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The Chamber of Small Industry Associations (COSIA) has requested the Centre to extend the the Duty Entitled Pass Book (DEPB), a tax refund scheme for exporters, by another three years. The renewal of the DEPB was absolutely essential to meet the export target, M R Khambete, President of the city- headquartered COSIA, said in a release here.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said 73,000 villages in the country would have banking facility by next year. By March 31, 2012, banking facility will be available in 73,000 villages across the country going by the current pace of work, Mukherjee said after inaugurating a Punjab National Bank (PNB) branch at Talai under Raghunathganj police station area in Murshidabad district.
Software icon N R Narayana Murthy on Saturday backed Anna Hazare’s movement against corruption and favoured the Prime Minister and the judiciary coming under the ambit of the Lokpal bill. The chairman and chief mentor of Infosys also supported the people taking to streets demanding an end to corruption.
India’s exports have registered a growth of 56.9% during May 2011, at US $ 25.9 billion. Interacting with the media persons here today, Shri Rahul Khullar, Commerce Secretary, informed that during the period April-May 2011, exports have reached a level of US $ 49.8 billion at a growth of 45.3% while the imports were US $ 73.7 billion with a growth of 33.3% and a trade deficit of US $ 23.9 billion, during the same period. During the interaction, Shri Khullar informed that India’s imports in May 2011 were US $ 40.9 billion. He further clarified that the import figures are only the rough estimates and the final figure is subject to change. Balance of trade for the month of May 2011 stood at – 15 billion US dollar.
The Supreme Court has ruled that omissions in the statements of witnesses creating serious doubts about truthfulness of the testimony should be discarded as it is unsafe to convict a person based on that. Where the omissions amount to a contradiction, creating a serious doubt about the truthfulness of the witness and other witnesses also make material improvement while deposing in the court, such evidence cannot be safe to rely upon.
The Collection of Statistics Act, 2008 was enacted by the Parliament on 7th January 2009. It was brought into force on 11th June 2010. The Act repealed the Collection of Statistics Act, 1953. Rules under the Act, namely, the Collection of Statistics Rules, 2011 were notified on 16th May 2011.
The Committee of Secretaries (COS) in its meeting held on 10th May, 2011 approved the release of the new series of Index of Industrial Production (IIP) with 2004-05 as its base and directed that the new series of IIP may be released for the month of April, 2011onwards. Accordingly IIP new series is released today i.e 10th June, 2011, which is the Quick Estimate (QE) of IIP for the month of April, 2011. The time series indices for the period of April, 2005 to March, 2011 are also released along with the QE of April, 2011 index. Though the Q.E. of the IIP pertaining to the old series of IIP (Base: 1993-94=100) is also made available through this Ministry’s website for comparison and academic purposes, the same will be discontinued from the month of September, 2011 onwards. In other words, the Q.E. of IIP pertaining to 1993-94 series will be provided only upto the month of August, 2011, which will be the Q.E. of IIP for the month of June, 2011.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a case against the then certain officers of MTNL and other unknown private persons of a Noida- based Private Company dealing in Optical Fibre Transmission U/s 120-B IPC and 13(2) r/w 13(1)(d) of Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 on the allegations that MTNL awarded the work of broadcast network based on IP/MPLS Technology at an exorbitant price of approx. Rs.570.12 crores by manipulating the specification in such a manner as to make them tailor made for the said bidder to the said private company.
The Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) on Wednesday said account details would be available online from July 1. You can watch the account balance of your PF online from July 1, Assistant PF Commissioner Kanchan Roy said at an interactive session at Bengal National Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
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