At G7 Summit, Modi urges global action against terrorism

Reaffirming India's stand against terrorism, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged leaders of the G7 to galvanise global action against terrorism and underscored the need for strict action against......

US Firms Back Trump's India Tariffs

Kindly note the image has been posted only for representational purposes.IMAGE: A large container vessel arrive at New Mangalore Port. Photograph: ANI Photo   Industry associations and......

'Trump Won't Hesitate To Use Hard Power'

'The touchstone is reciprocity which will be applied to friends and foes alike.''It will be a bitter pill to swallow.' IMAGE: US President Donald Trump delivers a speech to a joint session of the......

Govt approves plan to turn surplus rice into sanitizer

The government on Monday approved that surplus rice available with Food Corporation of India can be converted into ethanol in order to manufacture alcohol-based hand sanitisers and also for......

Hurdles in biofuel use: Few vehicles, weak ethanol-blended petrol rollout

The limited availability of flexible (flex)-fuel vehicles in the Indian market and the slow rollout of ethanol-blended petrol by oil-marketing companies (OMCs) remain major obstacles to achieving......

CII seeks flexible mandate for biofuels

Days before the national biofuel policy is taken up by the Union Cabinet, the Confederation of Indian Industries has demanded incorporation of enough "flexibility in the biofuel blending mandate"......

US, China ink biofuels cooperation pact

The US Department of Agriculture, the US Department of Energy, and China's National Development and Reform Commissionhave signed a memorandum of understandingon biofuels cooperation today. Both......

Why prices of petrol, diesel are likely to rise

A proposal in the Union Budget 2022-23 to raise excise duty on dirtier, unblended retail petrol and diesel has met with some resistance from the petroleum ministry. Illustration: Uttam......