Direct tax collection in Q1 up 24 percent
Posted Date : 08-Jul-2011 , 07:27:39 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The country's direct tax collection has increased almost 24 percent in the first quarter of the current fiscal year and stood at Rs.104,136 crore as compared to Rs.84,041 crore in the like period of last fiscal, official data showed on Thursday. According to the figures released by the finance minis...
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SC to hear Sahara plea against SEBI order tomorrow
Posted Date : 07-Jul-2011 , 09:04:17 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Supreme Court will tomorrow hear the Sahara group firm''s plea against the SEBI order to return the money, along with 15 per cent interest, collected from investors through its Optionally Fully Convertible Debentures (OFCD) scheme.
The plea would be heard by a three-member bench headed ...
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FM to review performance of public sector banks next month
Posted Date : 07-Jul-2011 , 05:07:48 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will review the performance of all public sector banks next month after the release of financial numbers by the lenders for 2010-11 financial year.
"We will have a review next month with the Finance Minister ... may be towards the end of May," Departme...
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Bharti Airtel to re-structure operations in India and South Asia
Posted Date : 07-Jul-2011 , 04:36:35 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Bharti Airtel said on Thursday it would have a new organisation structure for its operations in India and South Asia, effective Aug. 1, to improve efficiency. Mobile, fixed-line, digital TV and other consumer businesses such as mobile commerce will be part of the business to customer (B2C) unit...
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Union Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran quits
Posted Date : 07-Jul-2011 , 03:03:01 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran has submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, informed sources said Thursday, a day after the CBI alleged that he forced telecom promoter C. Sivasankaran to sell his Aircel stake to the Maxis group considered close to his family.
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DGCA busts fake flying school in Delhi
Posted Date : 07-Jul-2011 , 12:51:16 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
A fake flying school has been busted by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in the capital. One person was arrested and an FIR was filed by the Delhi police in this regard.
The action was taken after the DGCA received a complaint on fake flying school. The pilot training institute wa...
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SEZ sales by realtors under I-T scanner
Posted Date : 07-Jul-2011 , 12:50:34 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Smelling the possibility of major tax evasion and routing of unaccounted income, the income tax department has started re-opening cases pertaining to the sale of sites in Special Economic Zones (SEZs) by developers, especially to associated entities.
A senior I-T department official associated wi...
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45 Sail Employees Bag Eleven Prime Minister
Posted Date : 07-Jul-2011 , 10:57:59 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Employees of Maharatna Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) have once again proved their mettle. Of the 33 Prime Minister’s Shram Awards announced for calendar year 2010 by the Ministry of Labour, Government of India, yesterday, 17 of which went to PSUs, SAIL employees have bagged 11 awards...
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First quarter tax collection figures belie fears of economic slowdown
Posted Date : 07-Jul-2011 , 07:39:21 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Belying slowdown fears, the government’s net indirect tax receipts recorded 32 per cent increase to Rs 76,499 crore, while gross direct tax collections rose about 23 per cent to Rs 1,03,000 crore in the first quarter ending June 2011. Net direct tax receipts, however, showed about 17 per cent ...
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RBI caps banks
Posted Date : 07-Jul-2011 , 07:32:01 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday capped banks’ investments in non-financial companies to prevent commercial lenders from taking control of the management of these entities.
Investments are capped at 10% of the equity of the company or equity and reserves of the bank, which...
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Indrajit Banerjee bags best CFO of the Year award
Posted Date : 06-Jul-2011 , 09:31:56 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Indrajit Banerjee, Chief Financial Officer of Cairn India Ltd has been adjudged the best CFO of the year in the Best Treasurer category. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee conferred the Business Today CFO of the Year (Best Treasurer Category) on Banerjee at a function here yesterday, the company said...
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CEO of Universal Commodity Exchange resigns
Posted Date : 06-Jul-2011 , 03:20:40 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
India's Universal Commodity Exchange's Chief Executive Samir Shah resigned on July 5, citing personal reasons, about a month after he joined the company.
"I am going for personal reasons. I am going back to Singapore, it didn't work for me...," Shah told Reuters.
Shah is in the process of inform...
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SC upholds HC ruling against acquisition of Greater Noida land
Posted Date : 06-Jul-2011 , 03:18:26 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Supreme Court today upheld the Allahabad High Court order quashing the acquisition of over 156 hectares of land from farmers in Greater Noida in Uttar Pradesh and allotting it to builders.
The court also imposed Rs 10 lakh as cost on the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA) ...
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Prime Minister Shram awards for 2010 Announced to 76 Workers
Posted Date : 06-Jul-2011 , 12:26:15 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Government of India on Tuesday announced the Prime Minister’s Shram Awards for the year 2010 to be awarded to 76 workers employed in the Departmental Undertakings & Public Sector Undertakings of the Central and State Governments and Private Sector Units employing 500 or more wo...
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Government of India and World Bank Sign US$200 million Agreement to Strengthen Local Government System in Kerala
Posted Date : 06-Jul-2011 , 12:12:20 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
To strengthen the capacity of gram panchayats and municipalities in Kerala, an IDA credit of US$200 million was signed between the Government of India and the World Bank in Thiruvananthapuram yesterday. The Kerala Local Government and Service Delivery Project will fund improvements in local infrastr...
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Bombay HC questions women's working hours
Posted Date : 06-Jul-2011 , 10:28:18 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Calling for a change in mindset, the Bombay High Court on Tuesday observed that if men are allowed to work late hours then why should there be a restriction on the working hours for women.
"Why is it that men work till 1:30 in the night but women should work only till 9:30 pm? You (Maharash...
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SC pulls up Mayawati govt over UP's land policy
Posted Date : 06-Jul-2011 , 10:23:27 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Supreme Court on Tuesday pulled up Mayawati government of the land acquisition policy of Uttar Pradesh, and driving out poor people from the state.
The Supreme Court ruled that the Uttar Pradesh government's land acquisition policy is anti-people and a sinister campaign.
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Hefty penalties on BPOs compromising customer privacy
Posted Date : 06-Jul-2011 , 10:21:04 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Indian government will shortly impose hefty penalties on business process outsourcing (BPO) firms that compromise on the data privacy of individual customers. It is likely to tighten the provisions linked to data privacy and data protection in the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000, and is wo...
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HC issues notices to Big B, Sony TV for insulting Netaji
Posted Date : 06-Jul-2011 , 07:50:42 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Bombay High Court Tuesday issued notices to Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan and Sony Television in response to a PIL which challenges a promo in ''Kaun Banega Crorepati'' claiming it has insulted and maligned the slogan ''Tum mujhe khoon do, main tumhe azadi doonga'', coined by Subhash Chandra Bos...
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RBI sets limit on MF investments
Posted Date : 06-Jul-2011 , 07:23:17 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Reserve Bank of India on Tuesday put a limit on how much banks can invest in liquid and short term schemes of mutual funds, a decision that can impact adversely the assets under management (AUM) of fund houses that rely heavily on money flows from banks.
The central bank said that a ban...
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Idea gets relief from paying Rs250-crore penalty
Posted Date : 06-Jul-2011 , 07:19:56 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Telecom service provider Idea Cellular got a breather from hefty fine after a telecom tribunal on Tuesday restrained the department of telecom (DoT) from imposing penalty on the Aditya Birla Group firm. The Telecom Disputes Settlement & Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT), a quasi-judicial body that solv...
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Hawala racket: 37 firms raided in Mumbai, Rs 6500 cr busted
Posted Date : 06-Jul-2011 , 07:18:08 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Maharashtra Sales Tax department claimed to have unearthed a major hawala racket having a turnover of Rs 6,500 crore after raiding 37 firms in the city. "During our investigations, we found that transactions worth around Rs 6,500 crore were carried out by 37 companies since 2007. Almost all the firm...
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Idea faces Rs 50cr fine by DoT for hiding data in a circle
Posted Date : 05-Jul-2011 , 09:28:18 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Department of Telecom may slap Rs 50 crore penalty on Aditya Birla group firm Idea Cellular for violation of licence agreement by allegedly suppressing actual subscriber/customer database in Andhra Pradesh circle. According to Department of Telecom (DoT) sources, while checking in the network of...
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■Govt to come out with negative list of service tax
Posted Date : 05-Jul-2011 , 09:25:30 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The government will come out with a draft 'negative list' for service tax in two weeks, meaning services which are not mentioned in it would be taxed under the proposed GST regime. "The draft paper (on negative list of services) is nearly ready and you should see this paper in two weeks," Joint Secr...
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HUL to seek shareholders' nod to demerge FMCG exports biz
Posted Date : 05-Jul-2011 , 05:08:03 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Hindustan Unilever (HUL) today said it will seek shareholders' approval to transfer certain assets, liabilities and properties of FMCG exports business division of the company to Unilever India Exports.
In a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), HUL said it has been directed by the Bombay Hi...
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Banking services hit by bandh in Telangana, It will take three days for bank employees to clear the backlog,
Posted Date : 05-Jul-2011 , 01:40:39 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Banking and financial activities have come to a standstill in the Telangana region due to the two-day bandh call given today and tomorrow by various political parties demanding the formation of a separate state of Telangana.
According to the All-India Bank Officers Association, banking transactio...
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Mumbai I-T Dept. to collect 17% more corporate tax this year
Posted Date : 05-Jul-2011 , 11:03:10 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Mumbai income-tax department, which accounts for 35-40 % of the country's total tax collections, is planning to collect 17.2% more corporate tax than last year, as revenue authorities expect buoyancy in the economy seen last year, to continue. The projected corporate tax collection from Mum...
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Firms can refinance foreign debt without RBI approval
Posted Date : 05-Jul-2011 , 07:28:22 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Reserve Bank of India said on Monday companies can refinance their overseas borrowing without seeking any specific approval from the bank.
The ruling enables companies with outstanding debt to raise funds via fresh external commercial borrowings and foreign currency convertible bonds (F...
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Finance ministry opposes wider EPFO ambit
Posted Date : 05-Jul-2011 , 07:26:53 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The finance ministry has opposed a labour ministry proposal to halve the threshold limit for the organisations covered under the employees' provident fund scheme from 20 employees at present. North Block says the enhanced safety net will increase the government burden because of the contribution it ...
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Service tax evasion up three-fold to Rs 1651 cr in FY12 so far
Posted Date : 05-Jul-2011 , 07:24:44 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
India's service tax evasion, aided mainly by sectors like telecom and industrial construction, has jumped by a mammoth 200 per cent in the first quarter of the current fiscal touching Rs 1,651 crore. The probe in many cases, according to sources, has led the enforcement agencies to a chain of evasio...
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