(NDTV) Oil-marketing companies slashed the prices of petrol and diesel across the four metro cities on Sunday. Petrol is priced at Rs. 76.71 per litre in New Delhi, Rs. 78.65 per litre in Kolkata, Rs.82.23 per litre in Mumbai and Rs. 79.66 per litre in Chennai, according to Indian Oil Corporation (IOC). Diesel rates stood at Rs. 71.56 per litre in New Delhi, Rs. 73.42 per litre in Kolkata, Rs. 74.97 per litre in Mumbai and Rs. 75.63 per litre in Chennai. Petrol and diesel rates are decided on a daily basis by oil-marketing companies on the basis of the rupee-dollar rate and global crude oil prices. State-run oil marketing companies Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum and…
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(ET) Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), India’s largest vertically integrated oil company, is looking at production enhancement contracts (PECs) and enhanced oil recovery techniques to boost oil and gas output from old and matured fields that are faced with natural decline, its chairman Shashi Shanker said. The company plans to bring in service providers with advanced technology in operation of its oil and gas fields by offering them a PEC where they would get a pre-determined fee forincremental production over a baseline. Field operators would be selected through a competitive bidding process where those offering higher growth in output…
(AU) प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी शनिवार को मालदीव के निर्वाचित राष्ट्रपति इब्राहिम मोहम्मद सालेह के शपथ ग्रहण समारोह में शामिल होंगे। उनका प्रधानमंत्री के तौर पर मालदीव का पहला दौरा होगा। पीएम मोदी ने कई ट्वीट कर कहा कि वह सालेह के नेतृत्व वाली नई मालदीव सरकार से भारत के उसके साथ काम करने की इच्छा से अवगत कराएंगे। भारत इंफ्रास्ट्रक्चर, स्वास्थ्य, संपर्क, मानव संसाधन विकास जैसे अहम विकास कार्यों में काम करने का इच्छुक है। मालदीव के हालिया चुनावों ने लोगों की लोकतंत्र, कानून के शासन और बेहतर भविष्य की सामूहिक आकांक्षाओं को प्रदर्शित किया है। हम भारतवासी स्थिर, लोकतांत्रिक, समृद्ध…
(The Hans India) Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Director (operations) PK Rao has said that ONGC Videsh (OVL), a subsidiary of ONGC, is planning to scale up its production to 60,000 Million Metric Tonnes from its existing 14,000 Million Metric Tonnes (oil equivalent gas). Addressing a media conference in the office of ONGC Rajamahendravaram Asset here on Friday, he said the OVL is the growth engine of ONGC and investing its technologies in acquiring new fields abroad. “This helps to reduce oil imports by 10 per cent as per the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” he added. OVL is…
(ET) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has declined to pass on information about non-performing assets (NPAs) and loan defaulters that the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has asked for in the past year, according to two people with knowledge of the development. The banking regulator’s reluctance to do so stems from the prospect of the data leaking as it becomes known to a wider set of people, hurting the business prospects of the companies involved, they said. Sebi has sent at least two official requests to RBI seeking such details as evidence for ongoing investigations in the…
(Hindustan) प्रगतिशील समाजवादी पार्टी के राष्ट्रीय अध्यक्ष शिवपाल सिंह यादव ने कहा कि लोकसभा चुनाव में उनकी पार्टी उत्तर प्रदेश से सबसे बड़े दल के रूप में उभरेगी। चुनाव में पार्टी 79 सीटों पर लड़ेगी और सबसे ज्यादा सीटें जीतेगी। उनकी पार्टी की भागीदारी के बिना केंद्र की सरकार नहीं बनेगी। कल्कि महोत्सव में बुधवार की शाम शिरकत करने आए शिवपाल सिंह यादव ने पत्रकारों से बातचीत के दौरान कहा कि उन्हें नेता जी मुलायम सिंह यादव का आशीर्वाद प्राप्त है। नेता जी की इजाजत से ही उन्होंने अलग पार्टी का गठन किया। अब परिवार में झगड़े या सुलह का कोई…
(The Hans India) Andhra Pradesh State Skill Development Corporation (APSSDC) organised a special programme called Cloud Skills Day with the support of Amazon Web Services at A Convention Centre here on Wednesday. APSSDC MD K Sambasiva Rao and Amazon Web Services Education India head Sunil exchanged MoU documents. On occasion, APSSDC managing director K Sambasiva Rao said that they had already provided short-term training to 30,000 students under Amazon Web Services. “We are aiming to provide skill training to the one lakh students in the next year. The main objective of the programme is to train the students to complete…
(The Hindu) ONGC Videsh Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ONGC, has reported a ₹1,384 crore consolidated net profit for the first half of financial year 2018-19. This is over 9.7 times the ₹142 crore consolidated net profit reported by the company in the same six month period of the preceding financial year. A company statement said that the gain was mainly due to higher production, higher prices and exchange variation. Total income from operations stood at ₹7,579 crore during the period under review up from ₹4,756 crore in the same period of the financial year 2017-2018. “Standalone and consolidated production of crude oil and oil…
(Hindustan) प्रधानमंत्री उज्ज्वला योजना के तहत दिए गए गैस कनेक्शन में लाभार्थी अपना गैस सिलेंडर बदल सकते हैं। उन्हें अपना 14 किलो का गैस सिलेंडर भरवाने में दिक्कत हो रही है, तो वे इसकी जगह पांच किलो का सिलेंडर भी बुक कर सकते हैं। क्योंकि, पांच किलो के सिलेंडर के दाम आम घरेलू गैस सिलेंडर के मुकाबले एक तिहाई हैं। उज्ज्वला योजना के तहत दिए गए गैस कनेक्शन और सिलेंडर का लाभार्थी अधिक से अधिक इस्तेमाल करे, इसके लिए सरकार ने बड़े गैस सिलेंडर के बजाय पांच किलो का सिलेंडर देने की पहल की है। पांच किलो के सिलेंडर पर…
(PTI) India is ready to share its expertise in renewable energy with small island nations, Union Power and New & Renewable Energy Minister R K Singh said Wednesday. “India has chosen the path of sustainable growth and we want to leave a green planet for our future generations. That is why our focus is on renewable energy. We are aiming for 100 per cent renewable energy in Andaman & Nicobar and Lakshadweep and India is ready to share expertise among other small island Nations, said Singh in a statement. Singh was addressing delegates of Know India Programme from various countries, including Mauritius,…