The Tripura government on Thursday announced the setting up of a drone centre at the Tripura Institute of Technology (TIT) to train students in drone technology. The announcement was made in the proposed budget for 2022-23 tabled by deputy chief minister and finance minister Jishnu Devvarma. He presented a Rs 26,892.67-crore tax-free budget that has […]
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Timings out for new Dhaka-NJP express train
Authorities of Bangladesh Railway have come up with a detailed notification on the new train service between Dhaka and New Jalpaiguri which is likely to start by March-end. The Mitali Express, a bi-weekly train service, had been flagged off by the prime ministers of India and Bangladesh in March last year. However, owing to a […]
Crude moves above $100
Oil prices were set for a second straight weekly loss, but found a floor above $100 a barrel on Friday after volatile trading this week with no easy replacement for Russian barrels in sight in a market already marked by tight supply. Brent crude futures fell 27 cents, or 0.3 per cent, to $106.37 a […]
Gautam Adani weighs alliance with Saudi Aramco
Gautam Adani, the second richest Asian, is reportedly looking to stitch a partnership with Saudi Aramco, months after rival Reliance Industries led by Mukesh Ambani scrapped a mega deal in the oil-to-chemicals (O2C) business. A Bloomberg report quoting sources said on Friday that the conglomerate which has market capitalisation of almost $159 billion, is exploring […]
Electric scooters for women frontline healthcare workers
Tata Steel Foundation (TSF), in collaboration with HSBC, will provide electric scooters to women frontline healthcare workers in rural areas for easy and quick access of maternal and neonatal care in remote areas of Kolhan region in Jharkhand. Informing about the initiative, Tata Steel’s corporate social responsibility chief Sourav Roy said: “TSF in collaboration with […]
Changes in Metro timings on Dol
Metro service in the north-south corridor (Dakshineswar to Kavi Subhash) will begin at 2.30pm on March 18, on the occasion of Doljatra, authorities said in a statement on Tuesday. The number of services has also been reduced to 29 for the festival of colours. In the east-west corridor, the first Metro will leave the terminal […]
Coal scam case: ED issues fresh summons to Abhishek Banerjee, wife
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued fresh summons to TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee and his wife for questioning in a money laundering case linked to an alleged coal scam in West Bengal, officials said on Thursday. Banerjee, nephew of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the national general secretary of the Trinamool Congress (TMC), […]
Changes in Metro timings on Dol
Metro service in the north-south corridor (Dakshineswar to Kavi Subhash) will begin at 2.30pm on March 18, on the occasion of Doljatra, authorities said in a statement on Tuesday. The number of services has also been reduced to 29 for the festival of colours. In the east-west corridor, the first Metro will leave the terminal […]
Enforcement Directorate summons Abhishek Banerjee, wife again
The Enforcement Directorate has summoned Trinamul Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee and his wife Rujira for another round of questioning in New Delhi in the alleged multi-crore coal pilferage case in Bengal. Senior ED officials said the Diamond Harbour MP and his wife had been asked to appear at the ED’s headquarters in New Delhi by […]
IIT (ISM) professor helps BCCL in restoring mine wasteland
Huge chunks of mine wasteland lying idle in collieries will be a thing of the past as a beginning has been made to turn these wastelands fertile by growing a wide variety of plants on them. All this, as a team of the Department of Environmental Science Engineering of IIT (ISM) led by Professor Subodh […]
US mounts pressure on India over Russia’s discounted crude oil offer
The US has said it is unlikely the Indian government would be in violation of sanctions on Russia if New Delhi chooses to take up the Russian offer of discounted crude oil, asserting, however, that it could place India on the wrong side of history. Amid reports that Russia has offered discounted crude oil to […]
Jet fuel price hiked by steepest ever 18 per cent to all-time high
Jet fuel prices were hiked over 18 per cent — the steepest ever increase — after crude surged to a multi-year high. Analysts said rising ATF prices amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict pose a serious threat to the recovery of the aviation sector. The sixth straight hike this year led to prices soaring past the Rs […]