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By creating distinct incentives for manufacturing, localisation, and innovation, the mobile phone manufacturing scheme encourages businesses to invest across the entire mobile phone value chain.

The India-UK Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) marks a significant milestone in the evolution of one of the world's most important economic partnerships.

Boards need an AI implementation plan that defines outcomes, ownership, data safeguards, budgets, and monitoring mechanisms. The risks, from data leakage and vendor exposure to bias, hallucinations and regulatory gaps, must be built into the strategy from the start Not too long ago, at a quarterly Board meeting of a conglomerate, the group CFO spoke with conviction about the “AI agenda”.

The government recently extended the deadline to submit bids for the PLI scheme to make rare earth magnets.

If you ask most CFOs where they want to spend more time, the answer usually sounds reassuringly strategic: business partnering, decision support, shaping outcomes and helping business make better choices.

Nine years ago, GST replaced a fragmented web of excise duty, VAT, service tax and local levies with a single promise of ‘one nation, one tax’. By 2026, GST has evolved into a critical pillar of India's formal economy, creating a digital trail of transactions across sectors and supply chains while providing policymakers with an increasingly sophisticated and near real-time understanding of economic activity.

Equity-based compensation has become a cornerstone of modern remuneration strategies, particularly in knowledge-driven and high-growth sectors.

Nearly a decade into GST, few disputes have tested the frontiers of tax, constitutional law and the digital economy as deeply as the online gaming dispute.

The United States’ tariff strategy is undergoing a significant legal, economic and geopolitical transition. Recent court rulings striking down sweeping emergency-based tariff measures initially suggested that Washington’s aggressive protectionism might be losing momentum. Yet the broader direction of US trade policy remains unmistakably protectionist. What is changing is not the objective, but the method.

Most accounting standards change processes. Some change disclosures. A few quietly change the conversation. I believe Ind AS 118 belongs in the third category.

Today’s environment is undeniably difficult. Supply chains are fragmented, costs remain volatile, capital is expensive and geopolitical risk has become structural rather than episodic.

India likes to tell itself a comforting story: that it is a young nation and will remain so for decades. But demographics do not bend to narrative.

The taxability of assignment of leasehold rights has quietly emerged as one of the more contentious issues under the GST regime.

The water sector in India has evolved through multiple transitions ever since it was granted infrastructure status. The priorities of the sector, such as water availability and capital asset creation, have significantly changed, now encompassing water management, sustainability and operational efficiency.

The current conflict in the Middle East poses the most profound impact on aviation since the pandemic.

Today’s environment is undeniably difficult. Supply chains are fragmented, costs remain volatile, capital is expensive and geopolitical risk has become structural rather than episodic.