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Petrol Diesel Price Update: Have petrol, diesel prices increased? Know all details here

Petrol Diesel Price Today: Indian oil marketing companies have released the latest prices of petrol and diesel today amidst the ongoing decrease in the price of crude oil in the international market. However, Indian oil companies have kept petrol and diesel prices stable on Friday (December 23). Today is the 217th consecutive day when there has been no change in the price of petrol and diesel in India. Thus, there has been some relief for the common people on the inflation front. There has been a decline in the price of crude oil in the international market. The price of WTI crude has gone down to $78 per barrel and that of Brent crude is at $85 per barrel. Earlier on May 21, the government had reduced excise duty on petrol and diesel. Excise duty on petrol was reduced by Rs 8 per liter and diesel by Rs 6 per liter. Since then the price of petrol and diesel has come down. After this, diesel became cheaper by Rs 9.50 and petrol by Rs 7 per liter in the country. After the announcemen...

NASA Formally Retires Mars InSight Lander 4 Years After Its Arrival on Red Planet

NASA has formally retired its Mars InSight lander, the first robotic probe specially designed to study the deep interior of a distant world, four years after it arrived on the surface of the red planet, the US space agency announced on Wednesday. Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) near Los Angeles determined the mission was over when two co... from Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/9LD4RNG

NASA Formally Retires Mars InSight Lander 4 Years After Its Arrival on Red Planet

NASA has formally retired its Mars InSight lander, the first robotic probe specially designed to study the deep interior of a distant world, four years after it arrived on the surface of the red planet, the US space agency announced on Wednesday. Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) near Los Angeles determined the mission was over when two co... from Gadgets 360

Random testing of 2% of international passengers at airports as India revises COVID guidelines

New Delhi: The Centre on Thursday said that two per cent of passengers arriving on each international flight will be subject to random coronavirus tests from 24 December, as it issued revised guidelines for international travellers amid a rise in cases in China, US, South Korea and other countries. The Union health ministry has written to the civil aviation ministry in this regard amid an increase in coronavirus cases in many countries. Here are the revised guidelines: Such travellers in each flight shall be identified by the concerned airlines (preferably from different countries), the letter said, adding that after submitting the sample passengers shall be allowed to leave the airport” Union health secretary Rajesh Bhushan said. Following random testing, if anybody is found COVID-positive, the sample should be sent for genomic testing at the designated INSACOG laboratory network, Bhushan wrote in a letter to his civil aviation ministry counterpart, Rajiv Bansal. A copy of the ...