NEW DELHI:India has cut windfall tax on petroleum crude, aviation turbine fuel and diesel, according to a government notification on Tuesday. The windfall tax on petroleum crude will be reduced to 9,050 Indian rupees ($108.74) per ton from 12,200 Indian rupees per ton, effective Oct 18. The government also cut windfall tax on aviation turbine […]
NEW DELHI:The government has not yet taken any decision on the issue of India joining the trade pillar of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF), a 14-member grouping, a senior official said. The IPEF was launched jointly by the US and other partner countries of the Indo-Pacific region on May 23 in Tokyo. The 14 IPEF […]
NEW DELHI:The Supreme Court on Friday while hearing the petition filed by a married woman to terminate her 26-week pregnancy directed the AIIMS medical board to file a fresh report on the health of the foetus and whether there was any impact of the medicines prescribed to the woman for treatment of post-partum psychosis on […]
NEW DELHI:The first batch of stranded Indians who returned home on Friday from Israel amid the ongoing conflict with Hamas, are eager to narrate their ordeal. Saurav (30), an Indian student pursuing post-doctoral in chemical engineering from Technion in northern Israel, found himself stuck in central Israel when the Hamas attack started on October 7. […]
NEW DELHI:A Delhi court on Friday sent Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh to 14 days of judicial custody in connection with a money laundering case being probed by the ED pertaining to the now-scrapped excise policy. He was produced before the Special Judge M. K. Nagpal of Rouse Avenue Court on […]
NEW DELHI:The Delhi High Court on Friday refused to interfere with the arrest and subsequent police remand of NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha and portal’s human resources department head Amit Chakravarty in a case lodged under anti-terror law UAPA. Purkayastha and Chakravarty had contended that the grounds of arrest were not supplied to them when they […]
NEW DELHI:The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its verdict on a batch of petitions filed against the early release of convicts in the Bilkis Bano case by the Gujarat government. A bench of Justices B.V. Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan reserved the judgment after hearing both the sides on the question of validity of the remission […]
RANCHI:Maoists set on fire four vehicles engaged in railway line construction work in Shahpur-Hesa Kudar Village in Hazaribagh District in the wee hours of Thursday. The Maoists also left leaflets at the spot that falls under Katkamsandi police station, in which they have taken responsibility for the arson. It is suspected that the Maoists carried […]
NEW DELHI:“We cannot kill a child,” the Supreme Court observed on Thursday while hearing the Centre’s plea seeking recall of its order allowing a married woman, a mother of two, to terminate her 26-week pregnancy. While making it clear that the top court has to balance the rights of the unborn child, a “living and […]
NEW DELHI:Fault in tracks was the possible cause of derailment of the Delhi-Kamakhya North East Express in Bihar in which four people were killed and several injured, sources said on Thursday citing a preliminary investigation report. The report, signed by six railway officials including the driver of the ill-fated train, stated, “It seems that derailment […]