New Delhi, Sept. 17 -- The Centre has begun a major revamp of the country's cotton fibre testing infrastructure, with the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) expediting the modernization of 21 laboratori... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 17 -- Gold smuggling networks have come back to life in the few months since the import duty hike in May, triggering a rash of seizures by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 17 -- The Union finance ministry will hold a two-day conference of state finance ministers and finance secretaries beginning Friday. The conference will bring together the Centre and... Read More
NEW DELHI, Sept. 16 -- India is looking to expand its trusted-trader programme beyond traditional customs facilitation as it enters the next decade of the Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) framework,... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 16 -- In a major crackdown on synthetic-drug trafficking in the northeast, the directorate of revenue intelligence (DRI) has seized 231.8 kg of suspected methamphetamine tablets from ... Read More
NEW DELHI, Sept. 16 -- The Centre is expanding mandatory retirement and social-security coverage to more formal-sector workers, raising the wage ceiling for compulsory Employees' Provident Fund Organi... Read More
NEW DELHI, Sept. 15 -- India's consumer affairs ministry plans to mandate a three-month shelf life for specialized cement, shorter testing timelines and more detailed batch and product information for... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 11 -- E-commerce platforms have welcomed the new rules to strengthen consumer protection, but flagged implementation challenges around price disclosures, search rankings and annual ce... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 10 -- E-commerce platforms will face tighter obligations on how they display discounts, rank search results and identify sponsored listings under new government rules aimed at strengt... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 10 -- The Centre is again defending the methodology behind a headline economic growth number, this time for goods and services tax (GST) collections, after former finance secretary Su... Read More