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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...
- Delhi HC asks Centre to clear its stand on PIL challenging exclusion of provision for unnatural sex in new criminal lawsThe Delhi High Court directed the Centre to clarify its stance on a PIL challenging the absence of provisions equivalent to Section 377 in ...
- 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...
- Have actively taken steps for decriminalisation of politics: EC to SCThe poll panel told the apex court that in its "Proposed Electoral Reforms, 2016", it had reiterated its 2004 recommendation that people ch...
- NDPS Act amendments: Drug charges to stay given current use, traffickingET gathers that it was indicated so to stakeholder ministries and departments at a high-level meeting during the national conference on dru...
- Govt to soon finalize proposal to decriminalize Legal Metrology Act: GoyalThe Legal Metrology Act 2009 enforces standards related to weights and measures.
- 22,000 compliances reduced, 103 offences decriminalised: GovernmentWith the aim to simplify, decriminalize & remove redundant laws, India has undertaken a massive exercise to reduce burdensome compliances.
- 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...
- 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...
- Weed stocks surge as Kamala Harris vows to decriminalize pot in debateCannabis stock tracker MJ ETF rose 5.5% to mark its best session since early June, while Tilray Inc jumped 19.2% on the Nasdaq. U.S.-listed...
- 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...
- Decriminalize defamation? Government seeks panel’s viewCurrently, civil defamation is dealt with under the law of torts whereas criminal defamation is an offence under Section 499 of the IPC.
- 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.
- 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...
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