Kerala Finance Minister KN Balagopal announced a cess on petrol, diesel and liquor in the second full budget of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government on Thursday. A social security cess of Rs 2 per litre will be slapped on petrol and diesel. In his budget speech, Balagopal said this is expected to bring in…
In an increasingly assertive move, a Chinese coastguard vessel patrolled near the contested waters of the Natuna Sea which lies in the Exclusive Economic Zone(EEZ) of Indonesia. The incursion was responded to with a warship, a maritime patrol plane and a drone deployed by Indonesia for reconnaissance in the…
The National Investigation Agency’s (NIA) Mumbai office on Thursday received an email threatening that a person would carry out a terror attack in the financial capital. The email claimed that a person linked to the Taliban would carry out the attack in Mumbai, as reported by PTI. Following the threat, the city…