While it is ideal to have a unified admission test for admission to higher education for all students, it is a great challenge, considering the huge diversity of education systems in the country. The underlying principle for having such a common admission test system is motivated by the principle of inclusion for collaborative excellence rather than exclusion through competitive excellence.
The Finance Ministry has set up a Directorate of Income Tax (Criminal Investigation) to investigate criminal offences under direct tax laws, the Parliament was informed today. The Directorate of Income Tax (Criminal Investigation) is mandated to perform functions in respect of criminal matters having any financial implication punishable as an offence under any direct tax law, Minister of State for Finance SS Palanimanickam said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha.
The Ministry of Minority Affairs has extended the last date for receipt of applications from students by States / UTs for fresh cases of Pre-matric and Post-matric Scholarship Schemes up to 31st August, 2011. As per the time-line for Pre-matric and Post-matric Scholarship Schemes 2011-12 issued earlier to all the States / UTs, the last […]
Campus Placement at ICSI-CCGRT, Navi Mumbai The Placement Cell of the ICSI is organizing a Campus Placement for the fresher members for job and for students for 15 Months Training on Tuesday, the 30th August 2011 at 10.00 A.M. at ICSICCGRT, Plot NO.101, Sector-15, Institutional Area, CBD Belapur, Navi Mumbai- 400614. For Members Members admitted on or after 1st June 2011 and forwarded their CVs by 23rd August 2011 are eligible to participate in the event. As per the eligibility criteria indicated above 73 members are eligible to participate in the event. Names of the eligible members are as under :-
FM Pranab Mukherjee on Friday moved a bill in the Lok Sabha to amend the Customs Act to validate the showcause notices given by different officials during the past several years. The bill, which seeks to validate notices rendered invalid by the Supreme Court on technical ground, will be taken up for discussion and passage next week.
Shri Pranab Mukherjee Hon’bl Finance Minister Govt of India inaugurated the Residential Quarter-cum-Guest House ‘Aayakar Abasan’ at Siliguri West Bengal on 13.08.2011 in the August presence of Shri M.C.Joshi Chairman CBDT and B.S.Sondhi Chief Commissioner of Income Tax (CCA) Kolkata other senior officer of the Department and local administration, as well as eminent citizen and taxpayer attended the function.
The Conclave is open to ICAI Members who have established themselves as successful Entrepreneurs or are engaged in Public Services such as those Working/Worked as a Public Servant i.e. MP/MLA, Associated with a Constitutional Authority i.e. Judiciary/Appellate Tribunal; Working with Regulatory bodies i.e. SEBI, RBI, IRDA etc; Civil Servant; Serving with any State Government, Members of Local Bodies, etc.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has increased the repo and reverse repo rates from time to time to contain inflation and anchor inflationary expectations. The following table captures the movement in repo and reverse repo rate since April 2010:
The Union Finance Minister, Shri. Pranab Mukherjee today reviewed the global economic situation with RBI Governor, Dr. Subba Rao, and the Chairman of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, Dr.C. Rangarajan. The discussions focused on the slow economic growth in the US and debt worries in the Euro zone. Europe’s debt problem and worries about the world economy had resulted in sharp fall in the US and European markets. Stocks that were particularly affected in the US were those of companies that have global presence.
The Policy aims to take the share of manufacturing from 16 per cent to 25 percent by 2025. He said that in the coming few years about 100 million young people will enter the job market and emphasis on manufacturing is the critical part of creating employment for them. He also informed that the policy will provision for creation of world class manufacturing infrastructure, augmented with appropriate social and institutional infrastructure, through establishment of integrated mega National Investment and Manufacturing Zones(NIMZs).
