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Govt Proposes ₹50 Lakh Penalty, 5 Year Prison For Promoting, Endorsing Fairness Creams

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The Health and Family Welfare Ministry has proposed the draft amendment to the Drugs and Magic Remedies, with a stringent punishment of a jail term of up to five years and a fine of up to Rs 50 lakh for advertisements for magic remedies and drugs promoting fair skin, enhancing sexual performance, treating stammering, infertility in women, premature ageing and greying of hair among others. In 2015, NDTV had declared it would not carry any fairness cream ads.The draft amendment has made several additions to the list of diseases, disorders, conditions covered in the Act. The Act says that medicines, "magic remedies" and products to cure any of these 78 diseases, disorders, conditions named should not be advertised. The new additions include ads for drugs for improving sexual performance and skin tone and treating premature ageing, AIDS, greying of hair, stammering, sterility in women etc.  Under the Act, the first conviction is punishable with imprisonment of up to...
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India's second largest IT service company Infosys practiced unethical by window dressing their records

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 An  ethical whistle blower group has allegedly  complained to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Infosys' board that CEO Salil Parekh was indulging in “unethical practices” to boost short-term revenue and profit. The e-mail to the board and the SEC is dated September 20, 2019, while another e-mail dated October 3, 2019, had been sent to the U.S. Labour Department's Office of the Whistleblower Protection Program enclosing "documentary evidence" voice recordings on several allegations made in the earlier e-mail. "We have not sent to the company as our identity would be revealed' " the e-mail to the U.S. Labour Office said. The complaint alleges that Mr. Parekh bypassed reviews and approvals for large deals. First reported by a financial newspaper, the complaint alleges that Mr. Parekh directed his key employees to make "assumptions" to show margins. It also claims that the CFO was complicit in the wrongdoing. It alle...
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DHFL siphoned off ₹12,700cr into 79 shadowy firms :ED

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Dewan Housing Finance (DHFL) diverted Rs 12,773 crore of loans to 79 shadowy companies   allegedly associated with its promoters in the garb of retail loans to about 100,000 fictitious customers between 2010 and 2015, according to the Enforcement directorate   (ED). The ED, which is probing the DHFL   promoters' role in financing funds to gangster Iqbal Memon (alias Iqbal Mirchi), said Kapil Wadhawan, former chairman and managing director of the debt-laden company, played a very crucial role in these “nefarious transactions” by way of money laundering. Wadhawan was arrested by the agency earlier this week in connection with the money-laundering case linked with properties involving Mirchi. He was remanded in ED custody till Friday. “This appears to be a scam of wider ramifications wherein the preliminary investigation conducted indicates that more than Rs 12,700 crore have been diverted illegally, and the ‘orchestrator and prime conspirator’...
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