The proposed amendments to the Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules, 2020, that are envisioned to protect consumer interests, may further compound the impact of multiplicity of regulations on the e-commerce sector, the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce (IACC) had told the ministry of consumer affairs. IACC, the apex bilateral chamber for Indo-US business, had told the government that the proposed amendments would increase compliance liabilities that risk severely impairing the growth of the sector.
'You are with each other 24x7, so how can you ignore someone crying next to you?' 'How can you not share a piece of chicken with someone who is sitting next to you and watching you eat it?' 'Of course, you will share.' 'And you become friends with the kind of people you never thought you'd even know.'
Swarms of immature pink locusts and adult yellow locusts are currrently active. Not only are fresh locusts swarms expected to arrive in the coming weeks, but even those already present in India have mated and are breeding new offspring.
'Despite the pandemic, we aspire to maintain the momentum of last year.'
India lost its competitive advantage as China gave fiscal benefits to its local manufacturers. Besides, recent policy flip-flops have, however, dented India's image as the 'pharmacy of the world'.
Studies have shown that milk is the most common form of adulteration in India
DCGI, health ministry initiate dialogues with foreign regulators, try to understand global best practices
Many associations of urban dwellers across the country are assuming powers they do not possess and behaving like tinpot dictators, says Shuma Raha.
The under-one-minute films are titled 'Menu Cards, Mom and Neighbours'.
The fund allocated for pulses buffer is more than 40% of entire farm ministry's 2016-17 budget.
'You cannot fight a disease as complex as COVID-19 without a carefully calibrated, localised response.'
A key lesson for the pharmaceutical sector in this case is to not downplay the significant impact that regulatory non-compliance can have on operations.
'One out of three phones sold in India is a Xiaomi phone.'
As regular promotional discounts and offers rolled out by well-funded apps determine the demand trend, online hospitality aggregators face growing discontent from restaurants and hotels over commissions and pricing power.
Views differ on the subject of celebrity endorsement.
A panel led by the secretaries of the DEA and the DIPP would conduct a quarterly review on the pending proposals.
FDA had cancelled Ranbaxy's approvals to launch generic Nexium, Valcyte
'As an idea, cleaning up India is a good one,' says Mitali Saran.
The list of exempted goods from central excise duty has shrunk from 400 items in 2011-12 to 300 now.
Flipkart, Amazon, too, under radar
Vice President Mike Pence said Trump had authorised a ban on entry of foreign nationals who travelled to Iran in the last 14 days. The United States also advised its citizens not to travel to parts of South Korea and Italy, from where reports of coronavirus have appeared.
There are chances of taps running dry and prices of fruits and vegetables spiking.
His dream of representing the country in Rio Olympics shattered after a verdict of the CAS, a devastated Narsingh Yadav, on Friday, said that he will do everything to prove his innocence.
This is the first market where the newest entrant to Mondelez's global chocolate portfolio will be launched, Siddharth Mukherjee, director, chocolate category & media, Mondelez India Foods Ltd, said in an exclusive conversation with Business Standard.
India will welcome two trade missions in 2015 focused on meeting its infrastructure needs with US technology and services.
'In times of recovery, we may see a rural-urban divide with the urban pockets affected more by COVID-19, but the MFI business model should encourage banks to handhold them in this hour of crisis,' notes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
The locusts initially entered Rajasthan from Pakistan and from there the swarms moved towards Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, and Punjab over the last few weeks and are now threatening to enter Uttar Pradesh, putting at risk the summer crop.
National Anti-Doping Agency Director General Navin Agarwal says all the Rio Olympics-bound sportspersons have undergone testing for banned substances and are dope-free. He, however, conceded that there were issues regarding testing of a few Rio-bound sportspersons as they were not available at the 'whereabouts' provided by them as mandated under the Anti-Doping Administration Management System (ADAMS) of the World Anti-Doping Agency, but NADA was able to get their testing done later on.
Our governments are easily prone to arbitrary decisions but if you are dealing with international firms, such arbitrariness can turn back and bite you, says T N Ninan.
Is India's most popular instant noodles banned in Uttar Pradesh?
Money to come only after Delhi improves biz environment & fast-tracks work.
The Centre on Wednesday alerted the states in the wake of Peshawar school massacre to the heightened possibility of terror attacks ahead of US President Barack Obama's visit to India next month.
The focus is likely to be on consolidation and improvement of existing rural-centric programmes to ensure their completion ahead of the next general elections in 2019, rather than announcement of new schemes. Sanjeeb Mukherjee and Arup Roychoudhury report.
In a landscape dominated by social media, everything begins to matter less for what it is than for how many likes or re-tweets it can generate.
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The partially convertible rupee closed at 66.24/25 per dollar after hitting a record low of 66.30, and down 2.9 per cent from its close of 64.30/31 on Monday.
Here is some interesting information released by the government in response to questions posed by MPs in Parliament on Tuesday.
India already allows 100 per cent ownership of greenfield pharma businesses.
'Four years into his tenure and Modi still has no idea what is wrong with the agriculture sector!'
DD Kisan in the past year has clocked an average direct viewership of 500,000 to 10 million.
Tamal Bandyopadhyay offers some unsolicited advice for a government wh,ich came to power, with brute majority and the nation's pragmatic chief money man.
