Economic Times Top Stories

• NFRA flags widespread audit failures across big firms; questions gaps in independence, related-party checks
• NFRA flags ‘gross negligence’ across marquee company audits as major red flags go unreported
• Nestlé India CFO Svetlana Boldina to step down, successor to be announced soon
• IndiGo’s Governance Gap: How a two-year compliance risk slipped through
• Rupee at lifetime low pushes India Inc to widen hedging bands amid US tariff shock and weak FPI flows
• Top Direct Tax Changes of 2025: Year of simpler taxes and lower compliance burden
• IndiGo Crisis: The Danger of Duopolies
• Rupee may slip beyond 90 if US trade deal not sealed: Experts
• RBI may need to inject further '2 lakh crore to let rates transmit
• Govt tells banks to flag adverse info on top executives

Economic Times

• JPMorgan set to open first new India branch in nearly a decade
• World’s biggest brands are testing their tricks in India first
• Boat auditors flag mismatch in financial statements filed with lenders
• GoKwik appoints former Amazon leader Atul Bansal as head of marketing
• RBI wants groups to untie their NBFC knots
• RBI may maintain repo rate at 5.25% through FY27: Fitch
• India’s capital markets defy low-income barriers as 13 crore investors take a ‘leap of faith’: NSE CEO
• Rupee weakens as corporate dollar outflows eclipse Fed boost
• Fed’s rate cut well received by global markets: Mitul Kotecha
• CAs play crucial role in effective implementation of GST: Official

CA Club India

• Centre Tightens GST E-Way Bill Rules After CAG Highlights Technical Loopholes
• GST Rates Reduced for Multiple Goods and Services: Centre Explains Rationale
• CBIC Confirms GST Rate Cut Benefits Reaching Consumers: Govt Issues Revised Pricing Orders
• GST Reforms Deliver Positive Impact: Collections Rise After New Two-Rate Structure
• Centre Flags Alarming Rise in Fake GST Firms: Rs 58,772 Crore Detected in FY 2024-25
• Income Tax Disputes Cross 5 Lakh Cases: Centre Shares Five-Year Pendency Data
• Rs 72.84 Lakh ITC Fraud: State Tax Dept Files FIR Against Fake Firm in Bareilly
• Income Tax Act 2025: New ITR Forms to Be Issued Before 2027-28
• Parliament Approves Health and National Security Cess on Pan Masala Units
• ITAT Ahmedabad Restores NRI's Appeal Despite 621-Day Delay Due to Wrong Email Notices

BBC News

• 'Super flu' wave hits hospitals in England with no peak yet
• Four charts that show how flu outbreak is different this winter
• From Iran to China to Venezuela - how tanker seized by US hid true location
• 'Monumental betrayal' - cheapest World Cup final ticket to cost £3,119
• Watch: Cameras on killer whales record first evidence of joint hunt with dolphins
• Hundreds of items taken in 'high value' Bristol Museum archive raid
• Huge undersea wall dating from 5000 BC found in France
• Residents' anger as illegal waste dumps appear near homes
• Sir Chris Hoy breaks leg in 'worst' crash of his life while riding mountain bike
• Sandie Peggie says 'I will not give up legal fight' in trans doctor row