RBI penalises two cooperative sector banks
Posted Date : 28-Oct-2011 , 05:34:54 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Reserve Bank has imposed a penalty of Rs 5 lakh each on two cooperative sector lenders -- the Pravara Sahakari Bank and the Baroda Traders Co-operative Bank -- for violation of various norms. "RBI has imposed a monetary penalty of Rs 5 lakh on Pravara Sahakari Bank Ltd, Ahmednagar, Ma...
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Microsoft world's best company to work for: Great Places to Work Survey
Posted Date : 28-Oct-2011 , 04:55:27 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Software giant Microsoft has topped a list of the world's best multinational companies to work for, where all the top-ten positions have been bagged by American firms. Internet giant Google has been ranked at the fourth place in the list of compiled by human resources consultancy 'Great Place to ...
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Delhi HC dismisses Airtel plea against TDSAT
Posted Date : 28-Oct-2011 , 10:25:04 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Delhi High Court has dismissed Bharti Airtel's plea against telecom tribunal TDSAT that asked it to first pay half of the 50 crore fine imposed on it by DoT before the hearing.The Department of Telecom (DoT) had imposed 50 crore fine on the country's largest telecom operato...
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SEBI allows sub-brokers to carry out
Posted Date : 28-Oct-2011 , 10:19:35 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Market watchdog Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has allowed sub-brokers to carry out ‘in-person’ verification (IPV) of clients, reports PTI.“... the subsidiaries of stock exchanges, acting as stock brokers, may rely upon the ‘in-person’ verification done b...
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Arvind Kejriwal seeks more time on Income Tax Department notice asking to pay over Rs 9 lakh in dues
Posted Date : 28-Oct-2011 , 10:18:26 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal did not comply with the Income Tax Department notice asking him to pay over Rs nine lakh in dues, saying he was needed more time to decide on the issue as he was given "very little time". "I am consulting my friends and will take a decision in a week or ten days....
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India's richest getting poorer, says Forbes
Posted Date : 27-Oct-2011 , 09:52:16 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
India's richest are getting poorer, according to Forbes, as falling stock prices, corruption scandals in Asia's third-largest economy and a global slowdown wiped 20 percent off the total value of the country's 100 wealthiest in the last year. Mukesh Ambani, head of Reliance Industries, India's ...
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Your private details on Facebook are at risk: Study
Posted Date : 27-Oct-2011 , 08:14:51 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Do you really know all your Facebook "friends"? Beware, if your answer is 'No', as researchers say you could be putting your private details at risk every time you say 'Yes' to an unknown friend request. A team at the University of British Columbia in Canada found a worrying way to evade Faceboo...
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Rajat Gupta pleads not guilty, released on $10-million bail
Posted Date : 27-Oct-2011 , 08:51:30 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Former Goldman Sachs and P&G director Rajat Gupta appeared in a US court today after being arrested and was indicted on six criminal counts on securities fraud.
Gupta, 62, is accused of sharing confidential information with hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam, the Sri Lanka born found...
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UK blacklists 2000 Indian banks from student visa process
Posted Date : 26-Oct-2011 , 05:45:16 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
As of November 24 this year, around 1,940 banks — mostly cooperative ones — have been named as “financial institutions that do not satisfactorily verify financial statements,” according to the UK Border Agency.
It means that students who need to show evidence that they hav...
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India GDP growth to pip China: Ernst & Young
Posted Date : 26-Oct-2011 , 05:38:33 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
India is expected to clock higher GDP growth than China in 2013-14. This has been stated in a report by Ernst and Young in its latest report. The forecast pegs India's GDP growth rate at 9.5 percent followed by nine percent by China in 2013. Similarly, the report says that India will record gro...
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RBI hikes repo rate by 25 basis points; home, auto loans likely to get costlier
Posted Date : 25-Oct-2011 , 01:02:31 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Tuesday raised the repo rate by 25 basis points to 8.5 per cent. The rate hike is the 13th since early 2010 but the RBI said it was likely to hold off on further increases as it expects high inflation to ease beginning December. The central bank also der...
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New PAN Application Form 49AA for resident/non-resident Individual, LLP, Company, Firm, AOP, BOI
Posted Date : 25-Oct-2011 , 08:38:22 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Income Tax Department has released a New PAN application Form No. 49AA for Individuals not being a citizen of India, LLP registered outside India, Company registered outside India, Firm formed or registered outside India, Association of persons(Trusts) formed outside India...
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Cabinet to take up Companies Bill on October 25
Posted Date : 25-Oct-2011 , 08:26:28 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Corporate Affairs Minister Veerappa Moily on Monday said the new Company Law Bill is likely to come up before the Cabinet for approval on Tuesday."The bill is likely to come tomorrow in the Union Cabinet. I hope it gets passed," Moily told reporters here. The Bill has already been vetted by the Parl...
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2G scam: ICSI shares MCA's view on date for capital enhancement
Posted Date : 25-Oct-2011 , 08:25:15 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The apex body of company secretaries, ICSI, is likely to endorse the view of Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) on the issue of effective date for enhancement of authorised capital that is crucial in the 2G spectrum scam case.
It is learnt that the Institute of Company Secretaries ...
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NCM to take up with par panel issue of tax on donations
Posted Date : 25-Oct-2011 , 08:23:01 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The National Minority Commission today voiced concern on a proposal in the Direct Tax Code Bill to tax donations for institutions and organisations run by a particular religion or community and is planning to take up the issue with a parliamentary committee examining it.
A delegation led b...
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CBI arrests ITO and CA in Bribery Case
Posted Date : 24-Oct-2011 , 10:01:40 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
An Income Tax officer and a chartered accountant (CA) were arrested on Wednesday by the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Mumbai for demanding and accepting a bribe.
The officer, Ranjan Prakash, and the CA, Vimal Patangia, were n...
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Plan Panel forms Committee to fix financial conditions of power companies
Posted Date : 24-Oct-2011 , 07:17:06 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Planning Commission has set up a Committee headed by its Member B K Chaturvedi to improve the financial health of power distribution companies in the country which is reeling under huge losses.The Committee also includes representatives from the Union Finance Ministry, the Reserve Bank of In...
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Monetary policy review: RBI Governor D Subbarao likely to raise repo rate
Posted Date : 24-Oct-2011 , 08:51:24 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
A sliding rupee, the government's deteriorating finances and the persistence of a cheap money policy in the West may prompt Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Duvvuri Subbarao to toughen his stance against the call for a pause in raising interest rates on Tuesday, despite a dozen increases sinc...
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Revenue Department takes notice of 9 lakh entities stop filing returns
Posted Date : 23-Oct-2011 , 03:44:30 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Revenue Department has decided to cross check service tax returns in order to locate 9 lakh entities that have stopped filing returns. E -filing has been made mandatory from this year and the exercise of cross checking is likely to start after December 26, the last date for e-filing.According to...
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EU leaders meet in Brussels to prevent financial crisis
Posted Date : 23-Oct-2011 , 03:43:22 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
All the 27 European Union leaders are meeting in Brussels today to decide measures to prevent Europe's financial crisis from spiraling out of control. British Prime Minister is set to join the EU leaders. Ahead of the meeting in Brussels, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she believed the leaders...
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Swan Telecom was just a mask for Reliance Telecom: court
Posted Date : 23-Oct-2011 , 03:41:35 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG)-led Reliance Telecom Ltd (RTL) was today put on trial in 2G spectrum allocation scam case by a Delhi court which said Shahid Balwa-promoted Swan Telecom Pvt Ltd (STPL) was "just a mask" for RTL. Special CBI Judge O P Saini dismissed the contention of RTL th...
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EU debt crisis, US slowdown impacting India: Pranab Mukherjee
Posted Date : 23-Oct-2011 , 08:13:19 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Debt crisis in Europe and slowdown in the US are having an adverse impact on India, but the fundamentals of the country's economy remain intact, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said today. Addressing the National Development Council (NDC) meeting here, he said "while there may be some mode...
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UK anti-monopoly agency to investigate
Posted Date : 22-Oct-2011 , 09:35:38 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Britain’s Office of Fair Trading has ordered a full-scale competition review of the four big auditing companies which dominate the market.
PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, Deloitte, and Ernst & Young last year collectively earned 99 percent of the audit fees paid by ...
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I-T dept sends fresh notice to Kejriwal to clear dues
Posted Date : 22-Oct-2011 , 08:25:52 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal has been slapped with a fresh notice by the Income Tax department, asking him to pay dues of Rs 9.50 lakh by October 27. The notice says his resignation from the service will be accepted only if the dues are cleared.Kejriwal, currently campaigning for the J...
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Govt working to make pvt sector bribery criminal: PM
Posted Date : 21-Oct-2011 , 05:28:11 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has said government is considering changes in law to make private sector bribery a criminal offence.Speaking at the Biennial Conference of CBI and state anti-corruption bureaux, the Prime Minister said India has ratified UN Conventions against corruption and to meet ...
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CBDT Makes Discussion Paper on Tax Accounting Standards Public
Posted Date : 21-Oct-2011 , 08:20:36 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has made public the discussion paper on accounting standards, to be known as Tax Accounting Standards (TAS), for feedback from all concerned. The discussion paper is available on the following web-sites:
finmin.nic.in ; ...
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Sebi to probe allegations against DLF, Sudipti Estates
Posted Date : 21-Oct-2011 , 08:17:27 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Market regulator Sebi today said it will probe allegations by a Delhi-based businessman that he was duped of Rs 34 crore by DLF Limited and Sudipti Estates. The probe order follows a Delhi High Court ruling on a complaint filed by Kimsuk Krishna Sinha in 2007 against the DLF Group and Sudipti...
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I-T dept to make names of defaulters owing over Rs 10cr public
Posted Date : 21-Oct-2011 , 08:14:31 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Income Tax department has decided to publish the names of defaulters who owe more than Rs 10 crore as unpaid taxes after it unearthed details of such assessees recently.The department has decided to send show cause notices to such assessees, who have reported "no assets/inadequate assets for rec...
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Finance ministry suggests reconciling accounting standards
Posted Date : 21-Oct-2011 , 08:11:27 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
In a move that can help solve corporate litigation with the tax departments and mark a step forward in India’s commitment to implement International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), the finance ministry has suggested reconciliation ...
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Govt to set up agency to take suo-motto action against mis-leading ads
Posted Date : 21-Oct-2011 , 08:06:24 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
An independent agency is being set up to take suo-motto action against mis-leading advertisements. Consumer Affairs Minister K V Thomas told AIR that the agency will have experts from various fields to check the exaggerated claims about their products and services in their advertisements.Mr. Thomas ...
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