GUWAHATI: India’s food safety watchdog has ordered companies to stop calling herbal infusions – from rooibos to flowers – “tea” unless the drink comes solely from the Camellia sinensis tree.FSSAI has directed all businesses to stop branding herbal and plant-based infusions “tea”, warning that such labels mislead consumers and amount to misbranding under Food Safety…
Vandals target Christmas decorations at Assam school, mob attacks mall in Raipur GUWAHATI/RAIPUR: Right-wing vandals smashed Xmas decorations in Assam and Chhattisgarh on Christmas Day, leading to the arrests of four people in Nalbari, Assam, and an FIR in Raipur against 25-30 activists.The arrests in Assam — three activists of VHP and one of Bajrang…
NEW DELHI: In a money laundering case related to digital arrest of well-known industrialist and CMD of Ludhiana-based Oswal group, SP Oswal, ED has carried out searches across five states, Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Assam, at 11 locations and arrested one Rumi Kalita from Kamrup in Assam.Kalita was brought from Kamrup to Jalandhar, where…
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh government has made newspaper reading compulsory for students of all state-run secondary and basic schools to cultivate reading habits, reduce screen time and develop critical, and logical thinking skills among them.An order issued by additional chief secretary (basic and secondary education) Partha Sarthi Sen Sharma, on December 23 says newspapers, both English…
MOHALI: CBI has filed a chargesheet in a Mohali court against four Punjab Police personnel in connection with the assault on Colonel Pushpinder Bath, naming an inspector as the prime accused.The central agency has dropped charges of attempted murder and instead invoked charges for ‘causing grievous hurt’ and ‘wrongful restraint’. The chargesheet names inspector Ronnie…
LUCKNOW: Enforcement Directorate (ED) registered on Thursday a case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) against Maulana Shamsul Huda Khan, a govt-recognised madrassa teacher from Azamgarh who fraudulently drew salary and retirement benefits for a decade while living abroad, acquiring British citizenship, and allegedly nurturing links with Pakistan-based religious networks.ED sources said Huda…
BHOPAL: On a forested stretch of Bhopal-Jabalpur national highway, the National Highways Authority of India has introduced what it describes as India’s first integrated “wildlife-safe” road corridor, combining speed-calming design, fencing, animal underpasses and electronic monitoring on a section of NH-45 that cuts through a critical tiger habitat in MP. The features, on a 12km…
Techies AM Navya, 26, HC Manasa, 27, and Milana Narayanamurthy, 26, shared PG accommodation in Bengaluru. While Navya and Manasa were burnt to death in the crash near Hiriyur, Milana survived. The three were headed to Sigandur temple in Shivamogga. Both Navya and Manasa were brides-to-be. Manasa’s wedding preparations were underway, while Navya’s nuptials were…
CHITRADURGA/BENGALURU: Nothing seemed amiss to Sachin (25), driving a private bus with 43 pre-university students on board, when a sleeper bus overtook him along the highway in Karnataka’s Chitradurga district early Thursday. “I saw the bus overtake mine. Everything looked normal,” he recalled. “But within seconds, the scene outside my windscreen turned horrific.” A container…
MUMBAI: Marking a long-awaited milestone for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), the Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA) formally entered India’s commercial aviation map on Thursday with the arrival and departure of its first scheduled passenger flights.The inaugural arrival was IndiGo flight 6E460 from Bengaluru, which touched down at 8am and was welcomed with a ceremonial…