UAE announces lower petrol, diesel prices for July; check new rates / Image: file Thousands of motorists across the UAE will finally get some breathing room at the fuel pump after the country announced a sharp reduction in petrol and diesel prices for July 2026.The latest revision, which comes into effect from July 1, ends…
KOLKATA: “Don’t lecture me on women’s reservation,” Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said on Saturday, adding that back in 1998 she had raised this issue in Parliament. She said PM Modi’s speeches were “full of lies” and that he was “forced” to address the nation because “their (BJP’s) fall began yesterday”. Banerjee pointed out that over…
SRINAGAR: As the Jammu and Kashmir government is accelerating work on power projects in the wake of the Government of India putting the Indus Water Treaty in abeyance following the Pahalgam terror attack in April 2025, it has announced to revive the historic Mohra Power Project — a 120-year-old hydroelectric facility that has remained defunct…
The sharp rise in egg prices that frustrated households across the United States has taken another turn after federal authorities and a coalition of states secured settlement agreements with three of the country’s largest egg producers. While shoppers watched the price of a basic grocery staple climb to levels rarely seen before, investigators were quietly…
NEW DELHI: Newly appointed West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday chaired his first cabinet meeting and took six decisions, ending the deadlock between the state and Centre that had led to the stalling or outright rejection of several key initiatives.After the cabinet meeting, Adhikari said that the new journey of good governance, security…
Shreyas Iyer continued his remarkable consistency against Delhi Capitals on Monday, entering an elite IPL list previously occupied only by Virat Kohli and Rahul Dravid. The Punjab Kings captain scored an unbeaten 59 off 36 balls in Dharamsala, registering his third successive 50-plus score against DC. In doing so, Shreyas equalled a rare IPL record…
Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan Mounting voter unease, fiscal stress and rifts in CPM will test whether his governance model is enough to defy the state’s alternation patternThe road to the 2026 Kerala assembly elections is shaping up to be a defining political moment not just for the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF), but, more crucially,…
NEW DELHI: Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Ahmad Shah was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday in connection with a 30-year-old case linked to violence in Srinagar. He was produced before Delhi’s Patiala House court the same evening, where a special judge granted the agency three days’ transit remand to take him to…
Jean-Paul Sartre (Image: Wikipedia) There is something slightly ordinary but also oddly accurate in this line by Jean-Paul Sartre. It is not trying to sound deep at first glance. It just sits there, almost like a passing comment about time during an otherwise normal day. But the more it is read, the more it starts…
MS Dhoni, Kapil Dev and Yuvraj Singh NEW DELHI: Former India all-rounder Yuvraj Singh has publicly apologised to two of Indian cricket’s most iconic captains, Kapil Dev and MS Dhoni, distancing himself from controversial remarks made by his father Yograj Singh.Speaking on a podcast, Yuvraj addressed the issue directly, making it clear that he does…