Ola Electric became the latest among electric scooter (e-scooter) makers to have started the exercise of recalling a specific batch of its model after a rap on the knuckles by the government. Union Minister of Road Transport & Highways Nitin Gadkari on Thursday advised electric vehicle (EV) companies to act responsibly by identifying and recalling defective batches without waiting for orders or guidelines from the ministry. The Bengaluru-based start-up is conducting pre-emptive diagnostics and health check on 1,441 scooters, it said in a statement on Sunday.
The government's move to make hallmarking for gold mandatory from January 1, 2008 has got into bottlenecks thanks to lukewarm response from jewelers across the country.
'To get a 100 per cent consensus document without any reservation, any bracket, any chair summary is unprecedented in the history of multilateral forums.'
The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration has directed Parle Exports, manufacturers of Bisleri bottled water, not to release the product in the market till further orders.
In the first phase the yellow metal sold in four metro-Delhi Mumbai Kolkata and Chennai would compulsorily have hallmarking, assuring the purity, while the rest of the country would have to implement the norms in the next few months.India consumes on an average 800 tonnes of gold each year.
A recent survey by Bureau of Indian Standards in Delhi revealed that there was indeed cheating on the part of jewelers and consumers were getting much lesser value for gold for the amount they pay.
The Congress needs to reorganise itself at the grassroots, infuse younger blood, and have more boots on the ground. Just offering freebies is not the answer anymore. Leadership matters, asserts Ramesh Menon.
According to sources in the Bureau of Indian Standards, the onus of providing the transcoders will be on new DTH players. The BIS has also been asked to submit a detailed report on interoperability of DTH set-top boxes to the I &B ministry. The set-top boxes being used to receive services from the existing players, Dish TV and Tata Sky, are not compatible with the new-technology services that will be provided by DTH firms.
Within a few hours of Nitish Kumar leaving the NDA, entirely reasonable people were speculating as to how the CBI or ED could be used against him or his party, notes Mihir S Sharma.
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has obtained the quality management system certificate licence under ISO 9001:2000 from Bureau of Indian Standards.
The consumer affairs ministry on Tuesday expressed willingness to issue ISI mark licence for soft drinks provided the companies approach them on the matter, something they had failed to do so far.
In his letter to Modi, Kharge hit out at the railway minister for seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation probe, saying the law enforcement agency is meant to investigate crimes, not railway accidents.
Analysts see a silver lining in banking.
The Bureau of Indian Standards said on Saturday it conducted raids on a number of manufacturing units using ISI brand without getting valid licence from BIS.
The Director General of Bureau of Indian Standards has urged the health and family welfare ministry to amend specifications of packaged drinking and mineral water in line with the amendment carried out in BIS specifications.
Banks do extensive investigation before declaring an account fraud; they owe it to us as they deal with our money. Why would they try to fix an innocent borrower? asks Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
The American influential IT and telecom industry sought intervention of the Obama Administration against what they alleged are "discriminatory" Indian policies, which they claimed has resulted in several hundred millions of dollars of losses in the last quarter.
The Enforcement Directorate's (ED's) chargesheet in the National Stock Exchange (NSE) illegal phone-tapping case points to insider trading during the tenures of Chitra Ramkrishna and Ravi Narain as managing director and chief executive officer of the bourse. The federal agency will soon be sharing the details with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) for further inquiry, two people aware of the findings told Business Standard. The ED, which filed its prosecution complaint (commonly known as chargesheet), alleged that Narain and Ramkrishna were the "key conspirators" and had assisted iSec Services to generate money to the tune of Rs 24 crore for exchanging crucial information, the people said.
Tightening the noose on errant bottled and packaged drinking water companies, government on Monday cancelled ISI quality licences of two more units including that of Bisleri International, Noida.
'If you want to change everything all of a sudden to polyester, then the production of khadi flags will come under trouble.'
The Bureau of Indian Standards has decided to authorise non-governmental organisations of repute to lift samples of ISI marked products and get them tested in BIS laboratories at their own cost.
Online booking started on February 18 but the site soon crashed.
Cases filed under Section 153A had one of the lowest conviction rates.
Observers say China should re-address its policies towards India or else it will continue to face flare-ups increasing the tensions between the two countries at a time China's increasing tension with the US over Taiwan and the South China Sea besides the downturn in the Chinese economy which is hit hard by the zero-covid policy.
The luxury car market leader will be producing the new-generation cars, sedans, SUVs, and AMG performance cars at one facility.
Indian auto industry's dependence on China is high and it will continue to be so in the BS-VI era and as the country moves towards electric mobility. Domestic players lack both technological competence and the sheer pricing advantage that support Chinese imports.
'It was more than ego.' 'It carried with it a sincere belief that he was the quintessence of the country, that the country's destiny was irrevocably intertwined with his destiny.' An excerpt from T J S George's The Dismantling of India: In 35 Portraits.
In a bid to gain a bigger share of the customer's wallet, banks are ramping up their cross-selling initiatives.
'This government has always been fiscally conservative. It never resorted to fiscal profligacy.'
The average time lag between the date of occurrence of a fraud and its detection is 23 months; for large frauds (Rs 100 crore and above), it was 57 months.
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