Six Central Oil PSUs viz. ONGC, IOC, BPCL, HPCL, GAIL and OIL under the administrative control of the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas have contributed Rs 15 Crore to the Flood Relief Fund of the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Gujarat to aid the flood affected people of the State. While ONGC and IOC have contributed Rs 3.2 Crore each, the other four PSUs have contributed Rs 2.15 Crore each. A cheque of Rs. 15 crores was handed over to Shri Vijay Ramniklal Rupani, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Gujarat by the representatives of Oil companies led by ONGC CMD Shri D K Sarraf at the CM’sOffice in Ahmedabad today. This is an initiative taken by the Central Oil PSUs under the leadership of Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, Hon’ble Union Cabinet Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas, Government of…
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(FE) 7th Pay Commission report: It seems another good news is coming for government employees. Reportedly, Narendra Modi government is planning to raise the minimum salary of Central government employees. The government may hike the minimum salary to Rs 21,000, as per a report in OneIndia. As of now, the minimum salary of Central government employees is Rs 18,000. However, the demand is to hike the minimum pay to Rs 25,000, the One India report adds. Earlier, in a bonanza to 48 lakh central government employees, the Union Cabinet on June 28 had approved recommendations of 7th Central Pay Commission with…
(TH) Cash rich Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) will raise its first debt ever, of Rs.25,000 crore, to part fund the Rs. 37,000 crore acquisition of government’s stake in Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL).India’s largest oil and gas producer has about Rs. 13,000 crore in cash and would need to borrow the rest to fund the buying of government’s 51.11 per cent stake in HPCL. ONGC has sought shareholder approval for “borrowing/ raising funds in Indian rupee and/ or foreign currency by issue of debt instruments (including bonds, non-convertible debentures and notes) in domestic and/ or overseas market” of Rs. 25,000 crore. The borrowings would be…
(AU) यूपी सरकार ने फर्रुखाबाद के राम मनोहर लोहिया संयुक्त चिकित्सालय में 49 बच्चों की मौत पर सख्त रुख अपनाते हुए डीएम रविन्द्र कुमार, सीएमओ डॉ. उमाकान्त पांडेय व सीएमएस डॉ. अखिलेश कुमार को पद से हटा दिया है। इस घटना की महानिदेशक चिकित्सा एवं स्वास्थ्य के निर्देशन में डॉक्टरों की एक टेक्निकल टीम मौके पर भेजकर जांच कराई जा रही है। जांच रिपोर्ट आने के बाद दोषियों के खिलाफ सख्त कार्रवाई की जाएगी। वहीं, सीएमओ व सीएमएस पर दर्ज एफआईआर पर फिलहाल कोई कार्रवाई नहीं होगी। पहले तो इन बच्चों की मौत का कारण बीआरडी मेडिकल कॉलेज, गोरखपुर की…
(LiveMint) India on Monday started exporting petroleum products to Myanmar by road, discovering a new market for its fast- growing oil refining sector at a time when renewable energy and electric mobility are laying claim to a higher share of the domestic energy market. “The first consignment of 30 tonnes of high speed diesel was sent today from India to Myanmar by land route,” said an oil ministry statement, adding that Numaligarh Refinery Ltd. exported the fuel. Numaligarh Refinery despatched the first diesel consignment across the Moreh Custom Check Point on the Indian side and Tamu Custom Check Point on the…
(TH) Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Monday that the daily revision of fuel prices had benefited consumers. He said the recent increase in prices was “mainly” driven by rising global prices. Mr. Pradhan, who has been elevated to the Cabinet rank and given additional charge of the Skill Development Ministry, said he would seek to meet the Prime Minister’s expectations from the Skill India Mission of creating “dignified job opportunity” for the youth. On fuel prices, he asked: “Should prices be hiked by ₹2.50 or ₹3 per litre in one go or they should be spaced out…
(AU) लखनऊ भी आज से मेट्रो वाला हो जाएगा। मेट्रो के चलने के इंतजार की घड़ियां मंगलवार सुबह 11.30 बजे खत्म हो जाएंगी। शिक्षक दिवस के खास मौके पर राज्यपाल राम नाईक, मुख्यमंत्री योगी आदित्यनाथ, केंद्रीय गृहमंत्री राजनाथ सिंह, केंद्रीय आवास एवं शहरी कार्य राज्यमंत्री हरदीप सिंह पुरी इसे हरी झंडी दिखाएंगे। यही नहीं वे मेट्रो के यात्री भी बनेंगे। हालांकि आमजन को मेट्रो के सफर के लिए बुधवार सुबह 6 बजे का इंतजार करना होगा। लखनऊ मेट्रो रेल कॉरपोरेशन (एलएमआरसी) के एमडी कुमार केशव ने बताया कि मुख्य कार्यक्रम ट्रांसपोर्टनगर मेट्रो स्टेशन पर होगा। सुबह 11.30 बजे सभी विशिष्ट…
(LiveMint) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold talks with Chinese president Xi Jinping on Tuesday, during which the two countries are expected to take stock of bilateral ties, buffeted by a military standoff on the Doklam plateau in Bhutan—their longest in two decades—that ended only last week. The meeting between the two is scheduled for 10am (IST) and is Modi’s last engagement in the Chinese city of Xiamen before he departs for Myanmar on a two-day visit. Modi has been in Xiamen since Sunday for the 9th meeting of Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (Brics) group of emerging economies. The Modi-Xi meeting will…
(TOI) As oil minister, Dharmendra Pradhan quickly brought to scale two of the Narendra Modi government’s immensely successful welfare schemes – PaHAL, the direct transfer of LPG susbsidy and Ujjwala, the scheme for providing free cooking gas connections to poor households – within a short time after they were launched. Now, as the minster for skill development and entrepreneurship, his additional responsibility after petroleum and natural gas, Pradhan aims to bring his experience to add speed to one of the prime minister’s pet programmes – skilling India for the new-age world economic order and improving employability of the country’s young population. “I am humbled…
(HT) Prime Minister Narendra Modi promoted petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan to cabinet rank on Sunday and gave him the additional charge of the skill development ministry. Odisha-born Pradhan now has the twin task of delivering the state for the Bharatiya Janata Party and give a new push to the Skill India mission, an issue close to the heart of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Pradhan’s promotion as a cabinet minister is largely because of the successful implementation of the scheme to provide free LPG cylinders to BPL families — another pet scheme of PM Modi. Before the rollout of the scheme, more…