Amidst the ongoing conflict in West Asia, the Oil Ministry assures citizens that India's LPG supply remains secure, with no need for panic booking of cylinders. The normal delivery cycle of two-and-a-half days is being maintained, and crude oil is being sourced from diverse routes.
'India did not surrender. That was why he wanted to pressurise India by this 25% tariffs.'
'I am smitten with Tokyo's eclectic mix of modern cosmopolitanism and old world Japan,' confesses Dinesh Raheja.
Dharma Guardian 2025 will primarily focus on urban warfare tactics and counter-terrorism operations and underscores the growing strategic partnership between India and Japan.
The Fuji circuit, which mixes slow corners with the longest main straight in Formula One, will allow for plenty of overtaking in Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix.
Suzuka circuit will alternate with Fuji as host of the Japanese Grand Prix from 2009, Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone and local organisers said on Saturday.
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton boosted his Formula One title chances by taking pole position for Sunday's Japanese GP while Ferrari rival Felipe Massa could qualify only fifth. The Briton, who leads the standings by seven points from Massa with three races remaining, starts ahead of Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen on the front row.
The 22-year-old, bidding to become the first rookie world champion, needs to beat his McLaren team mate and double world champion Fernando Alonso at a circuit he has never even seen before.
Toyota's Fuji International Speedway gave up the hosting rights for the Japanese Formula One Grand Prix in 2010 and beyond on Tuesday to cut costs amid the global economic downturn. The circuit, majority held by the world's biggest automaker, had been scheduled to alternate each year with Honda-owned Suzuka.
Tokyo -- the songs Japan, Love In Tokyo and Sayonara from the 1966 Hindi film automatically pop up in the mind -- is buzzing and crowded like any other metropolis, discovers Deepa Gahlot. The modern apartment blocks are built cheek by jowl, so close together that one can open the window and borrow sugar from the neighbour in the next building. One of the fears of the Indian traveller is the unavailability of vegetarian food. Every city and town in Japan has an array of Indian restaurants that serve every variety of cuisine, right from Gujarati to Punjabi to Andhra and Kerala meals.
Diana Penty was a kiss from a lotus as a showstopper walking for designer Disha Patil at LFW X FDCI in Mumbai.
Sanjive Narain, owner of Assam's oldest news channel, and Sanjay Aditya Singh, promoter of a cabin crew training academy, are coming together to launch a regional airline providing business and premium economy services in the Northeast. Jettwings Airways will be based in Guwahati and will connect places with twin-class Embraer E175 aircraft. The airline has secured an initial no-objection clearance from the civil aviation ministry and plans to launch services in October.
Rediff.com takes a look at the new entrants on the World Heritage List.
Lewis Hamilton and the FIA were in a standoff at this month's Miami Grand Prix over piercings
National Geographic launched its annual Travel Photographer of the Year contest, calling on photographers around the world to submit their work in one of three categories: nature, people or cities.
Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen set the pace in Japanese Grand Prix free practice on Friday as Formula One's title contenders got to grips with the Fuji circuit for the first time.
General Motors India (GMI) on Monday launched a variant of its sports utility vehicle 'Chevrolet Forester' to tap the growing SUV market in India.
Hellenic Olympic Committee President Spyros Capralos told reporters a meeting had been held with a Greek health risk management company to be ready 'in case anything happens'.
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Japanese actress Satomi Ishihara performed the first 'torch kiss' handover of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics torch relay on Saturday during a rehearsal on the outskirts of the capital. The rehearsal comes amid worries the coronavirus outbreak could throw cold water on the Games. Japan, among the worst affected outside China where the virus is believed to have originated, reported its first death from the virus on Friday.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday
Kingfisher and IndiGo started roughly around the same time, yet the former has total losses of Rs 6,000, while the latter is India's most profitable airline. How did this happen?
Not big on formal education qualifications, the American inventor looked for people with open minds and lots of curiosity!
Karun Chandhok's team JRM Racing achieved its best result of the season by finishing second in the privateers' class and fifth overall the Six Hours of Fuji on Sunday.
All the gold medallists from Saturday's action at the Tokyo Olympics.
A softball game in Fukushima prefecture will give the Tokyo 2020 Olympics a symbolic start
Tokyo 2020 organisers received the Olympic flame in a scaled-down handover ceremony in the Greek capital on Thursday, amid the coronavirus spread that has cast doubt on the global, multi-billion dollar event. In a brief ceremony closed to spectators in Athens' Panathenaic stadium, site of the first modern Games in 1896, the torch was received by Tokyo Games representative Naoko Imoto.
Suzuka will host the Japanese Grand Prix next year as well as in 2011, the operators of the Honda-owned circuit said on Sunday after meeting Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone. Next year's race had been due to be hosted by Toyota's Fuji facility under an agreement to alternate but was thrown into doubt last month when that circuit gave up the hosting rights due to the global economic downturn.
Fuji Heavy Industries, the maker of Subaru cars, said on Tuesday it would pull out of the world rally championship citing the global economic crisis. Subaru joins fellow Japanese automaker Suzuki Motor, which announced its exit a day earlier, and leaves no other Japanese automaker left in the race.
Toyota's Timo Glock stole some limelight from championship leader Lewis Hamilton on Friday with the quickest time in free practice at the Japanese Grand Prix. Hamilton, who takes a seven-point lead over rival Felipe Massa into the weekend with three races left, was third fastest overall for McLaren, behind Renault's Fernando Alonso. Massa was fourth on the timesheets with Ferrari team mate Kimi Raikkonen fifth over the picturesque 4.563km Fuji Speedway circuit.
Fernando Alonso has said he will do what he can to help Ferrari's Felipe Massa beat Lewis Hamilton to the Formula One title.
Renault's Fernando Alonso stormed to his second straight win at the Japanese Grand Prix on Sunday while McLaren's championship leader Lewis Hamilton failed to score.
There's never a bad time to visit Japan.
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National Geographic's 2019 Travel Photo contest is drawing to a close after six weeks of pictures from photographers around the world. The final week's selection of pictures includes rhinos drinking in a thunderstorm and the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
A bogey-bogey start dealt a severe blow to Jeev Milkha Singh's title hopes and the Indian signed off with a final round of one-under 69 to finish tied sixth in The Crowns golf tournament in Nagoya on Sunday.
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