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Govt links green credits for tree plantation to survival canopy cover
Green credits are rewards given for taking voluntary steps to...
Motor Vehicle Tax shouldn’t be levied if vehicle not used in ‘public place’: SC
Motor vehicle tax is compensatory in nature. It has a direct nexus...
Govt must provide additional disaster management funds to states without discrimination: Kharge
"The country is grappling with climate change, where floods, heavy rainfall, cloudburst and drought-like emergent situations have occurred in many states. For this, we will have to take steps by adopting a scientific approach, with the participation of all, by making...
Disaster Management (Amendment) Bill 2024 tabled in Lok Sabha
The bill is aimed to strengthen the efficient working of the National Disaster Management Authority and the State Disaster Management Authorities and has provisions for the constitution of Urban Disaster Management Authority for state capital and large cities having...
Govt formulates cashless treatment scheme for road crash victims Gadkari
Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways of India In a written reply in the Lok Sabha, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said under the scheme, the eligible victims are administered health benefit packages relating to trauma and polytrauma care at...
Emirates NBD and Kotak Mahindra Bank cleared by RBI to bid for IDBI Bank
The Indian government, which owns 45.48% in IDBI Bank, and state-owned Life Insurance Corporation of India which holds 49.24%, together plan to sell 60.7% of the lender MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: The Reserve Bank of India(RBI) has completed its review of potential buyers for a...
India’s Carbon Market: Regulations expected in months
"Large Indian corporations are on to this carbon market development in India especially since they have assets in other places around the world and their customers in European markets would be demanding more and more cleaner products.," Dirk Forrister, President and...
Financial bids for IDBI bank likely this fiscal; PSU banks sale on hold: DIPAM Secretary
Tuhin Kant Pandey, Secretary, Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) On the disinvestment of PSU banks, Pandey stated that the Department of Financial Services could provide more details, but he mentioned that it is not being pursued currently...
Fed leaves rates unchanged, nods to possible September cut
Fed Chair Jerome Powell While Fed officials are wary of any actions that could mar their data-not-politics approach to setting monetary policy, the steady drop in inflation in recent months prompted a broad consensus that the inflation battle was near an end...
Global accounting body wants more rigour in showing climate impacts
Investors have said they want to know whether assets will retain their value going forward as climate change impairs them, such as through flood damage London: The IASB launched a consultation on Wednesday on proposed guidance for companies to apply the board’s...
Meta to pay $1.4 billion to settle Texas facial recognition data lawsuit
The lawsuit, filed in 2022, was the first major case to be brought under Texas’ 2009 biometric privacy law, according to law firms tracking the litigation. A provision of the law provides damages of up to $25,000 per violation. Texas accused Facebook of capturing...
Six crore ITRs filed in 2023-24, 70 pc under new tax regime
Sanjay Malhotra,Revenue Secretary, Ministry of Finance Currently, the country has two personal income tax regimes. In the old income tax regime, the tax rates are higher but taxpayers can claim exemptions and deductions which is a relatively more complicated process....