LCI Learning
New LIVE Course: Toxicology and Law. Batch begins 21st July. Register Now!

Share on Facebook

Share on Twitter

Share on LinkedIn

Share on Email

Share More

Corporate Law News


Competition watchdog operational from today

   20 May 2009 at 16:48

Two sections of the Competition Act still to be notified.After a long wait of five years, India's official anti-monopoly body, the Competition Commission of India (CCI), would finally become operational from tomorrow.Sections three and four of the Co ..

Posted in Corporate Law |   185 Views


INSURANCE LAWS BILL MAY BE PUT ON THE FAST TRACK

   20 May 2009 at 15:11

The Insurance Laws Amendment Bill is expected to be one of the first pieces of legislation to be taken up for discussion in Parliament when the Fifteenth Lok Sabha session is convened. The Bill was placed in the Rajya Sabha last July. The Bill, that ..

Posted in Corporate Law |   224 Views


PRASHANT SARAN TAKES CHARGE AS WHOLE TIME MEMBER OF SEBI

   19 May 2009 at 12:09

Market regulator SEBI on Moday announced the appointment of Prashant Saran as its whole time member. “Prashant Saran took charge as Whole Time Member, Securities and Exchange Board of India in Mumbai today,” Sebi said in a release. Prior ..

Posted in Corporate Law |   243 Views


ONLY 10 FIRMS BOARD LLP BUS

   19 May 2009 at 12:09

Govt yet to notify key sections on conversion. A month after the government allowed registration of Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs), only 10 firms have availed this new form of doing business that provides advantages of a partnership firm and a ..

Posted in Corporate Law |   298 Views


Dumping duty on colour TV picture tubes from 4 countries

   19 May 2009 at 10:26

The Finance Ministry has slapped definitive anti-dumping duty on colour television picture tubes imported from Malaysia, Thailand, China and South Korea.The levy of anti-dumping duty is likely to lead to higher input cost for manufacture of colour te ..

Posted in Corporate Law |   151 Views


Practicing Company Secretaries to Issue Diligence Reports

   19 May 2009 at 10:25

The Reserve Bank of India has empowered practicing company secretaries to issue Diligence Reports to scheduled commercial banks which will confirm the mandatory compliance with all statutory and contractual obligations by companies availing multiple ..

Posted in Corporate Law |   511 Views


NEW GOVT MAY MAKE CHANGES IN FII CALCULATION NORMS

   18 May 2009 at 11:55

One of the big challenges facing the new government will be to reconsider the norms it announced earlier this year for computing foreign ownership, an issue on which it has drawn criticism. The guidelines, announced in February, said that investment ..

Posted in Corporate Law |   223 Views


GOVT MUST PROPOSE NEW COMPANY LAW

   18 May 2009 at 11:55

The Rs 7,000-crore Satyam scam, the biggest fraud in Indian corporate history, exposed the archaic nature of the country’s company laws, and posed questions about the prevalent auditing norms. The new government will have to learn its lessons f ..

Posted in Corporate Law |   235 Views


RBI issues draft guidelines on STRIPS trading

   17 May 2009 at 04:36

In a bid to attract banks to trade in Separate Trading of Registered Interest and Principal of Securities (STRIPS), the Reserve Bank of India, in its draft guidelines on stripping/reconstitution of government securities, said that these financial ins ..

Posted in Corporate Law |   323 Views


RBI asks RRBs to strictly comply with all nomination rules

   17 May 2009 at 04:34

The Reserve Bank today asked regional rural banks to strictly adhere to rules regarding nominations in savings accounts, even if the customers do not ask for it.The Reserve Bank asked RRBs to strictly comply with the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, and ..

Posted in Corporate Law |   285 Views