Govt relaxes GST price sticker rules: No mandatory revision for pre-Sept 22 stock, easing FMCG transitionThe Ministry of Consumer Affairs made an announcement. Companies do not need to revise price stickers for pre-packaged goods made before Se...
18 Sep, 2025, 07.17 PM IST
No mandatory price change stickers on unsold goods made before Sept 22, says govtThe Ministry of Consumer Affairs has provided relief to manufacturers. Companies do not need to affix revised price stickers on pre-package...
18 Sep, 2025, 04.48 PM IST
Centre seeks public comment on proposed rules for clinical electrical thermometers until December 30The Indian government is seeking public feedback on proposed rules for clinical electrical thermometers until December 30, 2024. These rule...
08 Dec, 2024, 03.41 PM IST
IMD issues Orange alert for next three days in TelanganaHyderabad too received a sudden spell of heavy rains from Sunday 5 am accompanied by thunder and lightning. Several areas in the city were ...
04 Sep, 2023, 06.46 PM IST
Centre issues 63 show cause notices to makers, importers of weighing instrumentsIt has been observed that some manufacturers and importers of these instruments are selling the person weighing machines and kitchen scales...
30 Aug, 2022, 12.00 PM IST
Electronic industry given option to declare some mandatory details on package via QR codeThe additional mandatory declarations such as the address of the manufacturer or packer or importer, the common or generic name of the comm...
16 Jul, 2022, 07.00 PM IST
States oppose Centre's move to decriminalise offences under Legal Metrology Act, says Piyush Goyal"We have a Legal Metrology Act. I myself was an entrepreneur 35 years ago and faced harassment due to the Act then which is being faced tod...
16 Mar, 2022, 12.16 AM 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
Govt to soon finalize proposal to decriminalize Legal Metrology Act: GoyalThe Legal Metrology Act 2009 enforces standards related to weights and measures.
24 Dec, 2021, 05.43 PM IST
Centre amends Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules 2011"To safeguard interest of consumers, the Department of Consumer Affairs under Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution ha...
08 Nov, 2021, 06.54 PM IST
PIL seeks clear MRP, seller details of products sold by e-commerce sites; Delhi High Court asks for Centre's standThe petition, by Ghaziabad resident Ajay Kumar Singh, has claimed that the consumers are facing great difficulty due to such details not be...
02 Feb, 2021, 01.23 PM IST
Amazon fined for not displaying mandatory information about productsLast month, the consumer affairs ministry had issued notices to e-commerce majors Flipkart and Amazon for not displaying such information.
25 Nov, 2020, 09.51 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
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
Putty manufacturing companies penalised for not passing on GST rate cut benefitThe Centre has issued directions that all such pre-packed commodities with reduced GST slab must bear revised MRP so that consumers can ava...
14 Aug, 2018, 06.25 PM IST
Why do e-commerce biggies lag in MRP display norms?The amendments in Legal Metrology Rules (Packaged Commodities Rules, or PCR) were brought about in June 2017, after the consumer affairs mi...
19 Feb, 2018, 12.09 PM IST
- Budget 2012: Incentivize supply chain investments, says FICCI
FICCI in its pre-budget memorandum to the government on the retail sector says that supply chain investments need to be incentivized.
18 Feb, 2012, 06.13 PM IST