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 …
Empowered Committee of Secretaries clears 14 blocks to the first ranked/single bidder A total of ten blocks offered under the New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP) IX face the axe as the Empowered Committee of Secretaries (ECS) has recommended not to award them due to lower profit petroleum to the government. …
Petrol prices are expected to rise by about . 3 per litre early next month after the crucial assembly election in Uttar Pradesh, industry executives said on Monday. Executives in Indian Oil Corporation, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum said petrol rates had not been revised for two months despite high …
Oil Minister S Jaipal Reddy today ruled out deregulation of diesel prices and said he had demanded that the government compensate state-owned oil firms for the losses they made on not raising prices of petrol. "Deregulation of diesel in entirety is very difficult proposition but at appropriate time we may …
With the Finance Ministry still to come out with a final formula on sharing the fuel subsidy burden, the government has asked upstream oil companies Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), Oil India Limited (OIL) and GAIL India to give about Rs. 36,900 crore in fuel subsidy during April to …
he Delhi high court has ordered a 10 per cent hike in compensation to farmers for acquisition of their land in three urban villages having “locational advantages” like being in the vicinity of IGI Airport. “I find the aspect of higher potentiality of the acquired land being in close vicinity …
Renewable energy sources should be fully tapped not only meet growing energy needs but also to protect environment and scale down use of petrol and diesel, said Central Electro Chemical and Research Institute Acting Director Vijaya Mohan K. Pillai. He was inaugurating a national conference on renewable energy utilisation - …
The company’s existing infrastructure in the state suits its expansion plan. State-run IndianOil Corpo-ration (IOC) may set up its next refinery, a 15 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) unit, on the western coast in Gujarat at an investment of Rs 30,000 crore. According to a senior IOC official, the country's …
The New Zealand-based renewable energy company LanzaTech is in talks with its partners here — IndianOil and Jindal Steel & Power — to help them set up plant to produce commercial bio jet fuel from ethanol, a top company official has said. As a first step, LanzaTech will open an …
The government has asked all central public sector companies to set up renewable energy projects or voluntarily procure energy credits, as part of efforts to boost sustainable development. "The scope of the Energy Management Programme has been expanded by including Renewable Energy as a specific activity to be pursued by …
New Delhi The attraction of a diesel-fired car could come down soon as the government is considering a plan to cut duty on petrol and at the same time impose an additional tax on diesel-powered cars. The petroleum ministry has finalised the proposal that will now be sent to the …
New Delhi Consumers could brace for a price increase in petrol by the end of this week as fuel retailers IOC, HPCL and BPCL have started incurring a loss of close to 90 paise a litre on petrol on account of higher gasoline prices in world markets and a depreciation …
New Delhi Environmental clearance delays are rising again, pushing up the number of pending infrastructure projects. There are now 400 projects in mining, hydro and thermal power, and building and construction pending signatures at different levels in the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF). The figure had eased to 245 …
The West Bengal government, in partnership with Essar Oil and Indian Oil, may soon run India’s first buses on coal-bed methane, a natural gas extracted from coal beds and, like other gases, considered a better alternative to petrol or diesel. “We were approached by the West Bengal Pollution Control Board …
PSU oil-marketing companies slashed petrol prices by `0.65 per litre (excluding taxes) across the country due to fall in international crude prices. In Delhi, petrol price has been cut by 78 paisa per litre petrol (including local levies). This is second reduction in petrol prices in 15 days. The cut …
New Delhi The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a petition seeking deregulation of petrol prices, restoration of Administered Pricing Mechanism and rationalisation of taxation of petroleum products. A bench headed by Chief Justice SH Kapadia while rejecting the petition filed by All India Youth Federation (AIYF) said that “pricing is …
The government will not go for an immediate increase in the prices of regulated petroleum products like diesel, domestic LPG and kerosene, even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s intervention has prompted authorities to seek ways to provide relief to the oil marketing companies (OMCs) — through a cash compensation of …
Within a fortnight of a Rs. 1.82 a litre hike effected by oil marketing companies, the petrol price stands slashed by a higher margin of Rs. 2.22 from Tuesday midnight. The reduction, the first in three years, is expected to ease the pressure on the government ahead of the Parliament's …
New Delhi: Petrol will become cheaper by more than Rs 2 a litre across the country — depending on local taxes — from Wednesday as the government nudged staterun fuel retailers to pass on the benefit of the easing in the fuel’s bulk market price and rupee-dollar parity. TOI had …
IMPHAL, Nov 9 – Manipur is facing the worst-ever fuel crisis as the fuel outlets have stopped sale of petroleum products since the last three days following the on-going blockade and subsequent collapse of a bridge. According to Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) records on November 7, the blockade hit State …
NEW DELHI: India is staring at an energy crisis after December as staterun refineries will start shutting down because they will run out of money to import crude oil, Indian Oil Corp Chairman RS Butola said after declaring the company's biggest quarterly loss. IOC posted the second successive quarterly loss …
