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Litchi Heats Up Election Season In Muzaffarpur

'The local support from our MP is nil. He never comes to see our farms.' IMAGE: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Amit A Shah during an election meeting in Muzaffarpur, May 5, 2024. Photograph:......

3 JeM terrorists hidden in Pulwama attacker's cousin's truck killed

A possible terror attack was averted by alert personnel of the Jammu and Kashmir Police early on Friday when they intercepted a truck, being driven by the cousin of the 2019 Pulwama attack bomber,......

Every party has corruption in its DNA

'You cannot win an election without putting together a massive war chest.''It is impossible to put a war chest together, without giving and taking favours from India Inc, with a large dose of......

PHOTO: Is this the world's oldest Quran?

Radiocarbon dating found the manuscript to be at least 1,370 years old, making it among the earliest in existence. The Quran manuscript contains parts of Suras (chapters) 18 to 20, written......

Judas was no traitor, says new Gospel

The dictionary describes 'Judas' as a betrayer. For 2000 years and more, Judas Iscariot, one of Jesus Christ's 12 apostles who sold his master for 30 pieces of silver, has been condemned to infamy......

Challenges facing the draft food label norms

The regional players are outrightly opposed to the idea, while MNCs are looking for procedural changes that, they say, will align the labelling criteria with global practices. The upcoming draft......

Why so many Indian food product exports get rejected

In the aftermath of the Welspun controversy, Viveat Susan Pinto gets deeper into the issue of global scrutiny facing Indian businesses across key sectors, in a three-part series. Monthly data on......

How safe is the bottled water you drink?

While FSSAI announced it would ban bromates in breads, it proposes to allow the very same in drinking water In January, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) proposed that......

India's mango exports face threat of ban

Higher pesticide residues and discovery of pest and diseases in some consignments can result in ban Exports of mangoes from India are under severe threat due higher pesticide residues than......

FSSAI, food companies bridging trust deficit

The country’s apex food safety regulator and packaged food companies appear to be on a different page than a year before, when the Maggi crisis grabbed headlines. At that time, regulator and......

Da Vinci Code: Ho Hum!

Let me tell you a secret or three. Jesus Christ married Mary Magdalene, whose sarcophagus is buried under the crystal pyramid at the Louvre. Their progeny, born after Jesus' was crucified, was......

Russia ready to cooperate with WADA in doping scam

IMAGE: Sportsmen train at a local stadium in the southern city of Stavropol, Russia (This image is used for representational purposes). Eduard Korniyenko/Reuters The Russian Sports Ministry said......

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