The rules make India's health warnings on tobacco products the world's most stringent, along with Thailand
Uber is suing Ola for $7.5 million to compensate for lost revenue and goodwill, alleging the Indian market leader created about 94,000 fake user accounts with the ride-hailing service and used them to make more than 405,000 false bookings
Several companies, including Indian units of Abbott Laboratories and Pfizer Inc, and domestic firms like Cipla Ltd and Macleods Pharmaceuticals, went to the Delhi High Court to try to get the ban lifted.
The next hearing on Pfizer's plea is slated for March 21
A notice issued by the Indian Health Ministry at the weekend said that a government-appointed committee of experts had found that the banned combinations were "likely to involve risk to human beings, whereas safer alternatives to the said drug are available."
The alleged fraud includes the use of fake bills.
Most of the extra spending in the Budget is in fact an accounting entry that shifts the cost of an interest subsidy to the agriculture Budget that was previously borne by the finance ministry
Some questions cited concerns that larger warnings can hurt tobacco farmers and boost illicit trade.
The decision ahead of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit beginning on Friday gives Tokyo an early lead over China.
The government wants to introduce a nationwide goods and services tax to revive its stalled reform programme.
Uber and Ola both welcomed the move as a step in the right direction.
A directive this year to ban all vehicles older than 15 years has been delayed and previous city governments have often ignored court orders to address pollution woes.
The fields have reserves of about 89 million tonnes
MAT has damaged investor confidence
Modi's reform agenda suffered a major setback earlier this month when lawmakers in the Rajya Sabha refused to support the the Goods and Service Tax bill.
This is another blow to Modi's ambitious economic reform agenda that has been stalled by a logjam in parliament
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley sought parliament's approval on Friday to increase the spending budget for this fiscal year by $4 billion, with almost half to be used to inject extra capital into state banks struggling with bad loans.
Nestle now has less than two weeks to convince the regulator why product approval for its noodles should not be withdrawn
Nestle is confident of getting back Maggi on India shelves.
As Modi completes a year in office, his cuts in federal welfare spending on the poorest of India's 1.25 bn people are coming in for sharp criticism.
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