Mumbai, Maharashtra’s Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) on Friday ordered FIRs against e-commerce major Snapdeal.com’s CEO Kunal Bahl and directors of the company for online sale of medicines, including prescription drugs. Harshadeep Kamble, the regulatory body’s commissioner, said it was currently investigating whether other e-commerce companies, including giants such as FlipkartRead More

Kolkata, Union Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said on Friday the Union Health Minister JP Nadda has been asked to probe into the accusations that Yoga guru Ramdev’s ayurvedic infertility medicine encourages gender discrimination, a day after the affair caused a furore in the Rajya Sabha.Read More

Sydney,  Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Wednesday he was recalling nation’s ambassador to Indonesia in protest against the execution of two Australian drug smugglers. “We respect Indonesia’s sovereignty but we do deplore what’s been done and this cannot be simply business as usual,” Abbott told reporters in Canberra.Read More

Islamabad,  Pakistan’s “sincere” desire for good neighbourly ties with India have not been “reciprocated”, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said, ascribing the continuing deadlock in bilateral talks to a “frivolous” issue. Sharif told the Saudi Gazette in an interview during a recent visit that he took an “exceptional decision” to acceptRead More

KATHMANDU: Appreciating the help extended by Indian rescuers following the devastating earthquake that rocked Nepal on April 25, Nepal Prime Minister Sushil Koirala said on Friday that the country is blessed to have neighbours like India. “We are really blessed as we have neighbours like India,” said a statement issuedRead More

ADEN: The United Nations warned fuel shortages threaten to halt all relief operations in Yemen “within days” as Saudi-led air strikes and ground fighting killed 47 people in second city Aden. Gulf Arab states rejected any neutral venue for UN-brokered peace talks as a confidential UN report supported their allegationsRead More

Kathmandu, One thousand EU citizens are still unaccounted for in Himalayan Nepal, diplomats said today, almost a week after a massive earthquake that has claimed more than 6,300 lives and left survivors desperate for aid. The Europeans had mostly been climbing in the avalanche-hit Everest region and trekking in the remoteRead More

San Francisco, The California State Senate has passed a resolution condemning the 1984 anti-Sikh riots as “genocide” and said the then government and law enforcement officials “organised, participated in and failed to intervene to prevent the killings of innocent Sikhs”. With this, both the legislative chambers of the California Assembly haveRead More

London, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State (ISIS), has been incapacitated with a suspected spinal damage and he may never again lead the dreaded radical group, a media report said today. The world’s most wanted terrorist, in his mid-40’s, is being treated by two doctors who travel toRead More

Sydney, A 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit Papua New Guinea today, 106 km south-southwest of the town of Kokopo, the US Geological Survey said, just a day after a 6.7-magnitude tremor in the region. The quake hit at 1336 IST, 693 km northeast of the Pacific nation’s capital Port Moresby, in the NewRead More