New Delhi: India’s crude oil purchases from Russia dropped over 15 per cent in April after the country’s buyer shut the refinery for routine maintenance, European think tank Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) said in a report. India imported Euro 4.5 billion worth of crude oil (raw material for making fuels like…
Chennai: Fissures in the opposition AIADMK deepened on Tuesday with a group of MLAs led by senior leaders SP Velumani and C Ve Shanmugam accusing party chief Edappadi K Palaniswami of seeking an alliance with archrival DMK to keep TVK away from power, and announced support for the C Joseph Vijay-led dispensation ahead of its…
Guwahati: Widely credited with the BJP’s rise across the northeast, Himanta Biswa Sarma’s swearing-in as the chief minister of Assam for a second consecutive term indicates not only continuity in leadership but also the party’s growing political entrenchment in the region. Despite strong criticism by the Congress and a series of allegations against his wife,…
Mumbai: Stock markets tumbled in early trade on Monday amid rising crude oil prices after the US and Iran failed to reach a peace deal to end the West Asia war. US President Donald Trump has dismissed Iran’s response to the latest US peace proposal as ‘totally unacceptable’, dampening hopes of an immediate diplomatic breakthrough, an…
Raipur: Krunal Pandya on Sunday said it was Bhuvneshwar Kumar who played the “shot of the match” at the fag end as Royal Challengers Bengaluru clinched a low-scoring thriller by two wickets to knock Mumbai Indians out of contention for the Indian Premier League playoffs here. With nine runs needed off the last three balls,…
Chennai: C Joseph Vijay was sworn in as the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister on Sunday in a colourful ceremony attended by top Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, ushering in the first non-DMK, non-AIADMK government in the southern state in 60 years. His cabinet was a mix of young and THE experienced, with the 51-year-old actor-turned-politician’s core…
Kolkata: Senior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari was on Friday elected the leader of the BJP legislature party in West Bengal, paving the way for him to become the first BJP chief minister of the state. BJP sources said Adhikari’s name was proposed at the legislature party meeting here and formally announced by Union Home Minister…
Stop politicizing marriage; it’s time for partnership Marriage isn’t a power struggle, but rather a relationship of trust, respect, and responsibility between two individuals. However, in our society, marriage is often transformed from a partnership into a game of control, where one party seeks to impose its traditions and the other adopts a rigid stance…
Kolkata: Chandranath Rath, the close aide of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari who was shot dead in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, had travelled an unusual path — from serving in the Indian Air Force to becoming one of the opposition leader’s most trusted political associates. Rath, 41, originally hailed from Chandipur in Purba Medinipur…
Nobody thinks they are going to fall for it. That is the first thing to understand. Every investor who has ever bought near a top or sold near a bottom was, at that exact moment, completely certain they were making the right call. The market does not need you to be careless. It just needs…
