The Income Tax department has found instances of alleged tax evasion and multiple routing of undeclared wealth in the 2G spectrum allocation scam and will file its first status report on the probe in the case in the Supreme Court tomorrow. The department, according to officials, has reportedly traced instances of tax evasion by various Telecom firms that have been named by the CBI and the ED in their charge sheets.
A Delhi court today remanded sacked CWG Organising Committee Chairman Suresh Kalmadi and two others, arrested on charges of cheating, conspiracy and corruption in the award of Games related contracts, in 14 days judicial custody. Special Judge Dharmesh Sharma sent Kalmadi, OC Joint Director General (Sport) A S V Prasad and OC Deputy Director General (Procurement) Surjit Lal to judicial custody till May 18 after the CBI said that some important witnesses are yet to be examined.
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has clarified that its notification of 31st March, 2011 regarding Companies (Particulars of Employees) Amendment Rules, 2011 raising the limit of employee’s salary to be disclosed in the Directors Reports shall be applicable to all Director’s Reports under Section 217 of the Companies Act, 1956 approved by the Board of Directors on or after April 1st, 2011. It will be irrespective of the accounting year of the annual account, being approved by the Board.
The United States may experience reverse brain drain as thousands of Indian IT professionals contemplate returning to India, according to a survey conducted by Corp-Corp.com , a US-based technology job portal.
The government has authorised the National Securities Depository Ltd (NSDL) and Central Securities Depository Ltd (CDSL) to facilitate electronic voting by shareholders of companies. Keeping with its ‘Green Initiative for Corporate Governance campaign, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) has appointed the two agencies for capturing accurate electronic voting processes.
IDFC today said it has learnt right lessons on issuing retail tax-saving infra bonds and will be hitting the market in second quarter of FY 12 with a fresh issue, hoping to improve on the Rs 1,400-crore it had mopped up last year. We have learnt the lessons as to how to place these things (the bond issue) on the market…last year we did Rs 1,400-crore in three tranches and this year we expect to do better than that, the company’s Managing Director and Chief Executive, Rajiv Lall, told reporters here.
The Reserve Bank today said the uncertainty over issuing guidelines for new bank licences is likely to continue for some more time as it is in consultation with the government over the draft norms. There is some uncertainty about the time-frame for issuing new bank guidelines. We are discussing (the issue) with the Government, RBI Governor D Subbarao told reporters here today.
THE TARGET -The target is to double the country’s merchandise exports in dollar terms over the next three years (2011-12 to 2013-14) from US $ 246 billion in 2010-11 to US$ 500 billion in 2013-14. To realize this, exports have to grow at a compound average growth of 26.7 % per annum.
In a bid to check inflation, Reserve Bank today raised its short term lending (repo) rate by 50 basis points to 7.25 per cent, while lowering the economic growth projection to 8 per cent for the current fiscal. The RBI has also increased the saving bank rate by 50 basis points to 4 per cent to give higher returns to depositors in the wake of high inflation.
Hiring services of chartered Accountant firm for statutory audit of state health society – Selection of auditors – Request for proposal Hiring services of chartered Accountant firm for statutory audit of state health society ( SHs) & district health society ( DHs)- ( for the Financial year 2010-11 ) under national Rural health mission ( NRHM )