Telecom firms earning foreign exchange on incoming overseas calls, Internet services and rentals from cable networks are not entitled to duty sops under an export promotion scheme, says the government.
'Bhuvi's injury (stiff back) is a real setback for India' 'If the pitches remain flat and dry like the ones during the limited overs leg, India are in with a very good chance. But if it's a green top, obviously, the England seamers will come into the play'
'Nobody is telling you not to speak or learn your mother tongue. But making other languages an emotional issue is wrong.'
Exports to Greece from India are $360 million a year.
The Directorate General of Foreign Trade said in a directive that telecom operators will have to refund the duty sops availed under the commerce ministry's export promotion scheme for services -- Served From India Scheme.
Foreign Trade Policy: More incentives for exports, focus on ease of trading
Polaris gets over 90 per cent of its revenue from exports. Till financial year 2009-10, the company did not actively think about a strategy to buy space in a special economic zone.
Dropped from India's scheme of things for Azlan Shah Cup, senior forwards Prabhjot Singh and Deepak Thakur today claimed they have been made scapegoats for the team's poor show in the recent World Cup.
PAC Chairman K V Thomas, however, remained non-committal over these demands.
'One provision in the Act -- immediate arrest (of those accused under the Act), made this act different from all other sections of the IPC.' 'With that provision snatched, the Dalit Act has become toothless because caste criminals feared this provision of immediate arrest the most.'
Other than Gujarat, Odisha and West Bengal, call centres would come up in Assam, Manipur, Tripura.
As the liquidity crunch reaches crisis levels and getting tax refunds remain a big headache, exporters saw orders fall by 15 per cent till October.
The firm, which aims to double sourcing from India, is looking at partnerships with institutions such as the IITs
Systems are in place to introduce visa on arrival for US tourists in October itself, a PMO statement said.
There has been nothing consolidated in the Budget for this section that may transform entrepreneurship in any meaningful way
Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari, who released the manifesto along with senior party leaders, including Union ministers Harsh Vardhan and Vijay Goel, said, "The sankalp patra embodies Prime Minister Narendra Modi's policies and the views of party president Amit Shah.
Seven months down the line, not much progress has been made, except that the scheme is still being fine-tuned.
In a big-ticket measure, the direct tax benefits to 100 per cent export-oriented units (EoUs) have been extended till March 31, 2010. These benefits, available under Section 10 B of the Income Tax Act, were to expire on March 31, 2009.
Right from day one, the delegates were faced with external odds over which they had little or no control. For instance, would the Software Technology Parks of India scheme be extended beyond 2009? They could only take home the assurance that Minister for Communications and IT Thiru A Raja was on their side.
The beach on the Red Sea coast was transformed into a 'mini-Chowpatty' as Indian music reverberated in the air during this three-day programme with stalls of 'bhelpuri', 'papri chaat' and other snacks.
Roger Binny, the former Karnataka and India cricketer talks about India's lack of genuine allrounders, India's poor fielding, India's chances in the Twenty20 World Cup.
Economy to grow by 7.2-7.5 per cent in second half of current fiscal, says FM.
Software industry association Nasscom has sought continuation of software technology parks of India scheme where companies get tax benefits, till 2019.
The appreciation of the rupee, the dividend distribution tax and the hangover of the minimum alternate tax on information technology companies under the Software Technology Parks of India scheme have pulled the prices of IT stocks down.
The Budget proposal will help startups with better incubation, talent and capital
GST will yield 'better value for money' for car buyers, increasing automobile industry demand, says Sandip Neogi.
Rahul Gandhi took a dig at PM Modi, saying his 'Digital India' scheme cannot become a "euphemism" for an Internet controlled by large remote corporations.
Rohini Bhajibhakare won't waste a moment on this statistic because she has far more important things to do.
The government on Wednesday unveiled the FTP for 2015-20.
The BCCI chief said the former India captain is not being selected as the selectors do not want to tamper with the wining combination.
Captain Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane struck sublime half-centuries before Australia staged a strong fightback to bowl India out for 252 in the second One-Day International, in Kolkata, on Thursday.
These events would include celebrating the centenary of Mahatma Gandhi's Champaran Satyagraha in Bihar in a big way. It was Gandhi's first mass agitation in India, where he had led a protest of peasants against forcible cultivation of indigo.
With the government claiming that the economy has been growing robustly and the Opposition refuting these claims, the common man is none the wiser, says Rajeev Sharma.
New government should consider reforming taxation rules.
India's IT services sector witnessed 4.2 per cent growth in 2012-13.
"The prime minister's post is very dignified and he should not have made personal attacks, but I did not mind. He does not give answers, but only makes promises which are hollow," Rahul said, addressing an election rally.
On display were PM Modi's pet projects like the 'Make in India' scheme and 'Jan Dhan Yojana'.
There are bowlers who know what needs to be done in a particular match situation and there is Ashish Nehra, who has skill-sets to execute exactly what he is thinking.
'It is very hard to get the police to file a report against someone from an upper caste.' 'Things are so bad that sometimes we have to sit on a dharna with the body of a Dalit victim to get the police to file a complaint.'
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