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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...
Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday said the Empowered Group of Ministers headed by him would decide on the price hike of diesel, LPG and kerosene when it meets next week. A decision will be taken on raising prices of these items when the EGoM meets next week, Mukherjee told reporters here after meeting Congress MLAs elected in the West Bengal Assembly elections.
The Centre on Thursday said it has plans to introduce bill on Land Acquisition in the next session of Parliament as there appears to be consensus on the issue. However, Home Minister P Chidambaram said law and order in Uttar Pradesh is not a “happy situation” as farmers were protesting in many villages on the land acquisition issue and criticised the way Chief Minister Mayawati was handling the protests by farmers.
In the steepest hike ever, state- owned oil companies today increased petrol price by about Rs 5 per litre with effect from midnight tonight. The increase in petrol price, which the oil firms had been holding since January even though crude oil had touched a two-and-a-half-year high, came a day after election results of five state assemblies were announced.
The Central Government plans to conduct the Sixth Economic Census as a Central Sector Plan Scheme during 2012. The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation plans to carry out the fieldwork of this Census during January to June 2012, in collaboration with all State and Union Territory Governments. Dr. M. S. Gill, Union Minister of Statistics and Programme Implementation has reviewed the plan of action for the conduct of the Sixth Economic Census.
Government has released the Quarterly Report on debt management pertaining to the quarter Jan-March 2011, here today. The Middle Office (MO), Department of Economic Affairs in the Ministry of Finance has been bringing out the Quarterly Report on debt management since September 2010. This Report for the quarter Jan-March 2011 is the fourth such report in the series. The report has been placed on the website of Ministry of Finance i.e. www.finmin.nic.in .
A meeting was held under the Chairpersonship of Secretary (Justice) to review the utilization of 13th Finance Commission grants, E-courts project, Gram Nyayalayas, infrastructure support for the subordinate judiciary, undertrial prisoners, family courts and others.
The Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications & IT has clarified the position in this regard that these Rules do not provide free access to sensitive personal information. The nature and applicability of these Rules have been clearly specified. The Intent of Rules is to protect sensitive personal information and does not give any undue powers to Government agencies for free access of sensitive personal information. Wide public consultations were held before finalizing the Rules and the Rules have been duly endorsed by the Industry Association.
With a mammoth exercise on to issue an Aadhar number to each of India’s 1.2 billion citizens and interested residents, IANS tracks the process involved for getting what will become a unique identity for people in India to access all public or private services.
Foreign Tourist Arrivals (FTAs) during the Month of April 2011 was 4.17 lakh as compared to FTAs of 3.54 lakh during the month of April 2010 and 3.48 lakh in April 2009. There has been a growth of 17.7 % in April 2011 over April 2010 as compared to a growth of 2 % registered in April 2010 over April 2009. FTAs during the period January-April 2011 were 21.54 lakh with a growth of 12.3 %, as compared to the FTAs of 19.18 lakh with a growth of 8.9 % during January-April 2010 over the corresponding period of 2009.
THE TARGET -The target is to double the country’s merchandise exports in dollar terms over the next three years (2011-12 to 2013-14) from US $ 246 billion in 2010-11 to US$ 500 billion in 2013-14. To realize this, exports have to grow at a compound average growth of 26.7 % per annum.
