Cabinet approves changes in guidelines on investments from countries sharing land border with India

• Union Cabinet on 10 March 2026 amended India's FDI Policy on Press Note 3 (PN3) of 2020 — the regime that mandates prior government approval for FDI from countries sharing a land border with India.
• Introduces a definitive 60-day timeline for processing PN3 approval proposals in specified critical-manufacturing sectors.
• Significant for UPSC: intersects GS-II (India-China relations, neighbourhood) and GS-III (FDI policy, economy, manufacturing, EoDB).