Monday, 4 July 2016

Important Business news between 20th June, 2016 and 30th June, 2016

                     Raghuram Rajan announced his decision to not to continue as RBI Governor, when his term ends on September 4,2016.

                     Bandaru Dattatreya, Union Labour minister has said that the ministry would consult Ministry of External affairs and Commerce ministry for inserting provisions related to treatment of labours in the trade agreements between countries after facing opposition from Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), a RSS affiliated organization against the India’s stand in the recently concluded ILO conference in Geneva. Earlier India has expressed its dissent to include labour standards as part of the provisions in trade agreements as it would affect India’s prospects for export and economic growth.

                     Boeing and Tata Advanced systems laid the foundation for setting up joint venture “TATA Boeing Aerospace Ltd” in Hyderabad to co-produce Boeing AH-64 Apache Helicopter Fuselages.

                     Government has relaxed FDI norms to permit 100% foreign investment in aviation sector, Greenfield pharma projects, Cable networks, DTH and Mobile TV and food product e-commerce and 74% in Brownfield pharma projects. Previously, FDI in Defence sector is permitted over 49% only if the investor brings in “State-of –the –art” technology. Now the condition to bring in “State-of –the –art” technology has been done away with.


                      Ministry of Finance has announced that Public Provident Fund (PPF) account can be closed prematurely after completing five years for reasons such as higher education or expenditure towards medical treatment.

                     Y.C.Deveshwar to step down as MD of ITC in 2017 and stay as Non-executive chairman. Under Deveshwar’s tutelage ITC grew tenfold and forayed into FMCG business.

                     PSB-s to get Rs.10,000 to 12,000 crore in the current fiscal year in addition to the           Rs. 25,000 crore provisioned in the Budget to tackle the problem of rising NPA-s.

                     GST Bill to be taken up this moonson session- Nirmala Sitharaman,

                     Reliance communications and Aircel are set to sign a merger deal to merge their wireless business and form the 4th largest telecom company in the country.

                     Britain has voted to leave European Union in the referendum conducted across the nation. The terms of Britain exiting EU will be decided through negotiation that is to happen over a 2 Year period. David Cameron will step down as Prime minister.

                     India’s bid to get NSG membership didn’t succeed in the NSG Plenary session at Seoul, South Korea. But countries like US have expressed hope that India might get membership around the end of the year.

                     India has become a member of Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR). MTCR is a partnership of 35 Countries to prevent proliferation of missile and unmanned aerial vehicle technology. Interestingly, China, which stymied India’s membership in NSG is not a member of MTCR.

                     RBI deputy governor Urjit Patel, former deputy governors Rakesh Mohan and Subir Gokarn, and State Bank of India chair Arundhati Bhattacharya in race for the next RBI Governor.

                     Moonson Session to start from July 18.


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