“Many years ago, someone asked me to define development and I thought about it and the simplest answer I could improvise was that development is about widening human choices and in the Telecom Sector, what we are witnessing today and what we have wit
In a move that will adversely impact the country’s services sector, the government has withdrawn incentives to exporters of IT and ITeS, telecommunication and airlines services. The list of services eligible for duty credits under the ‘Served From In
The Government will bring Coal Regulator Bill in Parliament in Budget Session to ensure level playing field to all the stake holders. It would also make recommendations for reforms in coal sector and about coal pricing. Addressing the media persons h
Announcement relating to new Study Materials for Final Course Students of Final Course may note that the Study Materials, including Practice Manuals, for all the subjects of the Final Course have been modified/revised/updated and the new materials w
Following are the new Ministers and Portfolios announced today by the Government: CABINET MINISTERS: 1. Shri Praful Patel : Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises 2. Shri Shriprakash Jaiswal : Coal 3. Shri Salman Khursheed : Water Resources
Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee held a meeting with Finance Ministers of different States and Union Territories to get their inputs for General Budget 2011-12, here today. This was the seventh such meeting in the series of pre-Budget con
PRESS RELEASE NO. 17/2011, DATED 19-1-2011 SEBI has prepared a discussion paper on outsourcing of activities related to the intermediation services. The paper proposes certain principles for outsourcing, and indicates activities presently being outsourced by the intermediaries along with the suggested list of activities which should not be outsourced by them. The discussion paper is […]
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is considering a proposal by the Unique Identity Authority of India (UIDAI) to bring about 700 million telecom users under an unique identification programme. The UIDAI plans to issue a 12-digit unique ident
In the largest ever cash seizure, the Income Tax department today said it has recovered Rs 44.2 crore of unaccounted money from three Delhi-based commodity traders. In search and seizure actions conducted by the Income Tax department on January 18
The government is set to raise the threshold for independent verification of corporate transactions in the Companies Bill , diluting a proposal it made before a key Parliamentary panel. The threshold would now be fixed at 1% of a company’s annual turnover as against 5 lakh suggested by the corporate affairs ministry before the Parliamentary Standing committee on finance.
