India’s Supreme Court has given the country’s financial markets regulator permission to question Ramalinga Raju, the founder of Satyam Computer Services (SATY.BO), which is at the centre of the country’s biggest corporate scandal, court officials said on Tuesday. The court said officials from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) could interrogate Raju and […]
Jitendra Kumar Mohala could be suffering from what psychiatrists call a frustration aggression syndrome. Mohala was arrested on Sunday night and sent to jail for 14 days for creating a hijack scare on an Indigo flight, leading to a security crisis at IGI airport. Mohala, a 42-year-old CA from Dwarka and son of a retired […]
Why did Jitendra Kumar Mohala, a 42-year-old chartered accountant and the son of a retired air commodore, go berserk while travelling on IndiGo’s Goa-Delhi flight on Sunday afternoon? Mohala had claimed to be an armed hijacker from a terror outfit and had subjected the flight crew to a torrent of terror talk. While investigators are […]
SSN Moorthy, a 1973 batch IRS officer, was on Saturday appointed as the new chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes. He replaces NB Singh. Prior to his new assignment, Moorthy was a member in CBDT from August 2008. The government also appointed Sudhir Chandra, a 1973 batch IRS, in the CBDT as a […]
Proof of disgraced Satyam founder Ramalinga Raju’s political influence — an issue that is being widely discussed following his January 7 confessions of fraud — was strongly in evidence as far back as 2002, when his company was at the height of its success. A 2002 report filed by the deputy director, investigations in the […]
Faced with the prospect of missing the direct tax collection target because of the economic slowdown, the Income Tax (I-T) department has sharply increased fresh tax demands to Rs 1,24,000 crore from companies and individuals in the current fiscal, a 130 per cent increase over fresh demands raised last year. At this level, the demand […]
The fee for verification of answer books is Rs. 100/- per paper subject to a maximum of Rs. 400/- for all the papers of a group/ both groups. The application essentially in the candidate’s own handwriting indicating Roll No., address, and paper(s) to be verified should be submitted within a month from the date of […]
License Agreement signed with ISACA for ISA Members to officially use IS Auditing Standards, IS Auditing Guidelines and IS Auditing Procedures.
To share and preserve the heritage of the Chartered Accountancy (CA) profession and commemorate the diamond jubilee year of the institute, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) will inaugurate the country’s first Accountancy Museum on February 2, 2009 at the ICAI Bhawan, Noida.
The self regulatory body for auditors, ICAI is pushing for compulsory rotation of auditors by companies in view of mounting pressure from local financial institutions. “A high-powered committee is currently examining the option and a decision will be taken, based on their recommendation, very soon,” ICAI president Ved Jain told.
