News Snippets

  • FSSAI to now train its lenses on claims like 'natural', 'heart-friendly' 'healthy' and 'no added sugar' etc to reduce instaces of misleading claims on food packaging
  • 5 killed and 18 injured as the under-construction roof of the Hanuman temple in Parbhani in Maharashtra collapses
  • Hindus in Bangladesh hold torch marches in Dhaka and other parts of the country to protest against alleged government inaction after vandalism at temples and hitting Hindu dieties with shoes during a procession
  • LIC issues notice to Suruchi Sangha (formerly controlled by TMC minister Aroop Biswas) to vacate 23 cottahs of land in Kolkata's upscale New Alipore area, which the club has allegedly poached on to hold its annual Durga Puja, within a month
  • Centre bans 16 fixed drug combinations, including painkillers, anti-biotics and skin fromulations, over safety issues
  • TMC news: Aroop Biswas and Firhad Hakim, once considered the right and left hands of Mamata Banerjee, now fall out of favour. Biswas issued showcause for writing s debit-freeze letter to HDFC Bank blocking party funds and Hakim removed from disciplinary committee
  • From Tarakeshwar in Bengal, PM Modi gives a call for 'new Bengal' and says the period of 'cut money' has ended and work has started on stalled projects in the state with the BJP government taking decisions at 'lightening speed'
  • A trader in Noida found a Rs 25l akh diamond in a Panna mine registered in his wife's name
  • 22.7 lakh to sit for NEET retest today
  • FIFA World Cup: Brazil get into the groove, score 3 against Haiti for a 3-0 win
  • FIFA World Cup: Paraguay beat Turkiye 1-0
  • FIFA World Cup: USA beat Australia 2-0 to enter knockouts and Morocco beat Scotland 1-0
  • ICC T20 Women's World Cup: India to play South Africa today
  • Nations Cup Women's Hockey: India thrash Chile 6-0 in the semifinals to set up a clash with New Zealand in the final
  • 3rd ODI versus Afghanistan: Yasashvi Jaiswal (110 not out) and Prasidh Krishna (5-23) shine as India (224 for 1) beat Afghanistan (218) by 9 wickets in the 3rd and final ODI to sepp the series 3-0
PM Modi celebrates International Yoga Day with more than 40000 people from Red Road in Kolkata /////// NEET re-test today with NTA saying it is committed to conduct it smoothly
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