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Dusty cement plant kiln stack beside rail wagons loaded with grey clinker under overcast sky, industrial siding and scrub trees in background, documentary framing, no logos or readable text

JSW Cement Salboni Kiln Feeds Clinker to Visakhapatnam Port Breakwater Pour

JSW Cement routed the first Salboni clinker trains to a Visakhapatnam breakwater pour after monsoon repairs, tying the Bengal plant to east-coast port work.

Arjun Mehta अर्जुन मेहता Oct 12, 2026

Crowded Howrah railway station concourse with passengers at ticket counters and overhead departure boards, fluorescent lighting, worn marble floors, no logos or readable text

IRCTC Tatkal Quota on Howrah–Chennai Coromandal Vanishes in Under Five Minutes on Opening Day

Durga Puja return traffic is colliding with Tatkal’s 10:00 AM release window, and the Coromandal’s AC three-tier berths are the first to disappear.

Arjun Mehta अर्जुन मेहता Oct 11, 2026

Editorial gouache scene of a blue domestic LPG cylinder in a Delhi kitchen, with faint ghost of an LPG tanker and dollar-to-rupee arrows in the background

Deep Dive

Why Your LPG Cylinder Price Is Set in Riyadh Before It Is Set in Delhi

Domestic cylinders are priced on import parity tied to Saudi contract rates, then revised monthly,while subsidies now arrive in your bank account, not at the dealer.

Arjun Mehta अर्जुन मेहता Oct 10, 2026

Indian highway petrol station at dawn with wet concrete forecourt, fuel dispensers under a corrugated canopy, hazy sky and a blank price LED board with no readable numbers or logos

State Oil Marketers Extend Pump Price Pause Into Second MPC Week as Dealer Commission Talks Resume

Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum kept petrol and diesel unchanged for an eighth straight day on Saturday while dealer associations reopened commission talks after the RBI’s 5.50% repo hike fed working-capital stress at outlets.

Arjun Mehta अर्जुन मेहता Oct 10, 2026

Labor Department briefing room with officials at a podium and employer logos blurred on a projection screen behind them

Sonderling Suspends Eight Employers From PERM Program Naming Microsoft Adobe Cognizant and Tata

U.S. Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling and Vice President JD Vance halted permanent-labor certification filings for Microsoft, Adobe and six major IT services contractors—including India’s Cognizant, Infosys, Tata and Wipro—after alleging widespread abuse of the green-card pipeline.

Arjun Mehta अर्जुन मेहता Oct 9, 2026

A large crude tanker moored at an Indian refinery jetty at dusk with orange sodium lighting on rusted handrails, pipeline manifolds and safety buoys, overcast sky, no logos or readable text.

Indian Refiners Charter Hormuz Tankers as Iraqi FOB Discounts Offset Brent Above $104

Indian Oil, Reliance, BPCL and HPCL-Mittal are chartering their own Hormuz tankers on Iraqi FOB deals as Brent holds above $104, trading CFR premiums for SOMO discounts and freight control.

Arjun Mehta अर्जुन मेहता Oct 9, 2026