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September 16, 2024 6:06 PM
India has reduced the windfall tax on petroleum crude from 8,400 rupees per metric ton to 5,700 rupees, effective from May 16. The tax, which is revised every fortnight, remains unchanged at zero for diesel and aviation turbine fuel, according to a government notification issued on May 15. This mo...
May 16, 2024 12:33 PM
The United States aims to have a floating pier in place off the Gaza Strip coast in the coming days to boost aid deliveries, but Washington is facing the same challenges that have beset the United Nations and relief groups for months when it comes to distributing assistance to the war-torn e...
May 16, 2024 12:11 PM
Lai Ching-te takes office as Taiwan’s president on Monday, facing a China that calls him a “dangerous separatist” and has ramped up military drills, as well as a fractured parliament at home where no party has a majority. Lai, vice president for the past four years, succeeds Presid...
May 16, 2024 11:12 AM
Alexander Zverev reached his 18th Masters semi-final in Rome on Wednesday after a hard-fought quarter-final clash. The World No.5 overcame early setbacks to defeat Taylor Fritz at the Italian Open. Zverev won 6-4, 6-3, thanks to his strong serve and superb baseline play in the one-hour and 30-minut...
May 16, 2024 10:45 AM
India's football paragon Sunil Chhetri announced on Thursday his decision to retire from international football. The national team captain will play his final match against Kuwait in the FIFA World Cup qualification on June 6. Chhetri, who has been the face of Indian football for nearly two decades...
May 16, 2024 10:07 AM
Amad Diallo scored his first Premier League goal and assisted on another to power Manchester United to a 3-2 victory over Newcastle United on Wednesday at Old Trafford in a battle between teams fighting for a European berth next season. Erik ten Hag’s team remained eighth in the table but l...
September 16, 2024 6:07 PM
By: Aditya Ahuja Colonel Waibhav Anil Kale (Retd), the Indian national who was working with the United Nations (UN) as a security service coordinator, was killed on Monday after the vehicle he was traveling in came under attack in Gaza’s Rafah region. The United Nations has launched an investi...
September 16, 2024 6:07 PM
The latest round of the tariff war between the US and its largest trade partner, China, is set to present a significant opportunity for India. US President Joe Biden, in a move that is seen as a protectionist measure to reduce trade imbalance, imposed heavy tariffs on Chinese products including bat...
September 16, 2024 6:07 PM
Former Indian opener Gautam Gambhir weighed in on the debate surrounding India's first-choice wicketkeeper conundrum for the upcoming T20 World Cup. The 2011 World Cup winner on Wednesday said that Rishabh Pant's middle-order experience could help him edge out Sanju Samson and become India's prefer...
May 15, 2024 11:10 AM
Nobel Prize–winning Canadian writer Alice Munro, whose exquisitely crafted tales of the loves, ambitions and travails of small-town women in her native land made her a globally acclaimed master of the short story, has died at the age of 92, her publisher said on Tuesday (May 14). Munro had...
