NOTIFICATION NO. G.S.R. 397(E), DATED 24-5-2011 – In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (mc) of sub-section (2) of section 63 read with sub-section (1) of section 53G of the Competition Act, 2002 (12 of 2003), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules, further to amend the Competition Appellate Tribunal (Salaries and Allowances and other terms and conditions of service of the Chairperson and other Members) Rules, 2009,
MCA has replaced the Postal Ballot rules by incorporating the green initiatives in the Postal Ballot mechanism. Sending of Notice and voting by shareholder through electronic mode has been recognized. However, there is no option to the Company to adopt both, manual as well as electronic mechanism. (Notification [GSR 419(E)] dated 30 May 2011)
We have received queries from market participants whether the Master Repo Agreement finalised by FIMMDA is mandatory for repo transactions in Government Securities settled through CCIL. In this regard, it is clarified that the Master Repo Agreement finalised by FIMMDA is not mandatory for repo transactions in Government Securities settling through a Central Counter Party (CCP) [eg. Clearing Corporation of India Limited (CCIL)], having various safeguards like haircut, MTM price, margin, Multilateral netting, closing out, right to set off, settlement guarantee fund/ collaterals, defaults, risk management and dispute resolution/ arbitration etc. However, Master Repo Agreement is mandatory for repo transactions in Corporate Debt Securities, which is settled bilaterally without involving a CCP.
It has been brought to our notice that in some States the State Governments are implementing the ICT based Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) for routing social security benefits (MNREGA, NOAPS, etc.) to beneficiaries through the banking channel using the ‘one district one bank model’.
Notification No. 29/2011 – Income Tax The President of India is pleased to approve the creation of the Directorate of Income-tax (Criminal Investigation), to be known in short as DCI, in the Central Board of Direct Taxes, Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, with immediate effect.
RBI has clarified that in case more than one company (irrespective of doing financial activity or not) in the same group of the NBFC wishes to take a stake in the insurance company, the contribution by all companies in the same group shall be counted for the limit of 50 % prescribed for the NBFC in an insurance JV. DNBS.PD.CC.No. 221/03.02.002/2010-11
The Reserve Bank of India on Friday directed banks to reimburse customers for amounts wrongfully debited from their accounts in failed ATM transactions within seven days of an account holder’s complaint or else pay a Rs 100 per day compensation. “The time limit for resolution of customer complaints by the issuing banks shall stand reduced from 12 working days to seven working days from the date of receipt of customer complaint,” the RBI said in a notification.
The Government of the Republic of India signed a Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) with the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia for the avoidance of double taxation and for the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income on 25th May, 2011 at Addis Ababa. The Agreement was signed by Shri S.M. Krishna, External Affairs Minister on behalf of the Government of India and by Mr. Sufian Ahmed, Minister of Finance and Economic Development on behalf of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia in the presence of the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh and the Ethiopian Prime Minister. Mr. Meles Zenawi.
Notification No. 28 /2011- Income Tax [F. NO. 200/21-2011-ITA-I], DATED 27-5-2011 In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (39) of section 10 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Government hereby notifies the following as the international sporting event, persons and specified income for the purposes of the said clause, namely :—(a) the International Cricket Council Cricket World Cup, 2011 as the International Sporting event; (b) the following entities as the persons, namely :— (1) International Cricket Council Development (International) Ltd.; (2) International Cricket Council Development (International) Hungary KFT;
S.O. In the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs vide GSR No.482 jEj, dated the 4th March, 2011, published at page 2 of the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part-II, Section 3, Sub-section (ii), dated the 4th March, 2011, namely:- in line 5, for has assets read has either assets. in line 6, for Rs. 250 crore or read Rs.250 crore in India or” . in line 7, for Rs.750 crore from” read Rs.750 crore in India from