If individual tax-payers, like the corporate sector, had hopes of relief in the interim budget, the government has thrown a wet blanket on them, despite stating recently that there was no Constitutional bar on providing fiscal concessions."Constituti ..
Highlights of interim budget New Delhi, Feb 16 (IANS) Following are the highlights of the interim budget presented by Minister for External Affairs Pranab Mukherjee in the Lok Sabha Monday:* Plan expenditure for 2009-10 pegged at Rs.953,231 crore (Rs ..
Budget Summary INTERIM BUDGET 2009-2010The Interim Budget highlights the focus on aam aadmi in the development process. The year 2008-09 has seen substantial increase in outlays spanning across sectors.Continuing the trend, the budget for 2009-10 wil ..
Australian Court Fines Air France, KLM For Price Fixing16 Feb 2009, 1101 hrs IST, AFP Text: SYDNEY: An Australian court has fined four Europe-based airlines a total of 16 million dollars (10.4 million US) for price fixing, the country's competition w ..
Prime Minister approves Interim Budget for presentation. The Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has gone through the interim budget related papers and has formally signed the papers forwarding them to the President. Dr. Singh also approved the interim ..
Intricacies in adoption law have paved way for India to become the hub of commercial surrogacy which legal experts say poses many challenges for the country, including threats of mushrooming of rackets on the "renting of wombs" in absence of proper f ..
Four minutes and 55 seconds. That is all that the Delhi High Court manages to spare on an average for a matter's hearing in a day due to the burden on its judges, raising concerns among litigants that their cases may not be decided during their lifet ..
The Maharashtra Government will soon equip the police force with night vision devices (NVDs) as part of a modernisation drive following the Mumbai terror attack.Home Minister Jayant Patil confirmed that the process to purchase NVDs is on and said the ..
Companies delaying or not filing full disclosures with stock exchanges and with market watchdog SEBI as mandated, will have to face a penalty of up to Rs one crore, a SEBI representative said."Under certain categories, companies which acquire shares ..
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz has appointed the first-ever female deputy minister in the oil-rich kingdom.Norah al-Faiz became deputy education minister for women's education, local Al- Arabiya website reported Saturday.The king reshuf ..