New Delhi, 20/7:India eliminated a levy on gasoline exports and cut windfall taxes on other fuels less than three weeks after they were imposed, offering relief for the nation’s No. 1 fuel exporter Reliance Industries Ltd and top crude explorer Oil & Natural Gas Corp.     New Delhi reduced the windfall tax on diesel…

UK, 19/7: Rishi Sunak topped another round of voting on Tuesday to edge even closer to his place as one of two candidates who will go head-to-head to be elected the new Conservative Party leader and British Prime Minister, as Kemi Badenoch became the latest candidate to be out of the running. The British Indian…

Gurugram, 19/7: Police shot at and injured a man believed to be the driver of the truck that mowed down a DSP in Nuh when he was probing illegal stone mining in the area, an official said.   The man was injured in an encounter hours after the death of Tauru Deputy Superintendent of Police…

New Delhi, 19/7: The Supreme Court on Tuesday transferred multiple writ petitions challenging the validity of the Agnipath scheme, a short-term plan for recruitment to armed forces, before the Delhi High Court, which is already considering a similar plea. A bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud, Surya Kant, and A S Bopanna shifted three PILs,…

New Delhi, 19/7:Joint opposition candidate for the vice presidential election Margaret Alva on Tuesday filed her nomination papers for the post and was accompanied by a host of leaders.     The vice presidential poll will be held on August 6 to elect the successor to M Venkaiah Naidu, whose term ends on August 10….

Mumbai, 19/7:Acknowledging a split in the Shiv Sena, the saffron party on Tuesday warned the rebel breakaway group against claiming the Shiv Sena Bhavan, Saamana or Matoshree.Yes..some people have left for sure, they have formed a group…that’s a breakaway group,” Shiv Sena chief spokesperson Sanjay Raut told reporters in New Delhi.   “Whether it is…

New Delhi, 19/7: The Indian rupee touched another record low as foreign investors continued to sell the nation’s equities.   The rupee declined to 80.06 per US dollar on Tuesday. The currency has been buffeted by nearly $30 billion of foreign outflows from the nation’s equities so far this year — a record sum —…