Making out a case for extension of the popular incentive scheme – DEPB – for Indian exporters, Commerce Minister Anand Sharma today said he will take up the issue with Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on his return to New Delhi. I am one who is not subscribing to this view that our exports have reached a stage where we can do away with some of the incentives…I am going to discuss DEPB and interest rates with the Finance Minister.
Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar today said the government will take a final view on lifting the export ban on wheat and non-basmati rice after assessing foodgrains requirement under the proposed National Food Security Act.Last month, Pawar had said that the government should give a serious thought on allowing export of wheat and non-basmati rice, banned in February 2007 and April 2008, respectively, as FCI has foodgrains stock higher than the buffer norm.
Market regulator Sebi today directed Purshottam G Budhwani , a broker involved in the infamous IPO scam of 2003-05, to deposit over Rs 9.39 crore on unlawful gains made by him. In case of failure to deposit the amount within 45 days, Budhwani shall be barred from the securities market for nine years, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) said in an order.
Due to paucity of accommodation in some Zones opted by the candidates in the cities of Chennai, Indore, Bangalore and Hyderabad some of the candidates have been allotted examinations centres in other zones of the said cities where the accommodation is available. In view of this, it is not possible to accede to the requests of the candidates for transfer to an examination centre in a particular zone of the city opted by them.
Union Finance Minister, Shri Pranab Mukherjee has said that the counterfeiting of our currency is a matter of great concern for the Government. The Finance Minister said that with a view to check this menace of fake currency, an exercise for introduction of security features in all denominations of Indian Bank Notes is under way. This is being piloted by Directorate of Currency, Ministry of Finance, the Minister added. Shri Mukherjee urged all concerned to have this task completed at the earliest in a given time frame.
The government will soon finalise the roadmap to raise a whopping Rs 40,000 crore through disinvestment during the current fiscal. It will include sale of equity in blue chip companies like SAIL and ONGC. “Cabinet has so far given approval for the disinvestment of four state-run firms – PFC , SAIL, ONGC and HCL . We are in talks with various ministries and working on a roadmap that should be finalised by June-end,” Department of Disinvestment additional secretary Siddharth Pradhan told PTI.
The Reserve Bank of India today placed on its website the Report of the Working Group on Introduction of Financial Holding Company Structure in India (Chairperson: Smt. Shyamala Gopinath). Comments on the Report may please be emailed or forwarded by end-June 2011 to the Chief General Manager-in-Charge, Department of Banking Operations and Development, Reserve Bank of India, Central Office, Mumbai 400 001.
Rajiv Kumar, a well-known economist, has been appointed as the FICCI secretary general, a post vacated by Amit Mitra who has joined the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal as finance minister.
Five corporate honchos, including Unitech Group MD Sanjay Chandra and Group MD of Reliance ADAG Gautam Doshi, will remain in jail in the 2G case with the Delhi High Court today dismissing their bail pleas, saying the gravity of offence itself is sufficient to deny bail.
ACIT Vs M/s Tube Investments of India Ltd. (ITAT Chennai) – A perusal of the terms and conditions as also the invoices as found in the paper book clearly shows that sales tax and excise duty had been collected on the supply of materials by the vendors to the assessee. In these circumstances, in view of the finding of the Hon’ble Supreme Court in the case of Silver Oak Laboratories P. Ltd. in S.L.P. No. 18012/2009 dated 17-08-2010, referred to supra, we are of the view that the transaction involved in the present case is a contract for sale and not a contract for carrying out any works.
