Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution Bureau of Indian Standards seizes 1032 pressure cookers and 936 helmets for violation of Quality Control Orders Central Consumer Protection Authority issues 15 notices against e-commerce entities and sellers selling non-standard pressure cookers onlineSafety Notice alerting consumers against buying household goods like electric immersion water heater, sewing…Continue Reading

R SainikheshCOIMBATORE: R Sainikhesh, the 21-year-old aerospace engineering student from Tamil Nadu who had joined Ukrainian paramilitary force to fight Russia, is willing to return to his hometown in Coimbatore soon, his father Ravichandran said. Sainikhesh was studying final year aerospace engineering at the National Aerospace University at Kharkiv in Ukraine when, in February, he…Continue Reading

Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution Bureau of Indian Standards signs MoU with IIT Roorkee for establishment of ‘BIS Standardization Chair Professor’ MoU to facilitate research & development, teaching and training in the field of Standardization and Conformity Assessment Posted On: 10 MAR 2022 6:07PM by PIB Delhi Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS),…Continue Reading

Indian Navy’s five sailing yachts entered the Sri Lankan port city of Trincomalee on Thursday, after completing a 3000-mile voyage. During their week-long stay in the island nation, the Indian Naval officers manning the sailing yachts will offer training to twelve of their Sri Lankan counterparts.  This will include a two-day harbour training phase at…Continue Reading

HYDERABAD: As many as 694 Indian students including Telugus, who moved out of the sensitive city of Sumy on Tuesday proceeded to Western Ukraine from Poltava to reach the border of Ukraine. The Indian Embassy officials will reportedly conclude ‘Operation Ganga’, shifting of Indian students from Ukraine to India, by Thursday. The students, who proceeded…Continue Reading

India’s Ministry of External Affairs said on Tuesday that it had evacuated all Indian students from Ukraine’s Sumy. “Happy to inform that we have been able to move out all Indian students from Sumy. They are currently en route to Poltava, from where they will board trains to western Ukraine. Flights under #OperationGanga are being…Continue Reading

ON MARCH 4, as the sound of shelling boomed outside, the VN Karazin Kharkiv National University in eastern Ukraine alerted its international students about “scammers” promising transfers to other institutions in neighbouring Poland, Hungary or Romania. A few days earlier, authorities of Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University in western Ukraine informed its international students…Continue Reading

In what can be called a sigh of relief, around 183 Indian citizens, who were stranded in Ukraine, have reached Delhi on Sunday in a special flight.    On Saturday, the flight had departed from Hungary’s capital Budapest under ‘Operation Ganga’. It landed at Indira Gandhi International Airport.   The passengers were received by Union…Continue Reading