Govt tightens sugar inventory norms to keep prices under check ahead of festive seasonThe government has notified a reduction in the permissible stock of sugar that dealers can hold to 1,000 quintals. The revised ceiling will...
07 Oct, 2026, 05.46 PM IST
CM Vijay visits 63-year-old TN Madhavaram dairy complex amid Chennai Aavin milk shortage complaints and inaugurates a Rs 2.2 crore building for Aavin's central labCM Vijay: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Joseph Vijay inspected Aavin's Madhavaram dairy complex in Chennai and inaugurated a new Rs 2.23 crore ...
07 Oct, 2026, 03.37 PM IST
Farmers say no to early sugarcane crushing, demand compensation and higher sugar, ethanol prices firstFarmers' organizations in Maharashtra and Karnataka are resisting the government's early sugarcane crushing proposal. They demand compensat...
07 Oct, 2026, 12.16 AM IST
How 90 Claude Opus 5.5 agents found a 27-year-old compound in 3 days to solve computing's heat problemMore than 90 Claude Opus 5.5 agents spent three days searching for materials that could enable cooler spin-based computing. They identified...
06 Oct, 2026, 08.46 PM IST
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei made $18 million last year, middle of the tech CEO packDario Amodei made $18 million last year as CEO of Claude AI developer Anthropic, the company's IPO filing shows, putting him in the middle ...
06 Oct, 2026, 05.05 PM IST
Bank restricted access to matured fixed deposits worth Rs 13.8 lakh, allowed customer to withdraw only Rs 50,000, ordered to pay Rs 14.15 lakhA district consumer commission in Thiruvananthapuram has ordered a cooperative bank to pay a widow over Rs 14.15 lakh after it blocked her ...
06 Oct, 2026, 09.24 AM IST
SC stays coercive action against Tata Chemicals over environment damage to marine sanctuaryThe Supreme Court granted Tata Chemicals relief from coercive actions while reviewing a Gujarat High Court verdict. Senior advocate Abhishe...
05 Oct, 2026, 06.38 PM IST
Deep-sea gas becomes costlier as government raises price ceilingThe government has raised the ceiling price for gas from difficult fields such as Reliance-BP’s KG-D6 block to $9.89 per MMBtu for October ...
04 Oct, 2026, 12.01 PM IST
Man books retiring room through IRCTC by paying Rs 333 for western bathroom, ends up with Indian toilet in the room; court orders Rs 20,000 compensationChandigarh State Consumer Commission increased the compensation for a senior citizen after inadequate toilet facilities were provided. The ...
03 Oct, 2026, 07.54 PM IST
Govt absorbing up to Rs 2,700 per urea bag as global costs rise to Rs 3,000: Nirmala SitharamanUnion Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman stated that the Centre absorbs a significant urea subsidy for farmers. This subsidy currently sta...
02 Oct, 2026, 05.25 PM IST
MBA graduate pays Rs 84,960 for '100% placement guarantee' course but gets no job: Court orders over Rs 1 lakh payoutAn MBA graduate who paid Rs 84,960 for an online AI product management course after being promised “100 percent guaranteed placement” has s...
30 Sep, 2026, 11.43 AM IST
Foodgrain output target cut over El Nino impactOf the overall target, 177.72 mt is expected to come from the rabi season, agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, said at the National...
30 Sep, 2026, 12.47 AM IST
Capacity scale-ups to drive Epigral's Rs 5,000 crore target by FY31: CMD Maulik PatelEpigral is planning a target revenue of ₹5000 crore by 2030-31, aided by upcoming production scale-ups in CPVC Resin and Epichlorohyrdin (E...
27 Sep, 2026, 04.47 PM IST
India's first port-based e-Methanol production facility to produce and supply green fuel to shipsA new Rs 2,300 crore e-methanol plant will be established in Kandla to produce green fuel. This plant is a partnership between Deendayal Po...
27 Sep, 2026, 12.49 PM IST
Tender floated to import 1.7 mt urea ahead of rabi seasonIndia's urea imports more than doubled to 4.75 mt during April-August from 2.04 mt during the same period in 2025, even as domestic product...
24 Sep, 2026, 11.55 PM IST
Fertiliser sales slide as poor rains cloud kharif seasonThe decline came amid rainfall deficiency and drought-like conditions in several parts of the country, which weighed on farmers' spending o...
24 Sep, 2026, 11.47 PM IST
Rising sulphur prices put fertiliser sector under pressure, threaten higher subsidy burdenLanded sulphur prices in India have doubled since January to around $1,050-1,100 a tonne, according to industry estimates.
24 Sep, 2026, 12.58 PM IST