-The Times of India NEW DELHI: From July 1, you can walk up to a chemist and ask for a 'Jan Aushadhi' brand for your medicine, with the government set to launch its own brand to sell low cost generic medicines. The Centre will procure medicines in bulk from public as well as private drug manufacturing firms and rebrand them under 'Jan Aushadhi'. These will be sold in the retail market at...
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I&B asks depts to use Preamble with ‘secular’ word -Himanshi Dhawan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Close on the heels of the "Preamble" controversy, the government has issued instructions that all advertisements and government communication will use the 1976 version of the Preamble in future. In a letter, information and broadcasting minister Arun Jaitley has directed officials to ensure that the amended version of the Preamble be used by DAVP and other media units. This comes on the back of a row...
More »SC restrains search engines from flashing sex determination ads
-The Hindustan Times Search engines such as Google India, Yahoo India and Microsoft were Wednesday restrained by the Supreme Court from flashing advertisements promoting sex determination of a foetus. A bench headed by justice Dipak Misra took strong exception that the three engines continued to carry advertisements on their web pages even though pre-natal sex determination is illegal in India. "If any advertisement existed on any search engine, these should be withdrawn forthwith,"...
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-The Telegraph New Delhi: A panel appointed by the Supreme Court has suggested that Government Advertisements stay politically neutral and avoid glorification of political personalities, positive portrayals of the ruling party or negative projections of the Opposition. It has said that governments should cut down on ads particularly before and during elections, and must not be seen as using ads to patronise media houses to secure favourable coverage. The court asked the Centre...
More »Like UPA, most ministries in Modi govt lying low on RTI disclosures -Nivedita Mookerji & Nitin Sethi
-The Business Standard The Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, like its United Progressive Alliance (UPA) predecessor, seems to be failing on suo motu disclosures under the Right to Information Act (RTI). The department of personnel & training (DoPT) had last month issued an official memorandum directing all central ministries and departments to upload replies to RTI applications and first appeals on their respective websites from October 31. This had...
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