GENEVA, Sep 19 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Friday against using electronic cigarettes, saying there was no evidence to prove they were safe or helped smokers break the habit.

SINGAPORE: banned all dairy imports from China on Friday and the European Union demanded answers from Beijing as the baby formula scandal that has left thousands of infants ill across China spread to liquid milk. A government food quality watchdog in China said nearly 10% of milk and drinking yoghurt samples from three major dairy companies were contaminated with potentially deadly melamine.

A mobile court realised Tk 95,000 in fines from four factories during an anti-adulteration drive in Tangail town on Thursday for making food items in unhygienic environment.
The mobile court also seized a huge quantity of date-expired and sub-standard vermicelli and flour.

Kanpur: Nearly 35 students of primary school, Daniyapur village, in Sikandara tehsil of Kanpur Dehat, most of them aged below 10, fell ill after they took

HK Finds Melamine In Chinese Dairy Items, Orders Recall

Some traders in Rajshahi allegedly use chemicals or employ kerosene stove method for quick ripening of green bananas, posing threats to public health.

With the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare determined to implement the rule of no smoking at all public places, including restaurants, hotels, pubs and discotheques, the hotel industry approached

Sumitra Deb Roy and Deepa Suryanarayan

The repeated delay, at times weakening, and postponing the implementation of public health policies in India, particularly the provisions of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act, 2003, mustn'

Beijing,