The Food Safety and Standards Authority's track-record suggests it is industry-friendly, not pro-consumer.
The dead include 10 women and seven men, another fire official said, noting that a man and woman were injured.
There is no way the Copenhagen Accord can be billed as a climate change agreement. It is simply an agreement to legitimise the right to pollute.
Filmmaker Ronnie Screwvala's daughter Trishya got married to Suhail Chandhok on January 19 at the Taj Mahal Palace in south Mumbai. It was followed by a starry reception at the same venue the next day.
"There has never been a United Nations climate conference, be it the one in Bali or Poznan, that has been as disastrously organised as this one in Denmark," fumed Sunita Narain, the director of an Indian NGO, the Centre for Science and Environment.
Why was there so much public and media outrage over the Bhopal disaster - a 25-year-old issue? Why did the national media focus on this story which so far had been confined to the back rooms where only noisy environmental activists live?
'When films resonate with the audience, it gives you the confidence to take more risks.'
In the second of our three-part series on entrepreneurs who made it big without an MBA taken from author Rashmi Bansal's book Connect the Dots, we publish excerpts from Chetan Maini (of Reva Electric Car Company) and Samar Gupta's (of Trikaya Agriculture) stories.
The ruling AAP is going into the Delhi election with the hope to repeat its stellar performance of the last assembly polls, while the BJP, which bagged all seven seats here in the Lok Sabha election, will be aiming at expanding its vote share in the
Mission Sapne on Colors offers little in terms of novelty, says Nishi Tiwari.
The film is a compilation of three different stories.
The next time you buy a toy for your little one, be more cautious as a new study says many of them may contain a toxic chemical which can prove dangerous for children especially those below three years.
The research on Bt brinjal isn't unequivocal and hasn't been publicly-funded either - given the concerns, it's not worth the risk, says Sunita Narain.
The meteorological department has forecast more rains through the day and relative humidity at 100 per cent in Delhi.
The garbage in cities is growing by the day, even as governments scramble to find ways of reducing plastic and hiding the rest in landfills in far-off places. Air pollution in cities is worse and toxins hurt our bodies, damaging our lungs. All in all, the report card is not good.
The Indian women's hockey team went down fighting 2-3 to slump to their second consecutive defeat against Germany in the tour to South Africa.
Check out the star arrivals.
Sunita Roy Chowdhury lets you know how you can stay healthy this festive season.
Here are edited excerpts from Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam's Kanimozhi's speech during which she pushed for sending the bill to a Select Committee, arguing that further examination was required to decide whether the age for punitive action should be reduced to 16 years from the current level of 18 years.
India's mineral-rich areas have the largest number of poor and are Naxal-affected - there's an obvious story here.
Sunita Chopra had written a letter to President Obama a month ago about how she had to struggle with huge medical bills during the treatment of her mother who is suffering from severe osteoporosis. She got Obama's reply in a White House envelope recently.
Take a look at the star arrivals at Ramesh Taurani's pre-Diwali bash.
Andrologist and microsurgeon Dr Sudhakar Krishnamurti responds to rediff readers' sexual queries.
Congress general secretary visited the house of Inspector Francis Induwar in Naxal-hit Jharkhand on Thursday, who was beheaded by Maoists ten days back, and sympathised with his children, saying he had lost his father to a suicide bomber.
Shabana Azmi showers praise on birthday boy Anil Kapoor.
An influential American magazine has listed almost half a dozen Indians including Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen and novelist Salman Rushdie, in a list of world's top 100 'public intellectuals'. Journalist-author Fareed Zakaria and San Diego-based neuroscientist V S Ramachandran, historian Ramachandra Guha, political psychologist Ashis Nandy and environmentalist Sunita Narain are also on the list.
What are the most worrisome aspects of climate change for India? Can they be solved?
Even as Anil Kapoor is promoting Dil Dhadakne Do, his film with Zoya Akhtar, Shabana Azmi is working in the Sonam Kapoor-starrer Neerja
The AAP won in 62 with a total vote share of 53.58 per cent. The BJP recorded victory in eight seats, receiving 38.49 per cent of the total votes. The Congress could not even manage a single seat and ended with 4.27 per cent vote share.
Delicious Tamarind Rice, Palak Parathas and Zingy Canned Fish Melt Sandwiches to pack for lunch at work!
We need to clarify the rules for legal slaughterhouses and make sure that these can be enforced.
'I can't figure out my son,' the actor tells us.
Colonel Anil Athale reviews Jihad: from Hindukush to Armageddon by Sunita Joshi-Ford.
The air pollution problem in the national capital won't go away till we take action -- such as ban the use of dirty fuels, ramp up public transport and oversee crop burning, says Sunita Narain.
'Her short black choli with a deep cut-out back and multi-coloured pom-poms became quite a sensation. It was clearly meant to draw your attention to Kareena's perfect figure.'
"Nargis is a sign of things to come. Last year, Bangladesh was devastated by the tropical cyclone Sidr," said Narain. "The victims of these cyclones are climate change victims and their plight should remind the rich world that it is doing too little to contain its greenhouse gas emissions," Sunita Narain, director, Centre for Science and Environment, said.
Take a look at the celeb arrivals.
Apart from being the CM twice earlier, he has won a series of Lok Sabha and assembly elections from the state and headed the Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee four times.
Politician Jaya Jaitly explains why she disapproves Priyanka Chopra's choice of outfit for the Wedding of the Year.
'I have full faith in the judicial system and eventually the truth will prevail. In the interim I would appreciate that my privacy is respected,' Papon tweeted.
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