Petrol price cut by Rs 1.15, diesel up 50 paise

November 1, 2013

Petrol_priceNew Delhi, Nov 1: State-run fuel retailers on Thursday cut petrol price by Rs 1.15 a litre, excluding local taxes, the second reduction in a month that would help spread some cheer ahead of Diwali.

As expected, the retailers also raised diesel price by 50 paise a litre in line with the government's January decision to go for small revisions every month till the gap with the market rate is wiped out.

The new prices will be effective from the intervening midnight of Thursday and Friday. For petrol, the actual cut at pump level will be Rs 1.38 from Rs 71.02 in Delhi due to incremental reduction in VAT. Similarly, it will cost Rs 78.04 a litre in Mumbai against Rs 79.49.

Diesel price in Delhi has been hiked by 56 paise to Rs 53.10 per litre, while it will cost Rs 60.08 in Mumbai, up from Rs 59.46.

This is the 10th hike in diesel price and should have brought the fuel's rate to market level. But the rupee's devaluation widened the gap between government-controlled retail and market prices to Rs 14.50 per litre. After Thursday's hike and the recent hardening of the rupee, the gap is pegged at Rs 9.58.

Petrol rates were last reduced on October 1 by Rs 3.05 per litre, or Rs 3.66 after including VAT in Delhi. This was the first cut since June and came after seven increases aggregating Rs 10.80 per litre, excluding VAT, or Rs 13.06 after including state tax as the rupee depreciated sharply against the dollar.

"Since the last price change, international prices of petrol have declined marginally from about $113 per barrel to about $112. The rupee-dollar exchange rate has appreciated from around Rs 63 to a dollar to around Rs 62. Both these factors have resulted into a reduction in prices of petrol," IndianOil Corporation, the nation's largest fuel retailer, said in a statement.

Besides diesel, oil firms are losing Rs 35.77 per litre on sale of kerosene and Rs 482.50 per 14.2-kg domestic cooking gas cylinder. These are lower than Rs 38.32 and Rs 532.50 loss incurred last month.

At current rates, IOC projected a revenue loss of Rs 71,200 crore on sale of diesel, cooking gas and kerosene for the 2013-14 fiscal. If figures for all the three retailers are taken together, under-recovery would be Rs 135,900 crore.

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May 10,2020

May 10: Delhi recorded five more deaths due to coronavirus, while 381 fresh cases of the virus were reported, the city government said on Sunday.

With the fresh cases, the virus tally in the national capital has climbed to 6,923.

Between midnight of May 8 and midnight of May 9, five fresh fatalities due to the virus were reported, taking the death toll to 73, the government said in its health bulletin.

While there are 4,781 active cases of the virus in the city, 2069 patients have so far recovered from COVID-19.

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May 26,2020

In a startling revelation, cybersecurity researchers have claimed that a hacker has posted personal details of nearly 2.9 crore Indian job seekers at one of the hacking forums on the Dark Web for free.

As part of the regular sweep over the Deep Web and Dark Web, researchers from cybersecurity firm Cyble came across an interesting item, where a threat actor posted 2.3GB (zipped) file on one of the hacking forums.

"The leak actually has a lot of personal details of millions of Indians Job seekers from different states," Cyble said in its blog on Friday.

This breach includes sensitive information such as email, phone, home address, qualification and work experience etc from job seekers spanning across states, from New Delhi to Mumbai and Bengaluru. 

Cybercriminals are always on the lookout for such personal information to conduct various nefarious activities such as identity thefts, scams, and corporate espionage.

"It appears to have originated from a resume aggregator service given the sheer volume and detailed information," it added.

Cyble indexed this information at ‘AmIbreached.com; – Cyble's data breach monitoring and notification platform.

Cyble researchers have identified a sensitive data breach on the dark web where an actor has leaked personal details of nearly 29 million Indian job seekers from various states. 

"Cyble's team is still investigating this further and will be updating their article as they bring more facts to the surface,” it said in a statement.

Cyble said it has acquired the leaked data. 

The same cyber security firm earlier exposed that Bengaluru-based edtech firm Unacademy was hacked.

According to Cyble researchers, nearly 22 million Unacademy user accounts were affected and the data was dumped and sold on Dark Web.

'We would like to assure our users that no sensitive information such as financial data or location has been breached," said Hemesh Singh, Co- Founder and CTO, Unacademy, in a statement.

In April, hackers sold personal data of a whopping 267 million Facebook users for just Rs 41,500 (approximately 500 Euros) that includes email addresses, names, Facebook IDs, dates of birth and phone numbers.

No passwords of the 267 million Facebook users were exposed by the hacker, according to Cyble.

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March 30,2020

Thiruvananthapuram, Mar 30: Kerala reported 32

fresh cases of coronavirus on Monday, with the worst affected Kasaragod district alone accounting for 17 cases.

Kannur reported 15 cases, while Wayanad and Idukki reported two each, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan told reporters here after a COVID-19 review meeting.

Of the 32 cases, 17 had come from abroad and 15 had been infected through contact.

A total of 213 people are presently under treatment in Kerala.

At least 1.50 lakh people are under surveillance in the state and 623 are in isolation wards of various hospitals.

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