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Topic: Patanjali

Govt turns blind eye towards supporters’ offences, says Urdu press on SC’s Patanjali ad ban

ThePrint’s round-up of how the Urdu media covered various news events through the week, and the editorial positions some of them took.

News channels smiling their way to the bank with Modi-Yogi ads. It’s ‘Modi ki Guarantee’

You do wonder why the BJP is making such a splash when the election tide already seems to be in its favour. If the return of Modi is imminent, why this flood of advertisements?

‘Country taken for a ride’ — SC temporarily bans Patanjali medicine ads, issues contempt notice

Bench of Justices Hima Kohli and Ahsanuddin Amanullah notes that company had continued to make misleading ads despite assurance to SC last November that it would not do so. 

SC slams Ramdev’s Patanjali over ‘misleading’ advertisements, issues notice

The bench cautioned Patanjali Ayurved from making any statements adverse to any system of medicine in media in any form.

Ayurveda to cure arthritis, diabetes? Doctors blame lax laws, ‘regulatory oversight’ for ‘misleading ads’

While Patanjali has been under fire for ‘unscientific claims’ in ads, experts have flagged govt’s apparent lack of rigour in approval of traditional medicines & curbing of misleading ads. 

Patanjali caught between ‘reality vs deepfake’ & ‘astrological intelligence’

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Patanjali gets legal notice for using ‘cuttlefish bones’ in dental care product marked vegetarian

Use of 'non-veg' ingredient in product marketed & sold as vegetarian is a violation of consumer rights, says notice issued by Delhi-based BLJ Law Firm.

Who is challenging Ayurveda in today’s India? Meet Kerala doctor, Cyriac Abby Philips

The Liver Doc Abby Philips is now the go-to person for Ayush-related liver injury in Kerala and on social media. And he has taken on the formidable Ayurveda-Homeopathy industrial complex.

Uttarakhand lifts ban on 5 drugs of Ramdev firm, Patanjali says fight on against ‘medical mafia’

Ramdev's aide Acharya Balkrishna warned govt to rectify its 'mistake' on Friday. Patanjali Sansthan to review its stand as state ayurvedic & unani services authority revokes ban.

After Uttarakhand bans 5 Patanjali drugs, firm calls it ‘act of mafia’, threatens legal action

Alleging misleading publication of ads, the state's ayurvedic & unani services authority banned 5 drugs. Patanjali Ayurveda MD Acharya Balkrishna warns govt to 'rectify its mistake'.

On Camera

What is the beauty tyranny at play when a Panipat mother murders kids

India is horrified by Poonam’s actions. But it should also do what it rarely does — examine the mirror it keeps holding up to its women.

India’s Russian oil imports are showing up in cryptic new places. The crude map stands redrawn

December oil imports from Russia may drop nearly 50%, but Indian buyers already shifting to non-designated Russian entities and opaque trading channels to keep Russian oil flowing.

From nuclear cooperation to defence, trade to oil, what is expected from Putin’s two-day India visit

New Delhi is interested in firming up bilateral agreements for increased trade, mobility, upgrade of Su-30 MKI fighters and the increased range of BrahMos supersonic missiles.

Gaali cricket: Bavuma stands tall, India’s Test ego cut to size

The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.