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Cabinet nods for amendments in bill for setting up commercial benches in select High Courts

Cabinet nods for amendments in bill for…

New Delhi, Dec 17 (KNN) After the Lok Sabha, on Wednesday, cleared the Commercial Courts, Commercial Division and Commercial Appellate Division of High Courts…
Govt approves revised Model Text for Indian Bilateral Investment Treaty

Govt approves revised Model Text for Indian…

New Delhi, Dec 17 (KNN) With the view to boost investment in the country, the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given its nod for the…
GST is a game changing reform: Arvind Subramanian

GST is a game changing reform: Arvind…

Government increases excise duty on petrol and diesel

Government increases excise duty on petrol and…

New Delhi Dec 16 (KNN) Government has increased the excise duties on Petrol and Diesel by Rs. 0.30 per litre and by 1.17 a litre respectively to get the additional…
MSME Min for increasing MSMEs through downstream industries using by-products of large industries

MSME Min for increasing MSMEs through downstream…

Bhubaneswar, Dec 16 (KNN) While addressing an event on ancillary downstream and cluster development in Odisha, Union Minister for MSME Kalraj Mishra said the…
MSMEs raise concerns over falling exports

MSMEs raise concerns over falling exports

New Delhi, Dec 16 (KNN) While some experts are saying that the near 25% drop in exports should be viewed with caution not panic, the 28.5% drop in export…
End 'sufferers' will be the consumers: Industry on doubling of ECC on trucks

End 'sufferers' will be the consumers: Industry…

New Delhi 16 Dec (KNN) Reacting to the Supreme Court’s ruling to double the Environment Compensation Charge (ECC) on the trucks and Light commercial…
SC doubles Environment Compensation Charge for trucks; DGTO foresees rise in inflation due to this

SC doubles Environment Compensation Charge for trucks;…

New Delhi, Dec 16 (KNN) In a landmark judgement to cut down on alarming levels of pollution in the national capital, the Supreme Court has banned the registration…
Many credit worthy consumers do not have access to easy credit: Kampey

Many credit worthy consumers do not have…

New Delhi, Dec 16 (KNN) Offering the service to consumers to pay rentals , either for residential or commercial properties, Kampey, a start-up, holds the vision…
Hopefully GST will be implemented in the coming year: Jaitley (Watch Full Video)

Hopefully GST will be implemented in the…

Minimum Import Price for steel products will make SMEs absolutely 'non-competitive'

Minimum Import Price for steel products will…

New Delhi, Dec 16 (KNN) The recent proposal mooted by the Centre to impose Minimum Import Price for the steel products will hit the MSME sector badly. The…
FISME to discuss CIBIL report error issues faced by MSMEs with SBI today

FISME to discuss CIBIL report error issues…

New Delhi, Dec 16 (KNN) The Federation of Indian Micro and Small & Medium Enterprises (FISME), will be holding a meeting with the State Bank of India on…
Continuous decline in exports since past 12 Months; FIEO urges govt for immediate intervention

Continuous decline in exports since past 12…

New Delhi, Dec 16 (KNN) The continuous decline in exports for the last 12 months is much worse that the decline on exports during global slowdown of 2008-09,…
India's exports falls 24% in Nov; products exported by MSME sector witnesses significant decline

India's exports falls 24% in Nov; products…

New Delhi, Dec 16 (KNN) Keeping in line with the declining trend since last one year, India's export tumbled 24.42 per cent in November as compared to…
CBDT revises monetary limits for filing appeals before Tribunal, High Courts

CBDT revises monetary limits for filing appeals…

New Delhi, Dec 16 (KNN) The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has revised the monetary limits for filing appeals before the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal…
Deadline for paying instalment of Advance Tax in TN, Puducherry extended till Dec 31

Deadline for paying instalment of Advance Tax…

Chennai, Dec 16 (KNN) In the backdrop of heavy rains in the region, Government has extended the deadline for taxpayers in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry till year…
Draft GST model law to be finalised and put on public domain in about a month: Fin Min

Draft GST model law to be finalised…

New Delhi, Dec 15 (KNN) The Union Finance Ministry today quashed reports of draft model law on goods and services tax (GST) being in the public domain and…
More than Rs 45K crore disbursed under Mudra Yojana till November

More than Rs 45K crore disbursed under…

New Delhi, Dec 15 (KNN) Till November 25, 2015, an amount of Rs. 45948.28 crore has been disbursed under the Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY) and the total…
Govt announces ambitious Solar Power Capacity but withdraws subsidy to industries

Govt announces ambitious Solar Power Capacity but…

New Delhi, Dec 15 (KNN) While the Government has set a target of 1 lakh MW of solar power by the year 2022, the subsidy available to industry to set up solar…
93% of workers are in unorganized sector and acquire skills through informal channels: MSDE

93% of workers are in unorganized sector…

New Delhi, Dec 15 (KNN) 93% of India’s workers work in the unorganised sector and acquire skills through informal channels and lack formal certification,…