The petroleum ministry defended ethanol blending, stating it saved consumers nearly thirty rupees per litre. NEW DELHI: Petrol in Delhi would have cost around Rs 125 a litre when global crude prices touched $135 a barrel, had oil companies not blended ethanol into the fuel, the petroleum ministry said on Friday, defending the ethanol programme…
Chennai: A police sub-inspector was transferred to Armed Reserve after a video of him making derogatory remarks to a Class X student during an inquiry at a govt school near Manimangalam went viral.The incident followed a clash between two groups of Class X students from Government Higher Secondary School at Madambakkam, Kancheepuram district. Police said…
Ahmedabad: Even moderate to heavy rain on Friday brought civic troubles for commuters, especially in the city’s western areas.Several blamed waterlogging around ongoing infrastructure projects and poor drainage for turning routine commutes into patience-testing odysseys.A marketing professional caught in a jam said the rain wasn’t heavy, but there is no system to channel the water…
Relatives described Mondal as a simple and quiet young man. MONTESWAR: Hamim Mondal’s ancestral village in Monteswar, barely an hour’s drive from where he was arrested, learnt that the 24-year-old was a suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) operative at 10 am on Friday.The family has been in the rice trade for several generations.Speaking to reporters in Dirghanagar…
Pune: An 85-year-old retired engineer from Kharadi was duped of Rs 3 lakh by cyber fraudsters while attempting to reactivate his net banking facility through a fake online link.The fraud took place in February this year. After the victim submitted a complaint to the Pune cyber police and a preliminary inquiry was conducted, the Kharadi…
Malta-flagged Aframax tanker Captain John loaded crude at Enbridge’s Ingleside terminal near Corpus Christi, Texas and is bound for Israel’s southern port of Ashkelon A cargo of US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil is headed to Israel for the first time in nearly three years, according to ship-tracking data.The Malta-flagged Aframax tanker Captain John…
Tejaswin Shankar (Image credit: PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Just two days before the Commonwealth Games decathlon, Tejaswin Shankar was unsure whether he would even step onto the track. A sudden flare-up in his leg threatened to end his campaign before it had even begun.But the 27-year-old had other plans. He produced one of the biggest…
The decades-old Cauvery water sharing dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu has political consequences. Whenever tensions rise, the Tamil film industry is one of the first to be impacted. Protests regarding the Cauvery problem have impacted many Tamil films; some screenings have been canceled, some promotions interrupted, some film releases postponed, and theatres closed. Many…
How one iceberg changed everything for Antarctic penguin colony When it comes to nature, it often reminds us that even the smallest change in the environment can ripple through an entire ecosystem. According to experts, in Antarctica, life depends on a fine balance of sea ice, open water and seasonal rhythms. A lone iceberg has…
An EU-backed project under the Western Balkans Investment Framework is working to remove 21 of the most dangerous wrecks Europe’s prolonged summer heatwave has driven water levels in the Danube River to unusually low levels, revealing dozens of German warships that were deliberately sunk by retreating Nazi forces during the Second World War.Near the Serbian…
