Fuel Price News Updates Live: Petrol, diesel prices hiked again after two day pause; petrol now Rs 108.29 in Delhi – The Economic Times

Fuel prices hiked by 35 paise again

Petrol now costs ₹108.29 a litre in Delhi and ₹114.14 in Mumbai. Diesel is now priced at ₹97.02 a litre in Delhi and ₹105.12 in Mumbai. As for Kolkata and Chennai, petrol and diesel cost ₹108.78 and ₹100.14 respectively in Kolkata and ₹105.13 and ₹101.25 respectively in Chennai.

Modi to virtually attend 18th ASEAN-India Summit today

Telangana: Election campaigning ends for Huzurabad by-polls

The electoral campaigning for the Huzurabad Assembly constituency by-election has come to an end on Wednesday evening. As per the directions of the Election Commission, the election campaign ended 72 hours before the polling date that is October 30. The bypoll is mainly a triangular fight between Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and the Congress that are campaigning vigorously on the last day.

India signs $100 million loan for agribusiness development in Maha

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of India on Wednesday signed a USD 100 million loan to promote the agribusiness network to boost farm incomes and reduce food losses in the state of Maharashtra. Rajat Kumar Mishra, Additional Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs in the Ministry of Finance signed for the Government of India, the agreement for the Maharashtra Agribusiness Network (MAGNET) Project, while Takeo Konishi, Country Director of ADB’s India Resident Mission signed for ADB.

Team led by ACP Khetale to investigate allegations

In a brief statement issued by the Mumbai Police, it said, “A team led by ACP Milind Khetale to investigate the allegations levelled against NCB Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede. Four Police stations in Mumbai have received complaints against Wankhede.” On Wednesday, the probe agency’s Deputy Director General (Northern Region) Gyaneshwar Singh said that Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede will remain the investigating officer in the drugs-on-cruise case until substantial information is found against him,

People who drink alcohol are not sent to prison. But there is a provision in the law that people who consume drugs can be sent to jail. Our ministry feels that the accused charged with drug consumption will be not sent to jail but to a rehabilitation centre. The law needs to be changed

– Ramdas Athawale, Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment

Nihang members unlikely to leave Singhu protest site

Members of the Sikhs’ Nihang order, who are camping at Singhu on the Delhi-Haryana border in support of farmers protesting the three Central agri laws, are unlikely to leave the site, sources said on Wednesday. A leader of the Nihangs said a Mahapanchayat of the religious order was held on Wednesday at Singhu and the decision of the mass meeting will be announced at a press conference on Thursday.