Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
LUCKNOW: UP government on Wednesday announced to ban gutka as per the order of the Allahabad High Court and the food security act passed by Parliament. However, the order will come into effect from April 1, 2013. Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav said that six months' time has been given to …
Over the past few days, nearly 90 private water tankers have been caught transporting water without even a trace of chlorine Does a private water tanker supply water to your locality? If that is the case, it is time that you checked how safe it is for drinking. A recent …
This is the State’s second attempt to ban the carcinogenic substance Tamil Nadu is considering a proposal to ban gutka and pan masala throughout the State. This is the State’s second attempt to ban the carcinogenic substance. The State Tobacco Control Cell has submitted the proposal, and it is being …
Sangrur: About 250 food samples were collected by the health authorities from various parts of the district in the last seven months. Of them, 38 failed to clear the safety test. All these samples were collected after the new Food Safety and Standards Act was implemented last year. A fine …
NewDelhi:The Delhi government is set to ban sale, manufacturing, distribution and storage of all gutka products in the city by next week. After giving a verbal undertaking to the Delhi high court last week, the government on Monday cleared the file pertaining to the ban and sent it to the …
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the city government to examine and decide in two weeks a plea to ban oral tobacco products like ghutka, supari, pan masala and zarda in Delhi. A division bench of Acting Chief Justice A K Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw gave the …
New Delhi: Tobacco products might be banned in the capital, the Delhi government indicated before the Delhi high court on Wednesday. The government said steps were being taken on the issue, while responding to a query by the court. HC then asked it to examine and decide in two weeks …
CM Announces Comprehensive Ban During I-Day Speech Ahmedabad: The numbers 9/11 just got new meaning in Gujarat. Instead of a war on terror, they will signify a war on the deadly addiction of gutka and will come into force from September 11. During his Independence Day speech in Junagadh on …
A group of doctors from Tata Memorial Hospital (TMH) here on Thursday filed an intervening application in support of Maharashtra government's decision to ban gutkha and pan masala, which was challenged by companies manufacturing these products. Tata Memorial Hospital is one of the largest cancer treatment and research centres in …
If you think you are consuming packaged water and thus you are safe, you may be wrong. The report card of the State Health Department on water samples shows that water could be substandard, even if it is stored in a sealed container. Of the eight packaged drinking water samples …
New Delhi The Supreme Court has transferred to itself a petition filed by a leading chewing tobacco manufacturer against the ban on sale of gutka and paan masala. Gutka manufacturers have moved various high courts questioning the constitutional validity of the notifications issued by various state government. The manufacturers are …
The department of health, family welfare and food safety, Andhra Pradesh, has issued notices to four fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) firms for violation of provisions on misleading advertisements. “Misleading advertisements related to food items without scientific basis misguide the consumer. And, such advertisers attract penalty of up to Rs 10 …
You can’t swallow it and you can’t spit it out. That’s the problem of state food and drug control department officials, who don’t know what to do with over 230 sacks of seized gutkha in the capital after the government banned its manufacture, sale and storage for its carcinogenic content …
The Health Department is preparing to embark on a major exercise to prepare a databank or the statistics regarding hotels and other food businesses in the State, as part of implementing the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 effectively. Not only would the statistics on hotels and food establishments collected, …
The Bombay high court on Monday refused to grant interim stay on the ban on the sale of gutka in the state and issued a notice to the government asking for its reply on the petitions filed by gutka manufacturers challenging the ban. A division bench of chief justice Mohit …
After a year delay, the Delhi Government has decided to implement the Food Safety and Standards (Licensing and Registration of Food Businesses) Regulations 2011 from the first week of August. This means food safety licence would be mandatory for tea stalls, dhabas, fruit and vegetable sellers, grocery shops, milk vendors, …
The Bombay High Court is on Monday likely to hear five petitions challenging the state government’s ban on the sale of gutkha. Gutkha and paan masala manufacturers have urged the court to set aside the government’s July 19 notification and two regulations under the Food Safety and Standards Act (FSSA), …
Hoteliers in the state have taken a strong exception to the five conditions of the Food Safety and Standards Act, including the restriction on the chefs from wearing ornaments, as they are “not practical and feasible to the functioning of low and medium level hotels”. The State Food Safety Commissioner …
The state cabinet approved a blanket ban on the manufacture, storage and distribution of all types of gutkha and paan masala which have tobacco and nicotine content due to increased number of oral cancer patients. Cabinet co-ordination department’s principal secretary N N Pandey said the order would become effective in …
