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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 ...
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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...
PSU banks should be made to bid for surplus funds with the state-owned firms, rather than getting them through a common rate of interest, the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) has said. In a communication to the Finance Ministry, the DPE has written to the Finance Ministry arguing that these banks must compete among themselves for deposits of the PSU firms, which had a surplus of about Rs 2.50 lakh crore at the end of March, 2010.
India is likely to allow foreign individuals to invest in mutual funds in the next two weeks but with a cumulative cap of USD 10 billion, an official said today. The detailed guidelines are being worked out jointly by the finance ministry, RBI and Sebi. These will be notified by the capital market regulator, the Finance Ministry official said.
Union Finance Minister, Shri Pranab Mukherjee has stressed on the need to sustain and pursue the efforts currently underway to reform the international and national policy regimes for better managing the forces of globalisation, in serving the collective well-being of people. He was speaking after inaugurating the National Banking Conclave organised by ASSOCHAM on the theme ‘Challenges and opportunities in a Trillion Dollar Economy’, here today.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested a private person in Jaipur(Rajasthan) for demanding and accepting illegal gratification of Rs.Seven Lakhs from the complainant who was facing a CBI trial case. It was alleged that the accused private person had demanded illegal gratification from the complainant on behalf of an officer who was involved in investigation of the CBI trap case, the complainant was facing.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested a Divisional Engineer of Indian Railway Service-1995 batch posted at Bhusawal Division (Maharashtra) for demanding and accepting bribe of Rs. 50,000/- (Rs. Fifty thousand only) from the complainant.
Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee has said that by announcing an increase of 25 basis points in repo rate, from the existing 7.25 per cent to 7.50 per cent, RBI has sought to maintain an interest rate environment that moderates inflation and checks inflationary expectations. The Finance Minister was reacting to the Reserve Bank of India’s Monetary Policy announcement made today.
Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee has said that the process of disinvestment of Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) through public offerings is technical in nature and requires knowledge of not only the rules and regulations laid down by SEBI and other concerned bodies but also the various processes followed by Government. He was releasing the “Handbook on Disinvestment through Public Offerings” prepared by the Department of Disinvestment of the Ministry of Finance, here today.
The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) (collectively, the Boards) have elected to formally expose their joint revenue recognition proposal for a second time because they have made significant changes to the model they proposed last year. Their decision will delay the project, possibly until September 2012, according to the staff paper presented to the Boards, but will give constituents a chance to comment on the changes.
With the losses of oil firms mounting with each passing day, Oil Minister S Jaipal Reddy today met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to push for an early decision on raising diesel and domestic LPG prices. An Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, which decides on revising rates of the sensitive products, has not met since June last year even though crude oil prices have spiralled upward by about 50 per cent.
The Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee said that core inflation in May,2011 is higher at 8.71 per cent in comparison to 7.93 per cent in April,2011 and 10.34 per cent in March 2011. Finance Minister Shri Mukherjee said that we would keep a close watch on developments, both domestic as well as international, in the coming months and make appropriate adjustments as we go along.
