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| | | | India's Telecommunication Cyber Security (TCS) Amendment Rules, 2025, require messaging apps to implement continuous SIM-based authentication and six-hour auto-logouts to prevent cross-border fraud. | | | | | The Indian government has expanded the national export-control framework by adding ‘Category 7’ to the Special Chemicals, Organisms, Materials, Equipment, and Technologies, (SCOMET) list, bringing advanced technologies such as semiconductors and related software under a formal licensing regime. | | | | | Beginning November 12, 2025, the state of Karnataka requires employers to provide women employees with one paid menstrual leave day per month, strengthening workplace welfare standards and adding new compliance and HR obligations for businesses. | | | | | Modern businesses operate within increasingly complex financial ecosystems, making fraud prevention and investigative clarity more critical than ever. Forensic accounting in India plays a strategic role in enhancing governance, managing risk, and ensuring resilient operations. | | | | | The newly notified Code on Wages, 2019 streamlines wage compliance by introducing universal minimum wages, a unified definition of “wages,” and stricter payment standards – creating a more predictable labor framework for CEOs, investors, and employers. | | | | | The Social Security Code, 2020, has been notified, marking a major shift in India’s labor and social protection landscape. It simplifies compliance, standardizes wage definitions, expands EPF and ESIC coverage, and formally brings gig and platform workers under social security for the first time. | | |
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