Union Budget 2020-2021

he Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act, 1976 (ULC) was initially introduced with the aim of promoting an equitable distribution of land. However, this was subsequently...

India lacks a dedicated AI statute, but its regulatory landscape is rapidly evolving through legislative amendments, sector-specific guidance, and judicial developments. How can organizations effectively navigate this complex, multi-regulator framework as AI adoption accelerates across industries? AZB & Partners' monthly tracker consolidates key legal, regulatory, and policy developments to provide clarity in this dynamic environment.

India's digital economy faces transformative regulatory changes as authorities establish comprehensive frameworks for AI governance, telecommunications authorization, and fintech operations. How will these sweeping reforms reshape technology deployment, payment systems, and data protection across the insurance, banking, and judicial sectors?

Multinational enterprises across technology, financial services, manufacturing, and healthcare sectors continue to expand their GCC presence in India, supported by favourable policy initiatives. The Union Budget 2025–26 launched a national framework to expand GCCs into Tier-II cities, driving broader geographic reach and deeper capability integration.

Here, India Briefing introduces the benefits of SEZs as well as the SEZs and warehouses that can be found in the Delhi National Capital Region.

Have consumers ever noticed or realized that on Zepto, products are at a higher price for an iPhone user than an Android user or that the cabs...

Maharashtra Government has very recently revised the process of buying a stamp paper.

The proposed framework permits AI-assisted functions such as research, transcription, translation, case management and document review but places human judgment at the centre of judicial decision-making.

In the September edition of our monthly newsletter “Legalaxy”, our team analyses some of the key developments in securities market, banking and finance, labour, foreign investment and maritime

In today’s dynamic and competitive environment, IP rights are key elements needed to maintain an edge in the market. It is crucial that the companies understand that what can be protected and how within their respective countries.

On June 3, 2026, the Supreme Court of India’s AI Committee released preliminary draft of the Regulations for Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Courts, 2026 (“The Draft”). This marks a shift from scattered experiments with AI tools for translation, transcription, research and case management. With over 93,000 pending matters as of March 2026, the guidelines aim to ease processes for officials and citizens. AI could help reduce backlogs through automated cause-list preparation, transcription, research, and defect scrutiny, but its use also raises serious concerns.

A gift deed is a legal document that facilitates the voluntary transfer of property from one person (the donor) to another (the donee) without any exchange of money or consideration.

When an artificial intelligence system is trained on copyrighted news content, and later answers a user’s question using what it learned, has the law been broken? On 24th July 2026, the Delhi High Court answered that question, at least for now. In ANI Media Pvt. Ltd. v. Open AI OpCo LLC, Justice Amit Bansal declined to grant an interim injunction against OpenAI, holding, on a prima facie, interim stage view, that the company’s use of ANI’s news content to train its large language models (“LLMs”) falls within the fair dealing exception under Section 52(1)(a) of the Copyright Act, 1957

The Hon'ble Supreme Court held that, the following twin test needs to be satisfied for an establishment to seek exemption from Section 16 (1) of the Act.

The change is effected through two instruments: the Food Safety and Standards (Licensing and Registration of Food Businesses) Amendment Regulations, 2026, notified via gazette on 10th March, 2026[1] (the “Amendment Regulations”), and a subsequent implementation order dated 13th March, 2026[2] (the “Order”) issued by FSSAI directing all licensing authorities to apply the revised thresholds with effect from 1st April, 2026.

Cybersecurity regulation in India has, until now, largely spoken to the entity that suffers the breach. The 2022 CERT-In Directions issued under Section 70B of the Information Technology Act, 2000 fixed a six-hour reporting clock on the organisation that detects an incident. The new Guidelines flip the lens onto the entity upstream of that breach, the OEM or technology provider that built the product in the first place. For the first time, vendors supplying software, firmware, cloud platforms, or APIs into India carry direct, time-bound, and independently verifiable obligations of their own and not obligations that are merely passed through a customer contract, but obligations CERT-In itself may enforce.

In mid-September 2026, government sources said Meta Platforms’ Indian operations, Facebook, Instagram and Threads, should no longer be viewed merely as an “internet intermediary” but should also be treated as a “service provider,” arguing that the company’s monetised algorithms actively decide what content gets amplified, distributed and shown to whom. That is a government position, not a new statutory classification, and this article returns to that distinction below.

On February 10, 2026, the Central Government notified the amended Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2026 (hereinafter referred to as “IT Amendment Rules”), marking a significant shift in how India regulates Artificial Intelligence (AI) and synthetically generated content online.

India’s new labour code framework, comprising four consolidated codes enacted between 2019 and 2020, represents the most comprehensive overhaul of employment laws since independence. Among these, the Code on Wages, 2019 (hereinafter referred to as the “Code”) amalgamates the Payment of Wages Act, 1936; the Minimum Wages Act, 1948; the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965; and the Equal Remuneration Act, 1976, into a single, unified enactment.

Section 3 clause (2) sub-clause (a) of the Real Estate (Regulation and Developtment) Act, 2016 states that all the real estate projects are required to be registered under the Act...