Market-regulator Securities & Exchange Board of India (Sebi), on Tuesday, said it is looking at the need to put a check on mis-selling of mutual fund (MF) products by the distributors through a compliance certification examination.
Reserve Bank of India, in its Annual Monetary Policy, allowed four more credit information companies (CIC) to start operations. This will strengthen the credit appraisal system. Bankers felt that soon electricity bill, telephone bill and other payments would become part of the credit appraisal system that banks use before sanctioning a loan to the customer.
Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Wednesday downplayed fears that investors would lose confidence due to the row between SEBI and IRDA over market-linked insurance policies, as the issue will be resolved in favour of either one regulator or the other by the courts.
Notification No. 26/2010-Income Tax It is hereby notified for general information that the organization M.P Birla Instiute of Fundamental Research, Kolkata has been approved by the Central Government for the purpose of clause (ii) of sub-section (1) of section 35 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (said Act), read with rules 5C and 5E of the Income-tax Rules, 1962 (said Rules) from Assessment year 2009-2010 onwards in the category of ‘other Institution’ partly engaged in research activities subject to the following conditions, namely :-
(i) All banks should obtain RBI approval for IPOs. After listing on the stock exchanges, banks are free to price their subsequent issues. (ii) Issue price should be based on merchant banker’s recommendation. There need be no reference to the CCI formula for deciding on the pricing of such issues.
UP chief minister and BSP chief Mayawati on Wednesday accused the Centre and CBI of harbouring a caste bais against her and sought parity in treatment with RJD head Lalu Prasad and SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav in matters relating to disproportionate asset cases.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s November 2006 announcement of Rajat Kumar Gupta’s election to its board brimmed with the India native’s achievements: worldwide managing director of McKinsey & Co.; special adviser to the Secretary- General of the United Nations on management reform, co-chairman of the American India Foundation charity, whose honorary chair is former President Bill Clinton.
SEBI has directed foreign institutional investors to disclose more information about their investment structure in India.”It is not about FIIs investment, it is about what structures FIIs have for their investments in India,” SEBI Chairman, C B Bhave, told reporters on the sidelines of a FICCI-organised capital markets conference here on Tuesday.
With the Indian Premier League (IPL) saga getting murkier, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs on Tuesday asked the Registrar of Companies (RoC) to collect all details relating to the IPL franchises and the bidding process. In its order, the Ministry asked the RoC to get information on the memorandum of association and on franchise agreement. The RoC has been asked to submit its report within a week.
The Delhi high court has held that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) which get government funds should come under the purview of RTI Act making it mandatory for them to disclose information pertaining to their functioning. The term public authority has been given a broad meaning not only to include bodies which are owned, controlled or substantially financed directly or indirectly by the government but even NGOs, which are financed directly or indirectly by the government, justice Sanjeev Khanna said while declaring the stock exchanges as public authorities in a recent order.
