The All India Food Processors Association (AIFPA) Wednesday approached the Delhi High Court, pleading that the court should hear them before passing any final order on a petition that seeks ban on carbonated beverages and junk food in school and college canteens. The AIFPA in its application filed before the division ...

Flooded with growing consumer complaints over misleading advertisements, especially relating to health and nutritional benefits and the get-rich schemes, the government is planning an investigating agency to curb the practice. The proposed agency will supplement consumer courts, which cannot collect evidence themselves, while other measures planned include sharpening of the Consumer ...

Wearing black badges, around 100 HIV positive people Monday staged a demonstration outside the West Bengal health department headquarters here demanding punishment for a government doctor whose alleged negligence resulted in an HIV positive patient's death. Carrying a photograph of victim Milan Das, the demonstrators under the banner of Bengal Network ...

The government on Friday released a draftland acquisition bill that seeks to put in place a legal framework to not only protect the interests of owners and prospective buyers, but also those whose livelihoods depend on the acquired physical asset. Land markets in India being imperfect, the government intends to enact ...

The Supreme Court Monday directed private hospitals to submit to the Delhi government proposals for formulating a common policy for providing free treatment to poor patients. An apex court bench of Justice R.V. Raveendran and Justice A.K. Patnaik told the private hospitals to submit their proposals within 10 days and thereafter ...

The Delhi High Court has rejected a Muslim man's plea that he could not be forced to pay maintenance to his former wife under the domestic violence law as it did not apply to Muslims. The court disagreed with Syed Mohammed Nadeem's plea that the domestic violence law did not apply ...

More than half of Bihar's 10.5 crore population is malnourished, while 70 percent of women and children below the poverty line (BPL) are anaemic, a Supreme Court-appointed official said in a report Thursday. "About 55 percent of the population is malnourished and 70 percent women and children below the poverty line ...

The proceedings of the Lokpal Bill draft committee should be telecast so that people could see the body language of union ministers Kapil Sibal and P. Chidambaram who are on the committee, social activist Swami Agnivesh said Friday. Speaking during the launch of the nationwide Jan Lokpal bill campaign here, Agnivesh, ...

The Delhi High Court Tuesday stayed the Delhi government's notification demanding Rs.15,000 from auto drivers plying in the national capital for installing GPS systems. Justice Indermeet Kaur in an interim order stayed till May 27 the government's decision to charge the money from each auto driver at the time of installing ...

Raghuraj Puri, the father of Shivraj Puri who is the prime accused in the Rs.400-crore Citibank scam, was Tuesday sent to two days' police custody by a local court, police said. He was arrested a day earlier. "He was absconding since the scam came to light. About a month back when ...