(TH) Indian Oil Petronas Pvt Ltd. (IPPL) will expand its liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) production capacity to 23.04 lakh tonnes per annum at its Athipattu village plant in Tiruvallur district. This expansion will provide for increased availability of auto gas and domestic LPG to residents of Chennai. At present, the IPPL plant supplies 400 tonnes of LPG a day to the Indane bottling plant that is located adjacent to it. The IPPL import/export terminal was commissioned at Ennore in 2012 to increase LPG availability and eliminate transportation cost by bullet trucks. Butane and propane are received by ship in a…
Author: Aruna Sharma
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has given its for rationalization/merger and modernization of 17 Government of India Presses (GIPs)/Units into 5 Government of India Presses (GIPs) at Rashtrapati Bhavan, Minto Road and Mayapuri, New Delhi; Nashik, Maharashtra and Temple Street, Kolkata, West Bengal. These 5 Presses will be redeveloped and modernised by monetisation of their surplus land. Land measuring 468.08 acres of the other merged Presses will be given to Land & Development Office, Ministry of Urban Development. Land measuring 56.67 acres of the Government of India Text Books Presses (GITBPs) at Chandigarh, Bhubaneswar…
(DNA) Finance Minister Arun Jaitley provided no indication today of any cut in excise duty on petrol and diesel to cushion the spike in rates, saying that the government needs revenue to support public spending without which growth will suffer. States levy a high amount of sales tax or VAT on fuel, he said without referring to the Rs 11.77 per litre hike in excise duty on petrol and Rs 13.47 a litre on diesel between November 2014 and January 2016 which took away gains arising from plummeting international oil rates. BJP-ruled Maharashtra levies 46.52 per cent VAT (47.64 per…
The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Development of North-Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurated the first ‘Pension Adalat’ here today at the Pre-Retirement Counselling Workshop organised by the Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Government of India. He also presented the ‘Anubhav’ awards 2017 to 16 pensioners for their contribution towards creating institutional memory for the departments. On the occasion, Dr Jitendra Singh launched a Mobile App that has been created to avail the services of Pensioners’ Portal. The Secretary…
Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas & Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, led a delegation to Astana, Kazakhstan from 19-20 September 2017 to co-chair the 13thmeeting of the India-Kazakhstan Inter-Governmental Commission (IGC). Mr. Kanat Bozumbayev, Minister of Energy of Republic of Kazakhstan co-chaired the meeting from Kazakh side. During the meetings both Ministers discussed entire gamut of India-Kazakhstan bilateral relations covering all areas of contemporary relevance and issues of mutual concern and ideas for stepping up the cooperation in energy sector, trade, economic, investment, transport & connectivity, agriculture, information technology, space, healthcare and cultural spheres between the…
(NDTV) In a big relief for Tamil Nadu Chief Minister E Palaniswami, the Madras High Court today said that floor test should not be conducted till further orders. It said that a final decision on the matter will be taken in the next hearing on October 4. The court’s ruling came during a hearing on a batch of petitions challenging Speaker P Dhanapal’s order disqualifying 18 rebel lawmakers of the ruling AIADMK. Though the court did not put on hold the Speaker’s order, it directed against issuing a poll notification for the 18 Assembly seats, which fell vacant due to…
(DJ) इजरायल के प्रधानमंत्री बेंजामिन नेतन्याहू का मानना है कि उनके भारतीय समकक्ष नरेंद्र मोदी और अमेरिकी राष्ट्रपति डोनाल्ड ट्रंप का इजरायल दौरा ऐतिहासिक रहा। प्रधानमंत्री मोदी ने गत जुलाई में इजरायल का दौरा किया था। वह इस देश का दौरा करने वाले पहले भारतीय प्रधानमंत्री हैं। जबकि ट्रंप मई में इजरायल के दौरे पर गए थे। नेतन्याहू ने बुधवार को संयुक्त राष्ट्र महासभा को संबोधित करने के दौरान मोदी और ट्रंप के इजरायल दौरे का जिक्र किया। उन्होंने कहा, ‘मैंने पिछले साल इसी मंच से इजरायली रुख को लेकर दुनियाभर में बदलाव का जिक्र किया था। उस समय से कई…
(LiveMint) Finance minister Arun Jaitley and his colleagues on Tuesday took stock of the economy and discussed specific efforts to revive growth that has decelerated to the slowest pace in three years. The finance ministry will hold more inter-ministerial consultations and finalize a package of measures aimed at stimulating economic growth, officials present at the meeting said on condition of anonymity. A presentation will then be made to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who will take the final call, these officials said. Tuesday’s meeting was attended by railway minister Piyush Goyal, commerce and industry minister Suresh Prabhu and the secretaries of the finance,…
(HT) External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday paid a courtesy call on Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina but the ongoing Rohingya crisis did not come up for discussion during their brief meeting. “The meeting with the prime minister of Bangladesh was more in the nature of a courtesy meeting. It was a very short meeting. The issue of Rohingya did not come up during the meeting for discussion,” external affairs ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar told reporters at a news conference here. Kumar said that the discussion between Swaraj and Hasina was “purely bilateral”. “Warm encounter reflecting our historical and cultural ties. Courtesy…
(AT) पेट्रोल और डीजल की बेतहाशा बढ़ी कीमतों से आम आदमी को जल्द राहत मिल सकती है. पेट्रोलियम और प्राकृतिक गैस मंत्री धर्मेंद्र प्रधान ने मंगलवार को कहा कि पेट्रोल, डीजल के दाम अगले महीने दिवाली तक नीचे आ सकते हैं। यूएस में बाढ़ की वजह से बिगड़े हालात पेट्रोल और डीजल की बढ़ी कीमतों को लेकर सरकार की लगातार आलोचना हो रही है. विपक्षी पार्टियों ने इस मुद्दे को लेकर सरकार को घेरना शुरू कर दिया है. मंगलवार को प्रधान ने कहा कि अमेरिका में बाढ़ की वजह से तेल उत्पादन में 13 फीसदी की कमी आई है. इसकी वजह से…