Complaints against Chief Executives and Functional Directors of the :Public Sector Enterprises and CMDs and Functional Directors of Public Sector Banks and Financial Institutions whether pseudonymous or otherwise, received by the Cabinet Secretariat or the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) or the Prime Minister’s office, will be first scrutinized by the Group headed by the secretary (Coordination) in the Cabinet Secretariat.
The Parliament today passed the Employees’ State Insurance (Amendment) Bill, 2009. The Employees’ State Insurance Scheme is a welfare scheme framed for workers covered under the Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948 providing for medical benefits for the employees and their families and payment of benefits to the employees in cases of sickness, maternity and employment injury. The Scheme is applicable to power-using factories employing 10 or more persons and non-power using factories and certain other establishments employing 20 or more persons.
Foreign travellers can carry 50% more foreign exchange in cash than they could earlier. In a move towards further liberalisation of its foreign exchange policy, the Reserve Bank of India said it has increased the cash limit for foreign travel from $2,000 to $3,000 with immediate effect.
The finance ministry has rejected the petroleum ministry’s demand for giving a seven-year income tax holiday to those who win sedimentary blocks for natural gas and coal bed methane (CBM) exploration in the next round of auctions later this year.
Maharashtra Government has imposed capital value-based system to calculate property tax on buildings, lands, houses and establishments across the state. The new system has been put in effect since April 27. “The property tax would be calculated on capital value-based system for all the Municipal Corporations, Councils and local bodies,” an official from the Urban Development Department told.
The Government has said that the IPO price is fixed by the issuer based on an analysis of the quantitative and qualitative factors of the Issuer Company, market sentiments, and demand for the scrip as assessed during road shows etc. The freedom to fix the price band rests with the issuer, who generally does so in consultation with the merchant banker.
Pursuant to the decision to discontinue the EDIFAR site, SEBI, vide its circular no. CIR!CFD!DCR!3!2010 dated April 16, 2010, has advised all Stock Exchanges to carry out amendments to the Equity Listing Agreement viz omission of Clause 51 from the Listing Agreement.
The government has appointed former I-T officials or officials from the Indian Revenue Service as income-tax ombudsmen. These officers are independent of the jurisdiction of the income-tax department and hence, operate as an independent arbiter.
Narco, polygraph and brain mapping tests can no more be conducted on anyone, either an accused or a suspect, without his/her consent, the Supreme Court said Wednesday in a ruling that was hailed by activists and lawyers. A bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and Justices R.V. Raveendran and J.M. Panchal said the forcible administration of these tests was “an unwarranted intrusion into the personal liberty” of those facing criminal offences.
The feud between the two regulatory authorities, in the aftermath of sebi’s ban on ulips, has turned out to be quite a sensitive topic. In the recent days, that has, as ever so, come to be ballooned by the media into a sensational one. In that, the media has dutifully arisen to the occasion, and in its own inimitable style, spared no pains but given the widest possible publicity to the newfound hot topic with zeal and in a feverish pitch.
