The country’s largest insurer Life Insurance Corporation, has decided to operationalise a system within two years that will allow policy holders to claim benefits and pay premium at any of its over 2,100 branches. “Premium payment can be done from anywhere in India. That’s what we have done it. Now claim payment we would like […]
Two months after taking over scam-tainted Satyam Computer Services, Tech Mahindra Sunday renamed the IT major as “Mahindra Satyam”. The logo will be adopted from the Mahindra Group. ‘This strategic move paves the way for the emergence of a robust brand, which draws from the core values of the Mahindra group and the inherent strength […]
The Satyam scam had its auditors PWC red in the face. Raju had cooked the books for many years and did the auditors fail or were partners in the crime, is for the investigative agencies to find out.But life must go on for Satyam and that’s why the new management is making important changes on […]
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The government is likely to come up with export sops for the domestic textiles industry in the upcoming Budget, including a rise in duty drawback rates. The over $55-billion industry, one of the three largest foreign exchange earners along side IT and gems and jewellery, is not keeping pace with the government’s projections for the current […]
The Union finance ministry is considering an increase in the central excise duty for some of the products that had benefited from the two rounds of reductions announced by the government as part of its fiscal stimulus measures last year. In December 2008, the government had reduced the general rate of central excise duty for […]
Companies cannot relist themselves on the bourses for up to ten years after their delisting, instead of two years as was the case earlier. The re-listing of a company can be done only after ten years, if its delisting is compulsory or initiated by the bourses, while in cases of voluntary delisting, the companies can list […]
The Budget Session of Parliament will commence from July 2 and the General Budget for 2009-10 will be presented to the Lok Sabha on July 6. The schedule for the Budget Session of Parliament was decided at a meeting of the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on Monday. The Railway […]
Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khursheed has said, contrary to expectation, the Budget will not address the taxation issue related to limited liability partnerships. The issue will be clarified only next year, he added. “It is too short a time for us to sort out the issue, but it is flagged,” Khursheed told. The Ministry of […]
Accounting guidelines on carbon credits will come into force from July 1. “The Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has scheduled a meeting between June 18-20 to approve the accounting guidelines on carbon credits,” S Santhana Krishnan, chairman, Accounting Standards Board, ICAI, told. Krishnan said that the guidelines will be made […]
