Tianjin explosions: Fire continues to rage; toll mounts to 56

Firefighters run as smoke rises at the site of the explosions at the Binhai new district in Tianjin, China. Photograph: Jason Lee/Reuters Over 1,000 firefighters aided by military experts trained......

Ajmer blast: Police suspect HuJI involvement, 6 de

Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami, a militant outfit based in Bangladesh, is suspected to be behind the blast at the Sufi shrine of Khwaja Mohiuddin Chisti at Ajmer. Investigations have revealed that the......

Live bomb found at Ajmer dargah

A live bomb was found near the main gate of the Khwaja Moinnudin Chisti shrine in Ajmer on Friday, a day after abomb blast at the dargah complexkilled three persons and injured 28 others. The......

AP: 2 seriously injured in bomb blast

Several people were injured, two of them seriously, when a tiffin-box bomb exploded at the bus station complex in Karimnagar district in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday. The police sounded a red alert in......

Chemicals: Remove customs duty on LNG, Naphtha

Indian chemical industry has an output of around USD 80 billion and ranks 12th in the world. The chemical industry which includes basic chemicals and its products, petrochemicals fertilizers,......

'Retain customs duty on dyestuffs at current levels'

Today, the global market of dyestuffs, pigments and intermediates is around USD 25.85 billion with dyestuffs and pigments market is approximately around USD 17.88 billion and the intermediates is......

ICC seeks removal of customs duty on input materials

The Indian chemical industry has an output of around USD 80 billion and ranks 12th in the world while the size of the global chemical industry is in the region of USD 3 trillion.Basic Chemicals......

Duty cuts to benefit carbon black producers

Product: Chemicals & chemical products, basic heavy inorganic chemicals, caustic soda (sodium hydroxide), soda ash (sodium carbonate), oxygen, titanium dioxide, acid (all kinds), liquid chlorine,......