According to the official, the bill could go up by at least Rs 50 crore if the oil prices jump 10 per cent from $60 per barrel level on a sustained basis. An increase in oil prices could also result in fares going up as costs would have to be passed on, he added.
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Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (Trai) latest discussion paper on “Duration of alert for the called party” will also explore the ‘possibility of customisation of ringing duration’ by the phone users, according to a statement.
Before joining Cognizant, he has worked with Tata Consultancy Services. Prior to that, he was a lecturer at two premier colleges in India and went on to officiate as the Principal at one of them.
A US court has sentenced a North Texas man to 20 years of imprisonment for providing material support to terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba.
A 10-year-old girl has died in the hospital, her family said in a statement on Monday, after she contracted a rare brain-eating amoeba while swimming in a Texas river. Lily Mae Avant swam in a river and lake over the Labor Day holiday weekend earlier in September, then suffered a headache and a fever the following weekend.
In a politically significant development in Rajasthan, all six Bahujan Samaj Party MLAs have given a letter to the State Assembly speaker to merge the legislative party with the Congress.
Search operations for 24 missing people in the boat tragedy in Andhra Pradesh proved to be a daunting task following heavy rain and surging flood in River Godavari as the toll rose to 12 on Monday while the vessel was located at a depth of 300 feet.
The US National Hurricane Centre says it expects Hurricane Humberto to lash Bermuda with high winds and heavy rain later this week. The centre in Miami said Monday that Humberto had strengthened and could become a major hurricane by today night or Wednesday morning.
Israel began voting in its second election in five months today that will decide whether to extend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s term as the country’s longest-serving prime minister despite corruption allegations against him. Polls opened at 7 am and were due to close in most areas at 10 pm.