NEW DELHI: Seventeen India-bound ships — both Indian- and foreign-flagged — carrying energy products are waiting on the west of the Strait of Hormuz. TOI has learnt that while four of these are loaded with LPG, three are carrying LNG and remaining 10 have crude oil loaded in them.So far, eight Indian vessels carrying LPG…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Kc Venugopal on Tuesday wrote an open letter to Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan, posing ’10 questions’ on what he alleged were covert understandings between the ruling Left and the BJP.In his letter, Venugopal said the questions reflect what is being widely discussed on the ground and asked Vijayan to respond.“As…
United States Central Command on Tuesday released fresh images of pre-flight checks on the B-2 Spirit, offering a rare operational glimpse as the United States intensifies its air campaign against Iran and signals that further escalation could be imminent.In a post on X, CENTCOM said, “US Air Force crew chiefs perform pre-flight checks on a…
NEW DELHI: Nearly 91 lakh names have been removed from the electoral rolls in West Bengal following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, according to data released by the Election Commission.The poll panel has not yet announced the final size of the revised electorate after completion of the process.As per official data published on February…
NEW DELHI: Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri is set to visit Washington DC from April 8 to 10, in a trip that is expected to review the full spectrum of ties between India and the United States, the ministry of external affairs (MEA) said.In a statement, the ministry of external affairs said the visit will provide…
The Supreme Court, on Tuesday, issued a decision regarding the classification of bank accounts as fraud. The apex court ordered that banks are not obligated to grant customers a personal oral hearing before declaring their accounts as fraud. However, prior to labelling them, banks must provide customers with a forensic audit report.The ruling follows submissions…
Located in East Greenland’s Fleming Fjord Formation, the recently identified 210-million-year-old lungfish burrows provide valuable insight into the volatile nature of the Late Triassic climate throughout ancient Greenland. The fossilised burrows indicate that the lungfish had a strategy of digging into the mud to survive the seasonal droughts in Late Triassic Greenland through a biological…
The Lawrence Bishnoi group has claimed responsibility for the murder of gangster Bhanu Rana (L) in California, USA, labeling him a traitor. NEW DELHI: The Lawrence Bishnoi group has claimed responsibility for the murder of an individual identified as Bhanu Rana in California, USA. Rana, sources said, was a gangster from Karnal, Haryana. He was…
The Centre took another step towards easing availability of fuel for migrant workers across the country, doubling the allocation of 5-kg Free Trade LPG (FTL) cylinders to states. In a notification issued late Monday, the ministry of petroleum and natural gas informed that the the move is based on the average daily supply to migrant…
KOCHI/MADIKERI/LUCKNOW: Assam assembly polls have set off a cross-country labour vacuum, slowing plantation work in Karnataka’s Kodagu, disrupting waste collection in UP’s Lucknow and thinning workforces in Kerala as thousands of migrant workers return home to vote on April 9.Kerala is seeing one of the sharpest impacts. Migrants from Assam and Bengal form nearly 60%…