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 …
AJAY MODI State sector oil marketing companies (OMCs), with an old problem of heavy losses due to capped retail prices of petrol, diesel, etc, will lose more if these prices are not raised when India moves to Euro-IV norms in 13 cities-and Euro III norms in the rest of country …
This article describes the personal experience and perspective of the authors, who had primary responsibility for drafting the initial health-based regulation limiting lead content of gasoline during the early 1970s while employed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
: The number of private cars running on CNG (compressed natural gas) in Delhi has risen 43% year-on-year, even as more than 3,700 such automobiles continue to be added to the clean-fuel transport fleet. A survey commissioned by the city's sole CNG supplier, Indraprastha Gas Ltd (IGL), has found 175,313 …
Will Kolkata succeed in phasing out two-stroke autos by July end? two-stroke and non-lpg (liquefied petroleum gas) four-stroke autorickshaw will not be allowed to ply in Kolkata from August 1, the Calcutta High Court has ordered. The city has around 38,000 registered two-stroke autorickshaws running on petrol; 30,000 of them …
The hike in petrol and diesel prices reverses the price cut announced in January this year. While this was widely anticipated, critics are making every effort to embarrass the government. From an economic point of view, the hike will do several things. One, it will reduce the amount of off-balance …
NEW DELHI: Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Murli Deora has written to Chief Ministers of all States to rationalise the tax structure on petrol and diesel and do away with the ad valorem component of excise duty to protect the interests of consumers. Mr. Deora pointed out the high tax …
LUCKNOW: Chief minister Mayawati on Thursday said that she would not impose any additional tax on the increased prices of diesel/petrol in order to give relief to people. The state tax input on the diesel would be 9 paise now sold at Rs 34.50 per litre and 22 paise on …
NEW DELHI: The government on Thursday rejected the Opposition demand for an immediate rollback in increased prices of petrol and diesel even as Lok Sabha witnessed frequent adjournments with non-Congress parties, including UPA allies the DMK and the Trinamool Congress, criticising the hike and the Opposition staging a walkout from …
Sujay Mehdudia NEW DELHI: Following a rise in the international price of crude oil and the increasing under-recovery of State-run Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs), the United Progressive Alliance government on Wednesday increased the price of petrol by Rs.4 a litre and diesel by Rs.2 a litre. The hike comes on …
Although in favour of permitting partial deregulation of petrol and diesel pricing, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today went with the Congress party decision to keep retail prices under check with the increase in petrol limited to Rs 4 per litre and diesel, Rs 2 per litre. One Petroleum Ministry proposal …
No change in cooking gas, kerosene prices; negligible impact on inflation. With international crude oil prices hovering at a seven-month high of around $70 a barrel, the government today raised prices of petrol by Rs 4 a litre and diesel by Rs 2 from midnight, but left cooking gas and …
New Delhi: The government may increase the price of petrol by Rs 2 a litre and that of diesel by Re 1 per litre unless excise duty on the two fuels are cut to neutralise the impact of firming international oil rates. State-owned fuel retailers
Price hike required immediately, say executives. Murli DeoraThe continued rally in international oil prices has turned diesel margins red. Oil companies are losing Rs 2.96 on sale of every litre of diesel sold in the fortnight beginning June 16. Diesel accounts for 39 per cent of total petroleum product consumption …
The Petroleum Ministry has sought an explanation from Finance Ministry regarding replacement of petroleum development levy (PDL) with carbon surcharge on two petroleum products-JP-4 and JP-8. The government is currently charging Rs 3 per litre PDL on JP-4 and JP-8. The Petroleum Ministry in its letter to Finance Ministry has …
energy Nigerians want to own their oil Thousands of workers in Nigeria protested in mid-May the proposed deregulation of the oil sector. The government in February said it would deregulate the downstream oil sector, which deals with refining of crude oil for domestic consumption. It is managed by the state-owned …
Dipak Kumar Dash | TNN New Delhi: Ambitious it might sound, road transport and highways minister Kamal Nath has set a target of constructing 20 km of national highways per day to accelerate the highway development programme after over two years of snail paced progress. Though exact data on the …
With the background of climate change and energy efficiency, environmental policy has developed to one of the top policy areas on the European level. Public transport is affected directly or indirectly by a whole range of legislation covering inter alia sustainable development, climate change, internalisation of external costs, energy efficiency, …
