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Enrollments under NAPS up 50% in 2025-26Official data seen by ET shows registration of apprentices under the National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme (NAPS) stood at an all time h...- Reduced TCS, extended ITR deadline, simplified TDS on property, centralised Form 15G/H, immunity from tax prosecution and more in Budget 2026Budget 2026 brings major changes to personal income tax. Tax Collected at Source rates are reduced. Deadlines for filing income tax returns...
- ET Wealth Online impact on Budget 2026: Buyback tax, Black Money Act, ITR penalties, NRI property sales, how taxpayers' concerns were addressedBudget 2026 brings significant changes for taxpayers. ET Wealth Online's concerns have been addressed, impacting buyback taxation and NRI p...
- Incentivizing good behaviour through smarter, indexed finesIndia is moving towards decriminalizing minor offenses, replacing jail time with monetary fines. This reform aims to boost ease of doing bu...
- Lok Sabha passes The Boilers Bill, 2024 to replace 100-year-old Act: All you need to knowThe Lok Sabha has passed the Boilers Bill, 2024, which replaces the Boilers Act of 1923. This new bill aims to decriminalize minor offences...
- Govt notifies amendments to decriminalise Cable TV lawThe imprisonment provisions have been now replaced with a monetary penalty and other non-monetary measures like advisory, warning and censu...
- Remove jail term for most labelling offences: EAC-PMA working paper, co-authored by EAC-PM member Sanjeev Sanyal, said that the government should opt for a system of graded fines and remove i...
- Decriminalisation of minor offences welcome step, say legal expertsIn June 2020, the Finance Ministry had proposed to decriminalise a host of minor offences, including those relating to cheque bounce and re...
- Measures to reduce compliance burden have multiplier effect on ease of doing biz: GoyalIn the last seven years, several such measures have been taken due to which there is an improvement in competitiveness, innovation, and eas...
- It’s time to focus on ease of doing ‘small’ businessSystemic bottlenecks and red tape, lack of affordable credit, inefficient supply chains and weak access to markets have stymied the MSME se...
- Why the Companies Amendment Act, 2020 won’t be a game changerThe Act missed a recommendation by the committee to permit the government to set higher limits for net worth, turnover, or net profit of co...
- Companies Act reforms amid Covid-19: A primerThe Bill introduces a regime of direct listing of securities of domestic public corporations in certain foreign jurisdictions, thereby allo...
- Government plans to decriminalise compoundable offences under LLP ActIn a public draft on Friday, the MCA listed 20 sections of the LLP Act, ranging from registration or change of designated partners to maint...
- Finmin proposes to decriminalize host of minor offences under 19 legislationsThe Finance Ministry has proposed to decriminalise a host of minor offences, including those relating to cheque bounce and repayment of loa...
- Gay sex not a crime, says RSS, raises hopes of government rethinkHosabale said, "Why should RSS have an opinion on homosexuality? It is not a crime as long as it does not affect the lives of others. Sexua...
- Selling pre-packaged items above MRP may attract jail term: Consumer affairs ministrySelling pre-packaged items higher than maximum retail price (MRP) will soon attract higher penalty, including a jail term.
- TOI manifesto for minority voices: Will this poll listen to the rainbow voice?Although there are no exact estimates, the government last year told SC that India has about 25 lakh gays. Other estimates put the communit...
- New laws for old: Forest rights and red-tape wrongsIt is a little known fact that in roughly a fifth of our country's land area, a different legal system operates.
- Government sees 'reason' in HC's gay judgmentGovernment feels the judgment touched but on a small part of Article 377 when it decriminalized sex between two consenting adults of the sa...
- Gay sex legalised by Delhi High CourtHowever, Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code which criminalises homosexuality, will continue for non-consensual and non-vaginal sex. 'Gay ...
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