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Karnataka FDA bans sale of non-dairy paneer for one year. AI image Bengaluru: The Karnataka Food Safety and Drugs Administration (FDA) has imposed a one-year ban across the state on the manufacture, processing, storage, transportation and sale of analogue paneer—a non-dairy product made using vegetable oils, starches, emulsifiers and other additives.The govt order, issued on Aug 17 under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, said such products do not meet the regulatory definition of paneer, which is a standardised food product made from milk. The ban also applies to food businesses, which have been prohibited from using, storing, supplying…
2 dead, senior citizen hurt after 7-storied bldg on 50-sq yd plot collapses in IT corridor Two people died and several others were injured when an unauthorized seven-storey under-construction building collapsed in Anjaiah Nagar, Madhapur, Hyderabad on Saturday. Hyderabad: Two migrant workers died and a senior citizen suffered injuries after an under-construction seven-storied allegedly illegal building, built on a box drain, collapsed at Anjiahnagar Nagar in Kondapur on Saturday afternoon. However, no arrests were made till last reports came in.A space that is usually filled with children playing cricket was covered in debris on Saturday after the building collapsed, leaving…
Chennai: In a major organisational overhaul following its setback in the 2026 assembly polls, DMK on Saturday capped the maximum age of district secretaries at 70 and limited their tenure to three terms. The move is expected to see several former ministers, including E V Velu, Anitha R Radhakrishnan, S Muthusamy, S Regupathy and R Gandhi, losing their posts.The decision was taken at a meeting of the party’s executive committee at its headquarters in Chennai on Saturday. The meeting was chaired by former chief minister and DMK president M K Stalin. Under the new arrangement, there will be one organisational…
Today, the restored heritage building is preparing to open a new chapter as an Education and Innovation Centre for girls On a winter afternoon in 2020, Spanish architect Manuel M de Las Heras was passing through Ahmedabad’s Raikhad neighbourhood when a century-old govt girls’ high school caught his eye. The elegant vintage facade drew him closer, and what he found was a building in a state of deep neglect.“My partner and I spoke to the erstwhile director and learned that it was a school building that had been unused for nearly two decades since the 2001 earthquake. Cracks had appeared,…
The flood water of river Ganga has reached the entrance of bade hanuman temple of Sangam Prayagraj: The rising waters of Ganga and Yamuna are once again triggering concern in Prayagraj, with Ganga touching the entrance of Nagvasuki temple in Daraganj and floodwater inundating the road in front of the shrine. The stretch has become inaccessible to both vehicles and pedestrians, while rising water has also forced cremation pyres to be lit on roads near affected areas.Ganga continued to rise through Saturday morning. At 8am on Saturday, the river stood at 81.1 metres at Phaphamau, up from 80.87 metres at…
Bhubaneswar: Get ready to pay more for your favourite sweets this festive season. A steep rise in sugar prices, which is already squeezing household grocery budgets, is now set to make sweets costlier in the state, with sweetmeat makers bracing for a price hike ahead of the festive season.From around Rs 40 a kg barely two months ago, sugar is now retailing at Rs 60-64 a kg. Wholesale prices have risen to Rs 6,000-6,400 per quintal from around Rs 4,100 in June, traders said. With festive demand expected to pick up in the coming weeks, sweetmakers say consumers would soon…
Three men allegedly abused and pelted stones at policemen during a night patrol in Faridabad Gurgaon: Three men allegedly abused and pelted stones at policemen during their night patrol duty in Faridabad on Friday, injuring a special police officer in the head.According to police, around 12.30 am, SPO Rajkumar was on night patrol along with another policeman when they spotted three youths fighting among themselves near a juice corner in the main market of Town No. 1. When the police intervened and asked them to return home, the trio abused and pelted them with stones lying on the roadside. SPO…
Agartala: The Tripura high court on Saturday directed the state govt to genuinely assess the necessity of each request before granting child care leaves (CCL) to employers, stating that such leaves were not unconditional legal right.The court made the observation while granting 365 days of child care leaves to a female teacher.Justice Biswajit Palit directed the school education department to grant CCL to Tapasi Roy, a postgraduate mathematics teacher at a grant-in-aid school in Agartala, from January 16, 2026, to January 15, 2027, under Rule 39(C) of the Tripura state civil service (Leave) Rules, 1986.Roy told the court that her…
Kanpur: A woman died while her paramour was admitted to ICU after the two allegedly consumed a poisonous substance in a field outside Faridpur village under Ghatampur police station on Saturday.According to villagers, the woman was married and had allegedly been in a relationship with a youth from the same village for around two years. The two reportedly reached a field on Saturday morning and consumed the poisonous substance.Police were informed after the woman’s condition deteriorated. She was taken to Ghatampur CHC and referred to Kanpur in critical condition, but died on the way.The man’s family took him to a…
Road Protest: BJP workers, auto drivers, planters and members of the public take part in a padayatra from Aldur to Chikkamagaluru on Saturday, protesting against the poor condition of roads in the district Chikkamagaluru: Hundreds of BJP workers took out a padayatra from Aldur to Chikkamagaluru, covering nearly 20 km, to protest against the poor condition of roads in the district.Auto drivers, planters and members of the public also participated in the padayatra.Protesters alleged that roads in rural areas had turned into a nightmare for commuters. They raised slogans against Mudigere MLA Nayana Motamma, Sringeri MLA TD Rajegowda and the…