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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...
The CBI today arrested an Assistant Director working in Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) at Ludhiana for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs. 3000/- from the complainant for processing his files relating to Duty Entitlement Pass Book (DEPB). Directorate General of Foreign Trade deals with formulation and implementation of foreign trade policy. The […]
Shri. Satish Chandra, former ITAT Member, was appointed judge of the Allahabad High Court on 6.8.2008. The appointment was challenged on the ground that he had not practiced for even a day as an advocate and that he was not eligible for appointment under Article 217(2) and Article 217(1) of the Constitution. It was also alleged that the mandatory process of consultation under the Constitution had not been followed.
Under the existing provision of clause (48) of section 2, only infrastructure capital company or infrastructure capital fund or public sector company are empowered to issue zero coupon bonds when they are authorized to do so. With a view to empower the scheduled banks including nationalized banks to issue zero coupon bonds to source their long term […]
Service tax levied on law firm Custom duty on gold re-imposed Customs duty to be reduced on drugs for heart treatment No new tax on edible oil imports 4 per cent excise duty on cotton products restored Customs duty on bio-diesel reduced Life saving devices on heart condition exempted from custom duty Small business exempt […]
Excise duty on fibre for cheaper cloth reduced service tax to be levied on law firms Excise duty on petrol-driven small trucks reduced to 10% Exemption of duty on goods made at construction sites restored Drugs for heart diseases to become cheaper Customs duty on gold and silver import increased Mobile phone accessories to become […]
First ever non-stop train service ‘Duronto’ introduced. RAILWAY BUDGET 2009-10. For the first time in the history, non-stop train service is being introduced in India. The non-stop train service ‘Duronto’ will have AC and non-AC sleepers and will run between select cities throughout the country.
No hike in passenger fares. No hike in freight rates. Book stores, PCOs to be set up across stations Infotainment services on Rajdhani and Shatabdi trains To take the private-public partnership route to develop stations Priority for food and water on trains Developing multi-functional complexes at stations Priority to passenger amenities Rail projects shouldn’t be […]
Economic growth decelerates to 6.7 per cent in 2008-09 compared to 9 per cent in 2007-08 and 9.7 per cent in 2006-07. Per capita growth at 4.6 per cent. Deceleration in growth spread across all sectors except mining and quarrying; agriculture growth falls from 4.9 per cent in 2007-08 to 1.6 per cent 2008-09. Manufacturing […]
CIRCULAR NO. 5/2009 In supersession to all circulars and instructions of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) issued on the above subject, the CBDT prescribes the following procedure to be followed before the Board for Industrial and Financial reconstruction (BIFR) and the Appellate Authority for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (AAIFR) in respect of granting Income tax reliefs/concessions to be given to sick companies for its rehabilitation under the Sick Industrial Companies (SICA) Act, 1985.
The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation will not be able to pay more than 8.5 per cent interest on PF deposits during 2009-10 as it has no reserves left following a Rs 139 crore (Rs 1.39 billion) deficit incurred last fiscal. “There are no reserves which could be used as alternative option for additional funds for giving […]
