(TOI) The government will not go back on reforms in the fuel retail market and the daily revision of petrol and diesel prices introduced from June 16 will continue, oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Wednesday amid growing public clamour for a reduction in Central excise to arrest rising pump prices since July. Petrol has become costlier by Rs 7 per litre since July, pushing pump prices to their three-year high in cities such as Mumbai as high level of state taxes amplified the impact of rise in international prices. Though Centre and state both make handsome gains from fuel sales, the…
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(ET) Shares of oil marketing companies (OMCs) plunged up to 6 per cent in afternoon trade on Wednesday after ETNow reported that the government may ask the companies to absorb further hike in oil prices. BPCL lost 6.23 per cent to end the day at Rs 500.35, while HPCL and Indian Oil Corporation were down 5.06 per cent and 4.28 per cent at Rs 457.35 and Rs 416.15, respectively. According to reports, the government will unlikely pass further rise in fuel prices due to higher inflation. It also unlikely to roll back fuel excise duty due to fiscal constraints.
(AT) उत्तर प्रदेश की योगी सरकार ने सूबे के मदरसों को तगड़ा झटका दिया है. सरकार ने राज्य के 46 मदरसों को मिलने वाली अनुदान राशि पर रोक लगा दी है. डीआईओएस की रिपोर्ट के बाद यह रोक लगाई गई है. इन मदरसों के खिलाफ मानकों के हिसाब से काम नहीं करने की शिकायत मिली थी. उत्तर प्रदेश 560 मदरसों को अनुदान राशि देती है. इस अनुदान राशि में शिक्षकों की सैलरी और रख रखाव का खर्च शामिल होता है. इस संबंध में मिली शिकायत के मुताबिक इन मदरसों में सैलरी तो कम दी जाती है, लेकिन हस्ताक्षर ज्यादा पर…
(PTI) As many as 30 crore families have got bank accounts since the launch of India’s biggest ever bank account opening drive, Jan Dhan Yojana, three years back, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said today. About 42 per cent of households were unbanked before the Jan Dhan Yojana, which aims to give every household access to banking facilities by offering them zero-balance accounts across all commercial banks. Speaking at a conclave on Financial Inclusion, he said the number of zero-balance accounts has reduced from 77 per cent to 20 per cent and even these would become operational once the direct benefit transfer…
(AT) कच्चे तेल की कीमतों में लगातार गिरावट के बावजूद देश में पेट्रोल की कीमतें बढ़ रही हैं. मुंबई में पेट्रोल की कीमत 80 रुपए तक पहुंच गई हैं. अब केंद्र सरकार भी इन कीमतों को लेकर परेशान नजर आ रही है. पेट्रोलियम मंत्री धर्मेंद्र प्रधान ने भी पेट्रोल-डीजल की बढ़ती कीमतों पर हाथ खड़े कर लिए. कीमतों को काबू में लाने का रास्ता धर्मेन्द्र प्रधान जीएसटी को बता रहे हैं. प्रधान ने कहा कि, ” हम चाहते हैं कि पेट्रोलियम को जीएसटी के अंतर्गत लाया जाए. राज्य सरकारों से भी वित्तमंत्री इस बारे में कह चुके हैं. यदि जीएसटी…
Ministry of Railways has decided to permit m- Aadhar (Aadhar card on mobile app namely m- Aadhar launched by UIDAI) as one of the prescribed proofs of Identity for Rail Travel purpose in any reserved class. m- Aadhar is a mobile app launched by UIDAI on which a person can download his/her Aadhar Card. It can be done only on the mobile number to which Aadhar has been linked. For showing Aadhar, the person has to open the app and enter his/ her password to show the Aadhar Card. m- Aadhar when shown by the passenger on his/her mobile after…
(FE) India’s fuel demand fell 6.1% in August compared with the same month last year. Consumption of fuel, a proxy for oil demand, totalled 15.75 million tonnes in August, data from the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) of the oil ministry showed on Tuesday. Sales of gasoline, or petrol, were 0.8% lower from a year earlier at 2.19 million tonnes. Cooking gas or liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) sales increased 11.8% to 2.06 million tonnes. Naphtha sales fell 7.6% to 1.06 million tonnes. Sales of bitumen, used for making roads, were up 8.5%. Fuel oil use fell 6.9%. While India’s fuel…
(Zee News) Bharat Petroleum, which has just been upgraded to a Maharatna company, today said it has lined up capital expenditure of Rs 1.08 trillion for the next five years. The public sector oil retailer will spend the money on capacity expansion of refineries as well as marketing and upstream activities, its chairman and managing director D Rajkumar told reporters at a post-AGM press meet here late evening. The chairman said the company will focus primarily on going global to further expand the business, especially in upstream activities. On the performance of the company in the year gone-by, he said both marketing…
(PTI) The Election Commission today refused to take cognizance of the Sharad Yadav faction’s claim of being the real JD(U), citing lack of documents filed by its leaders to back it, an EC official said. The EC’s decision is a setback to Yadav, who had claimed that the party’s rank and file was with him even though an overwhelming numbers of its elected leaders and office bearers sided with party chief and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. EC sources said the Yadav faction is free to file another application with documents to effectively buttress its claim, a task that would be…
(NDTV) सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने तलाक मामलों में बड़ी कानूनी अड़चन को खत्म कर दिया है. कोर्ट ने कहा है कि अगर परिस्थितियां खास हों तो तलाक के लिए 6 महीने का इंतज़ार अनिवार्य नहीं है. सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने हिन्दू मैरिज एक्ट के सेक्शन 13B(2) को अनिवार्य मानने से मना कर दिया है. इस सेक्शन के तहत आपसी सहमति से तलाक के मामलों में भी अंतिम आदेश 6 महीने बाद दिया जाता है. दरअसल सेक्शन 13B(2) में कहा गया है कि पहले मोशन यानी तलाक की अर्ज़ी फैमिली जज के सामने आने के 6 महीने बाद ही दूसरा मोशन हो सकता है. कानून में…