It won’t even take two minutes to figure out that lead in your Maggi is the least of India’s food safety problems. This is a country where two dozen children died in one fell swoop after their free lunch at school – rice, beans, potato curry and soy balls. The delicious street chaat Delhi is famous for could be contaminated with fecal matter, the E. Coli bacteria in particular. Where the Most Probably Number (MPN) of coliform bacteria should be 50 or less, it was as high as 2,400 in some of those delicious snacks.
On June 02, India’s met department had some terrible news to share with a sweltering country: The monsoon rains may be deficient—and Asia’s third largest economy could be staring at a drought year. But the 140-year-old Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) could be wrong. Or, at least, that’s what Skymet—India’s largest private weather forecaster—contends, just as it did with its April 22 forecast that the monsoon will be 102% of the 50-year-long period average (LPA). In other words, the monsoons, which account for about 70% total rainfall in the country, will be normal.
In a startling acknowledgement, the Intelligence Bureau (IB) has for the first time reported that a total of 11+ Indians, including the four youths from Kalyan in Maharashtra, have joined the global terror group, Islamic State (IS). The secret report has also identified five Indians who have died in the Iraq-Syria warzone fighting for the jihadi group as it attempts to establish a caliphate. While Areeb Majeed, one of the Kalyan youth, returned to India and was taken into custody by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), five Indians are still fighting the ‘holy war’, according to the intelligence inputs gathered.
Here’s a scenario – Imagine you’re out furniture shopping on a Sunday afternoon. You want to buy a chair and shortlist two similar looking chairs. Both are beautiful, shiny mahogany wood. The first one costs half the price of the second. But the second one comes with 2 year manufacturer warranty, free replacement in case of any damage and an assurance of higher resale.Which would you take home? If our guess is right, like most modern Indian consumers, you will prefer the second chair that offers additional benefits.
Global rating agency Fitch said the likely upturn in the country's investment climate and reduction in interest rates will improve the property market by the end of March 2016 and provide relief to the debt-ridden developers. "The property development sector (will) be a key beneficiary of reductions in housing loan interest rates by several domestic banks in April 2015," the agency said, adding that they would also boost credit growth.
K Chandrashekhar Rao (KCR), the super chief minister of Telangana state could blame it on legacy issues and he could be forgiven at this point since one year is too less to judge the progress of a state. But as the politician who led Telangana to separate statehood, he is surely in happy space today. His exuberance was visible on the maiden Telangana Formation Day. Search engine behemoth Google will have its biggest campus outside Googleplex in California, in Hyderabad, Telangana at an initial investment of about Rs 1,000 crore. Exactly a year after the formation of Telangana, the 29th State of India, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi government can flaunt this as one of its biggest achievements.
Superstar Salman Khan is offering his fans a chance to feature in a 'remixed version' of a song titled 'Selfie Le Le' from his forthcoming film Bajrangi Bhaijaan. The first song of Salman's highly-awaited film features the actor "clicking a lot of selfies". Now there is a remixed version of the song being made, and Salman is giving his fans a chance to star in it. "Salman wants fans to click selfies and send it to him. He will then personally go through the pictures and select a few.
Telangana, the 29th state of republic India is celebrating first formation day today. This celebrations will continue for a week-long affair to mark the culture, tradition and historical importance of Telangana in Indian history. A year after he got his new state, K Chandrasekhar Rao is on a roll. Reason: he has got Hyderabad. “Earlier on, the revenues from Hyderabad the economic engine in the entire region used to fund expenditures of old Andhra Pradesh. Now the revenue is used only for Telangana, which is much smaller.
It won’t even take two minutes to figure out that lead in your Maggi is the least of India’s food safety problems. This is a country where two dozen children died in one fell swoop after their free lunch at school – rice, beans, potato curry and soy balls. 
