Lucknow:(IANS) Five more samples of instant snack Maggi have failed tests at a laboratory here as they contained lead content beyond the permissible limit, an official said on Saturday. The lead content in these samples, picked from neighbouring Barabanki, ...
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New Delhi:(IANS) Union Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Friday said he never made any comment that Maggi noodles will soon return to the market. Clarifying his stand, the minister said he neither mentioned the test reports of Central ...
Read More »‘Rs.27,300 crore more needed to implement food security act’
New Delhi:(IANS) The implementation of the food security act will need an expenditure of Rs.27,300 crore more than that incurred on the existing food subsidy schemes, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Friday. “Estimated annual expenditure on food subsidy for ...
Read More »Nestle India MD to be replaced
New Delhi:(IANS) Amidst the controversy involving its Maggi noodles, Nestle India on Friday announced that its managing director Etienne Benet would be replaced by Suresh Narayanan, presently the chairman and CEO of Nestle Philippines. “Etienne Benet, managing director, will be ...
Read More »India working for solution to WTO food stockholding issue
New Delhi:(IANS) India is working with the WTO members for a permanent solution to the problem of public stockholding for food security purposes, or the “subsidy cap issue”, parliament was informed on Wednesday. The World Trade Organisation General Council’s November ...
Read More »Rs 15 crore dates sold in Kashmir during Ramadhan
By Mukeet Akmali for Maeeshat Srinagar:: As dates are must have for faithful to break day long fast during the month of Ramadhan, Kashmir – a Muslim majority state recorded business of Rs 15 crore of the fruit. Dates ...
Read More »Ensuring no one is left without food in the holy month of Ramadan
By Shafeeq Hudavi Kozhikode: Most of the underprivileged patients and bystanders, who come to the Kozhikode Medical College seeking treatment, find Iftaar unaffordable owing to the high prices levied by the restaurants. But a charity organisations comes to their aid ...
Read More »Mangoes find way into new and mouth-watering dishes this summer
By Mohit Dubey; Lucknow For all mango lovers who thought the ‘king of fruits’ is just to dig your teeth into or is to be sipped through a straw as a juice or shake, there is more this summer! For, ...
Read More »Indo-Kuwait Friendship Society demands lifting of ban on cow meat
IKFS write to President of India, Supreme Court chief justice Kuwait: The Indo-Kuwait Friendship Society (IKFS), a non-profit socio cultural Indian association here has written to the President of India and the Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India demanding ...
Read More »British food authority calls Maggi noodles safe
New Delhi : (IANS) Britain’s Food Standards Authority (FSA) on Wednesday announced that Nestle India’s Maggi noodles, manufactured in India and exported to Britain, were safe to consume and contained lead well within permissible levels. “The FSA can confirm that ...
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