RS passes mining Bill, minister says won't affect states' revenue

Amid Concerns over the possibility of states losing revenue from taxes, cess and other levies on mineral extraction following the passage of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026, Union Mines Minister G Kishan Reddy on Thursday said the legislation would not result in any revenue loss for states.

SC has nurtured environmental law. Do its decisions look distant today?

In the early years of Indian Independence, there was no precise environmental policy. The Constitution of India had a few provisions regarding the environment, though the word "environment" was not expressly mentioned.

In 1976, Parliament drew upon the commitment made by India at the UN Conference on Human Environment held at Stockholm. The views expressed at the Stockholm Conference form the core of the environmental philosophy of India that has found expression in various statutes and policy pronouncements. These provisions were inserted in the Constitution by the Constitution (forty-second amendment) Act, 1976 (the Amendment Act), which included Article 48A and Article 51A (g).

Rajasthan clears draft UCC Bill with a clause for live-in relations

THE RAJASTHAN Cabinet Thursday approved the draft Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill - the fifth state to do so. The Bill, aimed at regulating marriage, divorce, succession, and live-in relationships, is one of two that the Cabinet cleared for introduction in the upcoming Assembly session.

FCRA Bill: Can Joint Parliamentary Committees affect the course of legislation?

What are Parliamentary committees tasked with?

Committees were created to address a basic limitation of Parliament: the two Houses have limited time to examine an increasingly complex body of legislation and policy. Smaller committees can spend more time to examine a Bill, question officials, hear experts and stakeholders, and examine provisions clause by clause.

Goods exports surge by 20% in July, trade deficit at 6-mth high

India's Goods exports in July, driven by higher electronics and engineering items, jumped nearly 20% to $44.24 billion, but higher input costs due to the West Asia crisis also drove imports 17.51% higher to $76.22 billion, pushing the trade deficit to a six-month high of $32 billion, data re-leased by the Commerce and Industry Ministry showed on Thursday.

L&T bags order to build India's largest NVIDIA B300 Al factory

Larsen & Toubro, through its Vyoma. Al subsidiary LTN Compute, has secured a mega order to build what it called the country's largest single-cluster Al infrastructure, deploying a 10,000-GPU NVI-DIA B300 AI Factory at its Chennai data centre campus.

Manufacturing sectors need deeper localisation, tech push: NITI report

India needs to move beyond assembly-led manufacturing and focus on deeper domestic value addition in chemicals, textiles, telecom and network equipment, and solar photo-voltaic manufacturing, with sector-specific measures to address raw-material dependence, technology gaps, scale, and export competitiveness, NITI Aayog said in a new report.