The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance, which is examining the Companies Bill, has had 16 meetings so far and understood to have reached an advance stage in finalising its report. Mr R. Bandhyopadhyay, Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, told reporters here on Saturday that the Ministry was awaiting Parliamentary debate after the committee placed it report to the Houses.
A special CBI court on Thursday rejected the anticipatory bail of income tax commissioner Anirudh Rai, who had come under the scanner in a corruption case involving his two juniors.CBI joint director Rishi Raj Singh said the CBI was yet to decide whether to arrest Rai, an Indian Revenue Service officer. “We have not yet questioned him as he had moved the court. We will decide on the arrest after questioning him,” Singh said.
Under pressure from the government to reveal the surrogate nature of its practices in India, senior officials from PricewaterhouseCoopers have sought a meeting with the corporate affairs minister Salman Khurshid next week to clarify its position.
A leading NRI group on Tuesday asked India to reconsider new rules that require them to surrender their Indian passports within 90 days upon acquisition of US citizenship, arguing these bring “undue and unnecessary” burden on the community.
It has been clarified by the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) that widening of an existing road by constructing additional lanes as a part of a highway project by an undertaking would be regarded as a new infrastructure facility for the purpose of Section 80IA (4)(i) of the Income Tax Act, 1961.
Dr. Pradnya Saravade took charge as Executive Director, Securities and Exchange Board of India in Mumbai today. Dr. Saravade is from the 1989 batch of the Indian Police Service and has served in the states ofWest Bengal and Maharashtra and the Central Bureau of Investigation.
Driven by a rare sense of complacency, most Mumbaikars who received wrong recovery notices from the income tax (I-T ) department, have not yet chosen to set the record straight. Despite the fact that the I-T authorities have requested people to fill in rectification forms, many have neglected to do so, which means that the amount could resurface as outstanding dues in future.
Market regulator SEBI has asked stock brokers to provide the exchanges with a status report on the implementation of new client-broker agreement, which will become effective from June 30.
Based on the recommendations of Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) in its meeting held on May 7, 2010, Government has approved 24 Proposals of Foreign Direct Investment amounting to Rs. 1412.19 Crore approximately.
To make unit-linked insurance plans (Ulips) more transparent, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (Irda) on Tuesday proposed to standardize definitions of lapsing, reviving and surrendering of these policies.
