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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recommended that two cough syrups made by Noida-based company Marion Biotech should not be used for children in Uzbekistan. 

Cough syrups made by India's Marion Biotech should not be used for children, after the products were linked to 19 deaths in Uzbekistan," WHO said in a statement. 

"The two products are AMBRONOL syrup and DOK-1 Max syrup. The stated manufacturer of both products is MARION BIOTECH (Uttar Pradesh, India). Laboratory analysis found both products contained unacceptable amounts of diethylene glycol and /or ethylene," it said.

House Republicans on Wednesday opened their long-promised investigation into President Joe Biden and his family, wielding the power of their new majority to demand information from the Treasury Department and former Twitter executives as they laid the groundwork for public hearings.

"Now that Democrats no longer have one-party rule in Washington, oversight and accountability are coming," Rep. James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said in a statement.

The Republican-led committee sent a series of letters requesting financial information from the Treasury Department about financial transactions by members of the Biden family that were flagged as suspicious activity. Those reports are routine, with larger financial transactions automatically flagged to the government, and are not evidence on their own of misconduct.

While 86 houses have been identified as “unsafe” so far — all marked with red 'X' marks — the first phase of demolitions is focussing on two hotels which are among the worst hit by the land subsidence in Joshimath.

Deep cracks on the ground have caused one of the hotels (Malari Inn) to be almost separated from its foundation, as a result of which it has tilted towards the other hotel (Hotel Mount View).

A team of the Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), which has been roped in for the demolition, conducted a survey of the two hotels on Tuesday. While the demolition work was set to begin in the evening, the owner of Malari Inn and some residents held protests, stopping the CBRI and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) personnel from entering the hotel.

Shinde, Fadnavis undertake preparations for PM Modi's likely visit to Mumbai ahead of BMC polls During his Mumbai visit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to inaugurate infrastructure projects such as Metro line 2A, 7 and a solid waste treatment plant (STP).

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is also likely to address a party meeting to boost the morale of party workers ahead of the upcoming Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation elections in Mumbai.

It will be PM Narendra Modi's first visit to Mumbai after the change of power from Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government to Shinde-Fadnavis led government in Maharashtra.

US-based NRI Darshan Singh Dhaliwal — who was sent back from the Delhi airport on the night of October 23-24, 2021, allegedly for arranging a langar for farmers protesting at the national capital's borders then — said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi “apologised” to him “in front of 150 people” last April. Dhaliwal was among those who received the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award on Tuesday.

Speaking to The Indian Express after receiving the award from President Droupadi Murmu here, Dhaliwal, who migrated to the US in 1972, said the conversation happened last April when Modi hosted a large Sikh delegation at his official residence in Delhi.