Economic Times Top Stories

• Hindustan Unilever names ex-Hero MotoCorp boss Niranjan Gupta as CFO
• A $3.7B industry in flux: Real money gaming firms brace for legal battles
• Board Audit Committee – Boon or Bane?
• JioFinance Rs 24 Tax Filing Sparks Accuracy, Data Privacy Concerns; Experts See CA Shift and Cross-Selling Business Model
• The Road to Steady Income: Why InvITs Should Be a Part of Your Portfolio
• Why India Must Redefine Risk and Cost in the New Global Tech Economy
• New audit rules for digi-first companies soon: ICAI president
• Government may scrap GST on health, life insurance under GST 2.0 reforms
• GST Rationalisation Can Ignite Private Capex Cycle, Say Economists
• 79 Years of Freedom, But Are India’s Auditors Truly Independent?

Economic Times

• Hindustan Unilever names ex-Hero MotoCorp boss Niranjan Gupta as CFO
• Still avoiding PVs in auto and FMCG, negative on IT; hospitality a better play on GST: Dinshaw Irani
• JSW Sarbloh Motors forms JV with Tomcar USA for production of ATV in India
• Riding high on Wegovy, Novo Nordisk doubled its workforce. Now layoffs loom
• EAM Jaishankar roots for increased Indian exports of agri, pharma to Russia
• Rajya Sabha passes Online Gaming Bill amid opposition protests
• Shadow fleet: How secret ships beat Western oil sanctions
• Nazara’s ₹800 crore PokerBaazi bet at risk of being written off
• GoM accepts Centre’s GST proposal, to recommend scrapping of 12%, 28% slabs
• Sell India, buy China, Korea! Dalal Street now largest underweight for EM investors

CA Club India

• CBDT Notifies Revised Form 10CCF for IFSC Insurance Businesses
• CBDT Seeks Industry Feedback on Crypto Tax Rules, Signals Possible New VDA Law
• Centre Plans Shift of Goods from 12% to 5% GST Slab, Revenue Loss Pegged at Rs 80,000 Crore
• Online Gaming Bill 2025 Tabled in Lok Sabha: Ban on Money Games, Push for E-Sports and Social Gaming
• Smartphone Industry Seeks GST Cut to 5% for Boosting Demand and Affordability
• CBIC Extends GSTR-3B Due Date Filing for July 2025 in Select Maharashtra Districts
• CBDT Notifies New Salary and Income Thresholds Under Section 17 of Income Tax Act
• GST 2.0 Overhaul: Govt Considers Reducing GST on Insurance from 18% to 5% or Nil
• No Proposal to Impose Fees on UPI: Finance Ministry Reaffirms in Lok Sabha
• Income Tax Department Recovers Rs 3,588 Crore, But 59,352 Audit Cases Remain Unsettled: CAG

BBC News

• UK's third-largest steelworks collapses into government control
• Record 111,000 UK asylum applications in past year, figures show
• Councillor's wife jailed for race hate social media post released from prison
• Russia launches biggest wave of strikes on Ukraine for weeks
• Game of Thrones star Kristian Nairn withdraws from Strictly with stress
• Appeals court throws out Trump's $500m civil fraud penalty
• Hundreds of thousands of Grok chats exposed in Google results
• Tube staff to strike over pay and work conditions
• Palestinians flee Gaza City districts as Israel says first stages of offensive have begun
• Average five-year mortgage at lowest level since 2023