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Finance : The focus is on converting savings into investments rather than leaving them idle. The key takeaway is that disciplined investing ...
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 : 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...
egally corruption is defined as use of public power for private advantage in ways which transgresses some formal rule or law. It takes various forms like Bribe for work according to rule, Bribe to work against the rule, Trading in influence, Patronage, Nepotism, Cronyism, Electoral fraud, Embezzlement, Kickback, An unholy political alliance, Involvement in organized crime.
The Union Government and the State Governments give Guarantees for repayment of borrowings within such limits, if any, as may be fixed upon the security of the Consolidated Fund of India or of the State, as the case may be, in terms of articles 292 and 293 of the Constitution. Guarantees are also given by the Union Government for payment of interest on borrowings, repayment of share capital and payment of minimum annual dividend, payment against agreements for supplies of materials and equipments on credit basis on behalf of the State Governments, Union territories, local bodies, railways, Government companies or corporations, joint stock companies, financial institutions, port trusts, electricity boards and co-operative institutions. Guarantees are also given by the Union Government to the Reserve Bank of India, other banks and financial institutions for repayment of principal and payment of interest, cash credit facility, financing seasonal agricultural operations and for providing working capital in respect of companies, corporations, co-operative societies and co-operative banks. Further, guarantees are also given in pursuance of agreements entered into by the Union Government with international financial institutions, foreign lending agencies, foreign Governments, contractors and consultants towards repayment of principal, payment of interest and payment of commitment charges on loans. The Union Government also gives performance guarantees for fulfilment of contracts or projects awarded to Indian companies in foreign countries as well as foreign companies in foreign countries besides counter-guarantees to banks in consideration of the banks having issued letters of credit to foreign suppliers for supplies or services rendered by them on credit basis in favour of companies or corporations. Furthermore, guarantees are given by the Union Government to railways, and electricity boards for due and punctual payment of dues and freight charges by the companies and corporations. Similarly, guarantees are also given by the State Governments and Union Territory Governments (with legislature).
I strongly believe that implementing the provisions of the SARFAESI Act, 2002 making a good balance between the object and the interests of the borrower is a very complicated exercise. There are so many judgments on the provisions of the SARFAESI Act, 2002 and still certain areas remain complicated. I would like to share a typical case presented to me in the recent past and the facts of the case are as follows:
We all aware of the object behind SARFAESI Act, 2002 and it is to enable the banks to recover the debts speedily and to enable the banks to reduce NPAs. Despite lot of criticism that SARFAESI Act, 2002 is draconian law and it enables the Banks to harass the borrowers, Banks suffer to recover their dues in the absence of a special legislation like SARFAESI Act, 2002.
Improves investor confidence across the world with transparency and comparability Improves inter-unit/ inter-firm/inter-industry comparison Group consolidation made easy with same standard by all companies in group wherever located Acceptability of f
As private telecom operators gear up to launch full-fledged 3G services, the Department of Telecommunications has asked three telecom service providers — Airtel, Tata and Reliance Communications — that have already started offering third generation m
In this case, a war widow was given a gas distribution agency. She was managing it with her two daughters. When she became old, she made it into a partnership. She held 51 per cent and another held the rest. The corporation cancelled the licence on t
India has successfully weathered one of the worst global economic crises and the GDP figures for the second quarter of 2010-11 reassure us that the green shoots are turning into welcome dense foliage. This was stated by the Union Finance Minister Shr
Finance Minister Shri Mukherjee said that the realty sector has to be sensitive to the larger social dimension of housing by pricing their products appropriately, responding to the cross section of housing demand- covering the rich and the poor alike
It’s coming to the end of 2010, and it may be coming to our mind that what to expect in terms of new threats and related trends in 2011. I have to say that I don’t see total revolutions in the threats – just continuing evolutions of the same threats
