Violation of Companies Act – The Minister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs Shri R.P.N. Singh today informed the Lok Sabha that the number of prosecutions filed for the violations of the provisions of the Companies Act, 1956 and disposed of during last three years are as under:-
SFIO – The Minister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs Shri R.P.N. Singh today informed the Lok Sabha that keeping in view the recommendations made by Vepa Kamesam committee, it is proposed to give statutory recognition to SFIO. Besides, powers such as treating its investigation report as a report filed by a Police Officer, giving SFIO power to issue letter of requests (letter Rogatory) in cases involving companies having business/interests outside the country and definition of the term ‘fraud’ alongwith its punishment are also proposed to be included, subject to due approvals, in the revised Companies Bill for strengthening its enforcement framework.
Companies which had raised funds through Initial Public Offer were identified as Vanishing Company for (i) non maintaining of their registered office; (ii) non- traceability of directors(iii) non- filing of statutory returns/ listing requirements with the concerned Registrar of Companies / Stock Exchange for a period of 2 years.
The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) has today declared the results of Company Secretaries Examinations held in June, 2011 here in New Delhi today and released to all the Regional and Chapter Offices of the institute throughout the country for information of students and general public. This result is available on the internet at Institute’s website www.icsi.edu. along with subject wise break-up of marks.
The Reserve Bank of India has set up a Committee to re-examine the existing classification and suggest revised guidelines with regard to priority sector lending classification and related issues. Shri M. V. Nair, CMD, Union Bank of India will chair the Committee. Other members of the Committee include, Dr.P.K.Mishra, IAS (Retd.), Former Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Co-operation, Government of India Smt. Nupur Mitra, ED, Indian Overseas Bank
The Reserve Bank of India today released its Annual Report for 2010-11. This is a statutory Report of the Central Board of the Reserve Bank that covers (i) the assessment of the macroeconomic performance during 2010-11 and the prospects for 2011-12, and (ii) the working and operations of the Reserve Bank and its financial accounts. The highlights of the Report are as follows:
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The stage of payment system development in a country to a large extent depends upon the adoption of technology, introduction of new payment instruments and the confidence of the public in using these payment instruments. In India cash still continues to be the predominant payment mode. This can be gauged from the fact that value of bank notes and coins in circulation as a percentage of narrow money is very high at 60.07% for the year 2009-20102, when compared to other emerging economies like South Africa (18.51%), China(18.83%), Mexico (39.14%). Brazil comes close to India with 52.70% of the value of banknotes and coins in circulation as a percentage of narrow money. This is perhaps a pointer that we have been relatively slow in embracing cashless payment modes and using them as cash substitute. The pre-dominant use of cash could also be attributed to the fact that the process for adoption of non-cash mode of payments started relatively late in the country.
The CS Result shall be declared on 25th August 2011 at 11:00 AM on the official website of ICSI- http://www.icsi.edu/
India Signs DTAA with Georgia -The Government of India today signed an Agreement for Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to Taxes on Income and on Capital (DTAA) with Government of Georgia. The Agreement was signed today by Mr. M.C.Joshi, Chairman, Central Board of Direct Taxes(CBDT) on behalf of the Government of India and Mr. Zurab Katchkatchishvili, Ambassador of Georgia to India on behalf of the Government of Georgia.
