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- December 20, 2024
Oil prices slipped $2 a barrel in early Asian trading on Monday, following a second straight weekly decline after world consumers announced plans to release a record volume of crude and oil products from strategic stocks and as China lockdowns continued. Brent crude fell $2.04, or 2%, to $100.74 a barrel at 0139 GMT, while
READ MORESri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa late Tuesday night revoked the state of emergency he had declared on April 1 with immediate effect in his island nation. In a gazette notification no 2274/10 issued on Tuesday night, the president said he has withdrawn the emergency rule ordinance which gave security forces sweeping powers to curb any
READ MOREPetrol and diesel prices have been hiked by 80 paise a liter each this morning, CNBC-TV18 reported, taking the total increase in the last two weeks to Rs 9.20 per liter. This is the 13th increase in prices in the last 15 days since the end of a four-and-half-month long hiatus in rate revision. Rates
READ MOREIndia’s merchandise exports spurt to a record high of USD 418 billion in 2021-22 fiscal on higher shipments of petroleum products, engineering goods, gem and jewellery and chemicals, according to official data released on Sunday. India’s goods trade (exports and imports) crossed USD 1 trillion during 2021-22 as the country’s imports to have touched an
READ MOREThe total wheat export stood at 70.30 lakh tonnes till March 21 this fiscal, with maximum shipments to Bangladesh followed by Sri Lanka and UAE, Parliament was informed on Friday. As both Ukraine and Russia are major exporters of wheat with more than 25 percent total share in the global wheat trade, there is scope for India to increase exports
READ MORERussia has offered oil to India at a steep discount of $35 barrel on prices before the war as mounting international pressure lowers the appetite for its barrels elsewhere following the invasion of Ukraine, reported Bloomberg. The sanctions-hit nation is offering its flagship Urals grade to India at discounts of as much as $35 a
READ MOREIndia has agreed to develop three Sri Lankan wind farms on islets between the countries, officials said on Tuesday, in a victory for New Delhi after the project was taken away from a Chinese firm. New Delhi has long been alarmed about the growing Chinese influence in the region. In 2020, 20 Indian soldiers and four
READ MOREIndia’s ONGC Videsh Ltd has sold at least one cargo of Russian Sokol oil to India refiners Hindustan Petroleum Corp and Bharat Petroleum Corp after failing to draw interest in a tender earlier this month, sources familiar with the matter said. Indian companies are snapping up Russian oil as it is available at a deep discount after
READ MOREIndia has reported 1,270 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, continuing with its trend of clocking less than 2,000 daily cases for the last several days. The fresh number of infections takes the tally of confirmed coronavirus cases in the country to 4,30,20,723. The number of active coronavirus cases has now slipped to 15,859 –
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