The Government will soon start releasing monthly data on outward foreign direct investments on the lines of FDI inflow figures that it makes public regularly, according to an official.The data will be released in coordination with the Reserve Bank, w
Private higher educational institutions will have to disclose their income and expenditure in a standard format and make them public in line with corporate-style accounting and auditing norms being readied by the human resource development (HRD) min
The Direct Tax Bill has proposed to introduce a new investment scheme to avail of tax exemption. In this scheme, an investor can invest up to Rs 50,000 in life insurance policies, health insurance and children’s tuition fees. One can also invest up
The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has denied Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) the permission to initiate criminal prosecution against two income tax (I-T) officials for releasing diamonds impounded during a 2006 raid without proper orders.
There is a need to focus on single window clearance for speeding up the progress of Special Economic Zones, according to Mr D.K. Mittal, Additional Secretary, Department of Commerce, Government of India. Addressing the participants in an open house
Concerned over companies keeping under wraps their bad credit ratings and publicising only the favourable ones, market watchdog SEBI is mulling over ways to curb this ‘rating shopping’ menace. SEBI is considering making it mandatory for credit ratin
Salaries of chief executives should be capped and shareholders should have a say in managerial remunerations, a parliamentary panel on the new Companies Bill has suggested. It has asked the Corporate Affairs Ministry to develop a rational formula
Google’s methods for Internet search and ranking of websites are being scrutinised by the Texas’s Attorney General — yet another case of authorities closely looking at the core business of the company. The Attorney General’s move comes in the wake
Market regulator Sebi on Friday said that trading of shares of companies going for a merger, demerger or a change in capital structure would have to be done in a price range for the first 10 days of post-restructuring, in a move aimed at curbing vola
India’s tax collections could beat budget estimates of Rs 7.46 trillion or Rs 7.46 lakh crore (USD 160 billion) in the fiscal year to end-March 2011, Revenue Secretary Sunil Mitra said on Friday
