank decides how much of its annual surplus it will hand over to the ce

Japan ran one of the most unusual monetary experiments in modern history. For roughly thirty years, the Bank of Japan kept interest rates at or below zero to fight deflation and push the economy into growth. Government bond yields barely moved. Some

One of the most important changes in the employment laws in recent times in India is the new labour code framework. The reforms are designed to streamline and rationalise the current labour laws into a more consistent series of codes, which will incl

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) changed how under-construction residential and commercial properties are taxed in India. Prior to GST, the buyers and developers were subjected to several indirect taxes like VAT, service tax, and several state taxes.

A couple of days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged citizens to avoid buying gold for a year, the government has followed it up with a firm policy move. India has raised the effective import duty on gold and silver from 6% to 15%, in an attempt

On the evening of May 10, 2026, PM Modi addressed the nation at a BJP rally in Hyderabad. It was not a budget speech. It was not a policy announcement. But by the next morning, the market looked like it had just heard one. The Sensex crashed over

For many years, Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinders have been a common part of Indian kitchens. From small towns to big cities, households have depended on cylinder deliveries for their daily cooking needs. But now, the government is slowly chang

A few weeks ago, the IMF's April 2026 forecast for its World Economic Outlook found that India had dropped to sixth place in the ranking of economies worldwide. This came as quite a shock to the country, which had once briefly occupied fourth place a

It took just thirteen months. From the first formal round of negotiations in March 2025 to a signed agreement on April 27, 2026, India and New Zealand moved at a pace that is genuinely unusual in the world of international trade. Most deals of this k