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Finance : Examining the economic impact of agri-commodity trade under FTAs. Wheat trade case study highlights supply-demand equilibrium, inf...
Corporate Law : Explore the reality of women in leadership. Legal mandates like SEBI and Companies Act aim for diversity, but true inclusion deman...
Finance : The economic management of every country be it developed from the developing state, taxation is an important subject but in the de...
Corporate Law : A study on Bangalore’s auto component SMEs explores how innovation enhances competitiveness, impacts employment growth, and its ...
Goods and Services Tax : Women often pay more for personal care, clothing, and financial services due to the Pink Tax. Learn about gender-based pricing and...
Corporate Law : CBI dismantles a virtual asset-backed cybercrime network defrauding German nationals, arresting key accused and recovering digital...
Finance : Explore trends in India's household savings, liabilities as a percentage of GDP, and measures for the middle class in the Union Bu...
Corporate Law : जानें उत्तर प्रदेश बार काउंसिल की 2025 साक्षात्कार ...
Finance : India has extradition treaties with 48 countries. Details of loan and tax offenders and extradition arrangements were shared in th...
Excise Duty : Govt clarifies tax increase on tobacco products, citing changes in excise duty on cigarettes and GST rules. Revenue funds overall ...
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 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...
Corporate Law : Get clarity on GPF interest exceeding 5 lakhs. Learn about revised provisions & implications for government servants' GPF subscrip...
The government plans to introduce a separate legislation to speed up insolvency proceedings and help distressed firms wind up operations quickly. The new law will shorten the legal processes involving insolvency operations of small and medium entities. The government is keen to make bankruptcy proceedings a time-bound procedure.
The Law Commission of India, in its 128th Report (1988) examines the cost of litigation and suggested ways to compensate the wronged party so that cost of litigation does not become an impediment in the road to justice. This paper examines the cost of litigation in taxation matters, with special emphasis to taxation laws, reasons for frivolous litigation in these matters, its deleterious effect on the business environment of the country.
It is well known that exporters of services had faced serious problems in obtaining refunds of input taxes for a variety of reasons. In order to ameliorate the problem, the CBEC had issued Circular No. 120/01/2010-ST dated 19th January, 2010 to clarify several important points on exports of services from India and to also lay down a simplified procedure for grant of refunds.
The Ministry of Labour & Employment & Training has issued revised guidelines Vide notification no. DGE&T-M-26025/4/2009-MP (G) dated December 22, 2009 regarding eligibility criteria in respect of issuance of Employment Visas (EV) to foreign nationals coming to India for execution of projects in India.
The Finance Minister presented the Economic Survey 2009-10 before the Parliament. It is a report card of India’s economic performance which gives the current and expected direction of the Government Policies. The key highlights of the same are given below:
The committee constituted to review the acquisition procedure of the security features for currency notes; review the relevant procurement manuals and suggest a roadmap for progressive indigenization of various inputs including high end machinery and security features submitted its report to the Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee in his North Block Office in New Delhi today.
The Central Vigilance Commission disposed of 541 cases during December 2010 referred to it for advice. The Commission advised imposition of major penalty against 135 officers including 33 from M/o Railways, 30 from MCD, 25 from Public Sector Banks, 6 each from Ministry of Labour and Department of Defence Production,
1.0 In any civilised society, a taxing statute is expected to be prospective i.e. levying the tax on the income / transaction which will take place in future. This is for the reason that, at the time of entering into the transaction, the tax payers (TP) must have knowledge of the taxes which he is expected to pay. It also provides an opportunity to the TP of carrying out cost-benefit analysis of the proposed transaction and to decide whether to enter into such a transaction or not.
Even as the Union Cabinet on Thursday made it mandatory for public sector undertakings (PSUs) to follow corporate governance norms, senior executives of blue chip PSUs point out that it is the government itself that has been posing hurdles in the implementation of these rules.
“The next biggest problem may be a currency crisis. It is a possibility that the next crisis awaiting the world is a currency crisis,” renowned currency expert and Non-Executive Director of Elara Capital, Avinash Persaud, told PTI here.
