Bharat Petroleum Corp has made its first purchase of U.S. oil, buying high sulphur crudes Mars and Poseidon in a tender, its head of refineries R. Ramachandran said.

BPCL is the second Indian refiner to buy U.S. Gulf crude after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Washington last month when President Donald Trump said the United States looked forward to exporting more energy products to the world's third-biggest oil buyer.

The Committee of Administrators (CoA) today said the Indian cricket team's support staff will be recruited after consultation with head coach Ravi Shastri by July 22, effectively putting on hold Zaheer Khan and Rahul Dravid's appointments.

In a meeting attended by CoA members Vinod Rai, Diana Edulji and BCCI CEO Rahul Johri, the CoA approved the appointment of Shastri. However, the committee did not implicitly specify whether Dravid and Khan were on board as consultants for specific overseas tours, as had been claimed by the BCCI.

A plethora of events, such as hopes of a rate cut by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), fresh inflows of foreign funds and the onset of the quarterly earnings season, pushed the Indian equity markets to a record high during the week ended Friday.

On July 13, the 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) of the BSE breached the 32,000 points-mark for the first time and registered a record high of 32,037.38 points on a closing basis. The wider Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) closed at a new high of 9,891.70 points.

The National Investigative Agency (NIA) on July 15, 2017 began a probe into the discovery of high-grade PETN explosive inside the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, an official said.

Officials informed IANS that the NIA team arrived in Lucknow on July 14, 2017 and was immediately briefed about the case.

Terrorists and security forces are engaged in a fierce encounter in the Satora area of Jammu and Kashmir's Tral district and at least three terrorists have been killed.

One more terrorist is believed to be holed up inside a cave on a hillock.

Amid reports of an apparent rift in in Bihar's 'mahagathbandhan' between the Janata Dal (United) [JD (U)] and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) opined that although the party is heading towards a split, they are trying to put up a 'brave face'.

"The war of words has begun between the two parties. It is just a matter of time before either of the leaders decide whether to remain united or split. They are trying to put up a brave face. The situation in the party is clearly visible to the people of Bihar," BJP leader S Prakash told ANI.

The benchmark indices zoomed to capture 32,000-level, gaining 660.12 points to finish the week at 32,020.75, while the broader Nifty marked the psychological 9,900-level for brief period before settling the week at 9,886.35, garnering 220.55 points.

This is the biggest weekly gain for the indices since mid-March.

Google has quietly rolled out a feature in its Maps for Android users where they can see a graph on the best time to travel.

Reportedly available in the US and Britain at the moment, the new travel time graph -- among with a common direction route -- has bars for half an hour before, and a few hours after the current time.

Smartphone enthusiasts waiting for Nokia 6, a premium smartphone in the current line-up of the Nokia devices, can now register on Amazon India for the sale of device that will begin on August 23.

The Nokia 6 was launched in India on June 14 along with the much-awaited Nokia 3 and Nokia 5 smartphones. Finnish telecom firm HMD Global, which manufactures and markets Nokia handsets, priced the trio of smartphones very competitively and pushed the sales of Nokia 3 and Nokia 5 through offline retail channels. Nokia 6 is the only smartphone that will go on sale online through Amazon.

Is Janata Dal (United) and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) alliance heading towards split in Bihar over the corruption charges against Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav?

Even though Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has not demanded resignation of Tejashwi Yadav, it has ramped up pressure on alliance partner RJD asking it to come clean on the allegations against the Deputy chief Minister.

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