The anxious wait for the onset of the southwest monsoon is finally over as a weather bulletin issued by the India Meteorological Department on Friday afternoon declared that it had set in. ...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said the state government "did not find any unwanted material" in Maggi noodles samples sent for laboratory testing....

With the UN declaring June 21 as the International Yoga Day as suggested by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a TV special, "The Story of Yoga" will trace the journey and popularity of the ancient Indian practice....
A shipping container carrying 68 migrants was discovered at a port in the English county of Essex, the local ambulance service said on Friday....
No bar on Indian workers to Saudi Arabia: embassy...

India's food safety watchdog on Friday ordered all the nine variants Maggi noodles to be "withdrawn and recalled" by Nestle and stop further production and exports, since some samples were found to be "hazardous" for human consumption....
Sri Lanka has recalled its envoy to India Sudharshan Seneviratne, within a year of his appointment and just when bilateral ties were looking up between the two neighbours....
he long-drawn fishermen problem between India and Sri Lanka - that has often threatened to spoil ties - needs a "bottoms-up solution rather than one imposed from above," says Sri Lankan envoy, Sudharshan Seneviratne....
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa on Friday filed nomination papers to contest the by-election from R.K. Nagar assembly constituency here on June 27. ...
Sunfeast noodles have not been banned in Gujarat, it has been clarified. Samples of the noodles have only been sent for testing. ...