Sunday, September 20
India is considering a cut in the goods and services tax (GST) rate on fuel blends with higher ethanol content, Nitin Gadkari, minister for road transport and highways, said at an ET Roundtable in New Delhi on July 17. He added that this will encourage greater adoption of vehicles that run on 100% ethanol, which will help reduce India's fossil fuel imports, cut down on pollution and make the country self-reliant.The minister said his intent is to achieve the daily award of 100 km of national highways, compared with the average of 23 km in FY24 or 46.7 km in FY18, the highest so far. Edited excerpts:Who is going to be the next president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)?Your question is right, but the person is wrong. Only the president of the BJP can answer this.Are there differences bet
Indian Grandmaster Koneru Humpy played out a fine counterattacking game to hold International Master Yuxin Song of China and march into the semifinals of the FIDE Women's Chess World Cup here on Sunday. Having won the first game with white pieces, Humpy was only a draw away from reaching the last four stage, and she achieved it after a keenly contested second game against the Chinese. With fourth place assured, Humpy will get two chances to reach the top three which will also guarantee her a place at next Women's Candidates' tournament for which the top three from here qualify. The all-Indian duel between Grandmaster D Harika and IM Divya Deshmukh ended in a draw which means that the two will battle it out in the tie-break games scheduled for Monday. Grandmaster R Vaishali ran out of luck
