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ICAI- Opening of Certified Registration Centre for providing online registration facility in CPT course

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India has introduced a scheme for opening of Certified Registration Centre at the office of chartered accountants firms/practicing members in order to provide online registration facility in CPT course. Certified Registration Centre will provide, free of cost, assistance to the candidates in CPT registration by verifying the eligibility requirement,… Read More

Fin Min confident on moderation in inflation to continue in the coming months

The Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee said that he is now confident that moderation in inflation would continue in the coming months, though softening in the prices of manufactured goods despite the rapid decline in non-food primary inflation, may be more gradual. The Finance Minister said that he now expects that the March end… Read More

Fin Min initiates to provide citizen-centric governance, in order to improve taxpayer services and redressal of public grievances

The Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee has said that initiative of the Government is to provide citizen-centric governance in order to improve taxpayer services and redressal of public grievances. The Finance Minister Shri Mukherjee said that to unearth the black money, the Government has taken various steps within the country as well as the… Read More

SPMCIL – Celebrates its Foundation Day

Shri R. Gopalan, Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance said that the Government of India has initiated steps to indigenize the production of bank note paper to meet our domestic requirements. He said that the Government has taken these steps on the recommendations of a Committee under Shri Shilabhadra Banerjee. Shri Gopalan was… Read More

ICAI- President and Vice- President elected for 2012-13

Shri Jaydeep Narendra Shah is the newly elected President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He was a Central Council Member and was re-elected to the Central Council of ICAI for the third term for the period from 2010 to 2013 after completion of 1st term from 2004-2007 and current 2nd term from… Read More

The Union Commerce, Industry and Textiles Minister to visit Pakistan from 13th to 16th Feb

The Union Commerce, Industry and Textiles Minister, Shri Anand Sharma will be undertaking a substantive bilateral visit to Pakistan from 13th to 16th February on an invitation from his counterpart Minister Makhdoom Fahim, who had visited New Delhi in September last year. This is the first substantive visit of an Indian Commerce Minister after India™s… Read More

GOI organises “India Show” to raise an awareness of Indian products in Pakistan

India Show being organized by Government of India from 11-13 February, 2012, showcases the best of the Indian industry, cuisine and culture. Over 400 exhibitors will be participating in this Show which is intended to increase future trade opportunities, B2B meetings and direct buyer-seller interaction. The objective of India Show Exhibition is to raise awareness… Read More

ICWAI- New Pattern of Examination for CAT students

All the CAT students are hereby informed that effective from June 2012 Examinations, the pattern of Examination for Foundation Course (Entry Level) Part-I will be as below: 1. New Pattern of Examination: Examination for Foundation Course (Entry Level) Part-I will consist of Multiple Choice Questions. Answers to the Multiple Choice Questions to be marked in… Read More

Union Cabinet approves the guidelines for establishing Joint Venture Companies by DPSUs

The Union Cabinet today approved the guidelines for establishing Joint Venture Companies by Defence Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs). Salient features of the guidelines are as follows: i) The Joint Venture Guidelines (JV) contain provisions for the following important matters that are critical from a national security perspective: ¢ Enhancing fairness and transparency in the selection… Read More

Union Cabinet approves the National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy 2012

The Union Cabinet today approved the National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy 2012 (NDSAP-2012). The objective of the policy is to facilitate access to Government of India owned shareable data and information in both human readable and machine readable forms through a network all over the country in a proactive and periodically updatable manner, within… Read More

Speech of Finance Minister at the Public Distribution System Conference

I am very happy to be here today to inaugurate this conference with its focus on improving public distribution system to meet the challenge of implementing food security in India. We have committed ourselves to providing access to affordable foodgrains for all our citizens. This is historic but a difficult promise that cannot be fulfilled… Read More

Current financial year shows rise in Tax collection

Gross direct tax collection during April-January of the current fiscal was up by 14.57 percent at Rs.4,25,274 crore as against Rs.3,71,188 crore in the same period last fiscal. While gross collection of corporate taxes was up 11.87 percent (Rs.2,85,837 crore against Rs.2,55,514 crore last year), gross collection of personal income tax was up by 20.43… Read More

Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research Bill, 2011 & Factoring Regulation Bill, 2011 published in Gazette of India

The Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research Bill, 2011, after having received the assent of the President on 6th February, 2012, has been published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part-II, Section-1, dated the 7th February, 2012 as Act No. 13 of 2012. Also, the Factoring Regulation Bill, 2011, which received the assent of the… Read More