VIJAYAWADA: Minister for water resources, Ambati Rambabu pointed out Rs 800 crore extra has to be spent on the Polavaram multipurpose project due to pointless works taken up by the earlier Telugu Desam government resulting in cofferdam and diaphragm wall damages. The minister said YSR Congress is working hard for the completion of Polavaram project…Continue Reading

Representative imageNEW DELHI: The Russia-Ukraine war has hit the country’s agriculture sector the hardest with fertiliser prices skyrocketing in the international market, a top government functionary said on Monday, adding this is likely to raise India’s fertiliser subsidy burden alone to upwards of Rs 2 lakh crore this fiscal, about Rs 1 lakh crore more…Continue Reading

U.S. President Joe Biden is ordering the release of one million barrels of oil per day from the nation’s strategic petroleum reserve for six months, in a bid to control skyrocketing energy prices and put further pressure on Russia to halt its invasion of Ukraine.U.S. President Joe Biden and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, shown at a…Continue Reading