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 …
Pune, June 26 Showing a half-hearted approach in its decisions, the standing committee of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Tuesday withdrew a decision that it had passed last week. The committee pulled out the contract of installing modern street lighting energy management system from one of the three private …
Refusing To Bite The Bullet When Fuel Prices Were Raised, Railways To Now Levy 5-7% Charge On Commodities Rajat Guha & Gunjan Pradhan Sinha NEW DELHI IN A move that could increase inflationary pressure on prices of raw materials, the Railways have decided to levy special supplementary charge on carriage …
DOMESTIC airlines are lobbying hard to fly overseas to avail the benefit of cheaper aviation fuel and keep spiralling operating costs under control. International carriers pay 35% less for fuel compared to domestic carriers. Aviation fuel prices have soared and with no immediate relief in sight, the government is taking …
THE rate of inflation has soared into the double digits. This has set alarm bells ringing. News channels beam the bad news into homes through the day and this creates a pervasive sense of gloom. Double digit inflation has been associated with the collapse of economic growth. Many wonder whether …
THE spectacular rise in prices of crude oil and some food items may have hogged the limelight the world over, but the increase in prices of some fertilisers has left some other commodities pale in comparison. An official study on price movements of select food, energy and fertilisers shows that …
THE government has directed Reliance Industries (RIL) to sell gas from the D6 Krishna Godavari basin in accordance with the marketing priorities determined by the government. RIL has been directed to give priority to fertiliser plants, followed by LPG and existing power plants while allocating gas. The company has also …
Sujay Mehdudia India very much willing to go ahead with the deal, says Murli Deora India to hold talks with Pakistan on transit issue Energy security remains our priority, says Minister Drawing flak from the Left for "moving slow' on the $7.4-billion Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline, the government on Monday said …
India, Pakistan and Iran are likely to meet next month in Tehran to resolve differences over the $7.5-billion gas pipeline that was first proposed in 1994. Petroleum Minister Murli Deora met Iran's Oil Minister, Gholam Hosein Nozari, on the sidelines of a meeting of the world's oil producers and consumers …
Private infrastructure company GMR will replace state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) in the proposed Rs 31,000-crore refinery and petrochemical plant at Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh. The exit follows the country's largest oil and gas producer's claims over the past year that the project was unviable. ENTRY STRATEGY # …
by Larry Rohter When VeraSun Energy inaugurated a new ethanol processing plant last summer in Charles City, Iowa, some of that industry's most prominent boosters showed up. Leaders of the National Corn Growers Association and the Renewable Fuels Association, for instance, came to help cut the ribbon - and so …
Union finance minister P. Chidambaram did well to make it clear at the conference of oil producers and consumers in Jeddah that it was not the rising demand for oil in India and other developing countries that was contributing to the spiralling rise in crude prices. It is unfair to …
Thomas W Evans The US president has the power to attack, and perhaps destroy, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), the illegal cartel that has driven the price of oil over $130 per barrel. This can be accomplished without invasion or bombing. No special legislation is needed. The president …
Oil crisis is changing business practices and lifestyles High oil prices affect everybody, from the poor man to the captain of industry. In India, the government has not passed on the increase in the price of crude to consumers fully, but double-digit inflation has meant that everybody is bearing the …
Bhaskar Roy Facing the prospect of the UPA government's sudden collapse as a consequence of inking the India-US nuclear deal, the allies on Monday brought pressure on the Congress leadership to prevent such a fallout and pointed to more urgent issues like prices and oil market volatility. Three leaders of …
Is suppressing inflation the answer to an underlying problem, or is it better to bring the problem to the surface as the first step towards addressing its causes and effects? Everyone who is shocked by the 11 per cent rate of inflation (as measured by the wholesale price index) for …
Rakteem Katakey Big oil companies may be keeping away from exploring for oil in India, but guess who's keen on taking advantage of soaring oil prices? These range from realty companies to oil services company. Even a media company
Gone are the days when there used to be a mad scramble to get Rs 99 tickets to Bangalore or bid online for Re 1 tickets to Chennai. Such tickets just don't exist anymore. After giving several Indians a taste of no frill,
