No food service establishment shall be allowed to operate without a valid FSSAI licence or registration, said FDA commissioner Tukaram Mundhe Mumbai: In a major food safety crackdown, the Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will launch a statewide campaign from Thursday, bringing nearly 4.5 lakh food establishments under stricter compliance norms.Food businesses must also…
New Delhi: Door-to-door visits will start in Delhi from June 30 as part of a special intensive revision (SIR) of voters’ lists to cleanse and update the electoral rolls which includes nearly 1.5 crore voters.The booth-level officers (BLOs) will do the door-to-door enumeration till July 29, distributing pre-printed enumeration forms to all existing voters who…
Chennai: Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu praised the TVK govt for quickly approving his school without “demanding” bribe. The statement on social media invited sharp reactions from DMK and an equally strong defence from BJP and TVK.In his post, Vembu claimed, “The school faced delays getting approval from the previous government. Of course, significant money was…
Patna: Four girls died and one is missing after they drowned in the Ganga while bathing at Shyampur Baghchapra ghat under Mufassil police station area in Munger district on Wednesday morning. The victims included four sisters and their neighbour, police said.The deceased have been identified as Sangeeta Kumari (18), Sonali (12) and Sandhya Kumari (14),…
Dhanbad: Sadar Hospital has witnessed a sharp rise in patient turnout, surgeries and infrastructure expansion over the past year, district officials said on Wednesday.Deputy commissioner Aditya Ranjan and deputy development commissioner Sunny Raj attributed the transformation to sustained efforts by the district administration and health department to strengthen facilities, introduce modern equipment and ensure transparent…
Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren Ranchi: Chief minister Hemant Soren on Wednesday reviewed the progress of Jharkhand’s GIS-based Urban Management System project, stressing timely execution and its role in ushering in transparent, data-driven urban governance.The project, being implemented by JUIDCO under the urban development and housing department, aims to modernise civic administration across 49 urban…
NEW DELHI: So far 30 India-bound ships have crossed the Strait of Hormuz and 26 wait to cross the critical sea route, sources in the shipping ministry said. While half of the ships that have transited the strait carried LPG and LNG, eight had bulk cargo and seven were crude tankers.Officials said while 19 transits…
The plot on which the building stands is one of the three properties allegedly usurped Kolkata: A woman battling cancer complained to CM Suvendu Adhikari at his Janata Darbar on Wednesday that former CM Mamata Banerjee’s elder brother Ajit Banerjee had usurped three plots owned by her family — the first in 1999 and the…
The inspection was conducted following complaints Mumbai: The state Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspected the state-run JJ Mahanagar Blood Bank located within the JJ Hospital complex in Byculla following a series of complaints, officials said. The blood bank was closed to the public during the inspection. The inspection was underway at the time of…
New Delhi A bus, which was allegedly speeding, hit a taxi and three motorbikes, dragging some of the vehicles and a biker under it, in northeast Delhi’s Nand Nagri Wednesday.One of the motorcyclists was killed. The driver of the bus fled the scene.The bus was coming from the Uttar Pradesh side and travelling from the…
