In order to mitigate the risk associated with the outsourcing of IT activities by Regulated Entities (Res) while maintaining compliance obligations and responsibilities towards their customers, On 10th April 2023 Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released a Master Direction on Outsourcing of Information Technology Services. The direction would be effective from first of October 2023 […]
Read More →The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) vide Order File No. 15(31)2020-FoSCoS-RCD-FSSAIpt1-Part(I) on 13th January 2023, issued an order regarding the mandatory upload of six-monthly lab testing reports on FoSCoS. As per the order, the Food Authority has mandated that all Manufacturers (including Repackers and Relabellers) shall, through FoSCoS, either upload six monthly […]
Read More →CBDT has introduced another compliance for Corporates wherein they have to deduct TDS at higher rate if a person does not have her Aadhaar-PAN linked by 31st March 2023. Initially the CBDT had prescribed the date for linking Pan and Aadhaar as 30th June, 2022 but have extended this date till 31st March, 2023. Consequences […]
Read More →As per Section 4 (1) of the POSH Act 2013, every employer should constitute an Internal Compliant Committee at workplace and in case there are multiple offices then each such office should have such committee. Extracts of the relevant section is as under “4(1) Every employer of a workplace shall, by an order in writing, […]
Read More →FSSAI has introduced addition compliance by amending Regulation 10(4) of Food Safety and Standards (Labelling and Display) Regulations, 2020 vide Food Safety and Standards (Labelling & Display) Amendment Regulations, 2022 to mandate the use of words “NON-RETAIL CONTAINER – NOT FOR DIRECT SALE TO CONSUMER” or such other statement/mark to clearly identify those packages that […]
Read More →Labour Department of Haryana vide its Notification. No. 17217 dt. 07.06.2022 had laid down a set of conditions for the establishment/management to avail exemption for employing women during night shift. Despite being a welcome step for industries engaged in service sector like IT & ITES but some of the conditions like employment of women security […]
Read More →In exercise of power conferred by Section 39 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, the Central Government with a view to promote ease of doing business and transparency transaction of registered vehicles, has introduced the Central Motor Vehicles (Twenty-Sixth Amendment) Rules, 2022 effective from 1st day of April, 2023. India’s market for used vehicles has […]
Read More →Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has notified Guidelines for Uplinking and Downlinking of Satellite Television Channels in India, 2022 that has eased grant of permissions for uplinking and Downlinking of private satellite Television channels, setting-up of teleports, Uplinking by Indian News Agencies and use of DSNG/SNG/ENG. These Guidelines have replaced existing Policy Guidelines for Uplinking/Downlinking […]
Read More →Kerala labour department has provided a facility for filing annual returns through an integrated e-return form for variety of labour laws before 31st December of every calendar year, It is a common platform for unifying returns and registration under various labour laws. Users of this facility must fulfil a number of prerequisites in order to […]
Read More →Introduction:- In exercise of powers conferred by Section 3 read with Sections 5 and 9 of the Foreign Trade (D&R) Act, 1992 read with paragraphs 1.02 and 2.01 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2015-2020, the Central Government with a view to promote ‘Make in India’ and ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ initiatives has amended the import policy from […]
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