Retirement fund body EPFO will not take into account the past performance of previously engaged ICICI Pru, HSBC AMC, SBI and Reliance Capital while finalising the new asset management companies (AMCs) for managing its Rs 3 lakh crore corpus. Since the returns on investment provided by four fund managers was above the bench mark level of 8.52 per cent, past performance as EPFO’s fund manager would not be given any weightage while making fresh appointments, a source privy to the development told PTI.
Annual Confidential Reports of government officials are not personal information and they should be provided to the public under the Right to Information Act, the Central Information Commission has held.The case relates to RTI applicant V R Sharma who had sought detail of ACRs of about 17 officials including his own, but the Labour Ministry allowed him access to only his ACR.
The Government today said financial reporting in the new technology format XBRL will enable regulators to keep a better vigilance over activities of companies. Speaking at an ICSI seminar on eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), the Corporate Affairs Secretary, Mr D.K. Mittal, said: We the regulators need to know what is happening and an environment has to be created where every information is available and XBRL is a solution to this’
A bank cannot be compelled to provide loan under any law or procedure to a consumer and the latter cannot demand compensation for expenses incurred in applying for the process, the Delhi State Consumer Forum has ruled. Under no law and procedure, a bank can be compelled to give loan, and that is what the complainant wants. If in the process of furnishing documents, some expenses have been incurred by him, as argued, he can not be entitled to the compensation, Justice Barkat Ali Zaidi said.
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is considering allowing companies to allocate the unused quota in public offers exclusively to retail investors. The move is expected to further increase retail participation in government offers where the employee quota is usually undersubscribed while retail is oversold because of good pricing. “A proposal is under examination,” a SEBI official told ET.
Under flak for the new Internet rules which are being interpreted as an attack on privacy of a user, the government while clarifying the rules questioned the why critics were silent when the draft rules were opened for public opinion. R Chandrashekhar, Secretary in the Department of Information Technology, in an interaction with PTI said views from all stakeholders were taken and the best practices prevalent globally were incorporated in the new rules.
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) will continue to enjoy the power of telephone tapping despite a strong recommendation by a Committee of Secretaries against it following a controversy in the wake of the Niira Radia episode. “The CBDT will continue to have the power of phone tapping subject to certain conditions,” an official said.
The Shamshabad airport police here have registered a case of extortion against two inspectors of the Customs department after a woman passenger accused them of demanding bribe from her, police said today. The woman, who landed at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (Shamshabad) from Dubai yesterday, lodged a complaint with the police alleging that the two inspectors, identified as Vinod Kumar and Ali Khan, of the Customs demanded Rs 7,000 from her as ‘fine’ to allow her to take a gold ornament of 50 gm that she was carrying in her bag.
In the backdrop of banks’, including State Bank of India’s, rising non-performing assets, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said their asset quality is a matter of concern. The asset quality of the banks is a matter of concern. Banks have to bring down their NPA levels to the pre-crisis levels which have gone up in the last year considerably,” Mukherjee at the annual general meeting of the Indian Banks’ Association here.
Following is the address of the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh at release of Report to the People 2010-11: We are meeting here again to present our Report to the People. I have viewed this initiative as a symbol of our commitment to transparency and accountability in governance. The United Progressive Alliance has offered seven years of political stability, social progress, communal harmony, economic growth and increased engagement with nations around the world.
