Edible oil duty cut may ease input costs for biscuit, noodle and snack makers BENGALURU: The cut in edible oil import duties could ease costs for makers of biscuits, noodles and fried snacks, but cheaper packs may not follow immediately. Analysts said the benefit would take time to flow through to manufacturers, with companies likely…

Consumers buying premium petrol from state-run fuel retailers will continue to get ethanol free fuel. The Centre on Thursday clarified that these specialised grades will remain exempt from the Ethanol Blended Petrol (EBP) programme. It further added that, currently, there is no proposal either to bring back E0 or E10 petrol or to raise ethanol…

The report identified several other factors that can contribute to severe corrosion India made the switch from ICF design to LHB coaches in 2003 when the first such German-technology coaches were imported. Since then it has increasingly indigenized the coaches and now manufactures only LHB passenger coaches apart from train sets.But, recently senior railway engineers…