Yet again before Diwali, raids across the country have revealed adulteration in sweets. In Delhi alone, samples of sweets and dry fruits were found unsafe. ...
10:00 PM, Nov 12, 2012
New Delhi: With just two days to go before Diwali, a crackdown on spurious sweets has begun across the country. But the fear of adulteration hasn't hampered business. Fifteen quintal spurious mawa seized in Moradabad, 20 quintal adulterated sweets recovered in Jaipur and sweets worth Rs 12 lakh found in Thane. With the sale of thousands of kilograms of sweets, adulteration too is on the rise in this particular season...
06:41 AM, Nov 11, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The government is planning a whistleblower system, by introducing rewards to informers on adulterated food and ingredients, said Health Minister V S Sivakumar here on Saturday, inaugurating a seminar on Food Safety and Standards Act,2006. It has become clear that right from salt to meat, fish and vegetables, adulteration has become common. It is not the retail traders who are indulging in malpractices but wholesalers and those who are...
01:55 PM, Sep 24, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: With food adulteration being reported from various parts of the state, Kerala Tourism Development Corporation (KTDC) has decided to purchase meat and fish from government agencies for all its hotels. The purchase will be made from the Livestock Development Board, Meat Products of India, Kerala State Coastal Area Development Corporation and other agencies. This will ensure that quality food is being served in all the KTDC hotels. KTDC managing...
02:18 PM, Aug 02, 2012
Mumbai: If you thought adulterating milk meant diluting it with water, heres a disgusting reality check. Cops caught four milk vendors red-handed selling milk packets mixed with sewage water to customers in Vile Parle (East) in Mumbai on Monday. The milk vendors were engaged in this act since the past six months and were using empty milk packets that they collected from garbage bins. Acting on a tip-off, Vile Parle...
12:45 PM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: Reacting to the revelations about adulterated airline fuel, former DGCA chief Kanu Gohain has admitted that there could be some adulteration in airline fuel given the history of such cases. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Gohain said, "There could be such cases, there have been very famous cases in the early 80s when we found that the fuel pumped into the aeroplanes was adulterated." "There have been cases when we...
08:03 AM, Apr 04, 2012
BANGALORE: A popular proverb says, All that glitters is not gold. Going by the same lines, police arrested seven persons who allegedly supplied adulterated milk to hotels in City Market, Kalasipalyam, Majestic and other areas. Test reports suggested that this milk could have a major impact on blood pressure and sugar levels.Kalasipalyam police said, Based on a tip-off, police caught drivers and cleaners who were unloading milk cans near hotels...
10:11 AM, Mar 26, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre and Delhi government are both expected to file replies on the adulterated milk incidents in the Delhi High Court. The court had taken cognisance of reports that revealed that nearly 70 per cent of milk samples in the country are found to be contaminated with water, detergent and even urea. The first mass survey of quality of milk supplied to consumers across the country by the...
08:46 AM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: A glass of milk a day used to be a good idea. But, if the latest round of tests by the Food Safety Standards Authority are anything to go by, it's only safe to drink milk in Goa and Puducherry. A new report shows that in the first cup of morning milk, one is having a lot of things with milk, like starch, detergent, salt, glucose, urea and...
09:39 AM, Jan 11, 2012
Mumbhai: The oil mafia in Maharasthra attacked a Network18 reporter and cameraman on Friday. A reporter and cameraman belonging to IBN Lokmat team was attacked by supporters of the oil mafia in the remote village of Murud in Maharashtra' Raigad district. The reporter Alka and video journalist Sandeep were beaten up by a mob, but were later rescued. While there were no serious injuries, their camera was taken away and...
05:54 PM, Mar 12, 2011
Mumbai: In the biggest seizure during the ongoing raids against oil mafia after the brutal killing of an Additional Collector, state officials have seized chemicals worth Rs one crore in Solapur district of Maharashtra. District supply officials seized four tankers along with the chemicals near the temple town of Pandharpur late on Friday night, sources said. With this seizure, officials have busted a major racket involving adulteration of chemicals transported...
09:21 AM, Jan 29, 2011
New Delhi: The new Petroleum Minister Jaipal Reddy is mulling the roll out of a fuel marker system to check kerosene adulteration. His ministry, sources say, is falling on the marker supplied by Authentix, a UK based company, the same marker that was at the center of a raging controversy a year back. The Authentix marker, used a year ago, was supposed to be the government’s weapon against the oil...
09:52 PM, Jan 28, 2011
Nasik: Just a few days after Malegaon Additional District Collector Yashwant Sonawane was burnt alive for trying to curb the oil mafia in Maharashtra, CNN-IBN gets access to the exclusive and dramatic pictures that show how oil is being pilfered. The pilferage of fuel was even caught on camera supposedly by Sonawane just days before he was murdered. The video exclusively available to CNN-IBN displayed how the fuel mafias steal...
07:43 AM, Jan 28, 2011
On Talking Point, Rajdeep Sardesai asks, 'Can the government reign in the oil mafia?' ...
10:50 PM, Jan 27, 2011
Nashik: A few days after Yashwant Sonawane sacrificed his life gathering evidence against the oil Mafia in Maharashtra, CNN-IBN learns the chain of racketeers runs deep across the state with oil being pilfered at the very first level of its coming into the market. Sonawane was burnt alive in a dingy looking and seemingly insignificant dhabba in Manmad, Maharashtra. Locations such as these are safe heaven for the fuel mafia...
10:02 PM, Jan 27, 2011
Mumbai: About 15 lakh Maharashtra government employees went on strike in Mumbai on Thursday in protest of the brutal killing of Additional Collector Yashwant Sonawane in Manmad, Maharashtra. Government employees in Maharashtra held demonstrations to protest the killing of Additional Collector Yashwanth Sonawane - the officer who was burnt to death on Tuesday allegedly by the kerosene mafia. The government servants have demanded better protection, a comprehensive probe and strictest...
08:30 PM, Jan 27, 2011
New Delhi: The Centre on Thursday said that the subsidy on kerosene was the reason why the mafia was flourishing, but also said the subsidy will not be reduced, terming it as "politically sensitive". While addressing a press conference over oil adulteration, Union Petroleum Minister Jaipal Reddy commented on the shocking incident of burning alive of Yashwant Sonwane by a gang of oil mafia. "We learnt the shock and dismay...
03:38 PM, Jan 27, 2011
Malegaon: Additional District Collector of Malegaon, Yashwant Sonawane, has been burnt alive by people involved in black marketing of petrol and diesel. The tragic incident took place about 10 kms from Malegaon in Maharashtra's Nashik district on Tuesday afternoon. Sonawane was going to Nandgaon for a tehsildar meeting when he spotted a few trucks parked in a very suspicious manner near a road side eatery where the depots of IOC,...
03:20 PM, Jan 25, 2011
Artificial ripening of fruits is illegal and prohibited under the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act. ...
06:13 PM, Jul 01, 2010
A CNN-IBN expose farmers in Bihar inject steroids into crops. ...
07:41 PM, Jun 19, 2009
