Bhubaneswar/Kolkata: The deep depression over the Bay of Bengal on Friday intensified into cyclonic storm and will graze past the Sunderbans before making landfall on Bangladesh coast with a maximum wind speed of 80 kmph, India Meteorological Department (IMD) said in a bulletin. The cyclonic storm ‘Midhili’ will cross the Bangladesh coast on November 17 night…
New Delhi: India on Thursday said the appeal process against the death sentence handed down to eight former Indian Navy personnel by a Qatari court is under process and it was hopeful of a positive outcome from it. External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said India is engaged with the Qatari authorities on the matter and…
Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala government on Thursday announced a visionary ‘Mission 2030’ master plan aimed at boosting the state’s GDP share from the current 12 percent to an ambitious 20 percent through strategic development of the travel and hospitality sector. Speaking at the Tourism Investors Meet (TIM), state Tourism Minister P A Mohamed Riyas highlighted the…
New Delhi: The government on Thursday cut the windfall profit tax on crude oil produced in the country and on exports of diesel in line with softening international oil prices. The tax, levied in the form of Special Additional Excise Duty or SAED, on domestically produced crude oil has been reduced to Rs 6,300 per…
New Delhi: India, the world’s third-largest oil consumer, has asked oil producers cartel OPEC to maintain and ensure market stability for the benefit of consumers, producers, and the global economy. Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said this at the 6th India-OPEC Energy Dialogue that took place on November 9 in Vienna, an official press statement…
New Delhi: Net direct tax collection swelled 22 percent so far this fiscal year to Rs 10.60 lakh crore, crossing 58 percent of the Budget target for the full year, the Income Tax department said on Friday. The net corporate tax collection grew 12.48 percent and personal income tax mop-up rose 31.77 percent. “Direct Tax collection,…
New Delhi: THDC India Ltd (THDCIL) is planning to set up 3,270 megawatts (MWs) of clean energy projects, including pumped storage and floating solar, in Karnataka, its chairman and managing director R K Vishnoi has said. In this regard, the Uttarakhand-based company on Thursday signed two memoranda of understanding with Karnataka Power Corporation Limited (KPCL)…
Panjim: Cheers Group, a significant player in the global spirits industry, recently launched an industry-first initiative “Care4Planet” as it journeys towards the removal of mono-cartons from its packaging. Way back in 2016, Cheers Group launched its Labrodog Aged 12-year-old blended Scotch whisky in India in a 750ml glass bottle without a mono-carton which was the…
Mumbai: Reserve Bank of India remains watchful and the monetary policy is actively disinflationary and supporting growth, Governor Shaktikanta Das said on Thursday. The government has mandated the RBI to ensure that inflation based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) remains at 4 per cent with a margin of 2 per cent on either side….
Hyderabad: BRS president and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Thursday filed nomination from his Gajwel Assembly constituency in Siddipet district for the November 30 assembly polls. Rao, who reached Gajwel by a chopper, submitted his nomination to the Returning Officer. After filing the paper, he went around the ground there in an open-top…
