New Delhi: The Chamber of Trade and Industry (CTI) has urged Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to postpone the INDIA bloc’s November 1 rally at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan until after November 10, warning that it could disrupt business worth Rs 10,000 crore during the peak Diwali shopping season. In a letter to Gandhi, the Leader of…
New Delhi: Adani Total Gas Ltd, a city gas distributor supplying CNG and piped natural gas across cities in states, including Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, has raised Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) prices by Rs 4.45 per kg, citing higher procurement costs driven by surging international Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) prices, reduced domestic gas availability and…
New Delhi: The government has extended the duty-free import deadline for 1 million tonnes of raw sugar under the Tariff Rate Quota (TRQ) to December 31 to boost domestic supplies during the festive season. According to a finance ministry notification, the import window has been extended to December 31, 2026. On August 20, the government…
Indian families hold gold equal to roughly two-thirds of what every central bank on earth holds combined. The instinct is sound, the instrument is flawed, and the popular claim that households move the gold price does not survive the data. For decades economists have called Indian household gold dead capital: it pays no interest, no dividend,…
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday met former President of Chile and Ambassador on a Special Mission Eduardo Frei, and discussions focused on strengthening bilateral economic ties. She expressed concern to Frei on the recent floods in Chile, the finance ministry said in a post on X. “The discussions focused on strengthening bilateral…
Jamnagar (Gujarat): Almost the entire Ambani family, led by billionaire tycoon Mukesh Ambani, welcomed the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at Jamnagar on Wednesday, as he began a tour of the world’s largest single-site refinery. Rubio arrived in Jamnagar a day after calling India a crude-refining “superpower” and urging more processing of Venezuelan crude…
New Delhi: The Jio Platforms’ IPO saw the portion marked for Qualified Institutional Buyers (QIBs) fully subscribed at over 2x demand, within a few minutes of the issue opening on Wednesday, according to sources. The QIB portion’s demand was 2.86 times at 10 AM, sources said. Institutions moved within minutes of bidding opening on Wednesday…
Shrikant Rao For decades, the heavy machinery world ran on an unspoken rule: highway trucks stayed in their division, earthmovers stayed in theirs, and fleet software lived in an entirely separate engineering bucket. If you ran a mining operation, you dealt with this fragmentation daily. You bought haulers from the truck team, excavators from the…
Thiruvananthapuram: Keralam will seek clarity from the central food safety authority on rules to identify and regulate foods high in fat, sugar and salt, as the state steps up efforts to curb unhealthy eating habits among children, Health Minister K Muraleedharan has said. The state will write to the Food Safety and Standards Authority of…
Hiroo Onoda was sent to Lubang in the Philippines in December 1944 with instructions to keep fighting and not to surrender. Japan capitulated in August 1945. Onoda stayed in the jungle until March 1974, when his former commanding officer travelled to the island and formally relieved him of duty. That is nearly 29 years. The…
