The Biden administration is selling a record amount of emergency oil from national reserves to tame soaring US fuel prices as quickly as possible, but the plan could backfire down the road if the stockpile is not replenished quickly. President Joe Biden on March 31 announced the United States would sell 180 million barrels of…Continue Reading
File photoNEW DELHI: With Indian soldiers remaining forward-deployed in the continuing 22-month-long military confrontation with China in eastern Ladakh, the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) on Saturday reopened the forbidding Zoji La on the Srinagar-Kargil-Leh road much ahead of schedule. The strategic Zoji La (la means pass), which is located at an altitude of 11,650-feet and…Continue Reading
Hyderabad: Few people can recall what the dominant political narrative was in the first week of November last year, when Etala Rajendar, one of most high-profile recruits into the BJP, won the Huzurabad byelections despite an intense on-ground and high-pitch campaign by the ruling TRS. The win by the BJP, whose membership in the Assembly…Continue Reading
The successful test of Agni-5, the long-range surface-to-surface Nuclear Capable Ballistic missile, on Wednesday is significant from two aspects — one, as strong strategic signalling to China amid ongoing stand-off in Eastern Ladakh sector and two, it was the first time that the missile was fired at night, thus proving the versatility of the already…Continue Reading