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Finance : This guide explains why senior travellers should review travel insurance coverage, organise medical records, and plan ahead before...
Finance : The article explains how local Indian phone numbers enhance credibility and accessibility for international businesses. It highlig...
Finance : The article explains how borrowing within your affordability and understanding total loan costs can make loan management easier. I...
Finance : The article examines how ATMs are facing cash shortages even though currency circulation is at an all-time high. It argues that ba...
Finance : mployers are increasingly migrating retirement savings from superannuation trusts to NPS due to lower costs, greater flexibility, ...
Finance : The Government has exempted interest and capital gains earned by FPIs on Government securities from income tax with effect from 1 ...
Finance : The Ministry of Finance has introduced a unified portal to help individuals search for unclaimed bank deposits, insurance claims, ...
Finance : The IFSCA clarified that retrocession and retention requirements apply to the entire gross reinsurance premium of IFSC Insurance O...
Finance : The authority observed that except life insurance, other insurance segments under IFSCA regulations align with the statutory defin...
Finance : The Ministry of Finance clarified that claims regarding monetisation of temple gold holdings or issuance of gold bonds to temples ...
Finance : The Supreme Court ruled that vicarious liability under the NI Act cannot arise solely from holding an office in a society or compa...
Finance : The Supreme Court refused relief to borrowers who defaulted from the very first instalment after availing an ₹8.09 crore loan. T...
Finance : The Supreme Court upheld a Will executed in favour of the testator’s sister despite objections from his wife and children. The C...
Finance : The Supreme Court held that insolvency proceedings under the IBC cannot be invoked merely to recover disputed dues arising from co...
Finance : The issue was whether indemnity obligations arise only after final appellate confirmation. The Supreme Court held that liability a...
Finance : IFSCA clarified that a common brand name by itself is sufficient to establish a Group Entity relationship under the ship leasing f...
Finance : IFSCA has consolidated multiple regulations and circulars into a single Master Circular for Stock Exchanges and Clearing Corporati...
Finance : IFSCA has introduced a standardized ACAR and ACAC reporting framework for Capital Market Intermediaries in IFSCs. The circular aim...
Finance : IFSCA has warned regulated entities that advanced AI models can accelerate cyberattacks by rapidly identifying and exploiting vuln...
Finance : The International Financial Services Centres Authority clarified that existing ASPs and TechFin entities continuing operations und...
Welfare spending in India suffers from misallocation: as the pair of charts show, the districts with the most poor (in red on the left) are the ones that suffer from the greatest shortfall of funds (in red on the right) in social programs. The districts accounting for the poorest 40% receive 29% of the total funding.
Against the backdrop of robust macro-economic stabiity, the year was marked by two major domestic policy developments, the passage of the Constitutional amendment, paving the way for implementing the transformational Goods and Services Tax (GST), and the action to demonetise the two highest denomination notes. The GST will create a common Indian market, improve tax […]
The Economic Survey 2016-17, which was presented today in parliament by the Finance Minister Shri.Arun Jaitly, examines whether the effects associated with the aid curse and the “natural resources curse” internationally are discernible in the context of the Indian States.
Dont put off today what you cant afford to do tomorrow. In spite of the world wide pension crisis and a growing acceptance that we must plan and save for our retirement, the harsh reality is we are actually not saving enough. Research reports reveal that only 15% of the individuals are saving sufficiently for their retired life.
Shri Arun Jaitley has said that the shares of Railway Public Sector Enterprises (PSEs) like IRCTC, IRFC and IRCON will be listed in stock exchanges. The Government will encourage strengthening the CPSEs through consolidation, mergers and acquisitions and soon create an integrated public sector ‘oil major’, he added.
General Budget 2017-18 in Parliament today said that affordable housing will now be given infrastructure status, which will enable these projects to avail the associated benefits.
In order to facilitate higher investment in affordable housing, the Finance Minister in his budget speech proposed that affordable housing will now be given infrastructure status, which will enable these projects to avail the associated benefits.
Regarding Metro Rail, the Finance Minister informed that a new Metro Rail Policy will be announced with focus on innovative models of implementation and financing, as well as standardization and indigenization of hardware and software. This will open-up new job opportunities for our youth. A new Metro Rail Act will be enacted by rationalizing the existing laws. This will facilitate greater private participation and investment in construction and operation, he added.
To check bank NPAs and enhance capital flows into the securitisation industry, Shri Jaitley said that the listing and trading of Security Receipts issued by a securitisation company or a reconstruction company under the SARFAESI Act will be permitted in SEBI registered stock exchanges.
Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley has also proposed that a Special Scheme for creating employment in leather and footwear industries will also be implemented. This will be on the line of already launched a Special Scheme for creating employment in the textile sector.
