The Competition Commission on Wednesday imposed a fine of Rs 52.24 crore on the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for anti-competitive practices with respect to the Indian Premier League.
The Delhi High Court on Monday refused to pass any order on the telecom appellate tribunal's decision pertaining to spectrum allocation, even as GSM mobile players sought a probe into the government's move to allow use of dual technology.
Reliance Energy Ltd said on Friday the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity has quashed an order of Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission that restricted the company from offering rebates to its retail consumers in the city.
As a result of the TDSAT order, over 65 pay channels like Star One, Colors and Star Cricket would be able to raise prices, which were capped by Trai. The TDSAT rejected Trai's tariff order of October 2007 that had capped prices in different categories of cities based on population.
The Bombay high court in an order said bakshish can be considered as business expenditure. Observing that paying over and above the contractual amount to sugarcane harvesting workers was "necessary incidence of business," the division bench of Justices F I Rebello and J P Deodhar upheld a decision of Income Tax Appellate Tribunal.
The order, which came on Monday, stated that revenue authorities cannot split the agreement when the parties to the agreement considered the royalty and technical knowhow as a single package.
The government's financial package to telecom operators has irked the paging industry which has filed a petition in TDSAT, seeking compensation from the government saying that cellular operators were "killing" them by offering SMS facility.
Samir Arora, chief investment officer of Alliance Capital Fund, has filed a petition with the Securities Appellate Tribunal challenging Sebi's order barring him from dealing in capital market
The Supreme Court asked on Thursday market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India and some stock brokers to file written submissions in a case relating to modification of penalty imposed on intermediaries.
The Supreme Court admitted an appeal by BSNL challenging a TDSAT decision expressing inability to penalise Bharti Telesonics Ltd for allegedly violating conditional clearance for providing national long distance telephone service.
The government has served showcause notices to various telecom firms for alleged under-reporting of revenues of over Rs 10,800 crore till November 2012, Lok Sabha was informed on Friday.
Indian Hotels, which owns the chain of Taj hotels and East India Hotels, may gain from a tax court ruling that allows hoteliers to claim depreciation and tax benefits on imported cars which are used to ferry tourists.
The party has contested the reassessment proceedings, claiming they were barred by limitation.
In a rare order, the Securities Appellate Tribunal on Thursday asked the Securities and Exchange Board of India to bear the costs amounting to Rs 100,000 in a case involving Goldman Sachs. A division bench of Justice N K Sodhi, Arun Bhargava and Utpal Bhattacharya imposed the penalty on the capital market regulator and set aside the adjudication order of September 8, 2006.
"The execution of the death sentence will be a form of judicial assassination," the CPI(M) said, urging all sections of the people to protest the death sentence.
Jet is facing insolvency proceedings in the Netherlands as well where it was declared bankrupt after it failed to pay two European creditors.
It said the amendments to the Sebi Act will facilitate utilising the services of officials appointed members of SAT as normally retired people join the body.
Tata Sky gets Zee bouquet, not to charge extra.
After remaining closed for more than two months, the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal is set to resume functioning with new chairman from next week.
Securities Appellate Tribunal on Monday adjourned its hearing till January 21, on complaints against Anil Ambani group's $3-billion Reliance Power IPO, scheduled to hit the market on Tuesday. On January 4, SAT had refused to stay the Initial Public Offer, while saying that it would consider the issue on January 14.
The taxman is rapidly catching up with foreign companies operating in India through agents. After Star, Morgan Stanley and Sony, it was the turn of UK-based Rolls Royce to be asked to pay taxes on a part of profits earned from Indian operations.
So far, most of those horrified by the dramatic evidence that surfaced last week of Telecom Minister A Raja's largesse on 2G spectrum costing the nation $10bn (that on 3G will probably cost another $5bn) have comforted themselves with one thought: maybe the Telecom Dispute Settlement and Appellate Tribunal, which is hearing the case, will conclude the policy changes were illegal and smacked of favouritism.
Understanding tax residency rules and maintaining proper documentation is imperative to ensure smooth tax compliance.
The Budget proposed abolishing the under-performing, authority of advance ruling, to replace it with a two-member board of advance ruling.
As many as 15 multi-national firms like Nokia, Sony, Samsung and Ericsson have been found guilty of violating foreign exchange regulations and a penalty of over Rs 42 crore (Rs 420 million) has been imposed on them.
Containing fiscal deficit and stable policies were crucial for the country to attract higher foreign investment, Commerce and Industry Minister Arun Jaitley said on Thursday.
The Securities Appellate Tribunal chief Justice Kumar Rajaratnam has resigned amid controversy over the UBS Securities case relating to the stock market crash last year.
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on Monday failed to get any interim relief from the Supreme Court as it refused to stay telecom appellate tribunal TDSAT's order restricting regulator's jurisidiction to effect changes in the agreement signed bet
Shoaib Akhtar's previous contract in the 'A' category was cancelled after he was banned for taking banned steroid.