Penalty for violations of rules on measurement, weights of store goods to be raised in DelhiThe Delhi government is set to increase penalties for using non-standard weights and measures, aiming to protect consumers and promote fair...
06 Sep, 2025, 06.12 PM IST
Govt launches AI-enabled helpline, ecommerce safety measures to boost consumer protectionLeading platforms, including Reliance Retail, Tata Sons and Zomato adopted a safety pledge as the government rolled out new consumer protec...
25 Dec, 2024, 08.02 AM IST
India should remove provisions of jail term for labelling offences: EAC-PM working paperThe paper also suggested that the government may consider putting in place a system to assimilate all the statutory/regulatory mandates fro...
21 Sep, 2023, 08.02 PM IST
305 cases booked for violations related to country of origin, expiry dates since October 2020The minister also informed that 15 notices have been sent to e-commerce entities and sellers so far for selling non-standard pressure cooke...
09 Feb, 2022, 09.27 PM IST
E-commerce platforms have to display country of origin on imported products: Centre to HCThe submission was made in an affidavit placed before a bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan by the central governmen...
22 Jul, 2020, 01.40 PM IST
Strictly enforce ban on sale of loose cooking oil: Centre to statesThe ministry has written to the states saying there were many complaints that loose oil was being sold by retailers, failing to comply with...
03 Jul, 2020, 08.41 PM IST
State authorities told to check if companies passing on GST cut benefitsThe Centre has directed state metrology controllers to assist GST officers to cross-verify revised sales price (MRP) of pre -packaged commo...
28 Sep, 2018, 07.18 AM IST
Pre-GST medicine stocks can be relabeled with revised MRPs: CDSCOSo far, chemists had been selling old stocks of medicines at their pre-GST MRPs and pharma companies were expected to declare the new MRPs ...
10 Jul, 2017, 08.57 PM IST
Government bans practice of dual MRP at airports, mallsAs per the order, which comes into force starting January 1, 2018, companies will not be allowed to charge a different price for water, sof...
06 Jul, 2017, 08.52 PM IST
Cases against Amazon, Flipkart for flouting packaging normsThese packages did not conform to the 'Package Commodity Rules, 2011,' the release said.
26 Oct, 2016, 09.46 PM IST
Government can now fix retail prices of essential commoditiesUnder the present system, retail prices are fixed by market forces, leaving very little room for the government to check undue spike in pri...
11 Oct, 2016, 11.40 AM IST
MSRTC files plaint against HPCL, BPCL, IOC for short deliveryMaharastra State Road Transport Corporation has complained to state Legal Metrology Department, accusing HPCL, BPCL and IOC of 'short deliv...
25 Sep, 2015, 10.27 PM IST
Squad to check quality, quantity of food grains in J&KThe Minister noted that best quality, full-scale, timely and transparent distribution of food grains to people was top priority of the gove...
28 Jun, 2015, 04.07 PM IST
Maharashtra government to soon come up with 'Overpricing Act'The Maharashtra government said it is in the process of promulgating an 'Overpricing Act' which will have provision of non-bailable offence...
23 Apr, 2015, 05.33 PM IST
Government asks companies to put brown dot on cosmetics with animal origin ingredients; IBHA opposesThe Indian Beauty and Hygiene Association (IBHA) has petitioned the Bombay High Court, contending that the rule is against the principles o...
12 Sep, 2014, 09.07 PM IST
Raids on Aditya Birla, BK Birla firms; Rs 77 lakh yarn seizedGodowns of the Birla Group owned companies at Bhiwandi near here were raided by the officials of the Controller of Legal Metrology.
17 Nov, 2013, 02.51 AM IST
Effective today, companies can sell 19 items in specified sizes onlyStarting today, manufacture, packing or import of 19 commodities of daily use, including bread, biscuits and tea, in non-standard sizes wil...
01 Nov, 2012, 05.32 PM IST