Summary of Today’s News
Haryana govt. announces reservation for Backward Classes in urban local bodies
Haryana government announced reservation for the Backward Classes (BlockA) category in Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) after accepting the Haryana Backward Classes Commission’s report on the proportion of reservation for Backward Classes in municipalities across the State.
India’s China strategy needs to be debated
The China has “renamed”11 places in Arunachal Pradesh, which they consider to be “Zangnam” or, in English, “South Tibet”. The announcement was made after approval from the State Council, implying a green light from the very top of the Chinese system. Zhang Yongpan, of the Institute of Chinese Borderland Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, claims that China’s move to “standardise” names in Zangnam.
The lack of a drug recall law in India
Abbot, a multinational pharmaceutical company, published a public notice in newspapers alerting people about a mislabelled batch of medicine that it had inadvertently shipped to the market. India has been mulling the creation of a mandatory recall law for substandard drugs since 1976, and yet no law exists that mandates such medicine be removed from the market to this day. People, including children, are almost certainly dying or suffering from adverse health events because substandard drugs are not swiftly removed from the market. Every month, dozens of drugs fail random testing in government laboratories.
What are the regulations to curtail misleading food ads
The Advertisement Monitoring Committee at the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)flagged 32 fresh cases of food business operators (FBOs) making misleading claims and advertisements. FSSAI uses the Food Safety and Standards (Advertising &Claims) Regulations, 2018 which specifically deals with food (and related products). There are various food business operators which provide false or misleading information about their product
