New Delhi, Aug. 13 -- The government on Tuesday introduced sweeping amendments to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, describing it as a "bigger reform" that will expedite corporate insolvency cases, even as parliament completed the legislative process for the new simplified income-tax regime. Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman told the Rajya Sabha that the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Bill, 2025, introduced in the Lok Sabha earlier in the day amid din, represents the "next generation of IBC" reforms. She told the Upper House that the IBC amendment bill has also been referred to a Select Committee. According to officials who did not wish to be named, the amendments will incorporate new concepts including creditor-initiated insolvency resolution process (CIIRP), domestic group insolvency provisions, and cross-border insolvency mechanisms. These amendments aim to facilitate faster admission, resolution, and liquidation processes, maximise asset value, and improve governance, the officials said. One of the aims of the amendments is to promote expeditious admission of insolvency applications, officials said. While the IBC mandates insolvency applications be admitted within 14 days, it currently takes an average of 434 days in the process....