(TH) Oil and Natural Gas Corporation’s (ONGC) Rajamahendravaram asset manager and executive director Debashis Sanyal has said that the public sector unit will give a tough competition in exploration, production, and pricing to the private players such as Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and BP that have come forward to invest in a large scale in the sector. Talking to The Hindu, Mr. Sanyal, who is retiring from service this month-end, referred to ONGC chairman D.K. Sarraf’s recent statement in an interview that the company was investing ₹45,000 crore in three cluster programmes, including the KG Basin. RIL and its partner BP…
Author: Aruna Sharma
(AU) वस्तु एवं सेवा कर (जीएसटी) को संसद में विशेष बैठक में जारी करने के लिए बुलाई गई विशेष बैठक का भले ही कई विपक्षी दलों ने बहिष्कार करने या सांकेतिक उपस्थिति दर्ज कराने का फैसला किया है, मगर सरकार इस मेगा शो को ऐतिहासिक बनाने के लिए एड़ी चोटी का जोर लगा रही है। कार्यक्रम को भव्य और यादगार बनाने के लिए सरकार ने देश के विभिन्न क्षेत्रों की जानीमानी हस्तियों को निमंत्रण भेजा है। इस मौके पर अभिनेता अमिताभ बच्चन, गायिका लता मंगेशकर, उद्योगपति रतन टाटा के साथ-साथ सुप्रीम कोर्ट के जज, हाईकोर्ट के मुख्य न्यायाधीश सहित नामचीन कानूनविदों को…
(FE) At a time when the ministry of petroleum and natural g4as is exploring ways to start home delivery of petroleum products such as diesel and petrol, Reliance Industries (RIL) is looking to enter the segment as well. According to three people close to development who requested not to be named, RIL has applied for a licence to home-deliver motor fuel to the Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organisation (PESO). However, though the company has been allowed to use bowsers to transport fuel to its mobile phone towers, it has not been granted licence for fuel home delivery as of now. Reliance operates…
(TOI) Chief minister Aditya Nath Yogi on Thursday rehabilitated nearly half a dozen senior IAS officers, who had been put on the waiting list after the first major reshuffle about two months ago. Among those who were given posting on Thursday are Navneet Sehgal, Anita Singh and Rama Raman, who were holding key positions during the Samajwadi Party rule. Sehgal has been given the charge of khadi and village industry, Anita Singh integrated rural development while Rama Raman has been made commissioner and director of handloom and textiles, Kanpur. Also, former LDA VC Satyedra Singh, who was also put in the waiting list,…
(ET) China today asked India to withdraw its troops from the Donglong area in the Sikkim sector as a precondition for a “meaningful dialogue” to settle the current stand-off, warning that the Indian Army should learn “historical lessons”, in an oblique reference to the 1962 war. Launching a media blitzkrieg on the Sikkim stand-off, both Chinese Foreign and Defence Ministries directed their attacks on India and maintained that the Indian Army had “illegally trespassed” into the Chinese territory. The People’s Liberation Army spokesman, Col Wu Qian also rejected as “extremely irresponsible” Army chief General Bipin Rawat’s remarks that India is…
(DivyaSandesh) क्या आप यूपी के रंगीले किस्म के पूर्व आईएएस के बारे में जानते हैं। क्या आप यूपी के ऐसे आईएएस के बारे में जानते हैं जो नौकरी छोडऩे के दो साल के बाद खुद की कम्पनी का प्रबंधक निदेशक बन गया हो। क्या आप यूपी के ऐसे खिलाड़ी आईएएस के बारे में जानते हैं जो अपने शौक पूरे करने के लिए कई खेल संघों का अध्यक्ष रह चुका हो। क्या आप ऐसे बिजनेस मैन आईएएस के बारे में जानते हैं जो सत्ता अपनी अपनी पकड़ मजबूत रखने के लिए मीडिया में करोड़ों रुपए की काली कमाई निवेश कर रह…
(PTI) The government will clear all FDI proposals requiring approval within a maximum of 10 weeks after the receipt of an application as per the standard operating procedure which replaces FIPB. The move is aimed at improving investment climate of the country. The new mechanism will replace the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB), abolished by the government. According to the standard operation procedure (SOP) released by Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) today, proposals not requiring security clearance would be cleared in eight weeks and applications that require security nod would take a cumulative time period of ten weeks.…
(NDTV) प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी आज (गुरुवार) से दो दिनों के गुजरात दौरे पर हैं. सबसे पहले वह अहमदाबाद के साबरमती आश्रम पहुंचे, जहां आश्रम के 100 साल पूरा होने के समारोह में हिस्सा लिया. प्रधानमंत्री ने आश्रम में चरखा चलाया. इसके बाद पीएम मोदी ने भीड़ की हिंसा पर कहा कि गाय की सेवा महात्मा गांधी और विनोबा भावे से सीखनी चाहिए. गोरक्षा के नाम पर हिंसा क्यों? मौजूदा हालातों पर पीड़ा होती है. गाय की सेवा ही गाय की भक्ति है. गोरक्षा के नाम पर हिंसा ठीक नहीं है. देश को अहिंसा के रास्ते पर चलना होगा. गोभक्ति के…
(PTI) With Prime Minister Narendra Modi setting steep target of cutting reliance on imports, the Oil Ministry has intensified monitoring of oil and gas fields given to state-owned firms like ONGC to avoid slippages in domestic output. Modi, in March 2015, had called for cutting India’s dependence on imports to meet oil needs by 10 per cent by 2022, from 77 per cent then. However, India’s import dependence has since only risen to 81 per cent. “Most of our production of oil and gas come from nomination fields with ONGC and Oil India. We have now started monitoring those fields…
Union Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy, Shri Piyush Goyal released the first part of the study “Pathways to Integrate 175 Gigawatts of Renewable Energy into India’s Electricity Grid” at an event organized here today. The second volume, to be released in July, takes a more in-depth look at system operations in the Western and Southern regions. The study, developed under the U.S.-India bilateral program “Greening the Grid”, confirms the technical and economic viability of integrating 175 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy into India’s power grid by 2022, and identifies future course of actions that…