India: Government, Public Sector

In a move to streamline the regulations for establishment of a place of business in India by overseas entities, the Reserve Bank of India ("RBI") on October 3, 2025, released the draft Foreign Exchange Management (Establishment in India of a branch or office) Regulations, 2025 ("Draft Regulations").

As part of a major reform aimed at reshaping India's insurance landscape and attracting global capital, the Ministry of Finance, through the Department of Financial Services, published a draft notification on the Indian Insurance Companies (Foreign Investment) Amendment Rules, 2025 ("Draft Rules") on August 29, 2025.

The Maharashtra Government has issued the Maharashtra Global Capability Centre (GCC) Policy 2025 ("the Policy") on 3rd November 2025 to attract global businesses to establish...

The recent judgment in Suryadev Pathak vs. Union of India before the Allahabad High Court presents a significant exposition on the jurisdictional limitations of constitutional courts when statutory...

The Ministry of Labour and Employment, on 21 November 2025, notified the four labour codes, repealing and replacing 29 existing labour...

Every year on November 26, India celebrates Constitution Day, marking the adoption of the Indian Constitution in 1949.

In Mihir Rajesh Shah v. State of Maharashtra (2025 SCC OnLine SC 2356), the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India delivered a significant, clarificatory judgment on the constitutional and statutory requirement to inform an arrested person of the grounds of arrest.

The Indus Waters Treaty, 19601, has been in the news of late. Most discussions have revolved around India's decision to put the Treaty in abeyance following the Pahalgam terrorist attack.

Back in 2016, when a Bengaluru-based startup delivered its first batch of SWITCH UAVs to the Indian Army, few imagined that an Indian startup...

Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission (GERC) through its notification dated November 3, 2025, has issued the Fifth Amendment to the Net Metering Regulations, 2016, exercising its rule-making powers...

The November 2025 edition of Fox & Mandal's newsletter examines reforms to the external commercial borrowing framework; Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025; SEBI's revisions to the RPT framework; RBI approval for enforcing damages awarded in a crossborder investment dispute; Undertaking by RPs for restitution of ED-attached assets; REIAs to directly sign PPAs with developers; and other changes in India's corporate, capital markets, infrastructure, insolvency, and banking sectors.

As the world's fourth-largest rail network and the second-largest freight carrier by tonnage1, Indian Railways carry a unique dual mandate i.e., to deliver affordable, mass mobility while modernizing...