The AugustaWestland chopper deal got murkier with allegations of bribery now being levelled directly at the former Air Chief, SP Tyagi. ...
09:25 PM, Feb 13, 2013
A day before Foreign Minister SM Krishna's trip, Beijing issued an advisory against travel to India citing protests over the fuel price hike, after New Delhi warned traders against business in Yiwu. ...
02:26 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Beijing: In what is being seen as a tit-for-tat move, China has cautioned its citizens against travelling to India following protests over the increase in petroleum prices, after New Delhi issued advisories warning its traders against doing business in the Chinese commodity hub of Yiwu. An advisory has been posted on the Chinese Foreign Ministry website as well as Chinese Embassy in New Delhi dated June 1 which warned about...
12:31 PM, Jun 04, 2012
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11:19 PM, May 24, 2012
New Delhi: Petrol prices will not be raised this fortnight as state-owned oil firms apparently could not get political clearance for the over Rs 2 per litre hike in rates needed to achieve parity with the imported cost on account of the weakening rupee. Indian Oil (IOC) and other state-run firms, which had last month refrained from hiking petrol prices as the government was wary of protests while Parliament was...
06:20 PM, Jan 02, 2012
On Board Air India One: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh returned from Maldives on Saturday night where he attended the SAARC Summit and held a bilateral meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani. The Prime Minister stood firm on the issue of the petrol hike, saying subsidies are already unsustainable. "One reason why inflation has become a problem, and this is concerning everybody, is the rise in prices of fuel...
07:19 AM, Nov 13, 2011
Law Minister Salman Khurshid said that the petrol hike has to be seen in the context of the world economy. ...
03:42 PM, Nov 07, 2011
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11:22 PM, Nov 04, 2011
Kochi: The Kerala High court in an observation on price rise on Friday said that the people of the country should react against the frequent price rise by the government. The high court observed that price rise is equivalent to slow death and that people should come to the fore rather than waiting for political parties to do so. "Price rise is equivalent to slow death. People of the country...
05:13 PM, Nov 04, 2011
Kolkata: The Left Front will organise a protest rally and a sit-in against the hike in petrol product prices here on July 12 in which former Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and CPI(M) state secretary Biman Bose would participate. A Left release on Saturday said Bhattacharjee and other front leaders would join the sit-in and protest demonstration near the Ayakar Bhavan (Income-Tax building) here that day. Bhattacharjee put in a token...
06:51 PM, Jul 02, 2011
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Tuesday demanded that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should abolish central excise duty on diesel and roll back recent hike in prices of diesel, petrol, LPG and kerosene oil. "The Chief Minister has sent a letter to the Prime Minister requesting him to abolish excise duty on diesel in the wake of large scale protest against hike in petrol prices and to demand roll...
06:51 PM, Jun 28, 2011
Chennai: DMK, a key partner of ruling UPA, on Sunday criticised the hike in fuel prices, saying it would badly hit the middle class and poor and urged the Centre to make efforts to permanently solve the issue. "Whenever this issue arises, the Centre tries to justify the fuel price hike," DMK President M Karunanidhi said in his first reaction to the increase in prices of diesel, kerosene and cooking...
02:30 PM, Jun 26, 2011
The government raised diesel prices by Rs 3, cooking gas by Rs 50 and kerosene by Rs 2. ...
08:01 AM, Jun 26, 2011
The Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee washes his hands off fuel hike, says oil prices are decided by oil companies. ...
04:22 PM, May 16, 2011
Mamata Banerjee said the rise in prices of diesel and kerosene will directly hit the poor. ...
05:24 PM, Jun 25, 2010
![Petrol, diesel costlier from April 1 in 13 cities]( "Petrol, diesel costlier from April 1 in 13 cities")
The government is raising the prices of petrol and diesel by over one per cent in 13 cities, where the Euro-IV grade low-sulphur fuel will be supplied from April 1. ...
07:39 PM, Mar 31, 2010
WPI for corresponding week last year was as high as 12.19 per cent. ...
01:23 PM, Jul 16, 2009
Rising prices can drive poor women to trade sex for basic goods, says UN. ...
12:48 PM, Aug 05, 2008
Colombo: Sri Lanka hope spinner Ajantha Mendis can be fit for the opening World Twenty20 Super Eight match with New Zealand on Thursday after he returned to the nets following a side strain. He suffered the injury during the hosts' opening win against Zimbabwe last week and was left out of the rain-curtailed group defeat against South Africa on Saturday. We took an MRI scan on his left side and...
09:57 PM, Jun 30, 2008
Karachi: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) will continue to support the implementation of the Decision Review System (DRS) and is trying to have it employed for their one-day series against Australia in August. A senior PCB official said although the ICC executive board decided against having mandatory use of the DRS, Pakistan continued to support the system. The ICC has left it to the individual cricket boards to decide if...
02:55 AM, Jun 05, 2008
