New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) on Friday imposed penalties on two major coaching institutes — Motion Education Private Limited and Career Line Coaching (CLC) — for allegedly publishing misleading advertisements and indulging in unfair trade practices under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019.The consumer watchdog levied a penalty of Rs 10 lakh on Motion Education Private Limited and Rs 5 lakh on Career Line Coaching (CLC), Sikar, after finding that both…
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Dehradun, May 13 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested five accused, including an alleged kingpin, in connection with the multi-crore LUCC chit fund scam in Uttarakhand that allegedly duped more than one lakh investors.The arrested accused have been identified as Sushil Gokhroo, Rajendra Singh Bisht, Tarun Kumar Mourya, Gaurav Rohilla and Mamta Bhandari. They were apprehended from different locations across the country, the agency said on Wednesday.The case pertains to th…
New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) The Supreme Court, on Tuesday, will hear a batch of pleas challenging the reduction in the qualifying cut-off percentile for the NEET-PG 2025–26 examination.During a brief hearing, senior advocate Gopal Sankarnarayanan, appearing for the petitioners, earlier submitted that a sufficient number of candidates had already qualified the NEET-PG examination to fill all available postgraduate seats, and that a reduction in the cut-off was unwarranted.He argued that vacant s…
Kolkata, April 27 (IANS) On the last day of Assembly election campaigning in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee held public meetings at four places, including Ranaghat, Goghat, and Arambagh, since morning and targeted the Bharatiya Janata Party on one issue after another, including the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, and the Special Intensive Revision exercise. Addressing an election rally in Nadia district’s Ranaghat, Abhishek Banerjee asked the Matuas whe…
Bhubaneswar, Jan 28 (IANS) In a significant order, the Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC) has recommended that the state government consider the inclusion of “Third Gender/Transgender” as a gender option in government job applications. It has also recommended making at least 1 per cent horizontal reservation for them and directing all recruiting boards and authorities, including the Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC), to implement the same.The Commission issued the recommendations wh…
New Delhi, Dec 25 (IANS) The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has fined coaching institute Vision IAS Rs 11 lakh for publishing misleading advertisements related to the performance of its students in the UPSC Civil Services Examination, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution said on Thursday.This is the first time a penalty has been imposed for a repeat offence under consumer protection laws.In its order, the CCPA said Vision IAS, which is officially registered …