Pesticides in soft drinks: media war

With their reputation at stake, the soft drinks industry started a major public relations offence. After decades of some of the most glamorous …

Soft drinks

Hard-hitting health impacts

In Court

Doctors vote against fat tax on soft drinks in Chicago

Doctors vote against fat tax

Healthy treat in a cuppa

Beverage companies are cashing in on the growing demand for organic tea and coffee

Master stroke

Specify pesticide levels on soft drinks: Supreme Court

In court

Cola intake may cause osteoporosis

Scientists to vouch for cola companies

Fizzy logic

Brazil to regulate junk food

Lies, well told

In reel life, when things go wrong, the director takes recourse to a re-take. Then there are the stunt-men, who stand in for the hero when the …

Kerala panchayat wins face-off with Coke

Two recent directives of the Kerala High Court have further vindicated the Perumatty Grama Panchayat's stand in its face-off with the Hindustan …

Sweetly worked

Sugar substitutes are an unhealthy business

Stars' tantrums on cola controversy

No Entry

Nidhi Jamwal and Kushal P S Yadav, prosecuted as 'trespassers'

Weak safeguard

New norms for water in soft drinks

'Bad science' bogey

Lobbies use the old trick

Stratagems vs strategy

Governments, industries gang up against WHO's plan

Killer disease

The world is getting fatter, sicker

Coke bequeaths cadmium

Plachimada plant's sludge, nearby wells poisoned

The verdict is out

Consumer rights receive a fizzy fillip

Confess now

Print pesticide levels on soft drinks, court orders colas

Fat Chance

Reducing obesity -- the leading cause of non-communicable diseases in the world -- has become a political game. At stake are the interests of the …

On a strong wicket

Perumatty panchayat's case is statutorily sound