Transport: AAR ruling may benefit e-comm players which facilitate logistics
MUMBAI: The GST-Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR), Karnataka bench, recently held that Juspay Technologies, which provides a ride-hailing app ‘Namma Yatri‘ to merely connect auto-drivers and passengers is an e-commerce operator under GST laws. However, the AAR bench further held…
Red Label: Calcutta HC finds HUL not guilty in ‘Red Label’ branding case
KOLKATA: The Calcutta high court has termed Hindustan Unilever as “not guilty” for allegedly “misbranding” the “Red Label Natural Care Tea“. It has also acquitted the office bearers who were charged with violating the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954…
Investment: Private sector must do 80% of climate funding
NEW DELHI: Emerging market economies will need a five-fold jump in climate mitigation investment to $2 trillion by 2030 to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, with the private sector required to lead the drive, the International Monetary Fund said on…
Tuberculosis Elimination Project Speeds Up in Two Indian States
This multi-pronged approach addresses all aspects of TB at its different stages. The anti-TB campaign, as part of IOCL’s CSR, aims to ensure early identification of presumptive TB and prompt diagnosis using high-sensitivity diagnostic tests at the doorstep. The drive…
Combination Immune Therapy Reduces Genital Herpes Outbreaks
Herpes simplex virus (HSV) type 2, which causes genital herpes, is very common, affecting more than 400 million people worldwide. There’s no cure and efforts to develop a vaccine have had limited success. The research team tested a novel vaccine…
Air and Noise Pollution Levels Shot Up in Kolkata
The letter also alleged that barring a couple of exceptions, the state administration had not done enough to implement court- directed norms to keep the decibel level within permissible limits on such days of festivity, which in turn causes tremendous…
Blocking Zinc Uptake Could Prevent Gonorrhea Infection
There are more than 820,000 new cases of gonorrhea each year in the United States, and more than half of these cases are estimated to be among young people 15 to 24 years old, according to the Centers for Disease…
No BF.7 Omicron Variant Case Spotted in South Indian State of Tamil Nadu
A new and highly transmissible BF.7 variant of Omicron has started spreading in many countries. However, the genome sequencing report of the six international passengers who had landed at various international airports in Tamil Nadu (TN) has reported no BF.7…
Petrol sales shake off monsoon blues in September but diesel still underwater
NEW DELHI: India consumed 3% less diesel in September than a year ago as the fading monsoon strains in several parts of the country dampened demand but the pace of growth in petrol sales gathered steam at 5.4% on record…
Wall Street’s most hated regulator, Rohit Chopra faces a fundamental threat
Rohit Chopra became one of the most powerful financial regulators by pairing bark with bite. As director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, he has attacked — often with a hammer — the perpetrators of what he considers injustices against…