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Cold medicines for under-4s face curbs over safety concerns
The Centre has restricted combination cold medicines for young children. Fixed-dose combinations of chlorpheniramine maleate and phenylephrine hydrochloride are now banned. These combinations pose risks and safer alternatives are available for children. Manufacturers must now prominently display warnings on all affected drug labels. This regulatory action follows extensive reviews and recommendations from expert committees.
No work, no study, no training: 8.7 crore Indian youth caught in a career gap
With over eight crore Indian youth facing unemployment, a lack of vital skills hampers their job prospects. Financial barriers restrict many students from accessing crucial paid training programs, while graduates frequently settle for low-paying positions to assist their families financially. There is a stark career mismatch, as only a fraction of graduates find appropriate roles, making subsidized training and earn-as-you-learn opportunities essential for career advancement.
Sowing the seeds of a solar power intervention
India’s emerging agrivoltaics model enables farmers to grow crops beneath solar panels, offering a way to generate electricity while diversifying income. Vanita Bhatnagar speaks to farmers and agri-researchers to find out how high upfront costs, financing constraints, and uneven policy support are preventing more farmers from taking up projects beyond the pilots
India scraps mandatory physical boarding pass stamping for international passengers from Sept 1
Here comes a piece of good news for the international passengers who are travelling from Indian airports. The air passengers flying out of Indian airports will no longer be required to carry a physical boarding pass as immigration authorities have decided to do away with the stamping of this document from September 1. Instead, people travelling abroad will have to produce an e-boarding pass on their smartphones for immigration clearance, officials told news agency PTI.
Jammu and Kashmir: NIA raids residential houses in Anantnag as part of terror probe
The National Investigation Agency conducted raids at two locations in Anantnag. These searches occurred in Bijbehara and Dooru areas of south Kashmir. NIA officers, with police and CRPF support, searched residential houses. The agency also raided SICOP in Bijbehara as part of its investigation. Details regarding the outcome of these searches are currently awaited.
"Today you are students; tomorrow you will be scientists, artists, leaders": UP CM calls for deeper India-Japan youth ties
Speaking at an interaction in Lucknow with Yamanashi Governor Kotaro Nagasaki, 13 Japanese high school students, and 20 local students from schools across the city, the chief minister urged the younger generation to build lasting connections across borders.
Delhi Police files FIR under Sections 118 and 125 of BNS: What do these sections talk about?
Delhi Police on Friday registered an FIR in connection with the pellet gun injury case under Sections 118 and 125 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). The FIR was based on the complaint of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in connection with the pellet gun injury case. The case was registered by the Delhi Police followed by a sit-in protest by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi demanding an FIR over the complaint by pellet gun shelling victim Sahil Lochav.
OPINION | Vande Mataram: Amit Shah has hit Congress' raw nerve
Indian National Congress has refused to sing the full version of the 'Vande Mataram' song, which energised millions of freedom fighters during British rule. Union Home Minister Amit Shah described this decision as “anti-national”. He said the Congress Working Committee has taken “a surprising and anti-national decision”. Shah said, “Congress party adopted a resolution in 1937 when the party decided to sing only two stanzas of Vande Mataram. I want to remind the entire country that in 1937, for Muslim appeasement, the Congress party laid the foundation for the partition of the cou
Delhi Police registers FIR on pellet gun complaint as Rahul Gandhi stages dharna outside police station
Delhi Police on Friday registered an FIR in connection with the pellet gun injury case under Sections 118 and 125 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). Section 118 of the BNS deals with voluntarily causing hurt or grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means, while Section 125 deals with acts endangering the life or personal safety of others. The FIR was registered on pellet gun complaint as Rahul Gandhi continued dharna outside the Parliament Street police station in the national capital. Congress leaders, including Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi, are staging a sit-in protest at the Parliame
'Made-up story': Nripendra Misra refutes reports internal rift by a nine-page letter from Champat Rai
Chairman of the Ram Mandir Construction Committee Nripendra Misra on Friday dismissed media reports about an internal rift sparked by a purported nine-page letter from former Trust General Secretary Champat Rai, calling the claims completely baseless and gave a major update on the temple's final construction phase. While addressing reporters on the final day of a three-day review meeting, Misra addressed allegations that Rai had accused him of making arbitrary decisions, particularly following Rai's resignation a month earlier amid allegations of donation misappropriation.
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