(ET) Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan met his Saudi counterpart Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman here on Sunday and the latter reiterated the kingdom’s commitment to remain a reliable and sustainable partner in hydrocarbon supplies for India. “Met the newly appointed Saudi Minister of Energy HRH Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman in Jeddah and renewed my earlier acquaintance with him during his previous assignments with Saudi Ministry of Energy,” Pradhan tweeted. “Saudi Minister reiterated Saudi Arabia’s commitment to remain a reliable and sustainable partner in hydrocarbon supplies and also on Saudi investments in India,” he said in another tweet. Pradhan is currently on a three-nation visit to…
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(Zee News) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the high-level Segment of the 14th Conference of Parties (COP14) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) on Monday in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh. During the Conference, an estimated 7,200 participants that include Ministers and representatives of governments, non-government and intergovernmental organisations, scientists, women and youth from the 197 parties are expected. They will take around 30 decisions with actions that aim to strengthen land-use policies worldwide and address emerging threats, such as forced migration, sand and dust storms, and droughts. The event started on September 2 and will continue…
(TH) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday assured the northeastern States that the Centre would never touch Article 371 of the Constitution that grants special provisions to the region. Mr. Shah, also the chairman of the North Eastern Council (NEC), gave the assurance in his inaugural address at the 68th plenary session of the NEC here. The meeting was attended by the Governors, the Chief Ministers and officials of eight northeastern States. “The withdrawal of Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir was criticised. Everyone can do so in a democratic country, but it was used to misinform and misguide the people…
(ET) The face-off between the Andhra Pradesh government and renewable energy producers has taken a new turn with union power and renewable energy minister RK Singh writing to chief minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy pointing to the state discoms’ unpaid dues of over Rs 2,000 crore to renewable energy producers and urging him to ensure they are quickly settled. In his letter dated September 2, Singh has noted that some wind and solar projects could turn into non-performing assets (NPAs) if their dues are not promptly paid. Soon after Jaganmohan Reddy took office in May, he had declared that the state would renegotiate…
(PTI) Reliance Industries is seeking a minimum price of USD 5.4 per unit for the natural gas it plans to produce from newer fields in the Bay of Bengal block KG-D6 as it changed parameters to suit government policies. Reliance and its partner BP Plc of the UK have sought bids from potential users for the 5 million standard cubic metres per day of natural gas they plan to produce from the R-Cluster Field in KG-D6 block from second quarter of 2020, according to the bid document. Bidders have been asked to quote a price (expressed as a percentage of…
(LiveMint) India is proud of its scientists said Prime Minister Narendra Modi after Lander Vikram loses contact with the ground station during last two minutes of the powered descent on the moon. “India is proud of our scientists! They’ve given their best and have always made India proud. These are moments to be courageous, and courageous we will be! We remain hopeful and will continue working hard on our space programme,” Modi tweeted after meeting the Chandrayaan-2 team at the Mission Control Complex in Bengaluru. Mission Chandryaan-2 was India’s second mission to the moon which was launched on July 22, nearly 11 years after…
Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas and Steel, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, accompanied by an official and business delegation, will be visiting Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar from 7-12 September 2019. He will engage with his counterparts in oil & gas as well as steel sectors in three countries and also participate in the 8th Asian Ministerial Energy Roundtable (AMER) at Abu Dhabi on 10 September, where India is the co-Host along with UAE. In Saudi Arabia, the Minister will have meetings with his counterpart, the Minister of Energy, H.E. Khalid Al-Falih and the senior management of ARAMCO, the National Oil Company…
Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will be handing over the 8 croreth connection under Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) at an event which will be organised in Sendra, Aurangabad, Maharashtra on 7th September, 2019. Government of India launched Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) to provide 8 crore deposit free LPG connections to poor households in the country. Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi launched PMUY on 1.5.2016 from Ballia, Uttar Pradesh, by handing over the first connection to the beneficiary. The Scheme aims to provide clean cooking fuel to poor households and replace the unhealthy conventional cooking fuels such as…
Chief engineer of Energy major Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) Mr Rituraj Sahu has been felicitated and honored with the Master Trainer Award by the Minister of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship. Mr Sahu’s honor came in the recognition of his commendable contribution in Apprentices Training. A post graduate in Maintenance Engineering from IIT Delhi, Mr Rituraj Sahu has a long experience in training and guiding apprentices. He actively participated in satisfying the training needs of apprentices to fulfill the Government of India’s goal – Skill India Program. Mr Sahu has 11 years of experience in operation and maintenance…
(TH) India has never been an aggressor but that does not mean it would balk at using its strength to defend itself, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday. His comments at a defence dialogue in Seoul came in the backdrop of spiralling tension between India and Pakistan over the Kashmir issue. “India has never been an aggressor in its history nor will it ever be. But that does not mean that India would balk at using its strength to defend itself,” Mr. Singh said, in presence of South Korea’s top military brass. The Defence Minister arrived in Seoul on Wednesday on a…