Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
NEW DELHI: Oil and gas giant Total of France, India born steel baron L. N. Mittal and state-run Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) will take a decision on taking a final plunge to set up the proposed 14 million-tonne refinery-cum-petrochemical plant at Vizag in Andhra Pradesh at a cost of …
BS Reporter / New Delhi July 10, 2008, 0:19 IST Oil majors to take call on project after pre-feasibility study by Dec. Billionaire L N Mittal, France's Total and its three other Indian partners will take a final decision to build a $6-billion refinery and petrochemicals complex in south India …
TOYAKO, Group of Eight leaders patched together a deal to fight climate change at a summit that wound up on Wednesday, but failed to convince big emerging economies that rich countries were doing enough. Climate change was the most contentious topic at this year's G8 summit in Japan, which also …
Press Trust Of India / Lima July 09, 2008, 0:12 IST Reliance Industries (RIL) has signed an agreement with Peru's Perupetro to jointly explore for oil and gas in the Andean country,Cesar Gutirrez ,president of Peru's state-run firm, said. "We'll be formalising the agreements reached in these past weeks. Also, …
NEW DELHI: In what could trigger of rivalry between the warring siblings, Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and leading gas distribution company Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) have sought licences for city gas distribution (CGD) and Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) projects in 58 cities across the country. Official …
Can the G8 discussions move beyond commitment-phobia on climate change? Lavanya Rajamani Related Stories What India needs to say at Bali Climate change and us The Japanese, like the Germans and the British before them, have placed climate change high on the G8's agenda. They have billed this year's G8 …
MIAMI, July 8: Rising gasoline prices have brought a new twist on the state lottery in Florida. Once a week for the next two months, the second-prize winner in the latest lottery promotion, Summer Cash, will win free gasoline for life. And some people think that is a better deal …
Advocating the removal of subsidies on non-renewable fuels like kerosene, chairman of the Nobel-prize winning Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change R K Pachauri on Tuesday urged the Government to invest this money in promoting clean and alternative sources of energy. Citing the example of kerosene, Pachauri said the huge subsidy …
B. Muralidhar Reddy COLOMBO: Sri Lanka Government on Monday signed an agreement with Cairn India for exploration of hydro-carbon and natural gas in the Mannar Basin in the north. Sri Lanka Minister of Petroleum and Petroleum Resources A. H. M. Fowzie, and Chief Financial Officer of Carin India, Indrajith Benerijee, …
New Delhi July 7: The government has asked PSU Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) not to force consumers to buy branded fuels. There were reports that the PSU OMCs have imposed quotas on their petrol pumps, according to which the petrol pumps would get only 50 per cent of their fuel …
New Delhi, July 7: The National Action Plan on Climate Change, which was unveiled by the Government last week, is much more than India's response to the challenge from climate change. It is a roadmap for ensuring long-term energy security of the country leading to sustainable development, Prime Minister's special …
UT Administrator Gen eral (Retd) S F Rodrigues has asked officials in the Administration to look at alternative sources of energy for the city. Speaking at a public hearing session on Monday, he suggested that the alternative sources of energy could provide a long-term solution to the energy crisis. A …
Opec president Chakib Khelil warned on Sunday that oil prices will continue to rise because of the falling dollar, in an interview in the Algeria-News. "The price of oil will rise again in the coming weeks. We have to follow the evolution of the dollar, because a 1% fall in …
Rakteem Katakey / New Delhi July 04, 2008, 0:43 IST India's search for oil to meet its growing energy needs is taking its flagship company, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), to every corner of the world. ONGC's latest destination is Angola, which produces around 1 per cent of the …
LONG before the fuel price increase was announced on June 4, its political dimensions had come up time and again in discussions among partners of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government at the Centre. The debate was on even during the run-up to the Assembly elections in Karnataka, which were …
Just as in the case of major foodgrains, deregulation of financial markets has had a significant role in affecting global oil prices. JAY MALLIN/BLOOMBERG NEWS The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee of the United States hearing testimony on whether speculation in the commodities market by institutional investors and …
The oil price hike burdens already strained State finances and threatens to jeopardise welfare programmes run by State governments. THE Union government's decision to raise the prices of petroleum products has placed State governments in a quandary. While taxes on petroleum products constitute a significant proportion of a State's revenue, …
As the neoliberal edifice crumbles in the face of rising prices, a rationing regime becomes the only way of protecting the poor from their impact. Murli Deora, Petroleum Minister, and P. Chidambaram, Finance Minister, at a function in New Delhi. THE basic problem for India with the rise in world …
