Judgment of the Calcutta High Court in the matter of Yeasin Molla & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 12/09/2023. The petitioners are the ration card holders and members of Priority Household under the National Food Security Act, 2015. In the instant writ petition the petitioners have challenged …
Using paraffin (kerosene) for cooking, heating or lighting is strongly associated with poverty in South Africa. In addition, many regard it to be the most dangerous form of household energy because of the high profile given to the unacceptably high number of harmful paraffin related domestic incidents that have taken …
Dec. 5: The government on Friday announced a reduction in the price of petrol by Rs 5 a litre and in diesel by Rs 2 a litre, to be effective from midnight Friday-Saturday, as the international price of crude hit a four-year low. There will be no reduction in kerosene …
The government today cut prices of petrol by 10 per cent and diesel by 6 per cent, effective midnight, a day before the government and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) are expected to announce a coordinate economic stimulus package combining infrastructure investment, excise breaks and key lending rate cuts. …
BRIGHTER OPTIONS Ranchi: Indicator lights are now illuminating homes of the remote Jarga village in Angara block. Technically known as light-emitting diodes (LED), usually found on electronic devices
This study examines household behaviour related to fuelwood collection and use. The focus is on identifying the behavioral transition of fuelwood-using households from collection to purchase. The study examines the theory linking households
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 …
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 …
NEW DELHI: The continued slide in crude oil prices in the international market has brought cheers to the loss making oil marketing companies (OMCs) with the Indian crude basket dropping below the $100-mark for the first time in the last six months. Official sources said here that India
India is witnessing an increasing demand for energy in its rapidly expanding economy and is making large investments in exploration, fuel production, generation, transmission and distribution of power and in setting up a grid infrastructure. However, gender-based empowerment, the needs of women and their access to and control over energy …
The Prime Minister has constituted a high powered committee under the chairmanship of Shri B K Chaturvedi, Member, Planning Commission, to examine the financial position of oil companies. The terms of reference of the committee will be: to examine the impact of the increase in oil prices between 2004-05 and …
THE poor may now hope to use nonpolluting lanterns instead of carbon emitting kerosene lamps. The government is considering a proposal to use a portion of kerosene subsidy to fund distribution of solar lanterns in rural areas. The proposal, discussed in the Prime Minister's Energy Co-ordination Committee (ECC) meeting recently, …
Commentarao S.L. Rao Results first Subsidies have been the albatross around the necks of finance ministers, from Manmohan Singh in 1991 to P. Chidambaram today. These have constrained the freedom to invest in agriculture and in infrastructure, both physical and social. This has resulted in increased inequalities in sectoral growth …
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 …
Beijing: The Chinese government has raised the price of petroleum products by 18 per cent. This is expected to cause a dramatic rise in inflation, which is at a 12-year high. But the government has taken care not to upset the middle class by exempting bus and rail passengers and …
Two small-time city businessmen, who allegedly forged documents in connivance with a sub inspector to get a tanker containing spurious diesel released from a police station, were denied bail by a city court on Tuesday. The duo, suspected to be suppliers of adulterated fuel to truckers were denied relief by …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in an address to the nation on Wednesday, explained the circumstances under which the government effected the revision in the fuel prices. "I know that the price increases we have had to announce today will not be popular, though they are only modest,' he said while …
