(NDTV) India is not considering buying oil from Russia or any other country using Indian rupees, the junior Oil Minister told Parliament on Monday, after Western nations imposed sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. With Western sanctions hitting Russia’s dollar-based trading, there is focus on Moscow’s efforts to switch to other currencies, including the possible use of the yuan and rupee in deals with China and India. “At present, oil public sector undertakings neither have any contract nor is any such proposal under consideration from Russia or any other country for purchase of crude oil in Indian rupees,”…
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(PIB) NITI Aayog and FAO Launch Book Titled Indian Agriculture towards 2030. Union Minister Shri Narendra Singh Tomar Release Book, Congratulate NITI Aayog, FAO & MoA&FW. Book Discusses Pathways for Enhancing Farmers’ Income, Nutritional Security and Sustainable Food and Farm Systems. Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare (MoA&FW) Shri Narendra Singh Tomar today released a book titled Indian Agriculture towards 2030: Pathways for Enhancing Farmers’ Income, Nutritional Security and Sustainable Food and Farm Systems, at an event organized by NITI Aayog and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. Published by Springer, Indian Agriculture towards 2030 captures the outcomes of the…
(NDTV) Fuel prices were increased again on Tuesday for the seventh time in the last eight days. In Delhi, petrol rates were hiked by 80 paise a litre to cross the ₹ 100 mark and diesel by 70 paise a litre, according to a price notification of state fuel retailers. A litre of petrol in the national capital will now cost ₹ 100.21 as against ₹ 99.41 previously, while diesel will be sold at ₹ 91.47 from ₹ 90.77 per litre earlier. In Mumbai, petrol will be retailed at ₹ 115.04 per litre, while diesel will be sold at ₹ 99.25 per litre. Among the metro cities, fuel rates are still the highest in…
(T.E.T) ONGC Videsh Ltd has sold at least one cargo of Russian Sokol oil to India refiners Hindustan Petroleum Corp and Bharat Petroleum Corp after failing to draw interest in a tender earlier this month, sources familiar with the matter said. Indian companies are snapping up Russian oil as it is available at a deep discounts after some companies and countries shunned purchases from Moscow due to sanctions against Russia for its Ukraine invasion. India, the world’s third-biggest oil consumer and importer, has not banned Russian oil imports. ONGC Videsh, the overseas investment arm of Oil and Natural Gas Corp, has…
(D.J) उत्तर प्रदेश विधानसभा के पहली बार सदस्य बने मुख्यमंत्री योगी आदित्यनाथ को प्रोटेम स्पीकर रमापति शास्त्री विधान सभा सदस्य के पद की शपथ दिलाई। उत्तर प्रदेश के मुख्यमंत्री योगी आदित्यनाथ 1998 में पहली बार लोकसभा के सदस्य बने थे। समाजवादी पार्टी के अध्यक्ष नेता विरोधी दल अखिलेश यादव ने भी पहली बार विधानसभा सदस्य की शपथ ली। सोमवार को विधान भवन में उन्होंने पहली बार विधानसभा सदस्य के रूप में शपथ ली। सीएम योगी आदित्यनाथ को प्रोटेम स्पीकर रमापति शास्त्री ने विधायक पद की शपथ दिलाई। पहली बार विधायक बने मुख्यमंत्री योगी आदित्यनाथ ने विधानसभा के सदस्य पद की शपथ ली। विधान भवन में विधानसभा सदस्य की शपथ…
(CNBC) According to the sources, the Centre may consider divestment in National Fertilizers Ltd, Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizer Ltd, Madras Fertilizer, Fertilizer Corporation of India, Brahmaputra Valley Fertilizer Corporation, Hindustan Fertilizers Corporation and MMTC Ltd. State Trading Corporation Of India Ltd and PEC may be considered for closure. As per the new Public Sector Enterprise (PSE) policy, CPSEs in non-strategic sector and those not exempt may be privatised or closed. CNBC-TV18 on March 7 had reported that the government was identifying CPSEs under Textiles, Commerce & Industry, Chemicals & Fertilizers for closure, merger and privatisation
(A.U) विधानसभा चुनाव में जीत के बाद भाजपा नेता व पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री प्रमोद सावंत दोबारा सीएम की कुर्सी पर काबिज होंगे। वह सोमवार को मुख्यमंत्री पद की शपथ लेंगे। सुबह 11 बजे डॉ श्यामा प्रसाद मुखर्जी स्टेडियम में होने वाले इस शपथग्रहण समारोह में प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी के अलावा रक्षा मंत्री राजनाथ सिंह व अन्य वरिष्ठ भाजपा नेता भी मौजूद रहेंगे। हाल ही में हुए 40 सदस्यीय विधानसभा चुनाव में तीन बार से विधायक प्रमोद सावंत के नेतृत्व में भाजपा यहां पर 20 सीटें जीतकर दोबारा सत्ता में आई है। माना जा रहा है कि, शपथग्रहण समारोह में 10 हजार से…
(F.E) Union Home Minister Amit Shah is set to table Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022 for preservation of records for identification and investigation in the Parliament today. The proposed law seeks to repeal the Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920. It proposes to allow police collect finger impressions, palm prints impressions, footprint impressions, photographs, iris and retina scans, physical and biological samples, their analysis, behavioural attributes including signatures, handwriting, etc. Meanwhile, the Upper House will take up Constitution (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) Orders (Amendment) Bill, 2022 (with respect to the State of Jharkhand), the Constitution (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) Orders (Second Amendment)…
(T.E.T) For the sixth time in the last seven days, the prices of fuel have increased across the country, with the national capital currently selling petrol at Rs 99.41 per litre after a 30 paise hike, while the price of diesel is up to Rs 90.77 per litre after a 35 paise hike. Rates have been increased across the country and vary from state to state depending upon the incidence of local taxation. This is the sixth increase in prices since the ending of a four-and-half-month long hiatus in rate revision on March 22. In the first four four occasions,…
(D.J) चीन में धीमी ईंधन मांग पर चिंता बढ़ने के कारण तेल की कीमतों में सोमवार को लगभग 4 डॉलर की गिरावट आई। ऐसा तब हुआ, जब शंघाई में अधिकारियों ने कहा कि वह कोरोना टेस्टिंग के लिए देश के वित्तीय केंद्र को बंद कर देंगे। ऐसे में एक तरफ यूक्रेन और रूस के बीच चल रहे युद्ध के कारण बाजार में पहले से ही अनिश्चितता है, वहीं अब दूसरी ओर दुनिया के सबसे बड़े कच्चे तेल के आयातक चीन में कोरोना संबंधित लॉकडाउन का विस्तार होने से बाजार और तनाव में है। बता दें कि रूस दुनिया का दूसरा…