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The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has put forward amendments to its food safety rules. One proposal would prohibit adding sucrose and fructose to food products meant for babies aged up to six month...
The Union government, through the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, has officially prohibited Paraquat Dichloride, a highly toxic non-selective herbicide. Paraquat is a fast-acting, broad-spectrum contact weed...
The Chemical Review Committee (CRC-22) of the Rotterdam Convention, meeting in Rome, adopted a Decision Guidance Document on the insecticide methyl parathion. It is an organophosphorus insecticide used on crops such as c...
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) ordered the recall of Shalimar's Chef–Coriander Powder, made by M/s Nilgiri Oil & Allied Industries, over unsafe pesticide residues, and of Carrageenan made by M/s...
The International Day to Protect Education from Attack is observed every year on 9 September to stress the need to safeguard education during armed conflict; its 2026 theme is “Can Education Survive Attack? The Resilienc...
Forty-four social and environmental groups, along with retired forest officers and scientists, have asked the Himachal Pradesh government to prohibit glyphosate-based herbicides on forest land. The chemical is reportedly...
IntroductionIn a prestigious global recognition for India's historical hydraulic heritage, the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) on 18 August 2026 selected the 140-year-old historic Parichha Weir...
IntroductionTo decentralize food quality testing and curb widespread adulteration across rural and semi-urban markets, the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) on 17 August 2026 la...
IntroductionIn a major biomedical breakthrough for diabetes management, scientists at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research–Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (CSIR-IICT), Hyderabad, announced on 16 Augu...
IntroductionIn a deeply structural and highly massive ecological alert, a recent global scientific assessment strictly and officially warned that more than half of the world’s 3,380 migratory bird species are in fierce d...
IntroductionIn a deeply structural and highly massive triumph for entomological research, scientists from the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) strictly and officially discovered two new so...
The Central Government has notified a ban on Paraquat Dichloride, a herbicide linked to deaths from poisoning, under the Insecticides Act, 1968. The ban covers its manufacture, import, transport, distribution, sale and u...
