Bengali migrants who call Kerala their 'Dubai' can be seen filling the massive labour gap in the state by toiling away in a gamut of industries, from construction sites, to petrol pumps, to hotels, tea estates and even paddy fields.
Bengali migrants who call Kerala their 'Dubai' can be seen filling the massive labour gap in the state by toiling away in a gamut of industries, from construction sites, to petrol pumps, to hotels, tea estates and even paddy fields.
Glimpses of the protests in Colombo against the worsening economic crisis
From bus search on mobile, free photocopying services to preserving rare Indian art forms, these start-ups are already tasting success.
In yet another case of international bank cards fraud, customers at a petrol pump in the city of Leicester last week found that their card details were used to withdraw money from various places across the world, including India.
Defence PRO said that the forces have managed to restore normalcy in the areas they were deployed and have been continuously working to aid the civil administration.
A suicide bomber struck a convoy of buses near a market in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 10 people and injuring 15 others, including women and children.
The government has received three preliminary bids for buying of controlling stake in India's second-largest fuel retailer Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL), Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Wednesday. Mining-to-oil conglomerate Vedanta had on November 18 confirmed putting in an expression of interest (EoI) for buying the government's 52.98 per cent stake in BPCL. The other two bidders are said to be global funds, one of them being Apollo Global Management.
Concerned over the fuel shortages and petrol pumps running dry, the government said on Friday it would deploy central forces to ensure supply lines are not dried due to the ongoing strike by oil sector executives. "The government will deploy central forces wherever necessary," petroleum secretary R S Pandey told reporters even as petroleum minister Murli Deora met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to brief him about the strike by officers of oil PSUs.
Fuel supplies in many parts of the country were affected on the second day of the indefinite strike by oil PSU executives that also resulted in refineries running below capacity and impacted oil and gas production.
Only Rs 10,720 crore of the junked currency notes did not return to the banking system, rest 99.9 per cent was deposited raising question mark over the government's effort of curbing black money through the demonetisation.
The NSA was invoked against Nawaz, a resident of Talab Chowk area and Mohsin alias Nati, resident of Jakaria Masjid area, for alleged involvement in the April 10 violence, in-charge superintendent of police Rohit Kashwani said.
Shell India is the second private sector petroleum company to review its expansion plans in India. The company has decided not to open any more petroleum outlets. The company has also asked some of its employees to start looking for another job. Shell has 50 petrol pumps across the country and has a licence to open 2,000 pumps.
Political heavyweights may be still recovering from the tectonic changes brought about by the Delimitation Commission headed by Justice Kuldip Singh after about six years' labour, but to those who have watched this barrister who came from Chandigarh to be elevated almost immediately to the bench of the Supreme Court in 1988, it was not a surprise.
Reliance Infocomm has introduced two interactive mobile applications, 'City Guide' and 'TV Guide', in Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad.\n\n\n\n
The blast damaged a petrol pump, several shops and some cars. A witness said the convoy was apparently hit by a suicide bomber who was in a jeep.
The old note will continue to be accepted for other utility bill payments as well as at railway ticketing counters and counters of government or public sector undertaking buses for purchase of bus tickets till December 15
Petrol and diesel prices were hiked for the fourth consecutive day on Saturday by 35 paise per litre, pushing the total increase in rates on petrol to Rs 36 per litre and on diesel to Rs 26.58 since early May 2020 when taxes on the two fuels were raised to record levels. Petrol in Delhi now costs Rs 107.24 a litre and diesel comes for Rs 95.97, according to a price notification of state-owned fuel retailers. The latest increase that follows the unrelenting hike in international oil prices has pushed pump rates across the country to their highest-ever levels.
Ankur Jain analyses the truth behind cellphone do's and don'ts that are doing the rounds of the Internet.
Hours after the government banned Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes, Indians are facing an acute shortage of change.
Amid an outcry over record high petrol and diesel prices, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said the Centre and state governments will have to together work out a mechanism to bring retail rates to reasonable levels.
The government on Tuesday increased the windfall profit tax on crude oil produced in the country and reduced the levy on exports of diesel. The tax, levied in the form of Special Additional Excise Duty or SAED, on domestically produced crude oil was increased to Rs 9,800 per tonne from Rs 9,050 a tonne, according to an official notification. SAED on the export of diesel was reduced to Rs 2 per litre from Rs 4 a litre and on jet fuel or ATF to nil from Rs 1, the notification said.
The Jindal trust chairperson would like help to improve access to public utilities for the physically challenged.
Delivering the verdict in a packed court room, District Judge S M A Abidi said the murder of 27-year-old Manjunath on November 19, 2005, was planned because weapons of different persons residing in different localities were used.
Maps and GPS navigation services provider MapmyIndia on Monday launched its new navigation gadget, which is equipped with maps of 401 cities, priced at Rs 11,990.
The city and its adjoining districts were in the grip of a serious fuel crisis with petrol pumps going dry following the indefinite strike by West Bengal Tankers Association, which entered the sixth day on Tuesday.
The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation has tied up with the Bharat Petroleum Corporation and launched an e-ticketing initiative to help people book tickets at BPCL outlets.
The number of protesters swelled at Delhi border points on Wednesday. Police stepped up security after thousands blocked key gateways into the national capital for the seventh day on the trot, leaving commuters facing a harrowing time.
Superintendent of Police Amit Jain told PTI that the crude bomb, apparently planted by the Naxalites, went off when the bus approached a petrol pump.
You cannot put a price tag on peace of mind during an event as huge and nerve-wracking as this.
Indian Oil Corporation Ltd will start manufacturing fuel used in F1 racing in three months' time.
Government may impose a 25 per cent cess on big diesel cars and charge bulk users other than railways and state transport corporations Rs 22 a litre more for diesel as part of a dual fuel pricing policy.
IndianOil XTRAREWARDS is the first on-line reward programme for customer's paying cash
The hoardings will also have the contact numbers of Station House Officers and senior police officials so that people can pass on information about suspects to the police, they said.
The state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation may buy stake in Bharat Petroleum Corporation's 6 million tonne Bina Refinery.
In the second-such incident in a fortnight, two mysterious blasts in a span of five minutes triggered panic in the national capital New Delhi in which one person was injured and four cars were damaged.
A 36-year-old Finnish national was allegedly raped by an unidentified man in the satellite city of Navi Mumbai, police said on Wednesday.
