No More LPG Subsidy for Consumers with Taxable Income
The government has decided that consumers with taxable income above Rs. 10 lakh per year will not get LPG subsidy from January 2016.
The subsidy payout on LPG in 2014-15 was Rs. 40,551 crore, which this fiscal will be less than half as oil prices have slumped to six year low.
SEBI Slaps Rs. 6.5 L Fine on 3 Entities
Regulator for the securities market Sebi has imposed a penalty totalling Rs. 6.5 lakh on three entities for failing to make shareholding disclosures within the stipulated timeline.
SEBI has levied a fine of Rs. 2.5 lakh each on Anushikha Investments and Swaran Financial and Rs 1.5 lakh on York Financial Services.
Amway Invests in Tamil Nadu Plant
Amway India Enterprises, India's largest direct selling FMCG company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Amway Corporation, USA, has invested Rs. 550 crore in a manufacturing facility in Tamil Nadu, which can handle a turnover of Rs. 6,500 crore to meet consumer needs.
This is Amway's third manufacturing plant located outside of USA. The other plants are located in China and Vietnam. Amway has spent more than 30% of the $335 million allocated for global expansion in India.
Processor Capable of Transmitting Data Using Light
A team of engineers has demoed the first processor that uses light for ultrafast communications.
The researchers packed two processor cores with more than 70 million transistors and 850 photonic components onto a 3-by-6-millimeter chip.
The new chip marks the next step in the evolution of fiber optic communication technology by integrating into a microprocessor the photonic interconnects, or inputs and outputs (I/O), needed to talk to other chips.