“An inflow of fresh talent into the Group and training them in the finance departments of various group companies spread across diverse sectors”. Last date for applying to the Tata Group CA program is 14th March, 2011. Principles The programme is modeled on the following principles
Government has decided to provide equity support to public sector banks (PSBs) to enable to maintain Tier I CRAR at 8% and also to those PSBs where Government of India’s holding is less than 58% to raise Government of India holding in these PSBs to 58%. Modalities in this regard are being worked out. This information was given by the Minister of State for Finance, Shri Namo Narain Meena in written reply to a question raised in Rajya Sabha today.
The government today said the proposal to impose service tax on healthcare will not hurt the common man as only services provided by the centrally AC hospitals with more than 25 beds would attract the new levy.
Amidst hue and cry by developers over the Budget proposal to impose MAT on SEZs, Central Board of Direct Taxes today said it has detected revenue diversion from domestic operations to the tax free enclaves.
The Centre today said it is not possible to bring aviation turbine fuel (ATF) under the purview of the proposed Goods and Services Tax, as per the model suggested by the states. “In the model of the GST which has been proposed by the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers, it has not been possible to bring aviation turbine fuel under the purview of the GST,” Minister of State for Finance S S Palanimanickam said in a written reply to Rajya Sabha.
Civil Aviation Minister Vayalar Ravi today said he wants the government to reconsider the budget proposal to hike service tax on air tickets. “I have written a letter to the Finance Minister (Pranab Mukherjee) urging him to reconsider the implementation of service tax on air travel,” Ravi told reporters here.
Stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan, accused of massive money laundering and tax evasion, was detained by the ED which carried out multi-city searches at his Pune home and his associates’ premises cracking the whip to meet tomorrow’s Supreme Court deadline. Hot in pursuit of black money trail after the apex court rap on the government, about a dozen Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials from Mumbai came down to Pune to search the premises of Khan in posh Koregaon Park area this morning and he was taken away for interrogation after searches lasting several hours.
When the Securities and Exchange Commission brought charges against former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta in an administrative proceeding — rather than in federal court — it signaled a possible new front in the SEC’s pursuit of insider-trading cases. The SEC typically sues insider-trading defendants in federal court; Gupta will instead be defending himself in a court that is an arm of the agency that is suing him, in a proceeding overseen by an administrative law judge who works for the agency.
The Reserve Bank of India today released the Statistical Tables Relating to Banks in India – an annual publication that provides key information on banks. The publication covers bank-wise and bank group-wise information on major items, such as, liabilities and assets, income and expenses, non-performing assets, financial ratios, spatial distribution of offices, number of employees and details of priority sector advances. It also provides bank group-wise monthly data on some of the major items, such as, aggregate deposits, liabilities to the banking system, assets with the banking system, investments, bank credit and sector-wise and industry-wise gross bank credit.
It logically follows that Parliament is not empowered to legislate with respect to extra-territorial aspects or causes that have no nexus whatsoever with India,” a five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia said. The apex court said it did not agree that Parliament, on account of its alleged absolute legislative sovereignty, should be deemed to have the powers to enact any and all legislation, even without the requirement that it is for the benefit of India.
