Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) has claimed that the proposed 165-km pipeline for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) from Uran, near Mumbai, to Shikrapur via Chakan in Pune district will not pose any safety hazard for villages along its route. This was revealed to DNA by the senior regional manager HPCL, …
JAIPUR: Thanks to the steep rise in petrol prices, the exchequer will be richer by another Rs 500 crore, to be paid by the residents of the state alone. People of Rajasthan will be paying a lot more than other cities like Delhi for petrol. Over the past two years, …
THE government has decided to pay . 8,000 crore to state-run fuel retailers to compensate them for selling diesel, cooking gas and kerosene below market rates. The grant will help Indian Oil Corp, Hindustan Petroleum Corp and Bharat Petroluem Corp report a net profit in the third quarter of 2010/11. …
Sale of ethanol-blended petrol has turned more profitable for the oil marketing companies (OMCs) with the recent increase in petrol prices. Their margin on a litre of ethanol has moved up from Rs 7.90 per litre to Rs 12.43 since November when blending was reintroduced. This also helps the OMCs
The commissioning of Bathinda's Guru Gobind Singh Refinery, whose letter of intent was issued nearly 15 years ago, is still five months away, but it is already embroiled in a controversy. While the ruling Akali-BJP Government is trumpeting the project as its greatest achievement that will trigger an "industrial revolution" …
Sujay Mehdudia OMCs were told to hold back hike till Parliament session ended They are losing Rs. 4.17 a litre on sale of petrol currently NEW DEHLI: State-run oil major Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) on Tuesday raised petrol prices by Rs. 2.95 a litre. The hike would come into …
STATE-RUN oil firms have decided to raise petrol prices by about . 3 to partly make up for higher cost of crude oil, but diesel rates remain unchanged for the time being. Bharat Petroleum Corp has raised petrol price by . 2.95 a litre in Delhi from Wednesday, a company …
Ethanol blending with petrol has resumed after more than a year. Last week, sale of blended petrol started in Bangalore, Mathura and parts of Gujarat. While blending will be gradually extended to the other parts of the country, the quantity of ethanol contracted so far is insufficient to continue the …
When Ranbir Singh Butola took over as the managing director of ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) in 2004, the overseas subsidiary of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), his brief was to expand India's oil and gas footprint. Not surprising then that Butola has spent the last six years living out …
Hindustan Petroleum & Bharat Petroleum May Increase Rates By 28 And 26 Paise PETROL will become costlier by 27 paise from Tuesday at over 18,600 retail outlets of Indian Oil Corp, making it the first state-run oil company to exercise the pricing freedom announced by the government on June 26. …
Ajay Modi / New Delhi September 7, 2010, 1:23 IST First such tie-up between a sugar and a petroleum company. Shree Renuka Sugars is looking to set up an integrated sugar-cum-ethanol plant with oil marketing company Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) in Maharashtra. This would be the first such tie-up between …
NEW DELHI: Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) is understood to have finalised plans to set up a 9-million tonnes refinery in Maharashtra with an investment of around Rs.15,000 crore. Official sources said the Maharasthra Government had offered land places and the company was in the process of giving a final shape …
Kalpana Pathak / Mumbai July 26, 2010, 0:07 IST First refining firm to do so; Bihar sugar units to restart after 14 years At a time when the ethanol-petrol blending programme has met with only partial success, government-controlled Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) will become the first petroleum company in …
Ajay Modi / New Delhi May 3, 2010, 0:35 IST Rising losses due to sale of fuel products like petrol and diesel at government-controlled prices is not the only concern for public sector oil marketing companies (OMCs). These companies are faced with a sharply rising petrol and diesel consumption in …
Ajay Modi / New Delhi April 13, 2010, 0:42 IST The Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) will resume hearing the case on petroleum product pricing between private oil companies and government oil marketing companies (OMCs). Private companies, including Reliance Industries, Essar Oil and Shell India had filed a …
Ajay Modi / New Delhi March 11, 2010, 0:21 IST Even before the start of the new financial year, the spectre of rising losses during 2010-11 has begun to haunt the three state-controlled oil marketing companies that account for over 90 per cent of the country
Coimbatore: Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited in association with The Hindu organised an awareness rally to mark the oil conservation fortnight. The observance started off with the administration of an oil conservation pledge to the students, followed by a quiz. Nearly 50 students from Stanes Higher Secondary School went on a …
State-run oil marketing companies (OMCs) will be able to taper their third quarter losses after the government has committed itself to a Rs 12,000-crore cash subsidy to compensate them for selling cooking fuels at government-regulated prices. The cash subsidy is a deviation from the earlier practice of issuing bonds for …
