India has issued a global urea tender asking producers to quote a discount for the supply of 600,000 tonnes of urea & seeks to cut import costs & secure cheaper supplies of the soil nutrient.
Centre spent around Rs 1.25 lakh crore on fertiliser subsidies in last financial year. Disruption of ammonia supplies from Russia likely to push bill up to Rs 2 lakh crore this year.
With goods trains not plying in Punjab since 2 Oct, both govt & private thermal plants are facing acute coal shortage. Urea for farms is also not reaching state, leading to shortage.
Rosneft, the Russian state-owned oil behemoth, has large interests in India. Reliance has a contract to purchase 500,000 barrels of crude per day from the firm.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
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