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General Updates Union Budget for financial year 2025-2026 presented The Ministry of Finance has presented the budget and key highlights of the same include Revisions in income tax slabs; Credit [...]

General Updates Bharatiya Vayuyan Adhiniyam, 2024 ('2024 Adhiniyam') passed The Parliament of India has passed the 2024 Adhiniyam marking a significant step in modernizing India's aviation industry by enhancing safety, [...]

General Updates Food antimicrobials and antibiotic restrictions are tightened Food Safety and Standards Authority of India ('FSSAI') has notified Food Safety and Standards (Contaminants, toxins and Residues) First Amendment Regulations, [...]

General Updates Food antimicrobials and antibiotic restrictions are tightened Food Safety and Standards Authority of India ('FSSAI') has notified Food Safety and Standards (Contaminants, toxins and Residues) First Amendment Regulations, [...]

Byline: BHAWANA CHHABRA Senior market strategist at Rosenberg Research The outlook for commodity markets may be brighter than many investors appreciate, given recent price action and the current state of [...]

There is excessive pessimism in the price of commodities, The outlook for commodity markets may be brighter than many investors appreciate, given recent price action and the current state of the global economy. Recession risk is on the rise, [...]

A Trump presidency will be positive for traditional industries and equities in general, Markets are increasingly turning their attention to the campaign trail in the United States with the November election fast approaching. The key question on everyone’s mind is how the outcome [...]

GENERAL UPDATES A new Invoice Management System ('IMS') implemented in the Goods and Services Tax ('GST') portal A new communication process called the IMS is being implemented in the GST [...]

General Updates Bharatiya Vayuyan Vidheyak Bill 2024 ('2024 Bill') passed by Lower House of Parliament of India The 2024 Bill seeks to replace the 90 years old Aircraft Act, 1934. [...]

General Updates in the Liberalised Remittance Scheme by Reserve Bank of India ('RBI') RBI has made further amendments in the Master Direction on Liberalised Remittance Scheme ('LRS'). The recent amendment [...]

Home goods retailers need advanced targeting to reach consumers in an era of tighter demand and strong pull-through of the consumer cycle. AlixPartners explains the playbook. Stuck in their homes, [...]

General Updates The Reserve Bank of India ('RBI') releases Draft Prudential Framework for Income Recognition, Asset Classification and Provisioning pertaining to Advances - Projects Under Implementation, Directions, 2024 ('2024 Directions' [...]

BACKGROUND The Securities and Exchange Board of India ('SEBI'), pursuant to requests received from various stakeholders, and discussions with Market Infrastructure Institutions (Stock Exchanges, Clearing Corporations and Depositories), issued a [...]

Xylazine, an alpha-2 receptor agonist, is used in veterinary medicine as a sedative and muscle relaxant; it is not approved for use in humans. However, reports of adulteration of illicit [...]

SURFACING In design-centric Helsinki, Teurastamo's red-brick buildings once housed slaughtered reindeers, pigs and cows. Today, this meatpacking district has transformed into an epicenter for the city's creative class. Everyone from [...]

Byline: Esha Chhabra AUROVILLE, India -- In the Colours of Nature dye house, Vijayakumar Varathan is busy prepping a vat of indigo. At 51, he looks frail, with a tanned [...]

Chris Santella says he wasn't raised by ''outdoorsy'' parents. But as a young man growing up in Connecticut, with grandparents who lived in Maine, he developed a kinship with nature [...]

Outbreaks of an unexplained acute neurologic illness affecting young children and associated with high case-fatality rates have been reported in the Muzaffarpur district of Bihar state in India since 1995. [...]

Before the coming into effect of the Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Act, 2015 (Amendment Act), the law as it stood was that filing of an objection petition under Section 34 [...]

Byline: Esha Chhabra A road trip through France is highly advised. Landing after midnight to start that road trip, in a country where you've never driven, don't speak the language [...]

This article analyzes whether a debtor corporation's potential ability to carry over pre-bankruptcy petition net operating losses is protected by the automatic stay from an acquirer's attempt to deduct the loss corporation's worthless stock., Net Operating Losses ('NOLs') in a loss corporation can be valuable to an acquiring company as well as to the loss corporation itself. However, Internal Revenue Code ('IRC') Section 382 [...]

Byline: Esha Chhabra in Auroville;India AUROVILLE, India -- In the Colours of Nature dye house, Vijayakumar Varathan is busy prepping a vat of indigo. At 51, he looks frail, with [...]

Last week, we published a case study about Select Home Care, a nonmedical home care company with operations spanning nine states. Facing new state and federal regulations that will affect [...]

SELECT HOME CARE, based in Westlake Village, Calif., offers 24-hour nonmedical care to elderly clients in California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Oregon and Texas. It has nine offices, 500 employees and [...]

SEATTLE -- BENJAMIN RASMUS cycled 850 miles over 10 days around Washington State last year to promote gleaning, or gathering edible produce left behind in fields after harvest. ''It was [...]

In 2002, at the age of 18, Saul Garlick started a program to fight poverty by building schools in rural South Africa. By 2004, his vision had broadened and he [...]

A visit to well-known ancient sites like Machu Picchu often tops travelers' to-do lists. But unlike the serene journey to a pristine historic structure that you imagine, the real trip [...]

Byline: Esha Chhabra This school doesn't really have classrooms. In fact, Stanford University's Institute of Design in California isn't really a 'school,' jokes Prof. Jim Patell. Instead of classrooms, there [...]

Byline: Dhruv Chhabra FACTS & ARGUMENTS / LIVES LIVED As the sacred texts of ancient India say, 'Money and mansions are not the only wealth. Collect the wealth of the [...]

Violence between Hindus and Muslims may be raging in India, where hundreds have died in a conflict that has become increasingly bloody. Yet in the mini-South Asia known as Elmhurst, […]

Hildesheim, A.; Anderson, L.M.; Chen, C.J.; Cheng, Y.J.; Brinton, L.A.; Daly, A.K.; Reed, C.D.; Chen, I.H.; Caporaso, N.E.; Hsu, M.M.; Chen, J.Y.; Idle, J.R.; Hoover, R.N.; Yang, C.S.; Chhabra, S.K. [...]

Lazing in a hammock can be a good thing - in more ways than one. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Gaming is more than just a pastime for teenage boys nowadays. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports on the idea proposed by private coaching academies for non-resident Indians to take the civil services examination and serve their country as career bureaucrats.

"Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization" is part of a new series of e-books from TED, the nonprofit technology think tank. In it, authors Ayesha and Parag Khanna look at the latest trends in technology - in particular, how they can be managed, adapted and utilized for society's benefit. The couple, who have extensive Silicon Valley connections, cite examples from around the globe, including from Sweden, Singapore and Japan. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A public-private San Francisco group wants to harness the city's tech savvy and use it to improve the quality of life in the Mid-Market area. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article offers small business-related news briefs as of June 25, 2014 including the business model used by Dylan Hull of nonmedical home care firm Select Home Care, the complaints of businesses over advertisements on social networking site Facebook and the urban winery in Hong Kong, China.