Ban on 6 noodles brands

Patna, Aug. 1: The health department's food safety wing today banned noodles of six brands for a month as lead beyond permissible limits and monosodium glutamate was found in samples.

The six firms whose noodles have been banned from August 2 to September 1 include Hindustan Unilever Limited, Glaxosmithkline Consumer Healthcare Limited, Capital Foods Pvt Ltd, Indo Nissin Foods Limited, ITC Limited and Nestle Limited.

MCI denial

Patna: Medical Council of India has denied recognition to three postgraduate seats of medicine department at Nalanda Medical College and Hospital and two postgraduate seats of physiology department at Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital (Bhagalpur).

Gang hunt

Patna: Police have formed a team to look for a gang that enters jewellery shops posing as customers, fools salesmen and steals ornaments. Complaints have come from two shops at Bakarganj and Patel Nagar. Those with information can dial 100.

Pappu bandh

Patna: Jan Adhikar Party national convener and Madhepura MP Pappu Yadav on Saturday met relatives of a minor who was raped in Khagaria and called for a bandh there on August 2.

HAMS' query

Patna: Hindustani Awam Morcha Secular leader Nitish Mishra on Saturday challenged the JDU to name even one reason why it removed Jitan Ram Manjhi as chief minister when Nitish has approved all decisions Manjhi had taken.

Trader robbed

Motihari: A cloth trader of Mehsi was robbed of Rs 10 lakh on Saturday. The police lodged a case against four unknown persons waiting in a SUV who overpowered him at gun-point. 

AMU member

Patna: City-based entrepreneur Irfan Alam has been nominated member of the advisory committee of Aligarh Muslim University. 

Gaya rally

Patna: State BJP chief Mangal Pandey has said Union ministers Giriraj Singh and Ram Kirpal Yadav would be coordinator and co-coordinator, respectively, for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Gaya rally on August 9.