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Week of 26 October-1 November 2026
What changed at each regulator this week, in a few points per source. Every point links to the official records it was written from.
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Latest complete week
What changed at each regulator this week, in a few points per source. Every point links to the official records it was written from.
Registered non-profit organisations with the same or similar objects must meet new merger conditions; provisionally and fully registered organisations cannot merge with each other. The merged organisation must file Form 112A within one month after the end of the merger month, and pay appealed tax demands when the appeal becomes final.
CBDT proposed Rule 281A and Form 173A for information supporting exemptions on interest income and capital gains from Government securities. This is a proposal, not a final filing requirement.
The International Rice Research Institute received an exemption from tax deduction and collection at source, subject to the notification's conditions.
GST registration changes include revised REG-01 disclosures and a Rule 14B facility using an e-commerce operator's warehouse as the principal place of business. Separate advisories address registration amendments, cancellation approval and composition levy functionality.
Dealers in used cooking oil, plastic and tyre waste, and electrical or electronic scrap received TDS registration instructions. Related notifications amend registration exemptions, TDS and reverse-charge provisions for goods.
Notifications implement the 57th GST Council's recommendations through amendments to service rates, exemptions and e-commerce tax provisions. Goods-rate amendments and a special tax-payment procedure for the Toll-Operate-Transfer model accompany the package.
Authorised motor-vehicle agents can claim input tax credit on demo vehicles under the dealer-agency model. Other circulars clarify Input Service Distributor provisions and the section 17(4) credit option for banks and financial entities.
Export guidance accepts qualifying foreign-exchange and repatriable rupee receipts and clarifies the retrospective omission of Rule 96(10). Separate circulars address reasoned demand and adjudication orders, appeal pre-deposits and GST classification questions.
Customs notices extend the raw-cotton duty exemption to 31 December 2026 and revise tariff values for specified imports. Importers claiming end-use exclusions from titanium-dioxide anti-dumping duty must provide an electronic declaration; sea-cargo stakeholders face a phased switch to SCMTR-compliant export messages.
Scheduled maintenance on 31 October-1 November interrupted e-invoice data retrieval, downloads and auto-population into GSTR-1. The GST portal also published October's gross and net collection report.
RBI circulated the removal of three entries and amendments to three entries on the UNSC ISIL and Al-Qaida sanctions list. Regulated entities must reflect the changes in their Section 51A screening records; a separate notice covers five amended Taliban-list entries.
Restrictions on Sonpeth Nagari Sahakari Bank, Lokapavani Mahila Sahakari Bank and Irinjalakuda Town Co-operative Bank were extended until the close of business on 30 January 2027. Existing terms remain in force.
RBI revised Delhi's district-level Lead Bank responsibilities after district reorganisation. The changes assign lead roles for new districts and modify existing assignments.
RBI set the Floating Rate Bond 2034 coupon at 7.26% for 30 October 2026-29 April 2027. Premature SGB redemption prices were ₹14,159 for the 28 October series, ₹14,213 for 30 October and ₹14,167 for 2 November.
Liquidity and government borrowing releases covered the four-day repo auction, Treasury Bill results and central and state security auctions. RBI also announced ₹29,900 crore of state borrowing for 3 November; daily money-market prints report liquidity positions rather than new compliance rules.
September non-food bank credit grew 19.1% year on year, while the weighted average rate on fresh rupee loans fell to 8.51%. RBI also released services trade, overseas investment and external borrowing data, alongside its banking statistics.
From 1 December 2026, most FPI KYC reviews move to two- or eight-year intervals according to risk and category; GS-FPI and SWAGAT-FI intervals remain unchanged. Registration continuance no longer requires a no-change declaration or change intimation, but fees must be paid at least 15 days before expiry.
Regulated entities have until 31 January 2027 to appoint a qualified accessibility auditor, audit digital platforms and remedy the findings.
Debenture trustees now have until 27 April 2027 to comply with the separate business unit framework for activities outside SEBI's purview. The other provisions remain unchanged while an expert group reviews the trustee framework.
NSE introduced clearing corporation interoperability for tender offers used in takeovers, buybacks and delisting. NSE Clearing's implementation is on or after 27 November 2026.
Annual return submissions for FY 2025-26 were extended to 31 December 2026 for trading and clearing members. Digital accessibility compliance was extended to 31 January 2027; NSE also circulated common inspection deficiencies for members to review.
Daily ASM, ST-ASM and ESM notices changed security-level surveillance, margins and settlement treatment; separate notices updated encumbrance measures and the IBC framework. Intermediaries also received updated UNSC sanctions lists for account screening.
NSE scheduled 31 October disaster recovery mock sessions across trading segments, eIPO and eOFS. These notices let members test connectivity and failover before live trading resumed.
Futures and options on six additional stocks became available on 28 October; Polycab's January 2027 contracts return on 2 November after NCLAT set aside its IBC order. Members also received revised ETF cross-margin eligibility, SLBS securities and limits, and index quantity freeze limits.
For the 8 November Muhurat session, only UCCs marked compliant by 22:00 on 7 November may trade. NSE Clearing issued a separate client collateral reporting schedule; Jindal Photo's delisting bidding and settlement notices cover the 2-6 November offer window.
Bhavcopy's FO and commodity API broadcast change moves to 23 November, while legacy Extranet and NNF Bhavcopy retirement moves to 9 January 2027. The separate SME call-auction market-making file starts on 16 November; the stock-only client position limit file change is deferred to 7 December.
Devyani International and Sapphire Foods proposed a merger of their restaurant operations. The notified transaction also includes Devyani's acquisition of 19 KFC restaurants in Hyderabad from Yum Restaurants India.
Energy-sector filings cover Aditya Birla Renewables' proposed purchase of Solenergi Power and Adani Energy Solutions' proposed purchase of IntelliSmart Infrastructure. Both proposals seek the entire share capital of their respective targets.
Minority-investment filings cover MIH Payments Holdings' proposed stake in Navi and Vega SAS's proposed 16.2% stake in Vodafone Group. These records describe proposed transactions, not completed acquisitions or CCI approvals.
A Google Brotli decoder flaw can let a remote attacker corrupt memory or execute code through a crafted compressed stream. Operators of software using the affected decoder should apply the vendor's security fixes.
Apple product vulnerabilities can allow code execution, privilege escalation, information disclosure or denial of service. Administrators should check the affected products against the advisory and install the applicable vendor updates.
GoAhead Web Server's certificate-validation flaws can let remote attackers bypass security restrictions or obtain sensitive information. The alert also identifies risks to TLS-encrypted communications.
Exporters can ship agarwood oil and chips through Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in Guwahati, subject to the applicable statutory and regulatory requirements.
Exporters seeking factoring support under EPM's Niryat Protsahan component no longer need a declaration of intent or UIN; their IEC identifies them throughout application, claim and disbursal. Factors must upload data within one month of the relevant filing trigger, and exporters must claim within two months of that upload, subject to the transitional rules.
A sub-committee was constituted for Resilience and Logistics Intervention for Export Facilitation, or RELIEF, under the Export Promotion Mission.
The captured listings include the 2026 regulatory-sandbox and licence-migration rules, alongside the 2025 standards and certification framework. Their inclusion in this feed does not establish that they were enacted during this week.
Older 2024 instruments captured in the feed cover lawful interception and temporary service suspension. They set out the relevant authority and procedural safeguards; these listings are not fresh enactments for the reporting week.
Other captured 2024 rules concern telecom cyber security, critical infrastructure, right of way and Digital Bharat Nidhi administration. The record dates should not be read as new commencement dates for these rules.
The feed also captures the 2024 amateur-radio and maritime distress-system operator rules. These concern operator certification, rather than a new licensing change announced this week.
Internet service licensees received website-blocking instructions following the Delhi High Court's interim order in Digital 18 Media's copyright case against SSRMovies.style and others.
DoT rescheduled its satellite-communications training at NCA-T, Ghaziabad, to 18-20 November 2026. Eligibility was relaxed to include all DoT Group A and Group B officers.
From 1 November, owners of non-commercial vehicles with functional FASTags who live within 20 km of a toll plaza may choose an annual local pass: Rs 1,500 outside municipal or town limits, or Rs 3,000 within them. It is valid only at that plaza and unavailable under closed-user tolling or where a service or alternative road exists.
Imported medicines must generally have at least one year of residual shelf life under amended Rule 31 of the Drugs Rules. Biological drugs and radiopharmaceuticals may be imported with at least 60% of their labelled shelf life remaining.
Registered non-profit organisations face new merger conditions under the Income-tax Rules, 2026. The organisations must have the same or similar objects, and provisionally registered organisations cannot merge with fully registered ones.
The 2026 animal-disease rules cover outbreak reporting, vaccination and carcass disposal. Village officers must report scheduled disease outbreaks to veterinarians, who must report to the State and Central Governments through the Bharat Pashudhan portal.
The fourth amendment to the Sea Cargo Manifest and Transshipment Regulations replaces the date at serial number 6 in the table after Form-XII with 31 January 2027.
ESIC clarified alternative procurement routes for medicines, consumables and implants unavailable on GeM or the DG-ESIC rate contract. These include government rate contracts, Jan Aushadhi and permitted local purchases.
The Ulhasnagar branch office relocation notice gives its new address as Rooms 52 and 53, Ground Floor, ESIS Hospital, Ulhasnagar 421003. The move took effect on 13 October, before this reporting week.
Headquarters issued an order on establishing a Human Resource Management Division and allocating its work. A separate administrative circular concerned National Unity Day observance on 31 October.
Insolvency professionals must maintain RERA compliance and display CIRP notices at real estate project and office sites within seven days of appointment. They must obtain available project records from RERA portals to support claims verification and the information memorandum.
Real estate allottees must use revised Form CA for claims filed on or after 30 October 2026. The form adds a section for their project-level information.
Designated officers and MII CISOs must obtain basic and advanced NISM cyber certification; compliance officers and specified IT staff need the basic certificate. Each is due within six months of the relevant exam launch or appointment, whichever is later.
All IIBX participants, including nominated banks, must trade as clients of a Bullion Trading Member instead of accessing the exchange directly. Existing Special Category Clients may continue direct trading only until 13 November 2026.
Existing payment system operators have six months to meet IFSCA's financial soundness criteria and must submit an annual statutory auditor certificate by 30 September. New applicants must provide the certificate with their application.
Insurers must submit FY 2024-25 and FY 2025-26 health returns through BAP, along with RET 197 for Q1 and Q2 of FY 2026-27 except for life insurers. From 2 November 2026, new and modified health product UINs and product withdrawal updates must use BAP's health product module exclusively.
The government notified a National Social Security Board for unorganised workers and gig and platform workers under the Labour Codes.
ESIC extended the New Amnesty Scheme 2025 until 31 December 2026, giving employers and insured persons more time to resolve pending cases.
Conciliation secured redeployment of 37 contract workers and ₹7.40 lakh in pending wages at a Karnataka ESIC hospital. Separate settlements covered over 10,900 Bihar Gramin Bank employees with nearly ₹78 crore in benefits, and 217 UltraTech workers in Bathinda with ₹3.36 crore.
A two-day Shram Samvad programme in Lucknow covered Labour Codes, labour welfare and social protection. NCSC-DA's Diwali Mela showcased crafts and entrepreneurship by persons with disabilities.
EPFO marked its 74th Foundation Day in New Delhi on 1 November. The ministry's releases covered the planned celebration and the minister's remarks on EPFO's service to workers.
The revised charge structure for Points of Presence under NPS and NPS Lite will apply from 1 December 2026. Central Recordkeeping Agencies must implement it from that date; the other provisions remain unchanged.
UPS pensioners can generate and submit Aadhaar-authenticated digital life certificates through UPS Jeewan Setu. Annual certificates are due by 30 November for uninterrupted monthly payouts.