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Building the Missing Middle Piece: The Case for Micro-Hospitals in India

Summary: India’s healthcare delivery has long been shaped by two extremes: small clinics offering basic consultation and large corporate hospitals delivering advanced tertiary care. Micro-hospitals, typically comprising 15 to 75 beds, have emerged as the “missing middle”, combining lean infrastructure, digital diagnostics, and a sharper focus on patient experience. This blog examines the rationale for the micro-hospital model, its operational and economic advantages, and the extensive regulatory framework that governs hospital establishments of any size in India today.

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Scaling India’s Drone Ecosystem

Summary: India’s drone sector is pivoting from an assembly-led model to an innovation-led ecosystem. While drone import prohibitions did not completely restrict assembly of imported components, evolving regulations and policies increasingly favour indigenous design, IP ownership and domestic manufacturing. This blog analyses the impact of the proposed Defence Acquisition Procedure 2026, investor expectations and localisation requirements, which point towards a future where companies that own technology, build resilient supply chains and manufacture will be best positioned for growth.

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FIG Paper No. 62 (VDA Series 12): Regulating Virtual Digital Assets: Global Trends and India’s Emergent Supervisory Architecture

Summary: India’s approach to regulating virtual digital assets (VDA) is evolving from fragmented enforcement towards a structured supervisory framework. This aligns with global trends in the US, UK and EU, of adopting activity-based regimes focused on governance, disclosure, consumer protection and stablecoin oversight. In India, parliamentary consultations, enhanced tax reporting, and increased enforcement actions signal a maturing regulatory outlook. The FIG Paper provides guidance to VDA businesses on navigating India’s current supervisory and enforcement developments whilst preparing for future regulation.

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Draft Foreign Exchange Management (Foreign Investment) Rules, 2026: Hits and misses

Summary: The draft FEMA (Foreign Investment) Rules, 2026, propose to replace the NDI Rules with a consolidated framework, introducing reworked thresholds, a broader pledge regime, relaxed gift norms, and recalibrated pricing requirements. This article attempts to analyse some of the key hits and misses, in comparison to the NDI Rules.

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A New Chapter in Settlement Regime: A Closer Look at the Draft Settlement Regulations, 2026

Summary: SEBI issued a Consultation Paper on August 14, 2026, proposing complete overhaul of the existing settlement mechanism through the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Settlement of Proceedings) Regulations, 2026. This post discusses the rationale behind SEBI revisiting the settlement framework and outlines the key changes proposed for public consultation.

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The Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026: Key Changes and Implications

Summary: This blog examines the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026, passed by both Houses of the Parliament on August 13, 2026. The bill has two principal objectives: (i) extending Union regulatory control to mineral-bearing lands and (ii) introducing a new provision that prohibits Indian states from levying any kind of imposition on mineral rights or mineral-bearing lands except under Central Government-prescribed conditions. The provision also gives retrospective relief as it invalidates unpaid and unrecovered dues and bars the refund of amounts already collected. The blog identifies key analytical concerns and analyses the bill’s constitutional sustainability, concluding that its intended outcome is riddled with procedural and constitutional challenges.

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Corporate Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026 and the Parliamentary Committee Report: An Open Road to Home

Summary: This blog examines the Corporate Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026, and the Parliamentary Committee’s recommendations that make India’s corporate restructuring regime more time-bound and predictable. It covers the new statutory “reverse flip” route allowing foreign-incorporated subsidiaries of Indian promoters to redomicile into the IFSC, refinements to merger and amalgamation provisions including cross-border merger carve-outs and a 60-day deemed-approval timeline for fast-track mergers, and the changes to the buyback process. Together, these reforms signal a shift toward treating restructuring, capital management and cross-border mobility as legitimate business activity rather than a regulatory obstacle course.

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Tightening the net around safety & security compliances for schools

Summary: The article explores how school safety and security compliance in India is moving from a general framework to increasingly detailed and strictly enforced regulations across different states. It also examines the implications of these changes for schools in the future. We further cover practical tips for schools, emphasising how to integrate compliance into a continuous, institution-wide process through consistent awareness, well-documented SOPs, and regular audits.

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Summary:  In Array BioPharma Inc. v Deputy Controller of Patents, the Delhi High Court set aside the Controller’s refusal of Array BioPharma’s combination patent application and remanded it for fresh consideration.  The Court held that the Controller had wrongly applied Section 3(d) to a combination of independent active agents, and incorrectly treated a product claim as a method-of-treatment claim. The ruling reinforces that combination patent claims must be assessed on proper inventive-step reasoning tied to the closest prior art and that Section 3(d) does not bar combinations of distinct, independently active pharmaceutical (or agrochemical) agents, giving innovators a stronger footing in defending multi-component combination inventions in India.

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Summary: SEBI has recently proposed an overhaul of the Portfolio Managers Regulations, opening doors that have stayed shut until now. Discretionary portfolio managers may soon be allowed to invest in pre-IPO securities and unlisted debt, while portfolio managers more broadly may be permitted to invest in overseas markets. A new, low-entry “MF-PMS” category is proposed for mutual-fund-only portfolios, alongside looser derivative limits for discretionary portfolio management and a fresh route for independent fund managers to operate under registered PMS players. But it’s not just about new investment avenues, Principal Officer qualifications, net worth requirements, and even the definition of “related party” are all set to change too. If implemented, these reforms could reshape how discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management services operate in India, making the industry more innovative and investor-friendly.

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