Liquor baron Ponty Chadha today refuted reports that cash to the tune of Rs 100 crore has been seized from a mall owned by him in Noida near here during searches carried out by the Income Tax officials. In a statement, Wave Infratech owned by him said widespread rumours and wrong information have been circulated to tarnish the image of the group with ‘malafide intention’.
We have come across an instance, where loans and advances have been sanctioned to the relative of a Director of a bank, at a concessional rate of interest, thereby circumventing the spirit of the restrictions contained under Section 20 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949. The matter has, therefore, been examined by us and it has been decided that the restrictions as contained in Section 20 of the Act would apply to grant of loans and advances to spouse and minor/dependent children of the Directors of banks.
Please refer to our circular DBOD.No.BP.BC.69/08.12.001/2010-11 dated December 23, 2010 on “Housing loans by commercial banks – LTV ratio, risk weight and provisioning” wherein it was advised that in order to prevent excessive leveraging, the LTV ratio in respect of housing loans should not exceed 80 per cent. However, for small value housing loans i.e. for loans below Rs. 20 lakh (which are classified as priority sector advances) the LTV ratio should not exceed 90 per cent.
Laxman Das took over as the new chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) on Wednesday. The former chairman of the CBDT, M C Joshi, retired yesterday.
We advise that the name of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited has been included in the Second Schedule to the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 by notification DBOD.IBD.No./8136/ 23.03.026/2011-12 dated December 01, 2011 published in the Gazette of India (Part III- Section 4) dated December 31, 2011.
The Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee said that the modern customs administration should function on the principles of transparency, predictability, strong legal processes and productive use of information technology to serve the stake holders efficiently and to enhance the competitiveness of Indian business. The Finance Minister, Shri Mukherjee was addressing the retired and serving officers of Customs and Central Excise, representatives of trade and industry and senior officers of the Ministry of Finance at a function organized, here today to celebrate “50 years of the Customs Act 1962
The Institute of Company secretaries of India ( ICSI), a premier National Professional body established by Act of Parliament to develop and regulate the Profession of Company Secretaries has launched a new syllabus for CS Foundation Programme today, at New Delhi. The CS Foundation programme consists of four papers viz., Business Environment and Entrepreneurship; Business Management, Ethics and Communication; Business Economics; Fundamentals of Accounting and Auditing.
The revision of syllabus is a process in continnum, to nurture the students in terms of capacity building, knowledge grinding and skills development. The evolving corporate environment and regulatory regime including expansion of globalization and the advancement in technology necessitated the revision of syllabus to make it contemporary. It was in this backdrop that the council of the Institute constituted Syllabus Review Committee with the objective to evaluate the existing syllabus from the perspective of demands and expectations of the corporate, regulators and other stakeholders and re-draw the syllabus to make it more robust, and highly focused to bring it at par with the emerging global trends in professional education.
List of Applications for supply of Certified Copies/Inspection of Answer Books of November, 2011, CA Final Examination received by the Examination Department. Final Examination November, 2011 – Download List
Pursuant to the decision taken by 271st council meeting held on 24th September 2011, the Practical Training scheme for the students registered under Revised Syllabus 2008 (Registered for Intermediate course on or after 01.01.2008), stands modified to the extent as mentioned below:
