The Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) has notified the procedures for claiming the duty credits under the Status Holder Incentive Scheme (SHIS). He has also issued a Policy Circular clarifying listing of supporting manufacturers in the duty credit scrips. He needs to clarify an important confusion regarding realisation of foreign exchange.
Hyderabad court on Friday dismissed the petitions of two accused in the multi-crore Satyam fraud case seeking issuance of directions to the CBI to defreeze their saving bank accounts. Dismissing the petitions of former Price Waterhouse auditors — S Gopalkrishnan and Talluri Srinivas who sought defreezing of their bank accounts, special judge BVLN Chakravarti considered CBI’s contention that further investigations is pending in the case at this stage.
The government plans to tighten investment norms for non-resident Indians (NRI) in companies to ensure that they do not violate foreign direct investment (FDI) sectoral caps or enter areas where such investment is banned. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has also mooted a proposal to withdraw the special status given to NRIs for investing in sectors such as aviation, housing and real estate.
Corporate Affairs Ministry today said it is looking into all IPL franchises in the face of the controversy over team owners, a move that is in tandem with I-T probe into source of funding of the games body. Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said his ministry would find out “the rules of engagement” of all IPL franchises.
Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid today said the Registrar of Companies has to judge if Rendezvous Sports had violated any procedures in its foray into the Indian Premier League cricket. “That is not for me to judge. If there are any violations, these are to be judged by the Registrar of Companies as they are the ones who monitor companies and it is their jurisdiction,” Khurshid told reporters here.
Investors spend time on their investments, mostly on the selection of options for their portfolio. However, little attention is paid to another area of equal importance, the paperwork related to the investment. Inadequate attention to this area can lead to a situation where the entire investment is stalled. The several details that need completing can range from just completing the nomination form in the investment to ensuring the bank account details are given to the investing institution.
Tightening the noose around the audit companies having arrangements with global firms, the accounting regulator ICAI has sought details of their tie-ups with MNCs to check surrogate practices. The decision to seek tie-up details from CA firms, especially those associated with the Big 4– PWC, Ernst & Young, KPMG and Deloitte–follows a report by an Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) committee on the multi-crore Satyam scam.
Reserve Bank of India is likely to squeeze money supply and make borrowings costlier further in its monetary policy on Tuesday to tame inflation which has come close to ten per cent, say bankers. The apex bank, however, may not aggressively tighten the monetary policy and is likely to resort to only a moderate 0.25 per cent hike in short-term borrowing rates and mandatory bank deposits with RBI, bankers said.
Many in this country including the corporates are closely watching the IPL controversy and it had led Mr.Shari Tharoor to submit his resignation. There are many interesting issues in the entire episode and I want to highlight few issues as a classic example of complications in dealing with corporate issues.
Their letter expressing a desire to quit owing to the government’s indifference will not cost two doctors their job, thanks to a Bombay high court order. The state government had challenged an order of the Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal (MAT) on January 19 this year allowing two doctors, from the department of obstetrics and gynecology of the JJ Hospital at Byculla, to return to their jobs by holding that the “resignations tendered by the applicants (the two doctors) were under duress and by way of frustration.”
