Daily Newsletter | Saturday, June 06, 2015 | | | Food labels must tell all: Bold, clear & loud | | With Maggi in a soup over the alleged presence of lead and MSG in some of its tested samples, the spotlight is on whether the country's packaging norms need to be strengthened to include more disclosures in consumer interest. |
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| | 17-year-old drowns in crowded Delhi pool | | A teenager, who had borrowed money to join his friends for a fun outing at the Splash Amusement Park at Alipur in north Delhi, drowned at the park’s crowded swimming pool with no one apparently noticing he was in trouble. |
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| 107 bonded labourers rescued from Bengaluru | | The Khunti police on Friday helped rescue 107 workers, many of them minors, from a Bengaluru-based incense-stick factory where they were allegedly made to work as bonded labourers. Twenty-five of the rescued workers, including seven minors, are from Jharkhand. |
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| 820kg of Maggi seized in Ahmedabad | | Despite ban being imposed on storage and sale of Maggi and other brands of noodles, the health department teams of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation were surprised to find huge quantities of Maggi noodles packets on the shelves of even reputable malls. |
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| | Flipkart 'caught' offering fake discount | | A closer look at a product’s listing on Flipkart showed that it was priced at Rs 399 by the manufacturer, but Flipkart was selling it as if Rs 399 was the price after discount. |
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| | US denies visa to Indian youth archery team | | India's participation in the World Youth Archery Championships has been thrown into jeopardy after 20 members of a 31-strong team, including Korean coach Chae Wom Lim, were denied visa by the US embassy. |
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| | More analysts downgrade Nestle's stock | | After falling sharply for three consecutive sessions the Nestle India stock showed some stability on Friday, closing marginally higher on NSE and a tad lower on BSE. Turnover on the bourses in the stock, however, was more than three times its daily average turnover in the past few months. |
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| Tax refunds jump 20% in April-May | | You can hope to get your tax refund faster with the government streamlining the process, resulting in an over 20% jump in payments during April-May. |
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| | Anil Kapoor looks up to Javed Akhtar the most | | Anil Kapoor has the rare distinction of being the only actor who has had the opportunity of working with all the Akhtars, starting with Javed Akhtar to Zoya to Farhan to Shabana Azmi to Honey Irani. |
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