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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 : 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...
Despite the clear objective behind enacting SARFAESI Act, 2002, while implementing the provisions of the Act, many complications have arisen and the Hon’ble Courts have cleared some complications making a good balance between the interests of the borrowers and the objective of Act to reduce the alarming levels of Non-performing Assets (NPA). Courts have dealt with the issue of limitation to approach the Debt Recovery Tribunal under section 17 of SARFAESI Act, 2002 and according me, it is the wonderful interpretation by Courts in giving the borrower a right to challenge the Bank’s action on all measures pursuant to section 13 (4) of the Act.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has today arrested the Director General and the then Secretary-General of organising committee CWG-2010 in the on-going investigation of a CWG case pertaining to procurement of Timing, Scoring and Result (TSR) system.
The Budget Session, 2011 of Parliament (7th Session of the Fifteenth Lok Sabha and the 222nd Session of the Rajya Sabha) is scheduled to commence on Monday, the 21st of February, 2011 and subject to exigencies of Government Business, the Session will conclude on Thursday, the 21st of April , 2011.
Capital Expenditure registered a sharp increase of 64.6 per cent (April –Dec) in 2010-11. Fiscal deficit outcome for 2010-11 could be marginally better than the budget estimates. The consolidated fiscal deficit is likely to be 7.5 to 8 per cent of GDP for 2010-11. There is considerable urgency in the implementation of goods and services tax (GST)
The Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council on Monday projected the economic growth in the country at 8.6 per cent for the current fiscal on the back of rebound in farm output and inflation to come down to 7 per cent by March-end due to declining food prices.
The Delhi high court last week severely criticised the debt recovery tribunal III of the capital and the appellate tribunal for the manner in which it conducted proceedings in the case, IFCI Ltd vs Bharat Steel Tubes Ltd. It is bound to leave an impression in one’s mind, if not graver, at least that neither DRT-III nor the Appellate Tribunal are discharging their functions with the concern and commitment expected from high powered tribunals.
Citigroup Inc, the third-largest US bank by assets, will split at least $11.9 million among four executives if the company meets profit thresholds set at less than half what the lender generated since 2009. The executives, including Chief Operating Officer John Havens, 54, and Chief Financial Officer John Gerspach, 57, will get a percentage of cumulative pretax income at the New York- based bank’s Citicorp division if that figure exceeds $12 billion over the next two years, according to a filing. Citicorp reported $27.7 billion of cumulative pretax profit in 2009 and 2010, based on the definition in the new filing.
Maintaining that ‘some inflationary pressure’ will remain in a growing economy, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday urged the states to strengthen PDS to enable the government insulate the poor from the adverse impact of inflation. Replying to members’ concerns during Question Hour in Rajya Sabha, Mukherjee said the Centre is waiting for a report on how to strengthen and restructure the existing Public Distribution System in the country.
Country’s largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) plans consolidation of remaining 5 associate banks with itself in the next 12-18 months. .. the bank (SBI) envisages consolidation of all subsidiary banks with SBI within a period of 12 to 18 months, Finance Ministry informed the Standing Committee on Finance.
The government may miss the target of garnering Rs 40,000 crore through disinvestment as SAIL’s follow-on public offer is now expected to hit the market in the next fiscal due to volatile stock market.”No, no… we will wait. There is very less time left in this fiscal. We are looking at market conditions,” Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma said when asked whether SAIL FPO would hit the market before March 31.
