Mumbai/New Delhi: The Corporate Affairs Ministry has ordered an inspection of the account books of debt-ridden Kingfisher Airlines after receiving complaints from stakeholders alleging violation of company law like provisions on debt-equity ratio, sources said. The Registrar of Companies, Bangalore, has been asked to carry out inspection of the books of accounts of Kingfisher Airlines under section 234 of the Companies Act, it said. The RoC has sought information from...
03:24 AM, Aug 17, 2012
New Delhi: A day after the Chief Justice of India cautioned the government against tinkering with the independence of judiciary, Law Minister Salman Khurshid on Thursday said judicial freedom was paramount and a proposed law on judicial accountability will not undermine it. He said after Chief Justice of India SH Kapadia made the remarks on Thursday, "I had also said in my intervention that it is not accountability to undermine...
02:26 PM, Aug 16, 2012
The account was thought to have contributed to the strained relations Pietersen felt within the England dressing room. ...
11:45 PM, Aug 14, 2012
New York: Google Inc has started the roll out of custom URLs for a limited number of verified users of its online social network Google+. A custom URL is a short, easy to remember web address, and will make it easier for people to find a brand or a profile on Google+. The feature is already being offered by Twitter and Facebook. The Custom URLs have been rolled out for...
01:58 PM, Aug 14, 2012
Hyderabad: In a setback to companies owned by Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, the High Court on Wednesday imposed exemplary cost of Rs 1 lakh each to three miscellaneous petitions filed by Jagati Publications, Janani Infra and Indira Television Limited relating to a case of freezing of certain accounts by the CBI. It directed the company to pay the costs to AP State Legal Services Authority within seven days....
12:48 PM, Aug 09, 2012
New Delhi: The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), one of the largest accounting bodies in the world, has recently declared Chartered Accountant (CA) May 2012 results. The results declared are for Professional Competence and Integrated Professional Competence Examinations held in May, 2012. Candidates can check their results by cicking here: http://www.caresults.nic.in. ...
11:31 AM, Aug 08, 2012
London: Reuters News said one of its Twitter accounts was hacked on Sunday and false tweets were posted, mainly related to the current armed struggle in Syria. "Earlier today @ReutersTech was hacked and changed to @ReutersME," said a spokesperson for Reuters, which is owned by Thomson Reuters CorpTO>. "The account has been suspended and is currently under investigation." The incident follows the company's disclosure that the blogging platform of the...
10:32 AM, Aug 06, 2012
London: Social network Facebook has said there are now more than 83 million fake users on the website, BBC reported on Thursday. The company said 8.7 per cent of its 955 million active users might not be real. Duplicate profiles made up 4.8 per cent of the users while 1.5 per cent of users were described as "undesirable". In total, the company said it estimated there were 83.09 million fake...
02:07 AM, Aug 03, 2012
New York: Actress Katie Holmes and her lawyer, Jonathan Wolfe, went out on a dinner date. "The 33-year-old actress was dining with advocate Jonathan and his wife, Renee," people.com quoted a source as saying. Since filing for divorce from actor Tom Cruise last month, Holmes has embraced the single life and she's already landed a role in the Broadway play Dead Accounts. ...
11:58 AM, Jul 30, 2012
New Delhi: The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), one of the largest accounting bodies in the world, is likely to declare the results of the Chartered Accountants Final examination held in May 2012 and the Common Proficiency Test (CPT) held in June 2012. Though no official confirmation is available from ICAI, the buzz on the Internet seems to indicate that the results would be declared latest by July...
11:26 AM, Jul 18, 2012
The Staff Selection Commission holds recruitment of SAS Apprentices in CGDA Examination. The minimum Educational Qualification for it is a University Degree in Honours or MA/M.Sc./M.Com or Diploma of Chartered Accounts and Costs and Works Accounts from recognized institutes or organizations. The Examination comprises of written examination consisting of three papers followed by Interview. The recruitment is for the posts of SAS Apprentices, a Group 'C' Non-Gazette Ministerial post in...
06:41 PM, Jul 17, 2012
New Delhi: In a bid to reach out to more people, Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar has entered the world of social networking by logging into twitter. Kumar, who assumed office as Delhi Police Commissioner on June 30, started his twitter account - delhipolice2 - on July 13 and has had four tweets in the past five days. In his first tweet on June 13, he sought support from public...
03:25 PM, Jul 17, 2012
The Defense Accounts Department has a history which is more than two hundred years old. IDAS is one of the Group A Central Civil Service of India. The cadre controlling authority is the Ministry of Defense. The selected candidates' training grounds are at Bangalore, Kolkata, Lucknow, Meerut and Pune. Cadre size: 418 posts (direct recruitment, promotion, and lateral entry). Functions and Organization The Defense Accounts department serves the three Defence...
07:03 PM, Jul 10, 2012
The Indian Railway Accounts Services (IRAS) was formed in the year 1929. IRAS is one of the Group A Central Civil Service of India. The cadre controlling authority for IRAS is the Executive Director. Cadre size: 500 posts (direct recruitment: 50%, promotion: 50%). Organization of Department The Finance and Accounts functions are integrated with the executive at all levels in the Railways. Apex level hierarchy: Financial Commissioner (Railways) is assisted...
06:34 PM, Jul 10, 2012
The IP&TASFS was formed in the year of 1972 and the first batch was recruited in 1974. It is one of the Group a Central Civil Service of India. The cadre controlling authority for IP&TASFS is Member Finance, Telecom Commission of India. The selected candidates go through a number of training sessions in different institutes. i. Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration at Missouri: 4 month foundation course. ii....
06:03 PM, Jul 10, 2012
The Indian Audit and Accounts Department has a history of more than hundred years old. The Audit Department was formed in 1860 and Government Accounting and Auditing functions were placed under the Auditor General of India. The Auditor General was given statutory recognition in 1919. The status of the Auditor General was further enhanced in 1935. The Auditor General was redesignated as the Comptroller & Auditor General (CAG) of India...
05:54 PM, Jul 10, 2012
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat government on Monday froze three bank accounts of Essar Oil Ltd (EOL) in Jamnagar following Gujarat High Court directives to expedite recovery of over Rs 8,000 crore in sales tax dues. "Three bank accounts of EOL have been frozen in Jamnagar district as part of the due recovery process," a top finance department functionary said. The division bench of Justice PB Majmudar and Justice Mohinder Pal last...
09:41 PM, Jul 09, 2012
Chennai: Does an erstwhile Pandya king really hold a Swiss bank account? The Madras High Court has directed the Union finance ministry to unlock the mystery and file a report within three weeks. A division bench on Monday gave the direction while passing further interim orders on a writ petition from R Padmini Rani, wife of S K N Raveendranath of Tirunelveli, who claimed she was legal heir of Varaguna...
11:00 AM, Jul 05, 2012
Patna: A total of Rs 1,813 is lying unclaimed in a bank account that India's first president, Rajendra Prasad, opened a few months before he died. Rajendra Prasad opened his account in Punjab National Bank's Exhibition Road branch in Patna on October 24, 1962, a few months before he passed away, said a bank official. For 50 long years, the Punjab National Bank has kept the account alive, the bank...
06:06 PM, Jul 04, 2012
Patna: A total of Rs 1,813 is lying unclaimed in a bank account that India's first president, Rajendra Prasad, opened a few months before he died. Rajendra Prasad opened his account in Punjab National Bank's Exhibition Road branch in Patna on October 24, 1962, a few months before he passed away, said a bank official. For 50 long years, the Punjab National Bank has kept the account alive, the bank...
06:06 PM, Jul 04, 2012
