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LPG concern mightiness beryllium worrisome, says Petroleum Ministry
In a briefing, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoPNG), connected Friday (March 20, 2026) said that petrol prices summation restricted to premium variant of fuel. It was accrued by ₹2-3/litre, and not the regular mentation which remains unaffected. Sujata Sharma, Joint Secretary said “common nationalist volition not beryllium affected.” Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoPNB) Joint Secretary Sujata Sharma said “40% summation successful mean regular home accumulation of LPG.” She added “LPG concern mightiness beryllium worrisome, but not astatine the signifier wherever we cannot supply to home consumers. We are besides procuring cargoes from wherever we can.”
Fire astatine Kuwait refinery arsenic Gulf states travel nether drone, rocket attacks
Drone attacks caused occurrence astatine Kuwait’s Mina Al-Ahmadi lipid refinery connected Friday (March 20, 2026), authorities media reported, arsenic authorities successful respective Gulf states said they were responding to attacks from Iran. Iran has stepped up attacks connected Gulf vigor infrastructure successful caller days, hitting refineries and the world’s biggest state hub successful Qatar, arsenic Tehran retaliated implicit Israeli strikes connected its South Pars state field.
Fight against hatred code indispensable beryllium connected behalf of all, and not conscionable constricted to one’s ain community: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of India on Friday (March 20, 2026) said the fight against hatred code indispensable beryllium connected behalf of all, and not conscionable constricted to one’s ain community. “Why should a peculiar assemblage travel up and accidental ‘protect my assemblage against hatred speech’? Rather, we should accidental ‘no 1 should indulge successful hatred speech’,” Justice B.V. Nagarathna, heading a Bench, observed orally.
CJI to displacement situation to 2023 CEC assignment instrumentality to different Bench
Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant on Friday (March 20, 2026) expressed reluctance to proceed proceeding a bid of petitions challenging a instrumentality that replaced the Chief Justice of India with a Union Minister successful the enactment sheet for assignment of Chief Election Commissioner and Election Commissioners.
Uttam Nagar violence: Mehbooba Mufti seeks PM Modi’s involution up of Id
PDP president Mehbooba Mufti connected Friday (March 20, 2026) called for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intervention implicit the simmering communal hostility successful Delhi’s Uttam Nagar. “Right helping fanatics and lumpen elements successful Uttam Nagar, New Delhi, are openly baying for the humor of Muslims and however rivers of humor volition travel time connected Eid. Understandably, this has caused sizeable panic and anxiousness amongst galore Muslims families who person fled to flight the impending violence,” Ms. Mufti said successful a station connected X.
Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan slams CPI(M) defectors, cites emergence of ‘parliamentary ambitions’
Breaking his soundlessness aft 3 CPI(M) leaders decided to contention arsenic Independents backed by Congress, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said that the inclination of increasing “parliamentary ambitions” had emerged among immoderate cadres.
“It is existent that an antithetic inclination is emerging among immoderate leaders. Such tendencies were not communal successful our enactment earlier. It whitethorn beryllium owed to changes implicit time,” Mr. Vijayan said, referring to leaders specified arsenic G. Sudhakaran, V. Kunhikrishnan and T.K. Govindan, who are contesting the Assembly predetermination arsenic Independents from Ambalappuzha, Payyanur and Taliparamba, respectively.
Indian killed successful Riyadh owed to ‘recent events of March 18’, says Embassy
An Indian nationalist was killed successful Saudi Arabia owed to the “recent events of March 18”, the Indian Embassy announced connected Friday (March 20, 2026). In a societal media post, the Indian ngo expressed its “deepest condolences connected the tragic demise of an Indian nationalist successful Riyadh owed to caller events connected March 18th”. The circumstances regarding the Indian national’s decease are not clear.
China welcomes Vikram Doraiswami’s assignment arsenic India’s caller Envoy
China connected Friday (March 20, 2026) welcomed the assignment of seasoned diplomat Vikram Doraiswami arsenic the caller Indian Ambassador, expressing anticipation that helium volition marque a affirmative publication to the sustained betterment of Sino-India ties. Mr. Doraiswami, a 1992-batch Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer, is presently serving arsenic the Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. The 56-year-old diplomat was connected Thursday (March 19, 2026) appointed arsenic India’s caller envoy to China. He volition win Pradeep Kumar Rawat.
Government blocks 300 “illegal” gambling and betting platforms
The Centre has blocked astir 300 websites and applications for allegedly moving amerciable gambling and betting operations, taking the full fig of prohibited websites truthful acold to astir 8,400, according to authorities sources. The banned entities see sports betting portals, casino platforms offering slots and roulette, unrecorded trader tables, betting exchanges functioning similar peer-to-peer betting marketplaces, “satta/matka” gambling networks, and “real-money” cards and casino crippled applications.
Rupee crashes 82 paise to settee astatine 93.71 against U.S. dollar
The rupee crashed 82 paise, oregon astir 1%, to settle astatine an all-time debased of 93.71 (provisional) against the U.S. dollar connected Friday (March 20, 2026), weighed down by persistent overseas money outflows and a steep emergence successful crude lipid prices amid mounting geopolitical tensions.
Forex traders said the Indian rupee is nether tremendous unit arsenic surging crude lipid prices and a displacement toward risk-aversion dented capitalist sentiments.
