Petrol price was cut down by Rs 1.46 a litre and diesel price by Rs 1.53 per litre on Tuesday. The new prices will be effective from Tuesday midnight. On November 5, petrol price was raised by 89 paise per litre, the sixth increase in rates since September. Diesel price was raised by 86 paise a litre, the third increase in […]
» Read morePM Narendra Modi’s decision to demonetise Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes might have received flak from the opposition parties but Bollywood celebrities are all praise for it. The ‘Do Dooni Char’ actor slammed Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal for attacking the PM over demonetisation and for demanding an apology from him for making ‘fun’ of those queuing up in front […]
» Read moreOn the seventh day since the Government announced that Rs 500, Rs 1000 currency notes would be declared illegal, PM Modi’s mother Heeraben Modi reached a bank in Ahmedabad to exchange currency.
» Read moreA suicide bomber killed six people near Iraq’s holy city of Kerbala on Monday at the start of a major Shia Muslim ritual, an attack claimed by the hardline Sunni militants of Islamic State. The bomber blew himself up west of the city where hundreds of thousands of Shi’ites were gathering to mark Arbaeen, which comes at the end of […]
» Read moreRussian President Vladimir Putin and US President-elect Donald Trump concluded their first telephone conversation with an agreement to instruct their respective staffs to begin planning for a personal meeting, the Kremlin said. “It was agreed to maintain contact by phone and arrange a meeting in person in the future, with preparations to be conducted by representatives of both sides,” the […]
» Read moreRailways on Monday extended the use of defunct Rs 500 and Rs 1000 currency notes, which have been demonetised by the Modi government, to purchase tickets and for onboard catering till November 24. The government had earlier allowed use of the old currency at government hospitals, railway ticketing, public transport, airline ticketing at airports, milk booths, crematoria/burial grounds and petrol […]
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