Rotaract Club of Chaibasa and Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) announced on Thursday to hold a special vaccination camp at Singhbhum Trading Company Petrol Pump near Shahid Chowk in Chaibasa on June 21, during which people getting vaccinated would be given 1-litre petrol for free. Chaibasa Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) also distributed coupons for […]
Day: June 18, 2021
10 kiloliter oil spill in Bay of Bengal after vessel’s fuel tank leaks
A merchant vessel’s fuel tank developed a crack leading to 10 kilolitres of oil being spilled in the Bay of Bengal on Thursday, the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) said. It said the vessel, named Devon, was sailing under the flag of Portugal and was en-route from Colombo in Sri Lanka to Haldia in West Bengal […]
Petrol price crosses ₹103 in Mumbai, ₹100 in Bengaluru
Petrol and diesel prices were on Friday raised for the tenth time this month and have breached all records. According to price notification by the oil retailers, after the latest revision petrol in Delhi will cost ₹96.93 per litre and diesel is currently retailing at ₹87.69. In Mumbai, petrol is being sold at ₹103.08 per […]
PSPCL told to run own plants before drawing power from northern grid
Patiala The Northern Regional Load Despatch Centre (NRLDC), the apex body to ensure integrated operation of power system in the northern region, has warned the Punjab State Power Corporation (PSPCL) against drawing the maximum limit of power from the northern grid, without running its own thermal units at Ropar and Lehra Mohabbat. For the past […]
Swiggy, Anra Tech to launch first BVLOS drone delivery trials for food
Anra Technologies and Swiggy have said that stakeholders from Ministry of Defence, Directorate General of Civil Aviation and Ministry of Civil Aviation awarded final clearances for a consortia to start trials for beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations in India. Months of planning, risk assessments, air traffic control integration, training, equipment preparation, and coordination […]
Major Australian banking, airline websites goes down briefly in broad internet outage
A plethora of websites operated by financial institutions, governments and airlines including Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd. and Australia’s central bank went down briefly Thursday in the second global internet outage in as many weeks. Some of the outages, including those that affected Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Westpac Banking Corp. and Australia & New […]
Websites of American Airlines, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines and Delta Air Lines face outage
Websites of major U.S. airline companies American Airlines, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines and Delta Air Lines faced an outage early on Thursday, according to outage monitoring website Downdetector. More than a thousand user reports indicated problems at Southwest Airlines, with over 400 user reports indicating the same for Delta Air Lines, according to Downdetector. That […]
Domestic passenger traffic dipped by 60% in May compared to April: DGCA
Nearly 2.1 million domestic passengers travelled by air in May, over 63% lower when compared to April when 5.7 million passengers had travelled, according to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) data released on Thursday. The dip in passenger traffic came at a time when the country was battling a massive surge in Covid-19 […]
Portion of road caves in at Model Town’s Gol Market in Ludhiana
A portion of the road caved in at Gol Market in Model Town after one of the walls of a manhole collapsed on Thursday. No casualty or damage to property was reported. Shopkeepers in the area blame the civic body’s nonchalance for the incident, saying that no corrective measures were taken to repair the damaged […]
Domestic air traffic plunges 63% in May: DGCA
Around 2.1 million domestic passengers travelled by air in May, which is over 63% lower than the 5.7 million who travelled in April, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said on Thursday. The DGCA data said that among private carriers, IndiGo carried 1.6 million passengers in May, making up nearly 55% of the domestic […]
Oil falls from multi-year highs on firmer dollar, hike in UK Covid cases
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Crude oil prices fell nearly 2% from their highest level in years on Thursday as the dollar strengthened after the U.S. Federal Reserve signaled it might raise interest rates as soon as 2023. Oil demand worries resurfaced after new coronavirus cases jumped in Britain, while supply concerns over the return of Iranian […]
Oil marketing companies again resort to alternate day fuel price revision
Oil marketing companies seem to have moved once again towards a revised fuel price mechanism, shifting to the practice of changing petrol and diesel rates after every couple of days rather than undertaking changes on a daily basis. In the last few days, pump prices of petrol and diesel have been revised every two days […]