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April crude imports dip 4.3% year-on-year, but oil bill jumps over 50% on price surge
Crude prices surged nearly 70% between April 2025 & April 2026. NEW DELHI: The volume of crude purchased by India in April this year fell by 4.3% compared with the same period last year, but the import bill surged by more than 50% due to a sharp rise in global oil prices, provisional data compiled…
Earnings, endorsements, investments, car collection, and luxury lifestyle
Conor McGregor (Image Via Getty) Conor McGregor remains one of the richest and most recognizable stars in combat sports. Even after spending long periods away from the UFC, the Irish fighter continues to make headlines because of his business empire, luxury lifestyle, and possible return to competition in 2026. His estimated net worth in 2026…
Farmers, women, youth ‘at core’ of governance, FM slams Rahul
NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday hit out at leader of the opposition, Rahul Gandhi, and dismissed charges of ‘crony capitalism’. On X, she listed out multiple welfare schemes and policies of the Modi govt and underlined that farmers, the poor, women, youth, and MSMEs are “at the core” of the governance structure….
Standards for fuel blends up to E30 notified
NEW DELHI: Govt has notified a new standard for higher ethanol-petrol blends — E22, E25, E27 and E30 fuels — paving the way for blending of ethanol in petrol beyond the current 20% level. The govt push to increase ethanol blending comes amid reports of availability of surplus ethanol and to reduce crude imports due…
Courts not bound by govt’s N-liability cap
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday said courts are not barred from determining govt’s additional liability towards citizens in case of an unforeseen nuclear power plant mishap, notwithstanding the Sustainable Harnessing and Advancing of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Act capping operator’s liability at Rs 4,000 crore. The remarks came from a bench of…
City tops 46°C on torrid Tuesday; scorching days ahead, warns IMD
NEW DELHI: Temperatures topped 46 degrees C at several places on a torrid Tuesday, the season’s hottest day in Delhi, with the punishing prospect of a weeklong spell of broiling heat in store. The met department has sounded orange alerts for heatwave conditions across the city till May 25, reports Kushagra Dixit. The mercury crossed…
Mamata Banerjee escalates attack after West Bengal poll defeat
NEW DELHI: Mamata Banerjee said the BJP-led Central government would be “removed from power” in the future, days after her party, TMC, suffered a major defeat in the West Bengal Assembly elections.During a meeting with party MLAs in Kalighat, the former West Bengal CM said, “BJP will be removed from power in Delhi in the…
Sweden joins India’s Venus mission, Norwayties up with Isro for space cooperation
Space collaboration got a big boost during PM Modi’s visit to Europe. Sweden has formally joined India’s orbiter mission to the Venus planet by signing an agreement to collaborate on the interplanetary mission. And the Norwegian Space Agency has signed an MoU with Isro to give a new dimension to space cooperation between the two…
Cops to SC over denying bail to Umar, Sharjeel
NEW DELHI: A day after Supreme Court disapproved of its own order denying bail to activists Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam, saying it violated a larger bench ruling, difference of opinion among benches reverberated in the court’s hearing on bail plea of other accused in the 2020 Delhi riots cases, with police on Tuesday telling…
US drops tax claims against Donald Trump under IRS settlement
The Trump administration has reached a settlement that permanently bars the US government from pursuing current tax claims against President Donald Trump, his sons and the Trump Organisation as part of Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax returns.According to a one-page document posted on the Justice…
