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Company Law : This guide explains the legal provisions, procedural steps, and filing requirements involved in converting a public company into a...
Company Law : The article explains the legal framework governing debenture issuance under the Companies Act, 2013. It outlines the types of debe...
Company Law : Section 42 of the Companies Act, 2013 permits companies to raise funds from a select group of investors through private placement....
Company Law : The 2025 amendments significantly expand the scope of fast-track mergers by allowing more categories of companies, including eligi...
Company Law : The article explains the legal framework governing share capital and share issuance under the Companies Act, 2013. It highlights h...
Company Law : The MCA has widened CSR eligibility by recognizing subscriptions to Zero Coupon Zero Principal Instruments as a valid CSR activity...
Company Law : Provisional list of audit firms of listed companies yet to file NFRA-2 for 2023-24. Filing deadline was 30.11.2025; fines apply fo...
Company Law : ICSI recommended restoring public access to basic company master data without mandatory login requirements. The representation sta...
Company Law : The issue concerns eligibility and participation rules for the convocation. ICSI has clarified that members who do not attend will...
Company Law : NFRA introduced guidelines to evaluate audit firms’ compliance and quality control systems. The framework emphasizes governance,...
Company Law : The NCLAT held that winding-up proceedings transferred to the NCLT must satisfy the threshold applicable under the IBC at the time...
Company Law : Resolution Professional (RP) was fully justified in seeking possession through the insolvency process itself, the NCLAT affirmed t...
Company Law : The NCLAT held that unregistered profit-sharing agreements do not create leasehold or occupancy rights in immovable property. The ...
Company Law : While approving the resolution plan, NCLT clarified that exemptions relating to taxes, duties, and statutory compliances must be o...
Company Law : A Successful Resolution Applicant (SRA) could not avoid a CoC-approved resolution plan by claiming that the Letter of Intent (LoI)...
Company Law : The MCA has amended the valuation rules to require Registered Valuer Organisations to maintain a minimum paid-up capital of ₹25 ...
Company Law : The Registrar of Companies penalized the company and its authorized signatory after an incorrect document was attached with Form A...
Company Law : MCA amends Schedule VII of the Companies Act to include subscription to zero coupon zero principal instruments on Social Stock Exc...
Company Law : MCA has amended the CSR Rules to recognize zero coupon zero principal instruments issued by Social Stock Exchange-listed NPOs. The...
Company Law : ROC Mumbai held that repeated return of official notices proved non-maintenance of a registered office under Section 12(1) of the ...
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has clarified that – (i) It is not mandatory for companies to provide its directors, the facility to attend meetings through video conferencing. (ii) In respect of shareholders meetings to be held during financial year 2011-12, video conferencing facility for shareholders is optional. Thereafter, it is mandatory for all listed companies.
Speak Asia is not registered in India so we cannot do any investigation against it. MCA does not have any database of the company,” Corporate Affairs Secretary D K Mittal told reporters on the sidelines of an AIMA event here. Singapore-based Speak Asia, promoted by Hariender Kaur, was incorporated last year. So far, it only has operations in India and claims to have 19 lakh members or panelists in the country.
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs today said efforts were on to create a platform where different regulators could sit together with an aim to align regulatory overlaps for the benefit of corporates. When we have multiple regulators there has to be some way that they interact with each other so that the procedures are in line with each other. We are in the process of finalising something…, MCA Secretary D K Mittal told reporters on the sidelines of a AIMA event here.
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has decided that with effect from 12th June, 2011, all DIN-1 & DIN-4 applications has to be digitally signed by the practicing Chartered Accountants, Company Secretaries or Cost Accountants who shall also verify the particulars of the applicant given in the applications. All these applications will be approved online.
And now it is the turn of corporate India to go green and follow steps to ensure conserve nature and environment. Thanks to the green initiative taken by Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) of Central Government recently whereby the age old system of serving of document by corporates to its shareholders by physical mode under posting certificate (UPC) has been relaxed. With such a non- mandatory directive from MCA, many companies, especially the big ones with large shareholders base and those who are good governance conscious have responded to this initiative positively by requesting their shareholders to agree for electronic documents such as annual report.
From Next month you can register a company in India in 24 hours! The Union ministry of corporate affairs has set the first week of July as the target date for launching a completely digitised service that will allow anyone with all relevant documents and approvals to complete the process of registering a company in one day.
In supersession of this Ministry’s Circular No. 9/2011, dated 31-3-2011 and 25/2011 dated 12-5-2011, Ministry of Corporate Affairs hereby mandated certain class of companies to file Balance sheets and Profit and loss Account along with Director’s and Auditor’s Report for the year 2010-11 onwards by using XBRL taxonomy. The Taxonomy Business Rules, Validity tools etc. required for preparation the above documents in XBRL format as the existing Schedule VI and Accounting Standards notified under the Companies (Accounting Standards) Rules, 2006 have been prepared and hosted on the website of the Ministry at www.mca.gov.in . The Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about XBRL have been framed by the Ministry and they are being annexed as Annexure I with this circular for the information and easy understanding of the stakeholders. To enable filing on XBRL by stakeholders, MCA-21 portal will have XBRL filing module by July, 2011. Actual date will be informed separately.
In order to provide regular route for fast track exit by defunct company, for getting its name struck off from the register of companies, Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) has decided to modify the existing route through e-form 61 and has introduced Fast Track Exit mode for defunct companies under section 560 of the Companies Act, 1956. This scheme is launched to give an opportunity for fast track exit by a defunct company, for getting its name struck off from the register of companies. Such companies may make an application to the Ministry of Corporate Affairs in the eForm FTE, accompanied by filing fee of Rs. 5,000/-
No 17/143/2011-CL.V, Dated: 06.06.2011 The Ministry of Corporate Affairs is considering to issue Companies (Dematerialization of Certificates) Rules, 2011 so that all public Companies and their subsidiaries which have raised money by issue of shares, debentures, by accepting public deposits, stock, bond or any other financial instruments from public, other than from directors of the company, shall be required to issue and keep such share certificates, debenture certificates and certificates issued for receipt of deposits, stock, bond or any other financial instruments in dematerialized form only, in the manner prescribed in the Depositories Act, 1996 and regulation made there under.
The Ministry has issued General Circulars No. 27/2011 and 28/2011 dated 20.05.2011 whereby it was clarified that a shareholder or a director of the company may participate in meetings under the provisions of the Companies Act, 1956 through electronic mode. In order to have better understanding of the circular, it is further clarified as under: — (i) It is not mandatory for companies to provide its directors, the facility to attend meetings through video conferencing.
