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Shri Murli Deora, Union Minister for Corporate Affairs and Shri R.P.N. Singh, Minister of State for Corporate Affairs had an Interactive Session with corporate India on the initiatives of Ministry of Corporate Affairs, namely, Companies Bill and Inte Full Article

The 5th meeting of the Indo-UK Task Force on Corporate Affairs was held here today. It was co-chaired by Shri R. Bandyopadhyay, Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs and Shri Martin Donnelly, Permanent Secretary, Department of Business, Innovation Full Article

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) should not be made mandatory for companies, Sunil Mittal, Chairman of India's telecom giant Bharti Airtel, said. "Voluntary compliance are always better than forced, companies who do not want to do it forcefully Full Article

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The new Companies Bill, which is likely to be tabled in the Winter Session of Parliament, will contain provisions to rule out a recurrence of the Satyam episode which shattered the confidence of India Inc, Minister of State for Corporate Affairs Salm Full Article

To prevent misuse of class action suits, the new Companies Act may specify a minimum number of shareholders or creditors of companies for exercising the right to file such cases, the Corporate Affairs Minister, Mr Salman Khurshid, has said. This is a major change from the current position on class action suits as mentioned in the Companies Bill, 2009, which is now before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance. Full Article

On 22 January 2010, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) issued a press release setting out the roadmap for International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) convergence in India. The roadmap requires IFRS to be made applicable in a phased manner. This is an historic step that will elevate Indian entities and their finance and accounting professionals to much greater heights. The publication of the roadmap was eagerly awaited by those who have been saying that the co.. Full Article

The Core Group, constituted by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs for convergence of Indian Accounting Standards with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) from April, 2011, that held its meeting on 11th January 2010 agreed that in view of the roadmap for achieving convergence, there will be two separate sets of Accounting Standards u/s Section 211(3C) of the Companies Act, 1956. Full Article