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No proposal to compensate OMCs for selling fuel below cost, says Oil Ministry

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-05-04T13:22:36+00:00

State owned OMCs raised ​prices of ‌liquefied petroleum gas for industrial customers and ATF sold to foreign ‌carriers, however there ​has been no increase in retail prices ⁠of petrol, diesel, LPG for retail consumer and ATF for Indian carriers

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Як мити листову зелень: експерти з продуктів назвали головні правила

Source: UNIAN (General) · Published: 2026-05-04T13:16:00+00:00

Здавалося б, немає нічого простішого, ніж помити зелень, однак не все так просто, як здається на перший погляд. Експерти поділилися цілим набором правил щодо зберігання, миття та сушіння листової зелені.

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Як правильно мити зелень: експерти розкрили головні правила

Source: UNIAN (General) · Published: 2026-05-04T13:16:00+00:00

Здавалося б, немає нічого простішого, ніж помити зелень, однак не все так просто, як здається на перший погляд. Експерти поділилися цілим набором правил щодо зберігання, миття та сушіння листової зелені.

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Як правильно мити зелень: експерти розповіли, на що звернути увагу

Source: UNIAN (General) · Published: 2026-05-04T13:16:00+00:00

Здавалося б, немає нічого простішого, ніж помити зелень, однак не все так просто, як здається на перший погляд. Експерти поділилися цілим набором правил щодо зберігання, миття та сушіння листової зелені.

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TVK surge may trigger shake-up in DMK, AIADMK: Experts

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-05-04T13:12:37+00:00

Political commentators are of the view that after the set back in the polls, both DMK and AIADMK will face a stiff challenge in keeping their parties united and face the future elections

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Kirsty, 11, seeks more Kirstys to help raise money for brain tumour research

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-05-04T13:00:24+00:00

Kent schoolgirl tracks down 10,000 namesakes as part of campaign – but non-Kirstys are welcome to donate tooCalling all Kirstys! A schoolgirl from Tunbridge Wells in Kent is seeking people who share her name to help raise money for research into paediatric brain tumours like the one for which she is being treated.Kirsty Waugh, who turns 12 on Monday, has already persuaded more than 10,000 Kirstys, Kirsties, Kersties and assorted other variants to plot their locations on a map that shows Kirstys can be found everywhere from Colombia to Malaysia, and even at the Rothera research station in Antar

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Reform government could cause Truss-style chaos, says renewables industry

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-05-04T13:00:23+00:00

Lobbyist Tara Singh says stripping projects of subsidy contracts would undermine investor confidence in UKBritain could be beset by levels of economic chaos last seen under Liz Truss if a Reform UK government were to fulfil its promise to strip renewable energy projects of subsidy contracts, according to the industry’s chief lobbyist.The anti-renewables policy put forward by Nigel Farage’s populist party would severely undermine investor confidence in the energy industry and across the wider UK economy, the new chief executive of RenewableUK said. Continue reading...

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First Thing: Trump says US navy will ‘guide’ trapped ships through strait of Hormuz

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-05-04T13:00:00+00:00

US president’s post follows flurry of mixed signals including concern Tehran had not ‘paid big enough price’. Plus, could Santa Marta climate talks mark ground zero in push to ditch fossil fuels?Good morning.Donald Trump has announced this morning that the US will “guide” ships trapped in the Gulf by the Iran war through the strait of Hormuz, and claimed his representatives were having “very positive” discussions with Iran.What has Iran said? The head of the Iranian military’s unified command has said US and foreign armed forces will be attacked if they enter the strait. It told US forces to s

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Europe must face up to ‘tensions’ with Trump, Keir Starmer says

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-05-04T12:55:41+00:00

Comments at European Political Community summit come as Britain seeks to join EU’s loan scheme for UkraineUK politics live – latest updatesKeir Starmer has acknowledged that “tensions” between Donald Trump and Europe are high as he attends a summit of the European Political Community dominated by the conflicts in Ukraine and Iran.With European leaders concerned over the US president’s waning interest in the Ukraine war, the prime minister will use the summit in Armenia to begin negotiations to participate in the European Union’s loan scheme for Kyiv. Continue reading...

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At least 13 hurt in shooting at Oklahoma campground party

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-05-04T12:53:20+00:00

No arrests made, police say, and site of shooting – a heavily wooded area – is slowing search for evidence and suspectAt least 13 people were hurt in a mass shooting during a party at a campground in Oklahoma on Sunday night, authorities said.The shooting took place at Spring Creek Park on Arcadia Lake about 15 miles north-east of downtown Oklahoma City, when gunfire erupted during a gathering of young people at about 9pm. Continue reading...

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Дрони знищили два резервуари на НПС у Нижньогородській області: з’явилися супутникові знімки

Source: UNIAN (General) · Published: 2026-05-04T12:45:00+00:00

Пошкодження цих вузлів безпосередньо впливає на процеси підготовки нафтопродуктів до подальшого транспортування магістральними мережами.

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Iran executes three men in relation to January anti-regime protests

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-05-04T12:43:23+00:00

Hangings are latest wave of near-daily killings as authorities seek to instil fear in Iranian societyMiddle East crisis – live updatesIran has executed three men charged in connection with political protests this January, authorities said, the latest in a wave of hangings against the backdrop of the war against the US and Israel.Iranian authorities have carried out executions on a near-daily basis in recent weeks, in what activists have denounced as a bid to instil fear in society at a time of international and domestic tension. Continue reading...

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Shift to Rail: Vande Bharat ridership surge reshapes Kashmir travel

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-05-04T12:42:35+00:00

Industry observers caution that the current surge may partly be driven by initial enthusiasm and high airfare levels, and could stabilise over time. 

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Jeremy Bamber banned from communicating with media from prison

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-05-04T12:42:05+00:00

Bamber, 65, has long used press interviews to campaign against convictions for murder of five family membersJeremy Bamber, who has served more than 40 years in prison for murdering five members of his family, has been banned from communicating with the media.Bamber was convicted in 1986 by a 10-2 majority of shooting his adoptive mother and father, his sister and her six-year-old twins at the parents’ family farmhouse in Essex a year earlier. He has always protested his innocence. Continue reading...

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Labor extends EV tax break to encourage cheaper vehicles amid soaring fuel prices

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-05-04T12:30:22+00:00

As the cost of the scheme blows out, the government has announced the full discount will be retained for another year, after which it will only apply to EVs costing less than $75,000Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLabor has opted to retain its electric vehicle discount in full for another year, as Australians rush to buy EVs amid soaring fuel costs linked to the Iran war.But the budget next Tuesday will include a number of “sensible changes” that wind back the scale of support over the next three years, as the government acknowledges the need to deliver a “more finan

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