For many, ease of doing business means doing away with red tape. That gives red tape a rather negative connotation. Contrary to popular bel...

This would enable cargo to move expeditiously and prevent unnecessary hold ups at ports bringing down transaction cost of exporters and red...

It plans to rope in advertising agencies to devise multimedia advertising campaigns and will hire consultants to ramp up its social media p...

The department of consumer affairs said it had filed a complaint with the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission.

Soon after the ban on Maggi noodles in June, Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal had openly criticised the effects of regulatory ...

Weeks after regulatory action forced Nestle to pull out popular snack Maggi, Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan today said...

The “inspector raj” needs to be abolished in favour of a “registration raj,” according to food processing minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal.

It set the process rolling with a newspaper advertisement on July 10—"Let's free Delhi from Licence-Raj"—that urged people to send in their...

The fear is so pervasive in the food processing industry that lobby groups are unwilling to raise the matter fearing reprisals, said Harsim...

Consumer health is paramount and companies must sell only healthy food products, even as he assured the government was against "inspector r...

Food processing minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Wednesday asked the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) to streamline its...

Due to old system, the ration card holders had to wait for getting their ration till the sale was declared open by the Inspector of the Dep...

The proposed change will allow the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) to evolve as a National Standards Body for goods and services.

India needs to attract more foreign investors to step up the growth rate in the economy, Rajan Mittal, the newly elected president of indus...

Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray on Wednesday sprang to the defence of Amitabh Bachchan, numbing the campaign by his nephew and splinter sen...

The Punjab Government today decided to allow the brick industry in the state to pay VAT on lump sum basis on the pattern of neighbouring Ha...

Having progressed significantly on the political front, by way of improved relations with China and Pakistan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh...