Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
The paddy fields of Anaimangalam village, tucked away in the recesses of Keezhvelur block here shared the predicament of the beaches of Mumbai that stand sullied by the oil spill of a sunken ship. Lush green paddy fields running into a few acres stand washed by oil slicks after intermittent …
JORHAT, Aug 9 – At a time when different species of local birds have become endangered in the region, the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited and the State Forest department have decided to set up a bird conservation center near Jorhat-Mariani road at Cinnamora here, in which the local …
New Delhi Prices of the fuel have gone up 33% since being decontrolled last year Easing global crude oil price — $103 a barrel on Monday, down from an average $113 a barrel in the first quarter — has nearly covered the losses that retailers IOC, HPCL and BPCL make …
New Delhi A group of ministers (GoM) led by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday recommended bringing urea, a commonly used fertiliser, under the nutrient-based policy, raise its price by 10% immediately and partially decontrol the commodity from the next fiscal. Even after the price decontrol, there will be some …
The Government plans to conduct a major oceanic survey in the country's territorial waters, including parts of the Bay of Bengal, Gulf of Cambay and Andaman Sea, to look for prospects of under-sea mineral resources and natural gas. The Ministry of Earth Sciences is taking up this initiative along with …
GUWAHATI, July 26 – The crisis faced by the State’s power sector today due to the rise in the prices of natural gas has its genesis in the hike effected in the natural gas price by the Union Government for the Reliance Industry-owned Krishna-Godavari (KG) Basin gas to $ 4.20 …
Plays Down Supply Cut Threat, Says Eco Affairs Dept Looking At Payment Issue Iran on Tuesday again threatened to cut oil supplies to India from next month if New Delhi failed to route payments to clear a pending bill of around $5 billion by that time. Agencies quotedthesemiofficial Iranian Fars …
Erratic supplies from KG D6 and limited import options have led to a fall in power output of gas-based plants in June, said a Central Electricity Authority (CEA) report. The gross monthly generation by thermal, nuclear and hydro power stations, however, witnessed a positive growth in the period under consideration. …
WITH dwindling natural gas and oil reserves, the world is increasingly looking for alternative sources of energy. Industry people say shale gas is one promising option. It is the natural gas trapped in shale, a type of flaky sedimentary rock. It already accounts for 22 per cent of USA’s gas …
New Delhi Despite a wider excise duty difference between petrol and diesel, the group of ministers on fuel pricing led by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee has ruled out imposing any additional excise duty on diesel cars, which was proposed last year in a report by former Planning Commission member Kirit …
It has been a week since underground water started overflowing from various outlets in the small town of Olpad, close to Surat city in south Gujarat. If anything, the situation has only worsened in the last one week or so. And now, neighbouring villages have reported the same problem. Ground-floor …
Agartala, June 16: Natural gas continued to leak from an ONGC well in western Tripura on Thursday, nearly two days after the leak was first detected, officials here said. Experts and engineers are on a constant battle to cap the well. According to a spokesman of the state-owned exploration giant …
In a disquieting development for Reliance Industries, oil regulator DGH has refused to accredit three natural gas discoveries made by the company at its KG-D6 block, where revival of the sagging output depends on production from new finds. The Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) rejected D-30, D-31 and D-34 finds …
