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Chhapra mid-day meal case: Forensic report confirms pesticide in food

Last Updated: Saturday, July 20, 2013, 20:54

Forensic Science Laboratory`s (FSL) report in Bihar’s mid-day meal tragedy on Saturday stated that high quantity of organo phosphorus pesticide was found in the food items.

BJP leader in Tamil Nadu hacked to death, party calls for state bandh on July 22

Last Updated: Saturday, July 20, 2013, 20:08

BJP`s Tamil Nadu unit general secretary V Ramesh has been hacked to death by unidentified assailants near his house in Salem on Friday night triggering an outrage in the party which gave a call for a state-wide bandh on July 22.

Bihar mid-day meal tragedy: Report blames principal

Last Updated: Saturday, July 20, 2013, 08:19

A high-level inquiry set up by the Bihar government to probe the mid-day meal tragedy has blamed the principal for it.

21 madarsa students suffer food poisoning in Gujarat

Last Updated: Saturday, July 20, 2013, 01:09

At least 21 children, students of a madrassa in Naliya village of Abdasa tehsil in the district, have suffered food poisoning, a district health official said on Friday.

22-year-old gang-raped by landlord, two others in moving car

Last Updated: Saturday, July 20, 2013, 00:52

22-year-old woman was allegedly abducted along with her two-year-old son and gang-raped in a car by her landlord and two others who threatened to throw out the child from the moving vehicle.

French woman`s molestation: panel takes suo motu cognisance

Last Updated: Saturday, July 20, 2013, 00:49

West Bengal Women`s Commission initiated a suo motu cognisance into the alleged molestation of French woman last week.

`Food security initiative to have quality control mechanism`

Last Updated: Saturday, July 20, 2013, 00:28

The prestigious Food Security initiative of the UPA government provides for various quality control mechanism, AICC spokesman Bhakta Charan Das said.

Mid-day meal tragedy: Nitish Kumar puts off iftar party

Last Updated: Saturday, July 20, 2013, 00:14

In view of the mid-day meal tragedy at Chhapra in which 23 children died, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday night announced postponement of the iftar party he was to host on July 24.

UP govt directs use of branded materials for food under scheme

Last Updated: Saturday, July 20, 2013, 00:13

With a view to ensure good quality of free hot cooked food under Child Development and Nutrition scheme, Uttar Pradesh government on Friday directed use of branded food material in the preparations.

Aarushi murder case: Talwar`s petition `partly allowed` by Allahabad High Court

Last Updated: Saturday, July 20, 2013, 00:11

Allahabad High Court "partly allowed" plea of Rajesh Talwar and directed CBI to bring on record report of narco tests and asked trial court to summon some witnesses in the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case.

Man kills grandfather, uncle over land dispute

Last Updated: Saturday, July 20, 2013, 00:09

A man allegedly killed his grandfather and uncle in Faizganj-Vehta area here on Friday due to land dispute, police said.

Probe against Verma should be completed in 3 months: Gujarat HC

Last Updated: Friday, July 19, 2013, 23:53

In a setback to Satish Verma, who assisted CBI in Ishrat Jahan case, Gujarat HC dismissed his plea challenging investigation ordered against him.

Scorpion found in mid-day-meal in Odisha, 39 fall ill

Last Updated: Friday, July 19, 2013, 21:50

At least 39 students fell ill after consuming food, contaminated by a dead scorpion, served at their school in Odisha`s Dhenkanal district.

Batla encounter: Accused refutes police theory on firearms

Last Updated: Friday, July 19, 2013, 21:46

Suspected IM operative Shahzad Ahmad claimed before a court that Delhi police Inspector MC Sharma was not killed by bullet from his gun.

Delhi gang-rape: Railway expresses inability to give CCTV footage

Last Updated: Friday, July 19, 2013, 21:41

A special court hearing the December 16 gang-rape case was on Friday told by the railways that it cannot provide the CCTV footage.