Price hike article

New Delhi: Unexpected rise in diesel prices despite slower demand has put the transport sector at a big disadvantage as rising fuel cost has further shrunk its margins.With 11 paise hike in diesel price in New Delhi on Monday while petrol prices remained steady, the gap between the two auto fuels has further widened in the national capital. Last month, diesel prices overtook that of petrol in the national capital in an unprecedented development.Diesel was priced at Rs 81.05 per litre on Monday in the capital, higher than the previous level of Rs 80.94 a litre. Petrol prices, however, remained unchanged at Rs 80.43 a litre, the same level as June 29 when it's pump price rose marginally by five paisa over previous days price.Along with the Capital, diesel prices marginally increased in other metro cities as well, but there the price of transportation fuel is still between Rs 6-8 per litre lower than petrol.Oil companies began daily revision of the two auto fuels from June 7 after keeping … [Read more...] about With rising diesel prices more trouble for transport sector

Under the current pricing mechanism, China will adjust domestic prices of refined oil products when international crude prices translate into a change of more than 50 yuan per tonne for gasoline and diesel over a period of 10 working days, but will not do so if the international prices go below the floor of $40 or above the ceiling of $130 a barrel. … [Read more...] about China raises gasoline, diesel retail prices

In big Chinese cities, families with little children are required to live in homes within a fair distance from schools. School admissions are made on the basis of the residential address of seat applicants. Apartments near schools tend to command higher prices because demand outstrips supply. … [Read more...] about Cities rein in home prices in school districts

LAUNCESTON: Lucas Dow, the outgoing chief executive of Adani Enterprises' Australian operations, signed off with a vigorous defence of the company's controversial Carmichael coal mine, and a spray at the venture's numerous opponents.Perhaps Dow is justified in having a go at his detractors, and it is no small feat for the Indian company to actually be constructing the Carmichael mine, in the frontier Galilee basin in Queensland state."Our ability to see off the activists' challenge rested to a large -extent on the common sense of everyday Australians who could see through the myths the activists used to demonise Adani," Dow wrote in an article published by The Australian newspaper on July 10.Many thought that Adani would be forced to abandon the project in the face of unrelenting opposition by environmental and community groups, the lack of lenders willing to finance the development and a series of legal challenges.The above list doesn't include what would appear to be worsening … [Read more...] about OPINION: Adani claims Carmichael coal win, but it’s a pyrrhic victory built on subsidies: Russell

In a report submitted to U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee (November 1, 1971) Senator Edward Kennedy further confirms this persecution of Hindus: "Field reports to the US government, countless eye-witness journalistic accounts, reports of international agencies such as World Bank and additional information available to the subcommittee document the reign of terror which grips East Bengal (East Pakistan). Hardest hit have been members of the Hindu community who have been robbed of their lands and shops, systematically slaughtered, and in some places, painted with yellow patches marked 'H'. All of this has been officially sanctioned, ordered and implemented under martial law from Islamabad." … [Read more...] about The genocide we and the world forgot