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New Delhi: With petrol and diesel prices scaling a new high on Tuesday as benchmark crude rose to $75(approximately Rs 5,000)a barrel, its highest since November 2014, there’s no respite in sight for fuel consumers as pump prices remain on a record-breaking spree as crude clambers towards $80 (approximately Rs 5,314) a barrel-mark in a market edgy over US bailing on Iran nuclear deal, outages in Venezuela and uptick in demand.
In Delhi, the sample market considered by the government, petrol price rose to Rs 74.63 a litre, the highest since September 2013. Diesel sold at Rs 65.93 a litre.

New Delhi: As per World Bank report there has been a 9.9% increase in remittance inflows in 2017 was enough to ensure that India comfortably retained its long held position of the largest destination of remittances from international migrants. Remittances to India from abroad rose in 2017 after declining for two consecutive years and touched $69 billion, still a little short of the $70.4 billion reached in 2014. Outflows of remittances from India too continued to rise reaching $5.7 billion.
According to a World Bank report titled ‘Migration and Remittance Outlook’, released late on Monday. Of the $5.7 billion sent home by foreigners working in India, Bangladesh alone accounted for over $4 billion or about 71%. The data also shows that Indians constitute the world’s largest diaspora population, making it the largest source of labour for the world market.

New Delhi: A 32-year-old dalit sanyasi will be designated as “Mahamandaleshwar”, an influential position in the order, at Kumbh 2019. This is for the first time in the history of the Juna Akhara, considered to be the largest and oldest order of sadhus in India, Kanhaiya Kumar Kashyap was rechristened Kanhaiya Shivanand Giri after his “diksha” ceremony on Tuesday.
This is not the first time a Dalit religious scholar has been given “diksha” by the head of an akhara. Niranjani Akhara had included a Dalit in its higher echelons at the last Kumbh in Ujjain. But Shivanand’s inclusion in Juna Akhara is significant and marks yet another turn in the remarkable life of a man who was denied entry into a Sanskrit seminary because of his caste.
Undeterred, he earned a “Jyotishacharya” degree from Chandigarh-based Bharatiya Jyotish Vigyan Kendra before joining Juna Akhara. Juna Akhara follows the sanyasi tradition and is more inclusive than many akharas on caste issues.

New Delhi: In a humanitarian gesture, Jessica Lall’s family wants to “live a normal life” and has no objection if her killer Manu Sharma is released from jail. This was said by the murdered woman’s sister almost 20 years after the crime.
“I have let go of the anger within me. I need to move on and get rid of this baggage. I have no problems if he is released or whatever deal he gets,” said Sabrina Lall, elder sister of Jessica, on Monday. Sharma, son of former union minister Venod Sharma, is serving a life sentence in Tihar jail.
Hindustan Times had on April 22 reported Sharma has been shifted to the open jail, paving his way for release after 15 years in prison.
About three months ago, jail officials shifted Sharma to the open prison, where he is allowed to leave the prison complex at 8 am and return by 6 in the evening.