The Ministry of Railways has revised passenger fares with effect from tomorrow i.e. 1st April 2012 in AC-First Class, AC-2 tier, Executive Class and First Class only. There is no revision in other classes of travel. The revised fares in these classes would be applicable to all types of trains on Indian Railways network.
For the convenience of taxpayers, the Reserve Bank of India has made special arrangements at Mumbai and Navi Mumbai offices to receive taxes beyond normal working hours on March 30, 2012 and March 31, 2012 as follows:
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said that persons investing in stock markets through participatory notes, P-Notes, will not have to pay taxes in India. The assurance pushed up the stock market today. He told reporters in New Delhi that the Minister said, the income tax department would examine the tax liability of the FIIs.
Today there is a strong possibility that you won’t be able to indulge in your favourite internet activities like shopping and surfing due to a hacking group – Anonymous – which has threatened to shut down the net.
On a review of the conditions in the global financial markets, it has been decided to continue with the enhanced all-in-cost ceiling for ECB and trade credit for a further period of six months as under:
The new Google Privacy Policy provides information to the end users as to how their personal information is collected, for which it is collected, processed and secure. The end users, however, need to fully understand the privacy policy of Google, the consequences of sharing their personal information and their privacy rights before they start using online services.
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided to permit non-bank entities to setup, own and operate ATMs. The draft guidelines on deployment of White Label ATMs were placed on RBI website for public comments till March 6, 2012.
The main purpose of reducing the CRR is injection of primary liquidity in the system so as to assist the flow of credit growth to the productive sectors of economy, mitigate the downside risks to growth and anchoring the medium term expectations to low and stable inflation.
IDBI Bank has decided to reduce its floating Home Loan rates on new loans, across loan slabs up to a maximum of 75 basis points (bps). The revised rates will come into effect from April 2, 2012. While the floating interest rates in respect of loans up to Rs. 25 lakh have been reduced by 25 bps, the extent of reduction is progressively higher for larger loan amounts: by 50 bps on loans ranging from Rs. 25 lakh to less than Rs.
Ministry of Finance has now decided that all branches having outstanding advances of Rs.6 crore and above as on March 31, 2012, need to be audited for the year 2011-12. And of the remaining (branches having outstanding less than Rs.6 crore), one-third branches are to be selected at random in such a way that all the remaining branches are audited at least once in three years.
