HealthA food laboratory found Nestle's low-fat dairy whitener substandard under India's Food Safety and Standards Act, and the FSSAI has issued a notice and ordered sales of the product stopped at once.
In a Down To Earth column, P Divya argues that targets for solar, electric vehicles and green hydrogen should be matched by demand-side policies on sufficiency, repair and fair restraint by affluent households.
EnvironmentRain cut fine particulate pollution by about a fifth, but levels rebounded above the pre-rain baseline within 48 hours, showing how high Delhi's base emissions are.
The Jaipur company, whose machines cost Rs 10,000 to Rs 1 lakh, will expand manufacturing, move into southern India and develop power weeders and battery sprayers with IoT features.
EnvironmentIMD data to 29 September show 758.5 mm against a normal 865 mm; the northeast and south were hardest hit, while Odisha and Uttar Pradesh had more rain than normal.
AgrotechThe US gene-editing firm and the Indian crop company will develop and license edited traits in Brassica juncea, India's main edible oilseed, where yields lag leading producers.
LivestockA side letter promised talks if India opened bulk dairy to a comparable exporter, but the EU got the same exclusions and a US deal would not qualify, exporters say.
In a hearing on drug price control and generic prescribing, India's Supreme Court heard that a cancer drug retailers buy for Rs 2,700 carries a maximum retail price of up to Rs 27,000, and the judges called it 'carnage', Sangbad Pratidin reports.
Citing a one-kilogram hilsa price of Tk 2,600 to Tk 3,000 at home and alleged re-export via India, a Supreme Court lawyer has sent a legal notice to the cabinet secretary and four others demanding an end to hilsa exports to India.
CropsIndia's agriculture ministry has prohibited registration of paraquat dichloride under the Insecticides Act and cancelled all existing certificates, citing poisoning deaths, the lack of an antidote and bans in more than 70 countries.
CropsThe Indian Rice Exporters Federation wants stronger pre-shipment testing as pesticide residues and other compliance failures trigger rejections abroad; India exported 20.19 million tonnes of rice worth $12.47 billion in 2024-25.
EnvironmentA Nature Cities study led from Oxford finds coal supplied about 76 percent of India's electricity as demand quadrupled in 2000-2020, and estimated urban PM2.5 deaths rose from 0.67 million to 0.87 million.
HealthIndia's National Statistical Office found health and medical trips cost an average Rs 32,167, excluding treatment, and make up 38.4 percent of rural overnight trips against 16.5 percent in cities.
