Before lockdown, the VAT rate on petrol was 30 per cent and on diesel was 22 per cent.

State Innovation & Transformation Aayog (SITA), Assam, is working on a Strategy Paper for the state government by engaging Ernst & Young (EY) on tea industry. Tea industry has suffered immensely during the lockdown .

The minister said India gives the most importance to "the fair dealing and the reciprocity" while signing any multilateral agreements. He said it was not there because of which India did not participate in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).

India’s concern is real because China has been involved in dumping of steel in the past and the same allegation has been made by other countries when it comes to automobiles and electronics. Given China’s superior economic position today amidst good valuations from an investors’ standpoint, leveraging the same makes business sense.

Some people knit, others do puzzles, and yet others find calm by colouring. Me, I love pixeling. My computer career started with a super basic computer. It didn’t even have a way to store what I programmed. So, every day, I would write myself a small program that allows me to paint on the screen […]

Sometimes it is fun to re-visit very basic HTML things and look what we can do with them nowadays. This is what I will do now with a radio button group. I will progressively enhance it to look great and still work with keyboard and screen readers. As part of my Logo-O-Matic upgrade, I added […]

Download the slides and view the demos for my presentation on practical flexbox progressive enhancement, "Leveling Up With Flexbox" for Smashing Conference in Oxford, as well as get links to related articles, tutorials, and tools on Flexible Box Layout.

Learn how to use flexbox to pin two things to opposite ends of the viewport with a heading centered in between. Using media queries and flexbox's re-ordering capabilities, we can make this layout pattern even more responsive.

Download the slides and view the demos for my presentation on practical flexbox progressive enhancement for RWD, "Enhancing Responsiveness with Flexbox" for the RWD Summit, as well as get links to related articles, tutorials, and tools on Flexible Box Layout.

The Modernizr feature-detection script now includes four tests for flexbox support, which you can use to target browsers with varying levels of support more precisely.

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Over the years I’ve shared how to perform a number of actions with cURL: how to send POST data, how to retrieve headers, follow redirects, check GZIP encoding, and more. Another useful cURL directive is sending the user agent, as some servers respond with different content or headers depending on the user agent. Let’s have […]

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One interesting aspect of working at Mozilla is that Firefox lives in a mercurial repository while several other projects live on GitHub in a git repository. While most focus on either Firefox or another project, I switch between both, leaving me running git commands inside the mercurial repository and hg commands inside git repos. It’s […]

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I don’t need to tell you how important search engine placement is. You either earn it with quality content, loads of SEO work, paying for placement, or all of the above. And even we you achieve best placement, you need to be wary of your content becoming stale or someone else coming along with a […]

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As you may have read, outside of gradients, you can’t change a background-image with CSS transitions. Or can you? At InControl Conference last week, Greg Rewis spoke about Transitions, Transforms and Animations. A question was asked about showing one background-image on load and transitioning to another in a subsequent pseudo-state. You can always change the [...]

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The US should treat Indian diplomats with respect.

She gifted him a small bottle of hand sanitiser

Earlier this week, Pakistan stayed away from the regional trade officials' video conference on Covid-19 because as per the neighboiring country, it should have been managed by Saarc secretariat

The Bharatiya Janata Party government has started curtailing the facilities accorded to him

As India continues its fight against the coronavirus pandemic, Tendulkar made a donation to a Mumbai based non-profit organisation to aid 4,000 underprivileged people, including children

Australia played against New Zealand in an ODI without spectators on March 13, which till date stands as the last international cricket match before Covid-19 pandemic suspended cricketing action

Top TMC sources said the articles published in the mouthpiece were cleared by Banerjee and the editorial board.

Sarat Chandra Bose claimed the Government of India had definite information of Netaji being in Red China of Mao Tse-Tung

In another placatory gesture, the GJM Monday resumed work at the hill council ahead of Mamata''s visit to the hills

Trinamool Congress has opened four party offices in Darjeeling, claims to have '40,000 members''.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee reiterated her stand on undivided Bengal and said the hills would remain an integral part of the state.

Mamata Banerjee chose to hardsell WB as an investment destination telling the industrialists that land would not be a problem.

Modi said the Congress was resorting to other tactics to defeat him in the Lok Sabha elections and stop his rise.

West Bengal government Monday relaxed its ban on export of potatoes, albeit with a rider, saying it would help in further stabilisation of prices in the state.

After going through the BPC report, Justice Sanjib Banerjee said the police did not investigate into the FIR.

The management on November 1 had sought government permission to close Jessop and C.

Sudipta Sen, chairman of the bust Saradha Group that left thousands defrauded, Tuesday said that the persons named by arrested Trinamool Congress MP Kunal Ghosh in a Facebook post, had no link with his company.

Significantly, Governor M K Narayanan had said that he does not agree with the name change Bill.

Over 25 kg of red sandalwood was seized today from a Chinese national at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose international airport.

The Left Front is also likely to boycott the three-day special session.

The Left Front is also likely to boycott the three-day special session.

Mamata Banerjee said the state should be given at least a year''s moratorium on repayment of interests on central loans.

Inaugurating the session on behalf of the CM, state finance minister Amit Mitra pointed out the "massive increase" in the budget allocation for minorities since Mamata came to office in 2011.