New Delhi: After complaints about safety of bottled water sold in the national capital, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has written to the food regulator to check the bottling plants supplying such drinking water in Delhi and their water sources. The minister has also written to the Food Safety and Standards Association (FSSA) to check the chemical contents in the water bottles sold in and around Delhi and whether they are fit for human consumption.
In a letter to FSSAI, which is responsible for maintaining standards of quality in anything consumed by people, Azad on Friday asked the food regulator to depute teams to check water samples of all water sources and test the plants of bottling companies. Health Ministry sources said Azad's letters follows numerous complaints received by him about poor quality of bottled water sold in the open market.
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03:56 AM, May 11, 2013
New Delhi: Claiming that recent bribery allegation in Railways is nothing new, the Federation of Railway Officers' Association has written a letter to the Cabinet Secretary alleging the Ministry "often plays by different rules or bends rules for postings of senior officers beyond recognition." The Association alleged that the Railway Ministry "often plays by different rules or bends rules for postings of senior officers beyond recognition." The letter comes in...
12:52 AM, May 08, 2013
Washington: The FBI on Saturday arrested a man on charges of allegedly sending poisonous ricin-laced letter to US President Barack Obama and other leaders. The individual identified as Everett Dutschke, 41, was arrested from his Mississippi home, the FBI said. This is the second arrest in the case after investigating authorities withdrew their case against Paul Kevin Curtis earlier this week. Curtis had been arrested on April 19 on suspicion...
11:57 PM, Apr 27, 2013
Kolkata: In more embarrassment for the Mamata Banerjee government, another letter written by Trinamool Congress MP Tapas Paul has surfaced which had pointed towards the inaction over rising chit fund scams in West Bengal. In the letter dated 2010, the Trinamool Congress MP had asked the Centre to control the growth of ponzi schemes in the state. CNN-IBN has accessed a copy of the letter written by Paul to then...
06:31 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Tupelo: Charges of sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and others were dropped on Tuesday against an Elvis impersonator from Mississippi who has said since his arrest last week that he had nothing to do with the case. Meanwhile, in Tupelo, numerous law enforcement officers converged on the home of another Mississippi man, Everett Dutschke, including some in hazmat suits. No charges have been filed against him and he...
06:38 AM, Apr 24, 2013
Oxford: A Mississippi man was arrested on Wednesday, accused of sending letters to President Barack Obama and a senator that tested positive for the poisonous ricin and set the nation's capital on edge a day after the Boston Marathon bombings. FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen said the man was arrested on Wednesday. His name wasn't immediately released publicly. Authorities still waited for definitive tests on the letters to...
06:02 AM, Apr 18, 2013
Washington: The FBI says preliminary tests on a letter sent to President Barack Obama indicate the presence of poisonous ricin. The letter is undergoing further testing because preliminary field tests can be unreliable, creating false positives. The letter was intercepted at a facility away from the White House. It comes the day after officials said a letter sent to Sen Roger Wicker tested positive for poisonous ricin. That letter to...
10:02 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Washington: A day after twin bomb blasts rocked Boston, a senior Republican Senator received a poison-laced letter, source of which is being investigated. The envelope addressed to Roger Wicker, a Senator from Mississippi, was tested positive for ricin, a highly poisonous substance, The Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said. Following this, the authorities have increased security for the Senator. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ricin is...
08:09 AM, Apr 17, 2013
Washington: An envelope addressed to Sen Roger Wicker of Mississippi tested positive on Tuesday for ricin, a potentially fatal poison, congressional officials said, heightening concerns about terrorism a day after a bombing killed three and left more than 170 injured at the Boston Marathon. The letter was discovered at a mail processing plant in Prince George's County in suburban Maryland, said Sen Dick Durbin, D-Ill. Wicker's office issued a statement...
05:12 AM, Apr 17, 2013
A man allegedly forged a letter in the name of External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid and presented it before the Consul General of Saudi Arabia to procure a visa to visit Mecca and Medina, police said on Tuesday. The incident came to light after the letter dated November 7, 2012, addressed to the Consul General based in Mumbai, was forwarded to the Ministry of External Affairs by the Saudi Arabian...
03:13 PM, Apr 02, 2013
Maharashtra Governor on Sunday forwarded expelled Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh's letter seeking pardon for Sanjay Dutt to Maharashtra State Home Department. The Bollywood actor, who has already undergone imprisonment of 18 months, was sentenced to five years imprisonment by the Supreme Court in 1993 Bombay serial blasts case. ...
02:42 PM, Mar 31, 2013
As Arvind Kejriwal's indefinite fast against "inflated" power bills entered the ninth day on Sunday, his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) said it will deliver on Monday over 6.38 lakh letters it collected from Delhiites to Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit urging her to cut power tariff. ...
12:27 PM, Mar 31, 2013
Selena Gomez says being single is good and joked that she made Justin Bieber cry when they split. ...
02:08 PM, Mar 20, 2013
Forbes India's Charles Assisi writes an open letter to Ankit Fadia questioning his credentials as a computer security expert. ...
01:00 PM, Mar 04, 2013
Amid clamour for Afzal Guru's body to be returned to his family, new details has emerged of the Parliament attack convict's last moments in the jail. CNN-IBN has accessed the final letter which Afzal wrote to his family minutes before he was executed. ...
07:30 AM, Feb 18, 2013
Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru had no remorse at the time of execution and he had asked his family not to mourn his death and respect the "stature" he has achieved. "My request to the family is not to regret (mourn) my end but they should respect this stature," Afzal said in the eight-line letter written shortly before his execution. ...
12:17 AM, Feb 18, 2013
Afzal Guru wrote his last letter to his wife a few hours before his execution code named Operation Three Star, Tihar Jail officials said on Monday. ...
12:28 AM, Feb 12, 2013
Hours before he was to be executed, Afzal Guru penned his last letter to his wife, Tihar Jail officials said on Monday. The letter, written in Urdu, was posted on Saturday but is yet to reach his wife in Kashmir. Speaking to IANS, officials at Tihar jail said that Afzal Guru, convicted for his role in the 2001 Parliament attack, was told on February 8 evening that he would be...
07:15 PM, Feb 11, 2013
A letter written by Mahatma Gandhi to the British authorities in 1943 arguing against wasteful expenditure of putting him under house arrest has made it to an UK auction. ...
02:56 AM, Feb 10, 2013
A 24-year-old teacher was on Tuesday suspended for allegedly writing a love letter to a seventh standard girl in a government school near Nagapattinam. Official sources said Paul Mohan, teaching at the Panchayat Union Middle School at Adailaiyoor in the district, allegedly placed the letter written in English, professing his love, inside the notebook of the girl a few days ago. ...
04:25 AM, Jan 30, 2013
