Climate Change Threatens Asia - Report

The UN Intergovernmental board on global climate changes alleges both floods and water shortfalls affects Asia due to global warming.

In various countries, the risk of hunger is expected to remain ‘very high’.

An inter-governmental conference on climate change liberated in Brussels figures that the crops outputs could boost up to 20% in east and Southeast Asia whereas showing a reduction of 30% in central and south Asia by mid-21st century.

Congress Kicked Out Of MCD

After recent Congress Partydisappointed results in Punjab and Uttrakhand assembly elections, it is again huge set

Genpact Looking At US listing

Genpact BPOIndia’s largest BPO firm, Genpact, is speculating a US listing through an IPO to raise ov

Raised Interest Rates Benefited NRIs

Reserve Bank of IndiaAiming to control the inflation, the Reserve Bank of India has raised the interest rates on March 30. This unexpected increase in interest rates caused a drop of over 600 points in the Indian stock market on April 2 though the market recovered.
Long-term investor, such as NRIs have fully exhibited this response as they pumped nearly Rs.1 billion in months of February and March, whereas, earlier, they were sellers mainly due to high rupee-dollar rate and valuation concerns. The mutual funds have also eased off and become attractive for the investor.

Strengthened Rupee has mixed response from Industry

Indian CurrencyIndian industry looked confused over the issue whether the RBI should intervene in order to protect exporters from the gaining rupee or not.
As per CII, the domestic industry would have to accept a strengthening rupee in the short term, whereas, FICCI, Assocham and FIEO fancies RBI to check the sharp climb in the currency.

Transfer Pricing Provisions Ruled Out, If Tax Liability Absent

Authority for Advance Rulings has decided that the income-tax department cannot apply transfer pricing provisions, if a foreign company does not have a liability to pay tax. This ruling would give relief to the Netherlands-based Vanenburg Group BV which had shifted the entire shareholding of its Indian subsidiary Cordys R&D (India) Pvt Ltd to its Cordys Holdings BV (Netherlands).
Vanenburg Group had asked a judgment from the AAR on whether the relocation would draw capital gains tax and the transfer pricing provisions under Sections 92-92F of the Income-Tax Act, 1961.

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