Oil prices fell to around $88 per barrel after a report said that the International Energy Agency (IEA) is considering a record release of emergency oil reserves to stabilise global markets amid the escalating conflict in the Middle East, according to Bloomberg.According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, the proposed release could exceed…
Stock market today (AI image) Stock market today: Indian equity benchmarks, Nifty50 and BSE Sensex, opened flat in trade on Wednesday as Middle East tensions and US-Iran war continued to add uncertainty to global markets. While Nifty50 was above 24,250, BSE Sensex was near 78,300. At 9:18 AM, Nifty50 was trading at 24,284.90, up 23…
Amid soaring crude oil prices worldwide due to the ongoing US-Israel war with Iran, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has proposed the largest disbursement of oil reserves to help bring down prices.The release could exceed the 182 million barrels of oil that IEA member countries put on the market in two separate releases in 2022,…
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a “historic” $300 billion deal to build the first new oil refinery in the country in 50 years, backed by investment from India’s Reliance Industries. The project, planned at the Port of Brownsville in Texas is expected to increase energy production and generate thousands of jobs.Trump made the…
MUMBAI: The rupee rebounded Tuesday, closing at 91.81 against the dollar, up 54 paise from Monday as oil cooled and equities rebounded amid President Trump’s assurances of West Asia risk being short-lived. Brent crude plunged to below $90.8 a barrel after briefly nearing $120 a day earlier, easing pressure on India’s import bill and lifting…
NEW DELHI: Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday said govt is looking to extend support to exporters on the insurance front to help them deal with the ongoing West Asia crisis.He said that an inter-ministerial group is keeping tabs on developments on a daily basis and is interacting with exporters.The Customs department has…
Revised Cost Estimate Under Sanction: Govt NEW DELHI: Now it’s official that railways will run B28, the bullet train being manufactured in India, on the first stretch of Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train project that is scheduled to be operational in Aug 2027. The railway ministry informed a parliamentary panel that the national transporter has decided to…
NEW DELHI: India is supplying diesel to Bangladesh on a commercial basis as part of its existing trade agreement, officials said on Tuesday, amid reports that India had begun supplying 5,000 tonnes of fuel to the neighbouring country due to the energy crisis created by the conflict in West Asia.Officials said New Delhi had been…
NEW DELHI: Govt on Tuesday said fertiliser plants had been placed under ‘priority sector-2’ for natural gas supply, thereby guaranteeing the industry at least 70% of its average natural gas consumption, reports Dipak Dash.In a notification, the ministry of petroleum and natural gas said the average would be calculated on the basis of the previous…
New Delhi: IndiGo CEO Pieter Elbers has resigned from the airline with immediate effect, following the airline’s unprecedented schedule collapse last December that had left lakhs of passengers stranded across airports. Airline founder & MD Rahul Bhatia will “in the interim assume management of the affairs of the company,” IndiGo parent InterGlobe Enterprises said in…
