Mumbai: The state Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) has set April 30 as the deadline for restaurants, hotels, caterers and fast food vendors to clearly disclose on menu cards and electronic display boards if dishes are prepared using cheese analogue.The directive, issued by food safety commissioner Shridhar Dubey-Patil, said the enforcement would begin on May…
Bengaluru: Amid power mongering in Karnataka, CM Siddaramaiah Tuesday turned the Chamarajanagara-jinxed theory on its head, saying every visit to the border district has consolidated his position as chief minister.It’s long held — and also believed — that a CM visiting Chamarajanagara district loses power.Amid whispers of succession, power-sharing tensions and lobbying in Delhi, the…
Chennai: DMK IT wing deputy secretary and the daughter of actor Sathyaraj, Dhivya Sathyaraj, said on Tuesday that TVK supporters hurled slippers at her when she was campaigning in Chennai.“When I was campaigning at Nungambakkam for Thousand Lights MLA N Ezhilan on Monday evening, a group of TVK supporters who gathered there threw slippers at…
Hyderabad: The Chaitanyapuri police registered a case against the manager of a tiles store for allegedly making his employer’s daughter steal 100 tolas of gold jewellery from her house and hand it over to him. On April 17, a 48-year-old businessman from Kothapet lodged a complaint with the police, alleging that 100 tolas of gold…
Gurgaon: A 42-year-old daily wage labourer died after a speeding car hit him and his friend from behind near Intezaar Garden in the Surajkund area on Sunday evening, police said.The deceased, identified as Neeraj, had gone to work as a waiter at a wedding function at Lotus Garden along with his friend Gautam, a resident…
Nandigram/Kolkata: Just 48 hours before polling in the high-stakes Nandigram assembly constituency on April 23, the EC replaced police observer Hitesh Choudhary, an IPS officer from Madhya Pradesh, with Akhilesh Singh of the Assam cadre.In its order directing Choudhary to leave East Midnapore and report to the CEO office in Kolkata, the EC did not…
Noida: A 19-year-old lab technician trainee at Child PGI in Sector 30 died by suicide in his hostel room on Monday night.According to police, the student returned to the institute after a visit home on Saturday. He stayed in a shared room at the hostel, but his roommate was visiting home at the time of…
Narendra Vasudev Gaonkar and Vedant Devidas Kavlekar scored a 21-15, 21-19 win against Andhra Pradesh in their second group-stage match at Miramar on Tuesday Panaji: With packed stands and VIPs in the gallery, the pressure on the young Goa boys was understandable.The 16-year-olds were playing in front of such a crowd for the first time,…
Varanasi: The magisterial probe into the case of killing of a BSc second-year student, Surya Pratap Singh, by his classmate on the college campus on March 20, was started by the Additional District Magistrate (Administration) on Tuesday.District Magistrate Satyendra Kumar ordered a magisterial inquiry into the case by designation ADM (Administration) as magistrate to conduct…
Ahmedabad: The state monitoring cell (SMC) conducted a prohibition raid in Aravalli district and seized Indian made foreign liquor (IMFL) worth Rs 38.8 lakh, officials said.The raid was carried out on April 20-21 at the parking area of a hotel under the jurisdiction of Tintoi police station.Officials said a total of 6,312 bottles of IMFL…
