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Female workforce India: the biggest growth lever the economy still leaves idle

Economy TFD Economic Research Desk TFD Economic Research Desk -
India has raised female labour force participation, but the economy still underuses women where productivity gains would be largest - in formal urban work. Childcare, safety, housing and flexible work now matter as much as headline employment policy.

Skill gap in India: why the education-to-employment pipeline still leaks

Economy TFD Economic Research Desk TFD Economic Research Desk -
India has expanded schooling and higher education, but the bridge to productive work remains weak. Thin vocational pathways, patchy apprenticeships and poor industry matching still turn qualifications into delayed earnings.

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AI-generated invoices: when scrutiny asks for provenance, not polish

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AI-generated invoices may be legally recognisable in India, but scrutiny turns on something harder than neat drafting: provenance, system control, metadata, and whether the transaction trail still holds under challenge.

Digital evidence in search cases: why metadata risk is becoming the real battleground

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Digital evidence in search cases is changing how tax disputes are built and defended. Metadata, audit trails and system history now shape the burden of explanation far more than many taxpayers realise

Section 148 vs revision vs search: which battlefield is the Department choosing now?

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Section 148 still dominates tax conversations, but reopening is no longer the Department’s only preferred battlefield. In 2025–26, revision is increasingly the cleaner weapon against weak assessments, while search has been pushed into a separate, evidence-heavy block-assessment track.

Section 263 in the new regime: cleaner drafting, same legal gate

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Section 263 has moved to section 377 under the Income-tax Act, 2025, but the real story is not the renumbering. It is the cleaner limitation machinery, tighter transition rules, and the continuing risk from weak assessment records.

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