(PTI) Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday exuded confidence that the BJP would come to power in Odisha, saying the state was moving towards a “big change”. “BJP will form the government in Odisha and win more number of Lok Sabha seats in the state, where people have made up their mind to see victory for the party,” Pradhan said, while responding to queries at a function here. To a query about a recent survey claiming that 59 per cent of the respondents favoured Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik as the next chief minister again, Pradhan said the study also showed Prime…
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(LiveMint) State run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC)expects crude oil prices to continue their upward trajectory in the backdrop of impending Iran sanctions and declining production in Venezuela. Speaking at India’s largest exploration and production firm’s annual general meeting on Friday, Shashi Shanker, chairman and managing director said, “Within a period of two years, the trajectory of prices changed dramatically. A barrel of crude in early 2016 fetched just about $30; by the end of 2017 it had already more than doubled.” A high crude oil price projection by ONGC that accounts for 73% of India’s oil and gas production comes in the backdrop of…
(FirstPost) The government on Friday announced a 10 percent hike in price of domestic natural gas, a move that will translate into higher CNG price and increased cost of electricity and urea production. Price paid to most of the domestic producers of natural gas has been hiked to $3.36 per million British thermal unit (mmBtu) from 1 October, from the current $3.06, according to Oil Ministry’s Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell. Natural gas prices are set every six months based on average rates in gas-surplus nations like the US, Russia and Canada. India imports half of its gas which costs more than…
(LiveMint) Foreign minister Sushma Swaraj on Friday sought to isolate Pakistan on terrorism, and piling pressure on Islamabad at a meeting of South Asian foreign ministers, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. Islamabad, on its part, accused India of impeding the region’s progress and prosperity, and adding to the tensions with India calling off talks between Swaraj and her Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi last week, a day after accepting the proposal. In her speech at a meeting of the foreign ministers of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) countries in New York, Swaraj stressed that an atmosphere of peace and…
(AU) प्रधानमंत्री फसल बीमा में बड़े स्तर पर घोटाला सामने आया है। डेटा बेस में छेड़छाड़ तथा गलत विवरण अपलोड करके दो करोड़ रुपये से अधिक राशि का दूसरों को भुगतान कर दिया गया है। जबकि, एक हजार पात्र किसान इससे वंचित रह गए। मामला सामने आने के बाद बैंक से वसूली के साथ एफआईआर भी लिखाई गई है। मामला पंजाब नेशनल बैंक की मांडा और हाटा तथा यूनियन बैंक की कोरांव शाखा का है। पंजाब नेशनल बैंक की दोनों शाखाओं में करीब एक हजार किसानों के डाटा में हेरफेर किया गया है। यहां टाटा एआईजी जनरल इंश्योरेंस कंपनी के…
(PTI) India’s Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan is in Nepal to hold talks on the modality of construction of a petroleum pipeline from Amlekhgunj to Chitwan and the import of petrol and gas to the land-locked Himalayan nation. Nepal is seeking extension of three pipelines – natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas and oil (petrol, diesel and kerosene)- up to Chitwan. The Indian petroleum minister and his team will hold discussions on the under-construction petroleum and gas pipelines, Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) spokesperson Birendra Goit was quoted as saying by the daily. Pradhan, who arrived here on Friday, will hold discussions with various authorities involved in the construction of the pipeline. The…
(AU) महंत दिग्विजयनाथ और महंत अवेद्यनाथ की श्रद्धांजलि समारोह में हिस्सा लेने आए मुख्यमंत्री योगी आदित्यनाथ ने कहा कि देश फतवे से नहीं संविधान से चलता है। बाबा साहब डॉ. भीम राव अंबेडकर ने जो संविधान दिया है, उसमें हर समस्या का समाधान है। मुख्यमंत्री के इस बयान को मुस्लिम पर्सनल लॉ बोर्ड के उस बयान से जोड़कर देखा जा रहा है, जिसमें कहा गया था कि तीन तलाक पर अध्यादेश को नहीं माना जाएगा। दो दिवसीय दौरे पर गोरखपुर आए मुख्यमंत्री ने शुक्रवार को कहा कि ऊंच, नीच का भाव भारतीय संस्कृति का हिस्सा नहीं है। गुरु गोरखनाथ पीठ…
(LiveMint) The central government is likely to miss the goods and services tax (GST) collection targets for this financial year, finance minister Arun Jaitley hinted on Friday. This, despite the fact that most states managed to reduce their revenue shortfall compared to last year. When asked if the government was confident of meeting the GST collectiontargets, Jaitley said: “We are in the middle of the year. The festival season is coming, and it is the consumption season…We will try and come as close as possible to the target.” He added that, along with direct tax collections, the government should be able to comfortably…
(ET) Indian oil marketing companies will float an Expression of Interest (EoI) next week to invite from potential investors for setting up compressed bio-gas (CBG) production plants. The event will be marked with oil ministerDharmendra Pradhan launching the SATAT initiative. “It is planned to roll out 5,000 CBG plants across India in a phased manner, with 250 plants by the year 2020, 1,000 plants by 2022, and 5,000 plants by 2025. These plants are expected to produce 15 million tonnes of CBG per annum, which is about 40 per cent of current CNG consumption of 44 million tonnes per annum in the country,” the oil…
(AU) रुपये में कमजोरी के बाद अब घरेलू गैस की कीमतों में बढ़ोतरी के सरकार के फैसले से एक ओर जहां सीएनजी, पीएनजी व घरेलू रसोई गैस एलपीजी की कीमतें बढ़नी लगभग तय है, वहीं यूरिया और बिजली उत्पादन की लागत में भी बढ़ोतरी होगी। इसके साथ ही अंतरराष्ट्रीय बाजार में कच्चे तेल के दाम बढ़ने और रुपये में आई कमजोरी के चलते भी कंपनियों पर कीमतें बढ़ाने का दबाव है। ऐसे में एक अक्तूबर से उपभोक्ताओं को वाहनों और घरेलू प्रयोग में लाई जाने वाली गैस के ज्यादा दाम चुकाने पड़ सकते हैं। प्राकृतिक गैस की कीमतों में प्रत्येक…