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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 Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has issued instructions to identify sensitive posts in various Ministries/Departments of the Union Government. The Commission has issued instructions to the organizations under its advisory jurisdiction regarding rotation of officials working in sensitive posts. As per the instructions, the organizations were to identify the sensitive posts and effect rotational transfer on these posts every 2 or 3 years to avoid development of vested interest by the people working on these posts.
Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan’s recent request to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to protect the judiciary from increasingly ‘‘intrusive’’ queries appears to have triggered an exercise to look for options to effect changes in the RTI Act. Following the CJI’s impassioned letter, which said questions asked by chronic litigants about the judiciary could erode its independence, the government has started looking into possible changesin the RTI Act, highly placed sources said.
The government may soon ask for an audit of banks to check if they are passing on to exporters the interest rate discounts on loans, given as a part of the stimulus packages, following complaints from exporters that some banks were not crediting to their accounts the rebate.Government is planning to ask the comptroller and auditor general to carry out an audit of banks to find out on a test check basis whether the subvention amount is getting credited to the account of exporters.
For the purpose of registration of any association or body of individual citizens of India as a political party, the association or body is required to make an application to the Election Commission of India giving therein full particulars required under sub-section (4) of Section 29A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 and additional particulars required under the Registration of political parties (Furnishing of Additional Particulars) Order, 1992.
Directions form part of revenue maximisation measures. The Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) has directed its field formations across the country to open all cases, irrespective of year and amount involved, where it had raised a demand but had these stayed by courts, otherwise known as call-book cases.
The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday conducted searches on the premises of realtor Emmar MGF in connection with the multi-crore illegal Hawala and investment case involving former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda.The search followed the ED finding certain documents that showed Koda’s associates on the board of certain Emaar group companies, ED sources said.
The Government has granted sanction to State Bank of India (SBI), under Section 35(1) of the State Bank of India Act, 1955, vide Department of Financial Services’ letter dated 08.10.2009 for proceeding with the negotiation with State Bank of Indore for acquiring its business. Consequently, the scheme of acquisition of State Bank of Indore by the Stat Bank of India have been approved by Board of both the Banks. The Government keeps in view the interest of all the stakeholders including employees of the merging banks.
Dubai, home to the world’s tallest tower and the biggest man-made islands, is in a financial crisis. The dream city, where lakhs of expat Indians make a living, is trying to salvage Dubai World, the emirate’s flagship in the industrial world, which is struggling to pay back a $ 59 billion loan (around Rs 275,000 crore).
The government is examining a proposal seeking to split the compensation package of independent directors into fixed and variable components to ensure they play an active role in the affairs of companies. The variable component will be linked to the attendance at the board meetings, an official with the minsitry of corporate affairs told to a leading newspaper.
It’s one of those numbers that’s so unbelievable you have to actually think about it for a while… Within the next 12 months, the U.S. Treasury will have to refinance $2 trillion in short-term debt. And that’s not counting any additional deficit spending, which is estimated to be around $1.5 trillion. Put the two numbers together. Then ask yourself, how in the world can the Treasury borrow $3.5 trillion in only one year? That’s an amount equal to nearly 30% of our entire GDP. And we’re the world’s biggest economy. Where will the money come from?
