The Maharashtra FDA has introduced a 'Festival Enforcement Calendar' to strengthen food-safety checks around festivals and religious occasions. The initiative also brings community feeding events such as Mahaprasads, bhandaras, langars and annachhatras under greater food-safety scrutiny

Family alleges that before employing him, contractor failed to verify the age of 17-year-old worker who ended up handling the SUV that crushed a 32-year-old worker Sajid and main earning member of his family to death