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Finance : The scheme provides financial incentives for new, expanded, and upgraded hospitality projects. Key takeaway: investors can reduce ...
Corporate Law : This explains how stringent organized crime laws can conflict with due process rights like fair trial and liberty. It highlights t...
Corporate Law : The issue highlights constitutional protections alongside broad detention powers. The takeaway is that procedural safeguards must ...
Income Tax : The issue is whether foreign businesses without offices in China must comply with tax laws. The key takeaway is that activities an...
Corporate Law : The law granting special powers to armed forces was upheld, but courts emphasized that such powers are not absolute. Safeguards li...
Corporate Law : The law removes criminal penalties for minor compliance breaches and replaces them with monetary fines. It holds that reducing cri...
Finance : The Government clarified that despite rupee depreciation, strong forex reserves and export competitiveness offset risks. The overa...
Finance : The Government is actively reviewing the economic impact of the West Asia conflict on oil prices and supply chains. Coordinated me...
Corporate Law : The document outlines essential lease terms like rent, tenure, and obligations. The key takeaway is that LOI sets the foundation f...
Corporate Law : The reform addresses fraudulent activities in cooperative societies by introducing stricter governance and audit mechanisms. It en...
Corporate Law : Supreme Court of India invalidates State VAT amendments made post-GST, citing issues of legislative competence in Telangana, Gujar...
Corporate Law : Kharghar Co-op. Housing Societies Federation Ltd Vs Municipal Commissioner (Bombay High Court) Bombay High Court in the matter of ...
Corporate Law : Calcutta High Court held that computation of award amount without multiplying the amount with the multiplier 13 is unjustifiable....
Corporate Law : Ours being a Welfare State, the respondents who happen to be instrumentalities of the State under Article 12, cannot act arbitrari...
Corporate Law : Held that there is no infringement of copyright as some contents are bound to be similar as teaching given in the Holy Books Quran...
Corporate Law : The issue concerns revision of Dearness Relief rates for pensioners. The government increased DR from 58% to 60% effective January...
Corporate Law : The Coastal Shipping Bill, 2024, introduced in Lok Sabha, aims to regulate coastal trade, boost domestic participation, and enhanc...
Corporate Law : The Ministry of Agriculture announces revised guidelines for the AMI Sub-scheme of ISAM, effective from November 10, 2024, for new...
Corporate Law : The Central Government increases minimum wage rates by revising the Variable Dearness Allowance, effective October 1, 2024, aiding...
Corporate Law : MHA issues guidelines to ensure nondiscriminatory prison visitation rights for LGBTQ+ community, emphasizing equal treatment in al...
Another caveat on legislative practices, particularly subordinate legislation and executive policy decisions and the decision making process, which is amenable to judicial review by courts is that, it is high time that subordinate legislations in the form of notifications issued by Executive should give the preamble, context, brief reasons and background and particularly defining their prospective a retrospective applications, should be adopted like statement of objects and reasons and memorandum explaining provisions are given with legislative Bills, so that the judicial review becomes an effective exercise and one liner amendments like the notification dated 28.04.2006 in the present case, which have far reaching consequences are not allowed to become missile attacks on the budding industries.
The terms of reference of the Task Force under the Chairmanship of Shri Nandan Nilekani, Chairman, Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has been expended to include an Aadhaar-enabled unified payment infrastructure. The said Task Force was constituted by the Ministry of Finance in February 2011 to recommend and implement a solution for direct transfer of subsidies on Kerosene, LPG and Fertilizer to the intended beneficiaries.
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs today approved the proposal for providing non-plan budgetary support of Rs. 59.72 crore for liquidation of statutory dues and salary and wages from 1.1.2011 to 31.3.2011 in respect of 10 sick / loss making CPSEs under the Department of Heavy Industry. A list of these CPSEs is given below.
The Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance is coming out with the Seventeenth Issue of the Annual Publication entitled ‘India’s External Debt: A Status Report 2010-11’ that presents a detailed analysis of India’s external debt position at end-March 2011 based on the data released on June 30, 2011 by the Reserve Bank of India(RBI).
14 Bills (11 in the Lok Sabha and 3 in the Rajya Sabha) introduced during the Monsoon Session The Lok Sabha passes 13 Bills and the Rajya Sabha passes 09 Bills during the session.
The uncertainty in the global markets due to recent developments in United States of America (USA) and Eurozone has had some impact on major markets across the globe, including India. However, Indian markets were less affected as compared to some of the major Asian and European markets. Fluctuations in markets are not unusual.
New Delhi: The Union cabinet on Monday cleared the politically sensitive and critical proposed land acquisition Bill, a little over a month after it was unveiled to the public by the ministry of rural development on 29 July, after relaxing key provisions relating to compensation and allowing conditional acquisition of multi-crop land.
The Union Minister for Commerce, Industry and Textiles, Shri Anand Sharma has expressed confidence that India will have its first National Manufacturing Policy in the month of September 2011. Speaking at the National Council Meeting of Confederation of India Industry (CII), Shri Sharma said that among the various policies set for roll out ‘National Manufacturing Policy has reached the final stage and hopefully within this month of September it will become a reality.
The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, has written to Shri Anna Hazare, informing him of the resolution adopted by both Houses of Parliament today. For the full text of the letter, click here.
Heeding to Anna Hazare’s demands, Parliament today adopted a ‘Sense of the House’ on three key issues raised by him with regard to the Lokpal Bill with an aim of persuading him to end his 12-day hunger strike. The ‘Sense of the House’ was adopted with thumping of desks without any voting after an extraordinary debate in both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha on the statement made by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on issues related to the Lokpal Bill.
