Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee will call on Vietnamese Prime Minister during his two days visit to Hanoi, Vietnam beginning tomorrow i.e. 3rd May, 2011. Finance Minister Shri Mukherjee is visiting Hanoi in order to attend 44th Board of Governors’ Annual Meet of Asian Development Bank (ADB). Shri Mukherjee will leave tomorrow afternoon and will return on the night of 5th May, 2011. During his bilateral meeting with Vietnamese Prime Minister , both the leaders are likely to discuss matters of mutual interest .India has granted Market Economy.
(7A) in cases where the Government of India enters into agreements or treaties with other sovereign Governments and where such agreements or treaties specifically recognize certain entities to be distinct and separate, the Board may, during the validity of such agreements or treaties, recognize them as such, subject to conditions as may be specified by it.
No.F.10/9/2008-IR Dated April 26, 2011 Right to Information (Regulation of Fee and Cost) Rules, 2005 provide that a person seeking information under the RTI Act. 2005 can make payment of fee for obtaining information by cash or demand draft or banker’s cheque or Indian Postal Order. It has been brought to the notice of this Deportment that some pubic authorities do not accept fee through the Indian Postal Orders.
Inflation is expected come down to 7.78 per cent this month on the back of a good monsoon and an increase in the area under rabi crops, the Institute of Economic Growth said in a report. In June, inflation is likely to further come down to 7.38 per cent, it said. Headline inflation for March stood at 8.98 per cent. Inflation in the country has been above 8 per cent since February, 2010.
Service tax on Restaurant Service and Short term accommodation Service. Restaurant Service has been made taxable to service tax w.e.f. 1st May 2011. This levy is covered by section 65(105)(zzzzv) read with notification No. 1/2006-Service Tax, dated the 1st March, 2006, as amended by Notification No.34/2011 – Service Tax 25th April, 2011. The scope of the service is defined as services provided to any person, by a restaurant, by whatever name called, having facility of air-conditioning in any part of the establishment, at any time during the financial year, which have license to serve alcoholic beverages, in relation to serving of food or beverages, including alcoholic beverages or both, in its premises.
Government will come out with a strategy in next few days to double the country”s export to USD 450 billion by 2014. Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said that within next three days, the government will come out with the “final strategy” for doubling the export in next three years.
With an aim to rein in cases of over-pricing and over-hyping of IPOs by merchant bankers, market watchdog Sebi wants them to tell the investors about their past record in handling the public offers and also keep the prices at realistic levels. Sebi has expressed its displeasure in very clear terms to the merchant bankers over the cases where IPOs have been priced in such a manner that there is little left on table for the public investors in terms of potential returns, a senior official said.
The department has purchased or acquired many such real estate infrastructure in cities like Kanpur and Allahabad, Panchkula (Haryana), Bangalore, Allapuzha (Kerala), Ahmedabad and Gaya recently and is set to acquire more such land and creation of new infrastructure in the current fiscal. It is also in the process of creating new Aaykar Sampark Kendras (ASKs) — a single window office for taxpayers while dealing with I-T department — in various cities at the cost of crores of rupees.
Faced with stubborn inflation, RBI is likely to raised key policy rates by at least 25 basis points in its annual credit policy for 2011-12 to be announced on Tuesday to arrest the rate of price rise, say bankers. “Given the macro economic conditions, it is expected that the RBI would hike rates by at least 25 basis points to curb inflationary expectations,” Indian Overseas Bank Chairman and Managing Director M Narendra told PTI.
Companies will have to maintain a data bank of email addresses of its members and shareholders, the ministry said, adding that the shareholders should be given enough time and opportunity to get their email-ids registered, and also convey if there are any changes in such addresses. Further, companies will have to make sure that these documents are displayed on its website well before the mandatory period and also issue advertisements in English and vernacular newspapers about the availability of such documents on its website.
