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₹1,18,199.17 per kilolitre (kl), up 5.14% from ₹1,12,419.33 last month. Similarly, the price of jet fuel in Kolkata increased 4.65% to ₹1,26,697.08 per kl. In Mumbai and Chennai, jet fuel is now priced at ₹1,10,592.31 and ₹1,22,423.92 per kl, respectively, according to data from the OMCs.

Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Sunday claimed Shiv Sena is the real 'wagh nakh', a tiger claw-shaped weapon, of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and alleged that the BJP has tried to weaken the Sena by «splitting» it. Maharashtra Culture Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar and officials from his department are slated to go to the UK on October 3 to get the revered weapon back. The 'wagh nakh' was used by Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj to kill Bijapur sultanate's general Afzal Khan in 1659.

(Exciting news! Mint is now on WhatsApp Channel. Subscribe today by clicking the link and stay updated with the latest financial insights! Click here!) This year marks the 350th anniversary of the coronation of Shivaji.

World Cup is driving up bookings for accomodations in host cities, specially where India is slated to play, thereby pushing up room tariffs, according to travel and hospitality players. Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Delhi, Kolkata and Dharamshala are among the cities which have witnessed a surge in demand, as per booking trends of MakeMyTrip, OYO and Yatra Online.

MGNREGA protest in the national capital on October 2 and 3, has been cancelled. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), the TMC leader said, “First, they abruptly cancel special train services from Kol to Del to prevent those who were to travel to participate in protests on Oct 2 & 3, demanding 10s of 1000s of crores owed to Bengal by BJP Union govt." “Now a flight gets cancelled! Try as you might, we WILL TAKE YOU ON," Derek O'Brien further wrote on the microblogging site. TMC Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra also stated that the flights are getting cancelled from Kolkata to Delhi, after the cancellation of a special train.

₹7 lakhs per financial year per individual will be restored for TCS on all categories of LRS payments through all modes of payment, regardless of the purpose. In an exclusive interview, Virender Bisht, Co-founder & CTO at Niyo, explains all that one needs to know about the new TCS rate and how it will impact financing education and buying international travel packages. As per the Central government’s June 30, 2023, notification, remittances for education include: The regular remittance by students for education purposes is not expected to have any major impact post October 1 TCS changes.

₹13,500 crore. "Around 2:15 PM, Prime Minister will reach Mahabubnagar district, where he will dedicate to the nation and lay the foundation stone of multiple developmental projects worth more than ₹13,500 crore, in important sectors like road, rail, petroleum and natural gas and higher education. During the programme, the Prime Minister will also flag off a train service through video conferencing," Prime Minister's Office said.

Narendra Modi will visit Telangana on Sunday afternoon where he will lay the foundation stone of multiple developmental projects worth more than Rs 13,500 crore. «Around 2:15 PM, Prime Minister will reach Mahabubnagar district, where he will dedicate to the nation and lay the foundation stone of multiple developmental projects worth more than Rs 13,500 crore, in important sectors like road, rail, petroleum and natural gas and higher education. During the programme, the Prime Minister will also flag off a train service through video conferencing,» Prime Minister's Office said.

El Niño conditions this year, which ended up providing “near normal" precipitation. These factors included the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) and Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), it said in a statement. Exciting news! Mint is now on WhatsApp Channels. Subscribe today by clicking the link and stay updated with the latest financial insights!" Click here! While the IOD is defined by the difference in the sea surface temperatures between the western parts of the Indian Ocean near Africa and the eastern parts of the ocean near Indonesia, MJO is a large-scale atmospheric disturbance originating in tropical Africa and travelling eastward, typically lasting 30 to 60 days.

So, what is the trend I am all set to set according to My Lucky Birthday Book? Being not first in line, but last, when it comes to buying technological products and services. Take the iPhone 15. Experts expect a jump in sales for the latest line this year from last year's iPhone 14 range, especially with models now being assembled/made (choose your verb depending on whether you're a Raghuram Rajaane jaan or not) in India.

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London Underground workers and train drivers across the rail networks are gearing up for strikes in September and October. The strikes are part of an ongoing dispute over pay and working conditions, led by the RMT (Rail, Maritime and Transport union) and ASLEF (The Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen). ASLEF represents train drivers, while RMT represents a wide range of rail industry workers, including station staff and guards. Who and When: RMT members working on the London Underground are scheduled to strike on the following dates, affecting thousands of Tube staff:

VILLA AHUMADA/PIEDRAS NEGRAS (Reuters) — Migrants were stranded in Mexico on Friday miles from the U.S. border after the freight train they were traveling on top of abruptly stopped, amid the ongoing suspension of dozens of northbound trains over fears around migrant safety.

ISRO said on Saturday the Aditya-L1 spacecraft has travelled beyond a distance of 9.2 lakh km from Earth, successfully escaping the sphere of Earth's influence. It is now navigating its path towards the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 1 (L1), the Bengaluru-headquartered national space agency said in a statement on X, formerly Twitter. «This is the second time in succession that ISRO could send a spacecraft outside the sphere of influence of the Earth, the first time being the Mars Orbiter Mission,» it said. The ISRO said earlier this month the Aditya-L1 solar mission spacecraft has commenced collecting data which will help scientists analyse the behaviour of particles surrounding Earth. Data collected around L1 would provide insights into the origin, acceleration, and anisotropy of solar wind and space weather phenomena, it said. The launch of Aditya-L1 by PSLV-C57 rocket was successfully accomplished by ISRO on September 2. Aditya-L1 spacecraft carries a total seven different payloads to study the Sun, four of which will observe the light from the Sun and the remaining three will measure in-situ parameters of the plasma and magnetic fields. Aditya-L1 will be placed in a halo orbit around the Lagrangian Point 1 (L1), which is 1.5 million km from the Earth in the direction of the Sun. It will revolve around the Sun with the same relative position and hence can see the Sun continuously.

₹5,000 to ₹10,000, reported Times of India. The action has come as a response to local taxi drivers complaints regarding the use of private vehicle by commercial carpooling apps. According to the Transport Department, private vehicles with a white registration plate for commercial purposes are illegal, according to Times of India.Moreover, their vehicle’s registration certificate can also get suspended for six months, Additional Commissioner (Enforcement) of the Transport Department Malikarjun C told TOI.

China plans to make it easier for foreign tourists to book tickets, register at hotels and use their overseas bank cards in an effort to boost stubbornly low visitation figures. The State Council released the list of measures, though stopped short of outlining specific strategies to hit its targets, in a statement on Friday that underscored tourism’s important role in spurring economic growth. The release coincides with the first day of of the eight-day National Day and Golden Week holiday period, which is typically a boon for travel and consumption. China’s three-year pursuit of Covid Zero essentially sealed the country off from the world and, despite its reopening earlier this year, few foreign tourists are visiting. A top concern for many is safety, but visa hassles, lack of flights and idiosyncratic payment systems also make the idea of a holiday in China daunting for many potential visitors. Payments and the use of digital platforms that are unique to the country represent a practical hurdle for many tourists. It’s often difficult to use cash, though China’s central bank has repeatedly said that rejecting it is illegal. And most vendors — from street stalls to large department stores — only accept local payment systems such as WeChat Pay and Alipay.

TMC has arranged special buses to ferry nearly five thousand MGNREGA job cardholders to Delhi for their scheduled protest programme next week against the alleged withholding of funds by the Centre, a party leader said on Saturday. Senior TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee announced on Friday that his party would make alternative arrangements for transporting its supporters to Delhi for the October 3 protest programme, accusing the BJP of creating roadblocks after the request for a special train was denied. «As we were denied a special train, we have made alternate arrangements for special buses to transport the MGNREGA workers to Delhi.

Punjab farmers demanding compensation for crops damaged in the recent floods, a legal guarantee on MSP and a sweeping debt waiver entered its third day on Saturday. The agitation has hit the movement of trains, with many being cancelled, short-terminated or diverted, railway officials said. The farmers have been blockading railway tracks at several places in Faridkot, Samrala, Moga, Hoshiarpur, Gurdaspur, Jalandhar, Tarn Taran, Sangrur, Patiala, Ferozepur, Bathinda and Amritsar since Thursday as part of their three-day agitation.

New York was heavily flooded thanks to incessant rains. The devastating flood disrupted the traffic and also made people abandon their cars and adopt unconventional methods of travelling such as water bikes! As news of NYC being flooded went viral, netizens on X (formerly Twitter), reacted with various degrees of horror, humour, and empathy. Sharing a clip of residents wading through the waters in water bikes, an X user quipped, “Well New York is friggin flooding.

Joe Biden's administration issuing increasingly dire warnings of everything from impending border chaos to travel disruptions. The closure, set to start after midnight Saturday (0400 GMT Sunday) if lawmakers fail to reach a deal, would be the first since 2019 — impacting millions of federal employees and military personnel while threatening the closure of national parks. The two chambers of Congress are deadlocked, with a small group of Republicans in the House of Representatives pushing back against any stopgap measure that would at least keep the lights on. On Friday, hardline House Republicans defeated a plan proposed by their own leader to keep funds flowing, with a bill to temporarily fund the government rejected in a 232-198 vote. The measure involved deep spending cuts and would unlikely have passed the Democratic-majority Senate. Office of Management and Budget director Shalanda Young said Friday it was up to hardline Republican lawmakers to resolve the impasse, telling reporters «there is still a chance» of avoiding a shutdown. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre added at a briefing that «the conversation is not between the president and McCarthy.» «The conversation needs to happen between Speaker McCarthy and his caucus.

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