The high court directed the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) to issue a fresh communication to all the authorities concerned stating the obligation to make clear disclosure as to whether the food article is vegetarian or non-vegetarian.
This flavourful mutton curry marries the flavours of Mangalore, Karnataka and Maharashtra.
'I am determined now to celebrate all festivals together.' 'People don't respond much when you try to convince them by talking about principles of secularism etc. But if we revive our shared cultural practices, specially food, we may get a better response.'
Indian English is the only language that uses the expression 'non-veg' for meat, fish, and those who consume them. A fascinating extract from Shashi Tharoor's A Wonderland of Words: Around the Word in 101 Essays.
Have you ever eaten as satisfying a breakfast as potato fried up with tapioca pearls?
Fraudsters read your mind, weave convincing stories, earn your trust and then vanish with people's savings. Ramalingam Kalirajan reveals five simple tricks that cons use to steal money from you.
At one point, Justice Biren Vaishnav, who was hearing the petition, got agitated and asked the AMC 'What is your problem? How can you decide what I should eat outside my house? How can you stop people from eating what they want? Suddenly because someone in power thinks that this is what they want to do?'
Biman Basu, the senior-most Marxist leader in the country, pays homage to a comrade he has known and admired since the 1980s.
How would Sudhaji react to these photographs of her beloved son-in-law Rishi Sunak fishing?
This classic Maharashtrian dish is made without onions.
This special Maharashtrian sweet is made by the CKP community just before Ganesh Chaturthi.
The company is in the process of filing an appeal against the order, Zomato said in a regulatory filing.
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Make your chai time exciting with deep-fried kachcha kela fritters!
The burst of cheese will take these parathas to another level.
The stage was set for a LOT of comedy, as the stars of Thank You For Coming well, thanked everyone for coming!
Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar, who was to visit the famous Dagdusheth Ganpati temple in Pune, took darshan of the deity from outside the complex as he had eaten non-vegetarian food, the party's Pune unit president Prashant Jagtap has said.
Non-vegetarian food has been dropped from the menu of the National Museum's week-long exhibition-cum-event on India's culinary history, Historical Gastronomica, due to an "unwritten policy" based on "sentiments", a senior official of the museum said on Thursday. The organisers came under fire after the event's menu comprising non-vegetarian dishes was put up on the museum's website. Shortly afterwards, it was decided that only vegetarian food would be served at the exhibition which will be on till February 25. The food event is being organised jointly by the National Museum, the ministry of culture and One Station Million Stories (OSMS), a private firm.
While the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) alleged that the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) members stopped students from eating non-vegetarian food in the hostel and 'created a violent atmosphere', the ABVP denied the charge and claimed that 'Leftists' obstructed a puja programme organised at the hostel on Ram Navami festival.
Preparing a 'vegetarian thali' got dearer by 34 per cent in July as compared to June because of the soaring tomato prices, an arm of a rating agency said in a report on Monday. A non-vegetarian thali was relatively less impacted and the price of preparing one went up by only 13 per cent, Crisil's 'Roti Rice Rate' report for August said. The inflation in the thalis is largely driven by the 233 per cent jump in tomato prices to Rs 110 per kilogramme in July from Rs 33 in June, the report said.
Air India chairman said that the airline never served non-vegetarian meals on short duration flights.
The Centre recently released the first advance estimates of kharif crops that, barring tur dal, showed a dip in production due to uneven monsoon and other natural calamities including pest attacks in cotton. The first Advance Estimates, released a few weeks back, are usually initial projections on the crop size and, more often than not, are revised as more inputs come from the fields. But, the findings have rung alarm bells in several quarters. The Centre, along with many others, is confident that as more details come, the estimates will be revised upwards.
No vegetables in your larder? Never mind. Worry not. Use peanuts.
Use of non-vegetarian ingredients and labelling them vegetarian would offend religious and cultural sentiments of strict vegetarians and interfere in their right to freely profess their religion, the Delhi high court has said.
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Made from scratch, this vegetarian pizza is super quick to put together.
The Uttar Pradesh government on Friday defended its directive requiring eateries along the kanwar yatra route to display the names of their owners and staff, saying the idea was to bring in transparency, avoid 'potential confusion' and ensure a peaceful yatra.
You do get your money's worth simply watching these girls do what they are best at: Entertainment, feels Divya Nair.
Ameya Warty feels his concoction of stuffed paneer will be a showstopper at your home every time you make it.
They called off their protest on Monday after the administration assured to meet 'genuine' demands.
Reshma Aslam tells us how to prepare an ideal Indian breakfast.
rediffGURU Shreya Shah answers diet and nutrition-related questions. Ask away!
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High praise for Cafe A LA Mer from Kohli, who owns a couple of swanky restaurants in India and is very particular about his diet.
Baga and Gokarna make the list of the world's top 100 beaches.
Making ravioli is slightly more time-consuming than rustling up pasta, but the results are unbeatable, taste-wise.
You will be as smitten with this Singaporean soup as I was.
Dominic Xavier offers his take on the Gujarat government's ban on selling non-vegetarian food items at street food stalls alongside public roads in Ahmedabad.
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