The Central Board of Direct Taxes have ordered that any return of income for the assessment year 2008-09 filed electronically on 30 th September 2008, in respect of which the electronic acknowledgement bears the date stamp of 1 st October 2008, shall be treated as having been filed within the due date, i.e. 30 th September 2008....

ICAI is considering broadcasting 12 hour of programming a day for students and its members. It may be mentioned here that CA professionals have to take mandatory 20 hours of training every year. We feel that with increasing base of membership and students in India and overseas we need to have a mass medium. Our own channel will enable us ...

Do you wish to nominate any leader for the Corporate Awards? These awards are instituted to acknowledge Chartered Accountants in industry who have demonstrated excellence in the way in which they conduct their profession, are exemplary role models in the industry and have created value to their company's stakeholders on a sustainable basi...

This is what DOT has told to the government that any phone which doesn’t have a valid IMEI Number will be banned starting next year think they started with a date of Jan 6th and may be they will move that or extend it to March 2009. This means 13 percent of the Chinese and Korean mobile phones which either doesn’t have a valid IMEI nu...

Slow internet connections will continue till Friday, even as restoration work on two cables out of the three that had severed a few days ago is under way. In India, the latency will continue till the end of the week, even for customers who have opted for redundancy bandwidth. For those who did not opt for redundancy bandwidth, the latency...

The Reserve Bank of India has started a review of the non-performing asset or bad loan classification norms to ease the flow of credit to corporate groups. The move follows a reference from the government and is aimed at relaxing the norms temporarily to enable companies to access funds during the economic downturn that is putting pressur...

The government said on Tuesday it has no proposal to ban futures trading in more commodities. Since the Abhijit Sen Committee could not establish any definite causal relationship between futures trading and rise in prices of commodities, there is no proposal to ban futures trading in more commodities, minister of state for finance P K Ban...

The government may introduce provisions in the new direct tax code to prevent misuse of double taxation avoidance agreements India has with other countries. The new code is likely to be unveiled before the year ends. A government official said a discussion paper on the code, a major initiative undertaken under the guidance of the former f...

In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 642 read with section 6108 of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules to amend the Companies (Central Government's) General Rules and Forms, ...

No person shall, directly or indirectly, either individually or together with persons acting in concert with him, acquire and/or hold more than five per cent. of the paid up equity capital of a recognised stock exchange after commencement of these regulations, unless he is a fit and proper person and has taken prior approval of the Board...