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The Reserve Bank of India ("RBI") has set a strict deadline of 31st December, 2025 for Payment Aggregators ("PAs"), particularly those operating physical (PA-P) transactions...

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology issued the much awaited draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules ("Draft Rules") on January 3, 2025.

In a significant step toward modernizing India's cross-border transactions framework, the Reserve Bank of India ("RBI")...

What are the different types of business structures in India? This is a fundamental question for entrepreneurs and businesses looking to establish a presence in one of the world's fastest-growing

In September 2024, the UAE government took a major step by issuing Cabinet Decision No. 98 thus fundamentally changing how Economic Substance Regulations (ESR) apply to businesses in UAE.

India's Ministry of Labour and Employment has notified the Central Rules under all four labour codes, marking a pivotal shift from legislative reform to operational compliance. What do these new rules mean for employers in sectors like railways, telecom, banking, IT/ITES, and other multi-state operations, and what immediate steps must organizations take to ensure workplace readiness?

A fund manager in GIFT IFSC that launches three funds does not simply launch three investment vehicles. Because GIFT City is a multi-services Special Economic Zone, each fund is also an SEZ unit, holding its own Letter of Approval and carrying its own set of filings under the Special Economic Zones Rules, 2006. For a manager running several funds from a single office, much of that paperwork has duplicated what the manager had already done for itself.

In the global pursuit of economic growth, the efficiency and predictability of a nation's legal system serve as a critical barometer for investors.

India’s data protection framework has moved from legislation to implementation. With the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (“DPDP Act”) and the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 (“DPDP Rules”) now notified, organizations processing personal data in India need to reassess how long they retain personal data, why they retain it, and how they ultimately delete or anonymize it.

India’s digital economy is at a decisive inflection point. Data has emerged as a core driver of commerce, governance, finance, and innovation, elevating the infrastructure required to store, process, and secure it to strategic importance. Data centres are no longer perceived merely as IT assets or real estate. They are now mission-critical infrastructure underpinning business continuity, regulatory compliance, and national digital resilience.

Ask any marketing head whether the company website collects personal data, and the usual answer is, “Only through the contact form.” Ask the IT team to run a scan, and the picture changes. A typical business website today loads analytics scripts, advertising pixels, chat widgets, embedded videos, heatmap tools and a dozen third-party tags that nobody in the legal team has ever seen. Each of them may be collecting something about your visitors.

This article is intended to provide a simple understanding of transfer pricing (TP) provisions in India to those who have not yet been exposed to TP compliance in India.

On August 3, 2023, the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 ("DPDP Bill") was introduced by the Central Government in the Indian Parliament.

Gold and silver have been an integral part of Indian culture, purchased on auspicious occasions and passed down through generations.

These e-commerce rules have come into force. Below is a compliance checklist for such entities to give a head start.

The 8th (Eighth) Central Pay Commission has opened a structured online mechanism to receive representations/memorandum from associations/unions of employees...

The previous note discussed the administrative apparatus related to India's Carbon Credit Trading Scheme, 2023 (the "CCTS," and the final version...