Order of the High Court of Rajasthan in the matter of Deepak Acharya Vs Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited dated 05/03/2025. The Rajasthan High Court has admitted a petition challenging installation of a Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) petrol pump near a crematorium and high-tension line. The NOCs to establish the …
The residential-cum-commercial complex coming up near the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) refinery at Chembur is now the subject of much ping-ponging between the state and the courts. A petition had been filed by HPCL challenging the upcoming construction. It cited security threats to the refinery, and also potential health hazards …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today sought a list of pending reforms in key infrastructure sectors after released data showed that industrial output contracted in October, the first time in over two years. Singh is likely to convene a meeting tomorrow to consider ways to push these reforms, sources said. The …
Fuel price hike, which has come under CAG pressure, will worsen crisis for power sector The government’s desire to be on the right side of its top auditor by increasing fuel prices for merchant power plants is likely to worsen the crisis in the sector reeling under high input costs …
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 …
The air was monitored for two consecutive periods, in the dry and the rainy seasons (2009-2010) at 40 petroleum-filling stations in the Indian capital, Delhi, to assess variations in carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, PM10, PM2.5, benzene, toluene and xylene content. PM10 and PM2.5 concentrations exceeded the national ambient air quality …
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 …
The study examines the "Ethanol Blending Programme" in India. The study examines the ethanol blended petroleum pricing mechanism in India in comparison with the globally accepted price mechanism. The study finds that the cost of producing ethanol in India varies largely with molasses prices and hence cyclical variations in sugarcane …
The continued economic acrimony in the eurozone and the continued slowdown of the U.S, economy has softened the international crude oil prices, raising hopes of another petrol price cut by the oil marketing companies (OMCs) when the matter comes up for review on November 30. With the Indian basket averaging …
New Delhi The Cabinet will likely revise the ethanol price for the mandatory 5% blending with petrol later this month, renewable energy minister Farooq Abdullah said on Monday, as the sugar industry which produces the bio-fuel out of the by-products of the sweetener intensified protests against the protracted decision-making process. …
The country’s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India is planning to add more models with environment-friendly CNG option to its existing fleet of five such cars. The company currently offers five models in CNG options — compact cars Alto, WagonR and Estilo, multi-purpose van Eeco, and sedan SX4. “The five models …
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 Supreme Court Friday declined to entertain a plea challenging the deregulation of prices of petroleum products, saying fixing of petroleum prices was a matter of government policy and the court could not interfere in it. The plea challenging the fixing of prices by the public sector oil marketing companies …
Move to align rates with global crude prices. State-run oil firms will revise petrol prices every two weeks if domestic prices need to be aligned with international levels, as they prepare to replace the opaque pricing mechanism with a transparent and predictable system, top executives said. Oil companies also clarified …
The decision to slash petrol price has once again demonstrated the lack of elbow room for the Manmohan Singh government to take politically tough economic measures. With crucial state elections round the corner, the government will have to be more attentive to the political and electoral needs of Congress. There …
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 …
The cut of . 2.22/L in petrol prices is bigger than the . 1.82/L hike less than 2 weeks ago Petrol prices have fallen . 2.22 a litre in Delhi as state oil firms cut rates for the first time in 33 months citing favourable trends in the international market, …
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 …
New Delhi Rising raw material costs and a volatile yen forced the country’s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki to increase prices of its diesel cars by up to R10,000 on Monday. While the prices of its diesel variant Ritz went up by R2,000 the hike in prices of other diesel models …
New Delhi: State-run fuel retailers are set to reduce the petrol price by as much as Rs 2 a litre from Thursday following a gentle prod from the government to pass on the benefit of recent softening in the fuel’s price in bulk markets and a comparatively lower average rate …
Every time petrol prices rise, people start buying diesel-powered vehicles, which add to toxic pollution in our cities Consider this. Every time petrol prices rise, oil companies end up losing more money. How? The price differential between petrol and diesel increases further; people start buying diesel-powered vehicles so oil firms …
