(ET) India has received investments worth 59 billion rupees ($810 million) in its latest oil and gas exploration licensing round, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. India would offer 14 oil and gas blocks in the next licensing round, Oil Secretary M. M. Kutty said.
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(DD News) The 69 kilometer long pipeline will ensure smooth, cost effective and environment friendly supply of petroleum products to Nepal. Earlier, addressing a gathering in Dhanushadham Pradhan said India will continue its support in the development of Nepal. Pradhan said that India will help Nepal in setting up a Skill Training School for youths in Dhanushadham. He also said India and Nepal are the only two countries in the world having a unique cultural bond.
(ET) The government is considering a plan to sell LPG blended with methanol, which could help reduce its cooking gas subsidy by around a third at current prices. Mixing 20 per cent methanol with LPG, as is done in several countries, is estimated to bring down the cost of cooking gas for household consumption by Rs 100 a cylinder. The portion of methanol in the mix could be scaled up further as India enhances production of methane from coal. The financial benefits could be substantial, considering the country’s LPG subsidy bill that is estimated at more than Rs 20,000 crore in the…
(AU) रक्षा मंत्री निर्मला सीतारमण ने रविवार को उन आरोपों को बकवास बताया है जिनमें कहा जा रहा है कि राजग सरकार ने राफेल सौदा मामले में एचएएल को नजरअंदाज कर देश के युवाओं से नौकरियां छीनी हैं। उन्होंने कहा कि यह कांग्रेस ही है जिसने सार्वजनिक क्षेत्र की रक्षा कंपनी को मजबूत करने का काम नहीं किया। उन्होंने कहा, ‘‘एचएएल पर बोलने के लिये आप खड़े हुए। ये आप (कांग्रेस) ही हैं जिसने (एचएएल के लिये) कुछ नहीं किया और आप आरोप लगा रहे हैं कि हमने एचएएल को नजरअंदाज कर नौकरियां छीनी हैं…।’’ उन्होंने पूछा कि क्या आपने संप्रग…
(PTI) Coal India Ltd has set a “difficult” production target of 700 million tonne for fiscal 2019-20, a “challenge” the mining major was ready to undertake in the wake of rising power demand, its Chairman A K Jha said. The Kolkata-headquartered company had envisaged an output of 630 million tonne for the current fiscal, but later revised it to 652 million tonne as an aspirational target. “Our aspirational production target for the fiscal is an 85-million tonne jump from what we have been able to produce in the last fiscal. “We registered an increase in production of 104 million tonne…
(LiveMint) Subsidised cooking gas (LPG) price on Sunday hiked by ₹2.89 per cylinder to ₹502.4 per cylinder. The price of non-subsidised LPG at Delhi will increase by ₹59.00 per cylinder in October 2018 mainly due to change in international price and foreign exchange fluctuations, Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) said in a statement. The actual impact on subsidised domestic LPG customers is only ₹2.89 per cylinder, which is mainly due to GST on the above, IOC added. The subsidy transfer in customers’ bank account has been increased to ₹376.60 per cylinder in October 2018 as against ₹320.49 per cylinder in September 2018. “Thus the…
(AU) आधार पर सुप्रीम कोर्ट का फैसला आने के बाद निवार्चन आयोग फिर से आधार को वोटर आईडी से जोड़ने की तैयारी कर रहा है। मुख्य चुनाव आयुक्त ओपी रावत का कहना है कि निर्वाचन आयोग के सचिवालय को सुप्रीम कोर्ट के इन फैसलों का अध्ययन करने के लिए कहा गया है। निर्वाचन आयोग ने आधार नंबर को वोटर आईडी से जोड़ने का काम फरवरी 2015 में शुरू किया था, लेकिन अगस्त 2015 में सुप्रीम कोर्ट में निजता का हनन और आधार की वैधता से जुड़ा मामला आने के बाद इस योजना को स्थगित कर दिया गया। तब तक लगभग…
(AU) उत्तर प्रदेश में योगी मंत्रिमंडल में फेरबदल और विस्तार को लंबे समय तक के लिए टाल दिया गया है। बीते शनिवार को लोकसभा चुनाव की तैयारियों के सिलसिले में भाजपा अध्यक्ष अमित शाह की सीएम योगी आदित्यनाथ, दोनों डिप्टी सीएम, प्रदेश अध्यक्ष और संगठन मंत्रियों की बैठक में आम चुनाव में 50 फीसदी वोट हासिल करने (मिशन 50 पर्सेंट) पर चर्चा हुई। इस क्रम में शाह ने मतदाता सूची में समर्थकों के हर हाल में नाम दर्ज कराने, बूथ कमेटियों को मजबूत बनाने के लिए बूथ स्तर पर नियमित कार्यक्रम करने, जल्द से जल्द सभी 80 सीटों पर प्रभारियों…
(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…
(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…