-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: After the UK drug regulator, the Australian drug regulator has also said that the drugs marketed by Ranbaxy Labs are safe. "At present, there is no evidence that any of the products in the Australian market manufactured by Ranbaxy are of an unacceptable Quality or that there is a danger to consumers in Australia," a spokesperson for the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) told ET. The Australian...
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Ghaziabad, Allahabad most polluted in Uttar Pradesh: Survey
-IANS LUCKNOW: Ghaziabad and Allahabad have emerged as the two most air polluted cities in Uttar Pradesh in a recent survey by a research and advocacy organization. The survey conducted by Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) found pollutants of the size of 10 micron in Ghaziabad, Allahabad, Kanpur and Bareilly, which was four times the acceptable size of particulates in urban areas. It also found air pollution levels three times more...
More »Green cover equal to 23% of Delhi lost in 13 years -Dipak Kumar Dash
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Green cover and water bodies almost equal to a quarter (23%) of Delhi's area have been lost to development works and rabid urbanization in the National Capital Region in just the past 13 years. The first comparative satellite-based study of change in land use in NCR has shown that between 1999 and 2012, the region lost 32,769 hectares of green areas and 1,464 hectares of water...
More »Veggies costlier, reason unclear -Akriti Gupta & Satabhisa Bhaumik
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: After two weeks, the floods have hit home. Vegetable prices, which were expected to rise due to crop and road damage, have soared in the past few days. Tomatoes are Rs 90/kg in north Delhi; capsicum is at Rs 110/kg in east Delhi. Even potatoes are retailing above Rs 20/kg across the city. While hawkers blame the bad weather, in the wholesale hub of Azadpur...
More »68% of milk does not meet food norms: Centre tells SC
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Common nutritional supplement milk you take may not be all that nutritious as an overwhelming majority of samples of milk supplied across the country failed to meet the food safety and standard norms. The Centre on Tuesday dished out startling fact about the health of milk supplied both loose or in packets and informed the Supreme Court that 68.4% of the samples collected from rural and...
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