Mandatory death penalty is unconstitutional: Supreme Court
Posted Date : 07-Feb-2012 , 08:09:07 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Supreme Court has ruled that mandatory death penalty for an offender under the Arms Act was unconstitutional as it violated fundamental rights guaranteed to a citizen.
A bench of Justices Asok Kumar Ganguly (since retd) and J S Khehar said Section 27(3) of the Arms Act, which imposed mandator...
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RBI relaxes cap on banks
Posted Date : 07-Feb-2012 , 08:04:42 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has marginally relaxed the banks’ individual limits on net open positions in foreign exchange, which were cut sharply in December.
However, snapping four-session gaining spree, the rupee today lost 36 paise to close at 49.05/06 against the dollar due to fresh...
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Manappuram Finance cannot accept deposits: RBI
Posted Date : 06-Feb-2012 , 07:52:29 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Monday cautioned Kerala-based gold-loan company Manappuram Finance Ltd against accepting deposits from the public and threatened to take action if it continued doing so. RBI said acceptance of deposits either by Manappuram Finance or Manappuram Agro Farms (Mag...
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Budget 2012 likely to increase income tax exemption limit to Rs 2 lakh
Posted Date : 06-Feb-2012 , 07:49:36 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The government is likely to provide some relief to individual income tax payers in the forthcoming Budget by raising the exemption limit to Rs 2 lakh, as provided in the Direct Taxes Code (DTC), and hiking the slabs for different tax brackets. The possibility of lowering the tax rates...
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Text of the Speech of Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee at the India Corporate and Investor Meet
Posted Date : 06-Feb-2012 , 07:47:40 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Following is the text of the Speech of Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee at the India Corporate and Investor Meet in Kolkata today:-
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Court raps Google, FB; gives 15 more days to remove 'objectionable' content
Posted Date : 06-Feb-2012 , 03:27:16 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Admonishing internet firms like Google and Facebook, a Delhi court on Monday gave 15 more days to 22 social networking sites to remove 'objectionable' contents from their websites. According to media reports, a judge presiding over the matter said that these sites did not deserve any mor...
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Chartered Accountants, Cost Accountants & Company secretaries may soon work under one roof
Posted Date : 06-Feb-2012 , 08:47:23 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Representatives of the professional bodies for chartered accountants (CAs), company secretaries and cost accountants will meet later this month to decide on ways members of the three institutes can work together in a limited liability partnership (LLP) firm.
The presidents of the Institut...
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PAN to be most potent tool against tax evasion: Income Tax Department
Posted Date : 06-Feb-2012 , 08:44:20 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Come next financial year, the PAN card is likely to become the most potent tool for the Income Tax Department to unearth black money, tax evasion and instances of criminal financing in the country. A recent directive of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) to the I-T Dept has asked its offic...
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BUDGET 2012 More services likely in tax net; negative list on cards
Posted Date : 06-Feb-2012 , 08:43:07 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The government is likely to bring more services in the tax net to raise revenues and may introduce a negative list in the forthcoming budget for fiscal 2012-13. The government is expected to keep 22 services in the negative list and impose 10 per cent tax on the rest, sources said, adding tha...
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Sebi seeks external consultant for overhaul of role
Posted Date : 06-Feb-2012 , 08:36:13 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Corporate Affairs Ministry is unlikely to yield to pressure from some political parties to make 2 per cent CSR spending mandatory for corporates under the new Companies Bill, which is currently being scrutinised by a parliamentary committee. The MCA is expected to communicate its stand to the...
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SBI waives service fee on SME loans under CGT scheme
Posted Date : 06-Feb-2012 , 08:31:34 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Country's largest lender, State Bank of India, has decided to waive guarantees and annual service fees for loans to small and medium businesses guaranteed under the Credit Guarantee Fund Trust scheme.To improve credit flow to the SME sector, the government-appointed Credit Guara...
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Pune youngster dupes income tax department of Rs2.13 cr
Posted Date : 05-Feb-2012 , 07:42:32 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Swargate police have booked a person who allegedly duped the income tax (IT) department ofSwargate office to the tune Rs2.13 crore after stealing their cheque book and forging the signature of an IT officer, from March 11 to June 26, 2011.
Interestingly, the suspect, Giris...
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RBI issues fresh directive for banks on home loan
Posted Date : 04-Feb-2012 , 08:22:48 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has asked all commercial banks to refrain from overvaluing houses while providing loans.In a notification issued from Mumbai on Friday, RBI has noticed that some banks include stamp duty, registration and other documentation charges in the cost of the house property, ...
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Nearly 8,500 income tax officers on protest; HNIs and corporates enjoy breather
Posted Date : 04-Feb-2012 , 07:29:05 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
For some time, well-heeled individuals and corporates may not lose sleep over fears of tax sleuths knocking on their doors. Close to 8,500 gazetted income tax employees in the rank of I-T officers (ITOs), assistant commissioners and administrative officers have gone on a nationwide agitation....
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Google launches programme to help women entrepreneurs
Posted Date : 03-Feb-2012 , 07:36:32 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Internet search giant Google Inc has launched a programme to help women entrepreneurs grow their businesses through an online presence.
The program, 'Women Entrepreneurs on the Web' (WEOW), aims to help women entrepreneurs across India grow their online presence.
It would provide women entrepren...
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Finance Minister Holds Meeting with Representatives of Business and Trade as Part of Pre-Budget Consultations;
Posted Date : 03-Feb-2012 , 07:32:06 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee has said in order to achieve the objective of inclusive growth, we need to have 9 plus growth rate for a sustainable period. The Finance Minister said that in order to ensure that everybody gets due share of development, it is necessary that the benef...
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Mahindra Satyam gets attachment order from Income Tax Department
Posted Date : 03-Feb-2012 , 03:53:18 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Mahindra Satyam today said it has received a provisional attachment order from the Income Tax Department attaching land and buildings of the company. "The company had received a provisional attachment order dated January 30, 2012, from the Additional Commissioner of Income Tax (ACIT), Centra...
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ICSI Launches New Syllabus for CS Foundation Programme
Posted Date : 03-Feb-2012 , 08:28:21 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Institute of Company secretaries of India ( ICSI), a premier National Professional body established by Act of Parliament to develop and regulate the Profession of Company Secretaries has launched a new syllabus for CS Foundation Programme today, a...
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ICAI proposes increased disclosure by listed cos
Posted Date : 03-Feb-2012 , 08:26:18 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Accounting authorities are considering a proposal that will ask listed companies to disclose the extent of their holdings in risky regions or in volatile financial instruments, on the grounds that stakeholders need to be informed about the impact of such exposures. The proposal, which will have t...
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Laxman Das takes over as new CBDT chairman
Posted Date : 03-Feb-2012 , 08:20:58 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Laxman Das took over as the new chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) on Wednesday. The former chairman of the CBDT, M C Joshi, retired yesterday. Das, who belongs to the 1974 batch of the Indian Revenue Services (IRS), was e...
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Finance Ministry putting pressure on taxmen to meet revenue targets
Posted Date : 03-Feb-2012 , 08:19:17 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Faced with a formidable task of collecting Rs 9.32 lakh crore taxes during the fiscal ending March 31, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday said that he is exerting pressure on revenue officials to improve realisation.
"I am putting pressure on my colleagues in the CBEC, CBDT ...and on my...
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Facebook can change government-people dialogue: Mark Zuckerberg
Posted Date : 02-Feb-2012 , 08:48:31 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Noting that Facebook was not originally meant to be a company, its founder and chief Mark Zuckerberg has said he now wants it to change the way people relate to their governments and to help them get a better response for their issues and concerns. "We hope to change how people relate to the...
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SC cancels 122 2G licenses; Chidambaram probe left to trial court
Posted Date : 02-Feb-2012 , 08:34:05 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Supreme Court today cancelled 122 2-G licenses allocated to telecom companies in 2008. The Apex court held that the licenses were granted in arbitrary and unconstitutional manner and asked the telecom Regulatory Authority of India to make fresh recommendation on the grant of these licenses. The...
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Results of the Chartered Accountants Professional Competence and Integrated Professional Competence Examinations held in November, 2011 are likely to be declared tentatively on Thursday, the 9th Feb.
Posted Date : 02-Feb-2012 , 05:36:13 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The results of the Chartered Accountants Professional Competence and IntegratedProfessional Competence Examinations held in November, 2011 are likely to be declaredtentatively on Thursday, the 9th February, 2012 around 4.00 P.M. and the same as well as the merit list (candidates securing a minimum o...
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Ex Addil Commissioner of Income Tax sent to jail for 4 yrs
Posted Date : 02-Feb-2012 , 08:21:04 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
A former Additional Commissioner of Income Tax, arrested by CBI for demanding Rs one lakh as bribe for clearing a tax return matter, has been sentenced to four years in jail by a Delhi court. Special CBI Judge Talwant Singh also imposed a fine of Rs four lakh on convict H A Siddiqui in the gr...
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Sebi notifies IPP norms to help promoters dilute stake
Posted Date : 02-Feb-2012 , 08:16:09 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
In a move that could expedite government's disinvestment process, the market regulator SEBI on Wednesday notified the IPP guidelines that will allow companies to reduce promoter shareholding through private placement.
As per the new norms for Institutional Placement Programme (IPP) of shares, eve...
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Budget 2012: Excise, service tax rates headed up as RBI makes it precondiiton for monetary easing
Posted Date : 02-Feb-2012 , 08:12:22 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Policymakers have begun talks on raising indirect taxes and withdrawing the last remnants of the 2008 stimulus, as the government comes under fire for not tackling the rising fiscal deficit. "There is a thinking within some sections in the finance ministry as well as other senior policymakers tha...
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Court orders Indian Oil Corp to pay entry tax on crude
Posted Date : 02-Feb-2012 , 08:04:12 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
An Indian court has ruled that the country's biggest refiner, Indian Oil Corp, must pay entry tax on the crude it supplies to a plant in a northern state, the company told the country's stock exchange on Wednesday. IOC said the order could have "financial implications". It did not say when the Al...
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Govt to take up Cos Bill in Budget Session: Moily
Posted Date : 01-Feb-2012 , 08:40:46 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The government today said it is hopeful of taking up the new Companies Bill for consideration and passage in the upcoming Budget Session of Parliament.
"Standing Committee had their first meting on January 24. I expect them to give (clearance) as early as possible so that I can present th...
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I-T Dept searches premises of liquor baron Ponty Chadha in UP, Delhi
Posted Date : 01-Feb-2012 , 03:12:16 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Income Tax Department on Wednesday conducted searches at the premises of prominent Uttar Pradesh-based liquor baron and businessman Ponty Chadha, in the state and at a few locations in Delhi.
The searches, which began early this morning, were conducted at more than 10 premises of the bus...
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