In a major relief for many citizens, the state-backed oil companies have slashed the prices of commercial LPG gas cylinders, with the rate of the 19 kg gas cylinder dropped by Rs 99.75. However, the prices of domestic LPG gas cylinders remain the same.

The gas cylinder price drop has been announced by oil and gas companies on Tuesday morning, with the revised prices of the commercial LPG gas cylinders being implemented from today, August 1.

Fifteen workers were killed and three injured as a crane fell on a bridge slab during construction of the third phase of Samruddhi Expressway in Maharashtra's Thane district on Tuesday, an official said. Five persons are feared trapped and efforts are on to rescue them, an NDRF official said. The injured have been shifted to a nearby hospital, he added.

It was a special-purpose mobile gantry crane used in bridge construction and to install precast box girders in highway construction projects.

Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Sunday said his government is open to the idea of making parental consent mandatory in love marriages, but only "within the ambit of the Constitution", according to a report by The Indian Express (IE). Patel made the comments at a felicitation ceremony for students at Nugar village in Mehsana district.

The chief minister said that state health minister Rushikeshbhai Patel suggested to him that the Gujarat government should take a re-look at the cases of the elopement of girls and that a study should be carried out so that something can be done to ensure parental consent in love marriages.

Tamil Nadu (TN) signed an agreement on Monday with Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics manufacturer, to build a mobile component manufacturing facility in the Kancheepuram district at a proposed investment of Rs 1,600 crore, likely employing 6,000 people.

The global major is also in talks with TN regarding the electric vehicle (EV) segment, as part of its strategy to establish an EV manufacturing unit in India this year.

The National Institutes of Health is beginning a handful of studies to test possible treatments for long COVID, an anxiously awaited step in U.S. efforts against the mysterious condition that afflicts millions.

Monday's announcement from the NIH's USD 1.15 billion RECOVER project comes amid frustration from patients who've struggled for months or even years with sometimes-disabling health problems with no proven treatments and only a smattering of rigorous studies to test potential ones.

More than 6.5 crore income tax returns for 2022-23 fiscal have been filed so far, with 36.91 lakh ITRs being submitted on Monday until 1800 hrs, which is the last day for filing of returns by individuals and entities that are not required to get their accounts audited.

The e-filing portal has witnessed more than 1.78 crore successful logins till 6 pm, the I-T department said.

With the Centre pushing its legislative business during the Monsoon session of Parliament, Opposition parties on Friday alleged that the government is "subverting" the Parliamentary traditions by passing Bills even as the motion of no-confidence has been accepted in Lok Sabha.

Congress MP Manish Tewari cited former Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Satyendra Narayan Sinha as saying that "whenever there is a no-confidence motion, no substantive motion should be brought just to forestall the whole thing".

Multiple offices of Haier, the home appliance company, were raided by income tax authorities on Friday according to a report filed by India Today.

The raids were carried out in offices located in major cities, including Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, and Noida, among other locations.

Shares of Zomato hit 15-month high of Rs 86.37, gaining nearly 2 per cent on the BSE in Friday's intra-day trade, in an otherwise weak market. The stock price of the food delivery platform company was quoting higher for sixth straight trading day, surging 11 per cent during the period. By comparison, the S&P BSE Sensex was down 0.52 per cent at 65,922 at 12:21 PM.

India has become the second country after China to burn more than one billion tonnes (BT) of coal in 2022, as demand grew at 8 per cent, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), a Paris-based intergovernmental organisation.

The agency’s latest report showed that demand rose by 5.5 per cent in the first half of 2023 on continued strong economic growth and reliance on coal, according to a report in The Times of India (TOI).

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