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Think or blink!!!

A fat purse can make flaws wafer-thin!!!

[h=3]Cracking down on Maggi: In war over food safety, netas are the biggest culprits[/h]A map of India in The Telegraph shows the various battlefronts helpfully colour-coded in red (banned for now), orange (partial ban/warning), blue (tests ongoing) and green (cleared). The Indian Army has asked its personnel not to consume Maggi. The Aam Aadmi Party-led government in Delhi has summoned Nestle India officials to discuss safety practices.But this is not just about Big Bad Maggi and by getting it off the shelves of our stores (and hauling Madhuri Dixit and Big B to court) we will not all be safer and healthier.As is becoming increasingly clear,Maggi is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to food safety standards that are lax at best and rotten at worst.As Ashim Sanyal COO of Consumer Voice tells Firstpost,"Why is it restricted to a single brand? The government should get other products checked and ensure that the companies must follow national standards laid down by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) and Food Safety Standards."Maggi is just a symptom of a much larger problem.

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https://in.news.yahoo.com/this-14-stone-kangaroo-could-probably-beat-you-in-a-fight-145753343.html

Also read https://visalakshiramani.wordpress.com/articles/animal-kingdom/boxer-with-big-feet/
 
While the rest of the country fails to harness the free solar power...:flame:

 [h=3]Solar power capacity touches 4,000 Mw, Rajasthan races ahead of Gujarat[/h] India's solar installed capacity crossed 4000 Mw with Rajasthan taking the lead with close to 1128 Mw of projects. It has elbowed Gujarat from the top slot for the first time which has 957 Mw of solar power projects. Following closely are Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu. Apart from regular solar power rich states, new ones such as Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and newly formed Telangana have joined the solar bandwagon.

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How to find oneself in a self-made-soup!!! :rolleyes:

Golden Temple photo puts McDonald?s in soup

FAST food giant McDonald?s is facing the ire of the Sikh community worldwide for allegedly using the photograph of the Golden Temple on its menu card in Italy. McDonald?s in Italy, however, has blamed it all on the company?s headquarters in the US. Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak (SGPC) spokesperson Kulwinder Singh told MAIL TODAY .

Mail Today
 
Tamilnadu govt has temporarily banned four brands of instant noodles. Reliance retail shops have decided to remove all brands of noodles from the shelves. There was a murmur that the time of exposure has a lot to do with ITC, president's visit to sweden, INC. Nestle could have diluted the issue by releasing test reports, both in house and from world labs, but mishandled the issue. Only in 2011, I think, they set up facilities for maggi in nanjangud, karnataka.

Visalakshi Ramani said:
A fat purse can make flaws wafer-thin!!!

Cracking down on Maggi: In war over food safety, netas are the biggest culprits

A map of India in The Telegraph shows the various battlefronts helpfully colour-coded in red (banned for now), orange (partial ban/warning), blue (tests ongoing) and green (cleared). The Indian Army has asked its personnel not to consume Maggi. The Aam Aadmi Party-led government in Delhi has summoned Nestle India officials to discuss safety practices.But this is not just about Big Bad Maggi and by getting it off the shelves of our stores (and hauling Madhuri Dixit and Big B to court) we will not all be safer and healthier.As is becoming increasingly clear,Maggi is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to food safety standards that are lax at best and rotten at worst.As Ashim Sanyal COO of Consumer Voice tells Firstpost,"Why is it restricted to a single brand? The government should get other products checked and ensure that the companies must follow national standards laid down by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) and Food Safety Standards."Maggi is just a symptom of a much larger problem.

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Long back we got Maggi noodles in heavy doscount .
The noddles pack appeared to be striped with dark brown
alternating with the usual off-white color.
I had to dump away the whole thing -
what they should have done in the frst place.
Ever since then I have learned to suspect
any sale giving a heavy discount! :suspicious:
 
The least that can be done to save the reputation!

[h=3]Nestle pulls Maggi noodles off Indian shelves as food scare spreads[/h] NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) - Nestle SA(NESN.VX), battling a reputation crisis in India, pulled its Maggi instant noodles from stores across the country on Friday after regulators reported some packets contained excess lead. In an effort to quell India's most significant food scare in nearly a decade, the Swiss food giant fielded group chief executive Paul Bulcke to calm consumers at a televised press conference. Adding to Nestle's troubles, India's food safety regulator issued a statement just as that meeting ended, accusing the food giant of violating labelling and other rules in India.

Reuters
 
What could have been the real reason for this mix up? :decision:

[h=3]Google puts India PM in criminal search line-up[/h] Google apologized for any "confusion or misunderstanding" caused by showing Modi alongside US mobster Al Capone and atop pictures of unsavory characters. "These results trouble us and are not reflective of the opinions of Google," the California-based Internet titan said in an email reply to an AFP inquiry. An AFP search for top 10 criminals showed US President Barack Obama further down in photo results, in a row with another picture of Modi.

AFP

 
When the money involved is big, all steps will be promptly taken! :)

 [h=3]Nestle promises transparency to get noodles back on Indian shelves[/h] Nestle's global chief executive promised on Friday to win back the trust of Indian consumers and work with food safety authorities to get its popular Maggi noodles back on the country's shelves "as soon as possible". "We are a company that lives on the trust of consumers," Bulcke told reporters in New Delhi.

Reuters
 
Tending towards cannibalism??? :scared:

[h=3]'Placenta-eating' fad more risky than trendy[/h] Washington, June 5 (ANI): Eating placenta may have caught up as a latest celebrity trend, boasting about its benefits, it turns out that not only does it not have any health benefits, but it also poses unknown risks. A new Northwestern Medicine review of 10 current published research studies on placentophagy did not turn up any human or animal data to support the common claims that eating the placenta-either raw, cooked or encapsulated-offers protection against postpartum depression, reduces post-delivery pain, boosts energy, helps with lactation, promotes skin elasticity, enhances maternal bonding or replenishes iron in the body. More concerning, there are no studies examining the risk of ingesting the placenta, called placentophagy, which acts as a filter to absorb and protect the developing fetus from toxins and pollutants, scientists said.

ANI

 
Good??? :decision: Bad???

 [h=3]NASA's manned mission to Mars possible by 2039 - The Economic Times[/h] NEW YORK: NASA may be able to land astronauts on Mars cost-effectively by 2039 if the US space agency takes a stepwise approach that includes a manned trip to the red planet's moon Phobos, scientists say. Sending astronauts to Mars is the top long-term priority of NASA's human-spaceflight programme. "Mars is possible, and in a time horizon of interest," said Hoppy Price, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "It could happen in our lifetime, and it wouldn't take a trillion dollars to do it," Price said.

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Look! Listen!! Learn from it!!! :attention:

 [h=3]Natural disasters wake up call, says guardian monk of Himalayas[/h] Kathmandu, June 5 (IANS) Natural disasters such as the Nepal earthquake in April "are a wake up call" and present an opportunity to reverse the occurrence of such events in the future, said a Buddhist leader, also known as the 'Guardian of the Himalayas', on World Environment Day which is celebrated on Friday. "Disasters such as the recent earthquake in Nepal and the cloudburst in the Himalayas (Leh in Jammu and Kashmir) in 2010 are due to humans' increased interferences in nature," Buddhist leader and an active environmentalist, Gyalwang Drukpa told this IANS correspondent, who was recently in the quake-ravaged Himalayan state.

IANS India Private Limited/Yahoo India News
 
Precipitating a persistant crisis??? :noidea:

 [h=3]Indians at the centre of H-1B visa debate[/h] Washington, June 4 (IANS) Indian H-1B visa holders are at the centre of a raging debate over the usage of the temporary visas after 250 employees of Walt Disney were replaced by Indian immigrants as part of a reorganisation plan of the entertainment conglomerate, a US daily said. As many as 250 employees of Walt Disney World were notified in October last year that they would be laid off, but over the next three months they were required to "train their replacements to do the jobs they had lost", The New York Times reported on Wednesday. The replacements, the daily said, "were brought in by an outsourcing firm based in India".

IANS India Private Limited/Yahoo India News
 
I bet this is the best brick thrown on women till now! :brick:

 [h=3]UP Minister's Shocker: 'Women Want to Be Raped, So They Allow Men to Rape'[/h] Uttar Pradesh Minister and UP Processing and Construction Cooperative Federation Ltd. (PACCFED) Chairman Tota Ram Yadav made a shocking and outrageous comment on Saturday when he said rape always happens with a mutual consent. Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav had drawn flak from his political opponents while saying most of the rapists are 'boys' and 'boys' are bound to make mistakes. Ram Yadav's latest comments have also sparked off an outrage with the Bharatiya Janata Party demanding sacking of the minister. SP leaders, however, disassociated themselves from Yadav's comments.

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Who will stand to gain???:decision:

 [h=3]Bangladesh and India to swap 18th-century border enclaves[/h] By Serajul Quadir DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh and India will seal an agreement simplifying their 4,000-km border at the weekend, over four decades after the neighbours first tried to untangle complex territorial rights set down in 1713. The agreement will be one of several to be finalised during a two-day state visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi beginning on Saturday, Dhaka's Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali told journalists on Friday. In 1974, the then leaders of the two countries - Indira Gandhi of India and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh - agreed to swap almost 200 enclaves of land located in one country but officially belonging to the other.
Reuters
 
Even those which invole babies, toddlers and very young girls??? :shocked:

 [h=3]" Rapes happen with mutual consent[/h] ADDING to the row of shocking sexist comments, a senior member of Samajwadi Party ( SP) and chairman of Processing and Construction Cooperative Federation Limited ( PACCFED) Totaram Yadav said on Saturday that rape will not be possible with a woman without her consent. Totaram Yadav, who is also with the status of an MoS, said: " Rape cannot be committed. In fact, it happens with mutual consent." The minister, who was in Mainpuri to inspect the district jail, said rape and sexual assaults happen only when the woman agrees to it.

Mail Today
 
All good things are global and not just regional! :hungry:

 [h=3]Fennel, Fenugreek and Coriander: 3 Spices that You Thought Were Indian but Aren't - NDTV Food[/h] Alexander’s invasion of India in 327 BC may have been brief but it left behind a rich legacy nevertheless — in terms of mixed genes, a new school of art and sculpture, and, of course, food. The world was a global village much before we began to call it as such and there is very little, by way of ingredients and cooking practices, that is truly “indigenous” or “native” to any place, especially if that place happens to be as multi-cultural and multi-layered historically as India. Coriander may be one of the most common spices in the Indian kitchen; the fresh green leaves garnishing every curry imaginable and the dry seeds powdered to give you that troika of dry masalas—haldi, dhaniya, mirch (turmeric, coriander and red chilli powders) — that rules our kitchens. I am not a big fan of dry coriander powder, at least the way in which it is used in most Indian curries – to bulk them up as much as to flavour them with the unique, complex notes of the spice.

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All the good movies I have watched in my life are from Netflix!


 [h=3]Netflix expands Internet TV service to southern Europe[/h] Internet television service Netflix plans to expand into Italy and Portugal later this year, the company said on Saturday, as part of a bid to expand its popular streaming TV service to some 200 countries worldwide within two years. The Silicon Valley-based company said that, starting in October, Internet users in Italy and Portugal would be able to subscribe to watch a selection of TV series and movies on TVs, computers, smartphones, tablets and other devices.On Thursday, Netflix said it planned to enter Spain, also in October. Netflix is available in more than 50 countries worldwide, including 13 in Europe.

Reuters
 
[h=3]On smuggling, Air India warns of action if staff guilty[/h] New Delhi, June 5 (IANS) National flag carrier Air India on Friday said stringent action will be taken if guilt is established against a cabin crew employee, detained in Saudi Arabia over alleged smuggling charges. According to a senior Air India spokesperson, a male cabin crew member who was supposed to have been operating on a Jeddah-Kochi flight was detained by Saudi authorities at the King Abdulaziz International Airport. "A cabin crew employee has been detained.

BIG money makes the risks appear small! :decision:


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