New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday ruled out a cut in excise duty on petrol and diesel to ease prices, which have touched an all-time high, saying payments in lieu of past subsidised fuel pose limitations. Petrol and diesel as well as cooking gas and kerosene were sold at subsidised rates during the […]
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said technical glitches in the new income tax e-filing portal will be largely fixed in the next couple of weeks and that she has been constantly reminding Infosys on the issue. “I have been reminding Infosys (the vendor which developed the new portal) constantly, and (Infosys head) […]
New Delhi: The wholesale price-based inflation softened for the second straight month to 11.16 per cent in July, on cheaper food items, even though prices of manufactured goods and crude oil hardened. However, WPI inflation remained in double digit for the fourth consecutive month in July, mainly due to a low base of last year. […]
New Delhi: The Civil Aviation Ministry on Monday gave conditional permission to 10 organisations, including Mahindra and Mahindra, Steel Authority of India (SAIL) and Bayer Crop Science, to use drones for various purposes. In a statement, the ministry said the Karnataka government is one of the 10 organisations and it has got the permission to […]
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday hosted the Olympic-returned Indian athletes for breakfast at his residence, a day after lauding their memorable performance at the Tokyo Games from the ramparts of the Red Fort. Indian athletes returned from Tokyo with a haul of seven medals, including javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra’s historic gold in […]
NEW DELHI: Cricket will not be a casualty in the wake of drastic political change in Afghanistan, assured country’s cricket board CEO Hamid Shinwari, saying the Taliban “love” and “support” the game. Speaking to PTI from Kabul, Shinwari also assured that the members of the national team and their families are safe as the Taliban […]
LONDON: Batting coach Vikram Rathour defended the faltering Indian willow-wielders, saying lean patches are part and parcel of the game and it’s a matter of time before runs start flowing from their bats again. Rathour said the Indian batsmen are putting in the hard yards at nets in their bid to iron out flaws and […]
Islamabad:Pakistan’s high-level security huddle chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday endorsed US President Joe Biden’s decision to pull American troops out of Afghanistan, saying the presence of foreign troops for a longer period would not have produced a different result in the war-ravaged neighbouring country. Senior political and military leaders, including Army […]
New Delhi:Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said that she expects inflation to remain in the prescribed range during the current fiscal. The RBI has been mandated to keep inflation at 4 per cent, with tolerance level of 2 per cent on either side. She expressed confidence that the […]
Lisbon: Portugal’s defence minister says his country is prepared to take in 243 Afghans, and their families who worked with Portuguese forces stationed in the country. Defence Minister Joao Gomes Cravinho said NATO is coordinating the evacuation of the Afghans because Portugal doesn’t have the military capacity to do so. He told public broadcaster […]