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 …
Shishir Prashant / Dehra Dun December 3, 2008, 0:46 IST Seoul-based Green Power Company is planning to invest $200 million in Uttarakhand for setting up a plant that will make alternative petrol from the by-products collected from oil refineries. The company, having business presence in China and Indonesia, is looking …
Ambient air quality at five busy petrol pumps in Kolkata, India is monitored for mono-aromatic hydrocarbons and carbonyls. Among the measured volatile organic compounds, toluene and formaldehyde were the most abundant. Source apportionment using chemical mass balance identified exhaust from roadway and refueling as the major sources. Monitoring of the …
The Pakistan Sugar Mills Association (PSMA) is reported to have been trying to influence government policy to revive a dead project that envisaged use of a by-product of sugar fermentation, ethanol, with petrol, sources in Industries Ministry told Business Recorder. The Shaukat Aziz government had launched a pilot project of …
Latha Jishnu / New Delhi November 27, 2008, 0:33 IST With a crucial section of the law yet to be notified, the petroleum and natural gas regulator is operating in a vacuum. Regulators the world over are known to ruffle official feathers. Yet, seldom has a newly-formed regulatory body found …
US oil demand has fallen 5 per cent this year - the biggest drop since 1981 - according to new figures which underline changing American attitudes towards energy use. The American Petroleum Institute, the national oil and gas trade organisation, said yesterday all big petroleum products, including petrol, distillate, jet …
Saubhadra Chatterji & Rakteem Katakey / New Delhi November 19, 2008, 0:09 IST As the global crude prices have taken a substantial dip, the UPA government is set to slash the domestic fuel prices. But this price cut will take place only after the current Assembly polling is over on …
The price of petrol, diesel and kerosene was reduced by Rf2.40, Rf2.00 and Rf2.80 respectively on Monday. The changes brought to the fuel prices mean that the price of petrol litre has now been reduced to Rf8.50, diesel to Rf8.75 and kerosene to Rf8.90. This is the ninth time since …
Petroleum and Petroleum Resources Minister A.H.M. Fowzie says that the government is charging a levy of Rs. 62 per litre of petrol at the moment. Responding to a question raised by the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) parliamentarian Anura Kumara Dissanayake at the parliament this morning the Minister said the …
MORMUGAO, NOV 11: Claiming that contamination of water due to seepage of petroleum is a serious issue, Deputy Speaker Mauvin Godinho has threatened to support public agitation against an oil company located in the vicinity. He was speaking to oil company officials during a joint inspection along with various government …
Anil Kumar Sastry BANGALORE: The oil route just got a little closer. To bring down transportation costs, avoid pilferage and reduce pollution, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd., (IOCL) has begun work on a 290-km underground pipeline, which will bring petrol, diesel, kerosene and aviation turbine fuel (ATF) from Chennai to Bangalore. …
Gasoline lines are a familiar sight in Kathmandu. But this time, the queues of motorcycles are there not for fuel but because of fuel. Kalyan Paudel, service manager of the Yamaha workshop at Teku, has been busy the last few weeks fielding complaints from angry customers who are flocking to …
CHANDIGARH The empowered committee of state finance ministers has expressed unanimous indignation over the inexplicable delay in the reduction of petrol, diesel and LPG rates despite the substantial correction in international crude oil prices. West Bengal finance minister Ashim Dasgupta, who has been elected chairman for the committee
BS Reporter / New Delhi October 22, 2008, 0:49 IST First supplementary demand for grants gets Lok Sabha nod. The Lok Sabha today approved the central government
THE proposed changes in auto fuel policy, which promotes diesel technology, may come as a rude shock to public sector oil marketing companies, who are still coping with the unusual surge in the consumption of subsidised diesel. The proposed policy encourages diesel engine technology on the ground that it is …
Business Standard / New Delhi October 21, 2008, 0:18 IST With the price of the Indian basket of crude oil hovering around $63 a barrel, the possibility of a price cut is very much on the cards, especially now that election schedules have been announced for important states. While a …
The government on Thursday imposed petroleum development levy on diesel and kerosene and increased its ratio on petrol and high octane blending component (HOBC). A source told Dawn that the decision would help the government earn an additional amount of Rs3.5 billion a month. According to a notification issued by …
