Sagarika Ghose to join CJP protest (PTI images) NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) Rajya Sabha MP Sagarika Ghose has announced that she will join the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) protest at Jantar Mantar this evening , where activists have been demanding the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over repeated examination paper leaks and…
A passerby tries to take photo of the damage on the Citic Tower in Beijing. (AP Photo) A crash Beijing cannot easily explain On the evening of June 26, a small aircraft hit CITIC Tower, Beijing’s tallest skyscraper, in the capital’s central business district. The pilot was killed in the crash. The physical damage was…
Good news for Indian travellers! Those planning a trip to the gorgeous sun-drenched islands of Greece or wanting to explore the ancient streets of Athens, you have one less thing to worry about. India’s global Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is now officially live in Greece. Now eligible Indian visitors can pay digitally at participating merchants…
TNEA rank list 2026 released: The Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA) 2026 rank list has been officially released on July 1, 2026. Minister P. Viswanathan announced the rank list on Wednesday, covering 2,36,017 applicants who registered for admission to undergraduate engineering programmes across Tamil Nadu.This year’s rank list witnessed an impressive performance from candidates, with…
The latest collections were higher than the Rs 1,71,105 crore recorded in June 2025 India’s gross Goods and Services Tax (GST) collections rose 13.9 per cent year-on-year to Rs 1,94,812 crore in June 2026, driven largely by a sharp increase in tax revenues from imports, according to provisional data released by the finance ministry on…
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) is preparing to invest about Rs 5,000 crore to almost double its LPG storage capacity to 340 thousand metric tonnes (TMT) from around 200 TMT, according to three OMC executives. Similar expansion plans by Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) are still being worked out. State-run…
PAssport fees, commercial LPG prices & more changing from July 1 Several key financial and policy changes have taken effect from July 1, affecting households, businesses, taxpayers and banking customers.Commercial LPG cylinders have become significantly cheaper, offering relief to hotels, restaurants and other commercial users. A new law expanding rural wage employment has also come…
United States department of justice on Tuesday instructed federal prosecutors to make investigations into “birth tourism” a priority, hours after the Supreme Court blocked President Donald Trump’s bid to curtail birthright citizenship.In a memo circulated to all DOJ employees and later posted on social media, senior department official Colin McDonald said individuals who enter the…
Signs reading in Russian “We are sorry, the equipment is temporarily out of service” are seen on gas pump nozzles at a Gazprom Neft gas station in Moscow (AP photo) Russia is facing an unprecedented fuel shortage after months of Ukrainian drone strikes damaged oil refineries and disrupted supplies, leading to fuel rationing, long queues…
Get flyers back in air NEW DELHI: India’s biggest airlines — IndiGo and Air India — have launched new base level fares to win back passengers as high operating costs in the last four months have led to airfares zooming, making rail and road travel more economical in comparison to flying. While the full service…