Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Even as the government has ruled out any increase in diesel prices in the near future, it is hoping for a moderation in global crude oil prices. After taking over as the petroleum minister today, S Jaipal Reddy ruled out any increase in diesel price, leaving the oil marketing companies …
The petroleum ministry on Thursday said the government is committed to adequately compensating state-owned oil marketing companies for the losses they incur on selling diesel and cooking fuel below cost.
PM Expresses Concern Over Effect On People New Delhi: Consumers may be in a soup over sky-rocketing prices of onion and tomoto, but they can expect some relief on at least one front. The government has hit the pause button on raising diesel and cooking gas prices for fear of …
Price hike to improve financial health of state-run oil marketing firms, but heat up inflation Rajeev Jayaswal NEW DELHI OIL companies plan to raise petrol and diesel prices by 2 a litre after a week as crude touched a two-year high of $90 a barrel on Tuesday, a move that …
India is all set to give its consent for an inter-governmental agreement on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline, which will be signed in Turkmenistan at a summit meet next week. This is being termed as a major breakthrough for a project that has hardly moved beyond the drawing board for nearly …
The Planning Commission Deputy Chairman, Mr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, has said that the uncertainty over deregulation of diesel price could impact the issue price of the oil companies. He was responding to a specific query from Business Line on whether the deregulation issue could impact the forthcoming follow-on offers of …
New Delhi: The government, which was aggressively pushing for exploration of conventional oil and gas, had taken steps to tap shale gas to reduce the country's import dependence, Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Murli Deora said on Sunday.
This Report of the Standing Committee on Petroleum & Natural Gas deals with the action taken by the Government on the Recommendations contained in the Twenty-Third Report (Fourteenth Lok Sabha) of the Standing Committee on Petroleum & Natural Gas (2008-2009) on "Oil Refineries – A Critique?" which was presented to …
Prior permission needed, it maintains; decision by the end of December. Murli Deora For the first time after the announcement of the Cairn-Vedanta deal on August 16, the government today admitted to differences with Cairn over whether the deal required approval under the production sharing contract for the Barmer oil …
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry has provided a block in the 609 sq-km Sohagpur Coalfield, in Madhya Pradesh's Shahdol and Umaria districts, to France-based Geopetrol International Incorporated consortium Reliance Natural Limited and Reliance Infrastructure Ltd for prospecting coal-bed methane. A petroleum exploration deed was inked here yesterday by the …
Concerned that the country would not have gas supply to the tune of over 450 million standard cubic metre per day (mmscmd) required for its greenfield and brownfield power projects in the foreseeable future, the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) is likely to discuss ways of prioritising the applicants through …
OIL and gas minister Murli Deora on Friday dashed hopes of total freedom to oil and gas companies in fixing prices of petrol, saying that the government will intervene to protect consumers from high volatility.
Pressure from the automobile industry is delaying implementation of tighter vehicular emission norms in cities across India. Though four-wheelers in 11 cities, including the four metros, switched from Bharat Stage (BS) III emission norms to BS IV on April 1, other cities supposed to make the switch from BS II …
This Report of the Standing Committee on Petroleum & Natural Gas deals with the action taken by the Government on the Recommendations contained in the Twenty-Fifth Report (Fourteenth Lok Sabha) of the Standing Committee on Petroleum and Natural Gas (2008-2009) on "Marketing, Supply, Distribution, Dealerships and Pricing of Kerosene and …
Three and a half years after the government set up a regulator for the downstream petroleum and natural gas sector, it still insists on fixing product prices, violating the statute, says Mukesh Kacker MUCH has already been written about how competition and regulation of competition, or more correctly, regulation of …
New Delhi: More than a dozen agreements, including an umbrella civil nuclear pact and another on the Gorshkov aircraft carrier, are likely to be signed between India and Russia tomorrow during Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
APANEL headed by Kirit Parikh has suggested a clean break from the past, with market-linked prices for auto fuels and a sharp increase in the prices of kerosene and cooking gas, testing the willingness of the Manmohan Singh government to grapple with a problem that has defied a solution for …
The government today said it is on track to supply cleaner Euro-IV grade petrol and diesel in 13 big cities from April 1, but sale of Euro-III fuel in rest of the country will be phased over six months. Currently, Euro-III grade petrol and diesel is sold in 13 big …
We would like to respond to some of the points raised in the company by Ratan Watal on behalf of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) and provide some suggestions that we believe will help improve the functioning of the board.
