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No shortage of petrol, diesel, kerosene, ATF oregon substance oil: Hardeep Puri successful Lok Sabha
India’s sourcing of non-Hormuz crude has accrued to 70% of its full imports and the country’s existent crude supply presumption is secure, Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri told Parliament connected Thursday (March 12, 2026). “There is no shortage of petrol, diesel, kerosene, ATF oregon substance oil. The availability of petrol, diesel, aviation turbine fuel, kerosene and substance lipid is afloat assured... proviso chains for these products are functioning normally,” helium said. India’s petrol and diesel availability is besides afloat secure and liquid earthy state cargoes are arriving astir regular from alternate routes, he said. The panic implicit cooking state supplies was triggered by consumer anxiousness alternatively than a proviso shortage, helium added.
CPI ostentation rises to 10-month precocious of 3.2% successful February 2026
Retail ostentation successful India quickened to a 10-month precocious of 3.2% successful February 2026, driven up by ostentation successful the nutrient and baccy categories, the latest information shows. The Consumer Price Index information released connected Thursday (March 12, 2026) by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation is the 2nd variation of the caller bid of the Index, and truthful category-wise humanities information is not yet available. Economists, however, pass that the ongoing disruption successful substance supplies owed to the struggle successful West Asia would apt propulsion up ostentation successful March successful the electricity, state & different fuels, and edifice & accommodation categories of the CPI.
Farooq Abdullah links assassination effort to ‘deeply rooted hatred’ successful India, demands probe
Former Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Chief Minister and National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah, 88, connected Thursday (March 12, 2026) said hatred was profoundly rooted successful today’s India, arsenic helium demanded “a thorough inquiry” into the failed effort to termination him astatine a wedding relation successful Jammu connected Wednesday (March 11, 2026) nighttime by a section resident. Mr. Abdullah was speaking successful Jammu for the archetypal clip since Kamal Singh, 64, a nonmigratory of Purani Mandi, aimed a pistol astatine him astatine a matrimony ceremonial astatine Royal Park, Greater Kailash, Jammu, and fired 2 shots. He demanded a “thorough enquiry into the incident”.
Opposition MPs protestation successful Parliament analyzable implicit shortage of commercialized LPG cylinders
Several Opposition MPs, including Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, staged a protest connected Thursday (March 12, 2026) successful the Parliament House analyzable implicit the shortage of commercialized LPG cylinders to request answers from the authorities implicit it. Congress person Rahul Gandhi connected Thursday (March 12, 2026) slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi amid concerns implicit a reported LPG shortage, saying the PM is asking the radical not to panic but is himself panicked for “completely antithetic reasons”. Several absorption MPs from the Congress, DMK, TMC and SP, among others, staged a protestation adjacent Parliament’s Makar Dwar, raising slogans specified arsenic ‘Naam Narender, Kaam Surrender’ and ‘Modi ji, LPG’.
R.N. Ravi takes oath arsenic 22nd Governor of West Bengal
Former IPS serviceman R.N. Ravi took oath arsenic the 22nd Governor of West Bengal astatine a ceremonial successful Lok Bhavan, successful Kolkata, connected Thursday (March 12, 2026). He was administered the oath by Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court, Sujoy Paul, successful the beingness of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee, elder Minister and Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim and Left Front president Biman Bose. Later, the State CM greeted Mr. Ravi and his woman and welcomed some by presenting accepted ‘uttariyas’ (stole). No person from the Opposition BJP camp, however, was contiguous astatine the programme.
Terror-funding case: Supreme Court grants bail to Kashmiri separatist person Shabir Ahmed Shah
The Supreme Court connected Thursday (March 12, 2026) granted bail to Kashmiri separatist person Shabir Ahmed Shah successful a terror-funding case. A Bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta passed the order, saying that a elaborate bid volition travel with immoderate conditions regarding Mr. Shah’s bail. During the past proceeding connected February 25, 2026, the Bench heard the submissions made by the NIA and scheduled the substance for contiguous (March 12, 2026) for elder advocator Colin Gonsalves — representing Mr. Shah — to contiguous his rejoinder arguments.
Opposition did not adhere to rules, forcing maine to marque hard decisions: Om Birla successful Lok Sabha
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, addressing the no-confidence question moved against him, connected Thursday (March 12, 2026) said that helium is grateful to each the members of the Parliament for bringing up issues successful his duties, including the deficiency of transparency. “I convey each those who supported maine oregon gave captious views during the statement connected the solution against me,” Mr. Birla said, adding that helium “will uphold law dignity successful the Parliament”. Responding to the allegation that helium did not let the Opposition to speak, helium said that “the House follows rules and regulations that mandates the support of the Speaker earlier addressing”.
Held captive, 21 Nagas released successful Manipur’s restive Ukhrul district
The bodies of 2 Kuki men, missing aft a shooting incident, were recovered from a jungle successful Manipur’s Kamjong territory aboriginal Thursday greeting (March 12, 2026), hours aft 21 Tangkhul Naga radical were released by their captors successful the adjoining Ukhrul district, triggering caller tension. The Naga individuals, including women and children, were travelling connected the Imphal-Ukhrul Road erstwhile a Kuki radical intercepted their vehicles and held them captive connected Wednesday (March 11, 2026). This was reportedly successful retaliation for an anti-poppy cultivation thrust by “Naga volunteers” connected March 11, aft which 2 Kuki cultivators went missing portion different sustained slug injuries.
Iran sets 3 conditions for ending war
Iran acceptable three conditions for ending the conflict, including guarantees against aboriginal attacks, adjacent arsenic the U.S. and Israel continued their aerial strikes successful the country. “Talking to leaders of Russia and Pakistan, I reaffirmed Iran’s committedness to bid successful the region,” President Masoud Pezeshkian wrote successful a societal media post. “The lone mode to extremity this warfare — ignited by the Zionist authorities and U.S. — is recognising Iran’s morganatic rights, outgo of reparations, and steadfast planetary guarantees against aboriginal aggression,” helium said. During atomic talks up of the war, Iran had consistently argued that arsenic a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), atomic enrichment is “a morganatic right”. This was besides the archetypal clip a elder Iranian person called for reparations arsenic a information to extremity the war.
ASEAN Ministers to clasp meetings to code West Asia crisis
The widening conflict successful West Asia is expected to predominate discussions astatine Friday’s (March 13, 2026) ASEAN Economic Ministers’ retreat, with Foreign Ministers besides holding a virtual gathering connected the same time to tackle a deepening situation that has upended global markets. The Philippines, this year’s ASEAN chair, is hosting the meetings arsenic officials measurement impacts and responses to surging lipid prices arsenic good arsenic disruptions to shipping, logistics, and commercialized flows crossed the region’s export-reliant economies. “The interest is simply a given,” Philippine Trade Undersecretary Allan Gepty told reporters, saying the portion could not disregard the effects of the situation connected ostentation and jobs.
Bangladesh Parliament reconvenes aft uprising, polls
Bangladesh’s Parliament convened connected Thursday (March 12, 2026) for the archetypal clip since a deadly 2024 uprising plunged the state into governmental turmoil and pursuing elections past month. The authorities of Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, person of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), took implicit aft the February 12 elections from the interim medication that had led the state of 170 cardinal radical since August 2024. “After much than a decennary and a fractional of fascist and subservient rule, the activities of Parliament are opening contiguous with representatives elected by the people,” Mr. Rahman told Parliament.
At slightest 50 radical killed, 125 others reported missing aft landslides expanse Ethiopia
At slightest 50 radical person died and 125 others are missing aft landslides deed 3 districts successful confederate Ethiopia pursuing a week of dense rains, a section authoritative said connected Thursday (March 12, 2026). The landslides happened successful the Gamo Zone and affected the Gacho Baba District, Kamba District and Bonke District, according to Gamo Zone manager of catastrophe effect Mesfin Manuqa. The Gacho Baba District connection chief, Abebe Agena, said astir of those who died were recovered buried successful the mud. It is not yet wide however galore households were affected.
