Circular No. 22/2013 - Customs F. No. 450 /120/2012-Cus-IV. Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue Central Board of Excise & Customs New Delhi, Dated 24th May, 2013 To, All Chief Commissioners of Customs / Customs (Prev). All Chief Commissioners of Customs & Central Excise. All Commissioners of Customs / Customs (Prev). All Commissioners… Read More
The Annual Plan for the year 2013-14 for Nagaland was finalized here today at a meeting between Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Mr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Chief Minister of Nagaland, Sh. Neiphiu Rio. The plan size has been agreed at Rs.2,000 crore. In his opening comments, Mr Ahluwalia complemented the State Government for economic performance and… Read More
The 102nd Session of International Labour Conference of ILO to begin in Geneva next week Focus will be ON Employment and Social Protection in the new Demographic Context, Sustainable Development, Decent Work and Green Jobs. A Recurrent Discussion on the Strategic Objective of Social Dialogue will also be There. The 102nd Session of International Labour Conference of International Labour… Read More
Shri Ajit Singh, Minister of Civil Aviation has taken initiate in appointment of five eminent personalities as part-time Directors on Board of Air India, to use their specialized skills and valuable suggestions for achieving the targets set by the Government of India in the Turn Around Plan and Financial Restructuring Plan for Air India. The… Read More
As part of its ongoing initiative, the Income Tax Department has sent today i.e. 27th May, 2013 letters to another batch of 35,000 non-filers. These persons were part of around 12 lakh non-filers identified as a result of data matching exercise. With this latest batch, the IT Department has now issued letters in 1,75,000 high priority cases. The response to this… Read More
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the following : (i) The repatriation of Shri Amar Singh, IAS(MP:81), Food Corporation of India, to his cadre with effect from 28.05.2013. (ii) Shri Radha Krishna Mathur, IAS(MT:77), Secretary, Department of Defence Production will hold additional charge of the post of Defence Secretary, Ministry of Defence for a… Read More
It is hereby notified for general information that the organization "Gujarat Energy Research and Management Institute Gandhinagar (PAN-AAATG6316R) has been approved by the Central Government for the purpose of clause (ii) of sub-section (1) of section 35 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (said Act), read with Rules 5C and 5D of the Income-tax Rules, 1962 (said Rules], from 01.04.2012 onwards in the category of… Read More
It is hereby notified for general information that the organization "Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad (PAN-AAATC2727J) has been approved by the Central Government for the purpose of clause (ii) of sub-section (1) of section 35 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (said Act), read with Rules 5C and 5D of the Income-tax Rules, 1962 (said Rules), from 01.04.2012 onwards in the category… Read More
Following is the text of the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh™s departure statement prior to his visit to Japan and Thailand today: I am proceeding today on a trip to the East, which will take me to our important friends and partners Japan and Thailand. My visit to Japan is for the Annual Summit between our… Read More
TRAI has released: (i) ˜The Short Message Services (SMS) Termination Charges Regulations, 2013™ which prescribes cost based SMS Termination Charge as 2 paise per SMS; (ii) Amendment to the Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference Regulations, 2010 which prescribes a transactional SMS charge of 5 paise per transactional SMS . These regulations will be applicable from… Read More
TRAI issued the The Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference (Twelfth Amendment) Regulations, 2013, prescribing further measures to tighten the framework for controlling the menace of Unsolicited Commercial Communications (UCC). TRAI has taken a series of measures in the recent past for curbing the menace of UCC. It issued The Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference Regulations, 2010… Read More
1. Inflation Indexed Bonds (IIBs) were issued in the name of Capital Indexed Bonds (CIBs) during 1997. How is the new product of IIBs different from earlier CIBs? The CIBs issued in 1997 provided inflation protection only to principal and not to interest payment. New product of IIBs will provide inflation protection to both principal… Read More
The two day conference of Ministers of States/UTs in charge of Youth Affairs and Sports concluded here today. The Conference was chaired by Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Youth Affairs and Sport, Shri Jitendra Singh, in the presence of Ministers and Secretaries from different State Governments/UTs, eminent sports persons, members of Sports Federations,… Read More