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Fema / RBI : The article explains the major reasons behind the weakening rupee, including rising dollar demand, foreign investment outflows, an...
Corporate Law : The article discusses how fears of parent-dominated governance structures prompted concerns about loss of autonomy in private scho...
Corporate Law : The article clarifies that ASISSE notices are issued by NSO under MoSPI only for statistical data collection and have no connectio...
Corporate Law : The constitutional safeguard under Article 20 prevents authorities from imposing harsher punishments than those prescribed when th...
Corporate Law : The article explains how ecofeminism connects environmental exploitation with gender-based domination and violence. It argues that...
Corporate Law : The Sales Tax Bar Association has urged the Bar Council of India and the Law Ministry to permit Advocates to collaborate with non-...
Corporate Law : The Union Cabinet approved ECLGS 5.0 to provide guaranteed emergency credit support to MSMEs, non-MSMEs, and airlines facing liqui...
Corporate Law : The initiative addresses delays in disaster communication across regions. The system enables instant, geo-targeted alerts using mo...
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...
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 Office Memorandum increases Dearness Relief rates for CPF beneficiaries and eligible family members under the 5th Central Pay ...
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...
Exporters of traditional items including textiles, gems & jewellery, handicraft and leather — hit hardest by the slowdown in the Western markets — may get access to cheaper credit to tide over the current global meltdown. The commerce department and the finance ministry are discussing an incentive package for identified labour-intensive export sectors, which could include provision of credit at a subsidised rate and for a longer period. Incentives may also be given to exporters to diversify to alternate markets less affected by the global crisis.
Reserve Bank of India has issued A. P. (DIR series) circular no. 26 dated October 22, 2008, to modify some aspects of the ECB policy as indicated below- Henceforth, ECB up to USD 500 million per borrower per financial year would be permitted for Rupee expenditure and / or foreign currency expenditure for permissible end – uses under the Automatic Route. Accordingly, the requirement of minimum average maturity period of seven years for ECB more than USD 100 million for Rupee capital expenditure by the borrowers in the infrastructure sector has been dispensed with.
Amendment to Section 20 of the Indian Trusts Act, 1882 (2 of 1882) which relates to investment of trust money has been approved by the Cabinet today. A Bill will be introduced in the ensuing Session of Parliament.
Sick industrial units may no longer have to wait for decades for the authorities to decide whether they should be revived or liquidated. To fast-track the determination of industrial sickness of enterprises, the government is planning to expand the scope of the Company Law Board (CLB) to assess whether a sick unit should be liquidated or revived. At present, this procedure is carried out by the Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR), which would be wound up. The corporate affairs ministry is working on a proposal to vest CLB with this authority.
Trade Circular No. 6 T of 2008 Section 51 of the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002 deals with grant of refunds. The corresponding Rules are Rule 60 and Rule 61 of the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Rules, 2005. The provisions of Bank Guarantee are prescribed in Rule 61. The Trade Circulars No. 33T of 2005 Dt. 21.10.2005 and 56 T Dt.23.08.2007 were issued by this office in respect of Bank Guarantee for the purpose of grant of refunds under the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002.
Following are the highlights of Railway Budget 2008-09 presented by the Railways Minister, Mr Lalu Prasad, in Parliament on Tuesday.· Second-class Sleeper fares cut by 5%. · AC-1 fare cut by 7%. · AC-2 fare cut by 4%. ·AC-3 fare cut by 3%.
The Supreme Court will decide whether recovery of government dues, including income tax and excise, should get priority over liabilities of banks and other creditors while dividing the assets of a sick company. Tax authorities have moved the apex court challenging the Punjab and Haryana High Court which held that excise dues cannot get priority over liabilities of secured or unsecured creditors, banks and financial institutions.
Notwithstanding non-applicability of Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 to units having less than 10 workmen, units covered by the Factories Act, 1948, were to apply the gratuity law to their workers, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has held. Agreeing with the decision of the Joint Commissioner of Labour, Madurai (Appellate Authority under the Gratuity Act), that Section 1(3)(a) of the Gratuity Act was applicable even to establishments having less than 10 workers, under notification dated September 9, 1967 of the Department of Industries, Labour and Housing, Tamil Nadu, extending the Factories Act to all tailoring units in the State, Mr Justice K. Chandru ruled that the contention of writ petitioner (Star Tailoring, Tirunelveli) that Gratuity law would not apply to his units had to be rejected.
The ESIC’s new amnesty scheme allows defaulting employers and employees to withdraw cases for non-payment of dues, effective from January 1, 2008.
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