A three member committee was directed by the NGT to probe the allegations of encroachment by stone crusher units on the river bed of Ganga flowing through Sahibganj in Jharkhand. The committee after visiting the site will submit its report within a period of three weeks. In case violations are …
More than 1,000 motor vehicle owners had lodged complaints with the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) regarding their vehicle engines that had been damaged after using the low quality petrol, the Petroleum Minister said yesterday. Minister Premajayantha said vehicle owners would be compensated after a special committee, which would be appointed …
The main opposition party of Sri Lanka, United National Party (UNP) has called on the government to pay compensation to the vehicles owners whose vehicles had been affected due to the pumping of substandard fuel imported by the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC). UNP General Secretary Tissa Attanayake has made this …
Minister of Petroleum Resources Susil Premajayantha said that the government was willing to pay compensation to those who could prove that their vehicles suffered damage due to allegedly contaminated fuel issued by the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC). Minister Premajayantha said the affected motorists could contact CPC, which would conduct tests …
The Delhi Government is all set to introduce cash subsidy to all BPL and AAY card holder families using kerosene as fuel switchover to LPG. To make Delhi a kerosene free city, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has set up a joint working group to look at modalities …
While the government is still to take any action over the 2006 ASSOCHAM report, private companies say they cannot do much and regulating kerosene or stopping the adulteration is the government
New Delhi: A thriving black market in kerosene, estimated at Rs 10,000 crore a year, killed additional collector Yeshwant Sonawane. A litre of kerosene sold at ration shops is often costlier than a bottle of packaged water. Most of this
Sanjay Jog / Mumbai June 29, 2010, 1:11 IST After the hike of Rs 3 per litre in kerosene against the rise of Rs 16-17 per litre recommended by the Kirit Parikh-led expert group, focus has now shifted to the large-scale adulteration and black-marketing of the fuel. Petroleum and Natural …
Rajahmundry, April 6: Adulteration of fuels, especially petrol and diesel, is rampant at several petrol stations, especially along NH-5 and in rural areas, as vehicle owners complain of their engines getting damaged due to usage of such fuels in East Godavari. Fuel dealers at petrol stations adopt various tactics to …
The oil and gas sector in India is the largest in terms of sales turnover, touching the lives of all citizens, providing uninterrupted supplies of oil products to the remotest parts of the country. The oil sector is the largest contributor to State exchequer through taxes.
With a large number of Indian cities embarking on natural gas vehicle programme it is essential that the elements of these programmes are well defined for maximum environmental and public health gains. It is important that the lessons are drawn from the well established programmes in the region to chart …
The CCB police busted a racket involved in adulterated diesel sale, and arrested five persons and recovered 20,000 litres of diesel and a truck worth Rs 7.4 lakh. The accused are - Arun, Rajesh, Josh Mery Jacob, the owner of a petrol bunk in Byatarayanapura on Mysore Road, Nizamuddin and …
New Delhi: Nearly 6.5 million BPL families who depend on kerosene for their cooking and lighting needs, as well as farmers who use it to run pumpsets and spray pesticides, could soon be exposed to cancer causing fumes from markers that will be laced with the poor man
onthespot KATATEL OUTLETS The outlet near 8B bus stop Outlets selling katatel, a toxic mixture of petrol, kerosene and naphtha used to run autorickshaws, continue to thrive in the city with the police looking the other way. Metro spotted three outlets of the killer fuel in south Calcutta. Where: Near …
KOCHI: Is your expensive car or bike running on quality fuel? At a time when the oil PSUs are launching campaigns highlighting the quality of fuels distributed through their outlets, the arrest of four members of a gang involved in selling pilfered benzene to petrol pumps comes as a shocking …
A syndicate is reportedly active in supplying adulterated fuel oils in different fuel sales points in the Khulna city and also many rural areas of the district. Members of the syndicate collect adulterated fuel oils from different parts of the country and supply them to their local customers, local sources …
- GUZZLE KATATEL, SPEW POISON Calcutta might not see the last of its polluting two-stroke autos for at least another decade if the pace of Operation Phaseout remains what it is. Of the 40,000 registered two-stroke autos that need to be replaced with LPG-compliant green autos, only 450 have been …
JAYANTA BASU TT for City - Poison Air Sunita Narain in the city on Thursday. (Rashbehari Das) A diesel and katatel combo is deadly for Calcutta, according to researchers studying fuel consumption in various cities.
Two-stroke autos ply in Kolkata despite court ban A COURT directive to stop polluting two stroke autorickshaws from plying on Kolkata roads has been rendered ineffective by the state government. The Calcutta High Court order dated July 18, 2008, to ban two-stroke autos by December 2008 was based on a …
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 …
