(FE) State-owned Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL) today decided to resume work on the Rs 41,000 crore Rajasthan oil refinery after its board agreed on reduced fiscal incentives from the state government. “HPCL Board at its meeting held today has approved resumption of Rajasthan refinery project and signing of revised MoU with the Government of Rajasthan for implementation of the project,” the company said in a filing to the stock exchanges. It however gave no details. Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan had earlier this month stated that fiscal incentives for the project have been revised and a memorandum of understanding (MoU)…
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Miscreants damage oil pipeline of IOCL in Paradip Orissa by cutting it open at Neheru Bangala road. Oil spilled from pipeline enters Kaudia river Reports OTV News. Indian Oil officials are investigating into the issue.
(LM) Union finance minister Arun Jaitley recently mooted the idea of a mega-merger of upstream and downstream oil public sector units (PSUs). The intention, presumably, is to gain the benefits of “economies of scale”, diversification of risk, and market power in the global purchase of oil assets. In a recent issue of the Economic And Political Weekly, two people had made some of the problems with this clear. Former petroleum secretary Saurab Chandra had clarified that buying oil assets abroad through national oil PSUs (Nopsus) would not serve energy security objectives due to inherent political risks that would prevent oil…
(Tribune) Several BJP leaders, including Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, will participate in the two-day national executive meeting to take place on Tuesday in Bhubaneswar.Along with the Chief Minister, organisation secretary (Uttarakhand) Sanjay Kumar, former chief ministers Ramesh Pokhriyal, BC Khanduri, BS Koshiyari, Vijay Bahuguna, senior Cabinet Ministers Satpal Maharaj, Madan Kaushik, national secretary Teerath Singh Rawat and senior BJP leader Harbans Kapoor will participate.
(ET) Cairn India Limited along with its partners is set to invest Rs 3,240 crore in the Ravva Fields in the Krishna-Godavari Basin, to undertake 20 Developmental Wells and for setting up related infrastructure, as the oil and gas production is dwindling from the existing wells. Cairn India Limited approached the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change seeking necessary clearances for the proposed project. According to the minutes of the meeting by Expert Appraisal Committee under the Ministry, the proposal was given green signal as far as Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) is concerned.
(Tribune) The sheen is off the Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, which has not completed even a month in office. The decisions taken by the state government left even die-hard supporters of the ruling saffron party aghast. The two decisions of the state government which were prompted by the court decisions left the people dismayed. In the first decision, the state government went against the Nainital High Court decision to ban mining in the riverbeds for four months to the Supreme Court and stayed the High Court orders. The mining in the entire state had been a…
(AU) सपा संस्थापक मुलायम सिंह यादव ने महागठबंधन पर सपा अध्यक्ष अखिलेश यादव से अलग राय जताई है। मुलायम सिंह ने रविवार को यहां साफ कहा कि कोई महागठबंधन बनाने की आवश्यकता नहीं है। सपा अकेले ही भाजपा और प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी की चुनौती का मुकाबला करने में सक्षम है। हार-जीत तो लगी रहती है। पार्टी फिर से प्रदेश की सत्ता में आएगी।मुलायम सिंह करहल में एक निजी कार्यक्रम में भाग लेने आए थे। मालूम हो कि अखिलेश ने बसपा सुप्रीमो मायावती के भाजपा विरोधी गठजोड़ के प्रस्ताव पर शनिवार को सकारात्मक रुख दिखाया था। उन्होंने कहा था कि भाजपा…
(DJ) मुस्लिम समाज के ‘तीन तलाक’ के चर्चित व विवादित मुद्दे पर रविवार को प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी ने पहली बार सधी व परोक्ष राय जाहिर की। भुवनेश्वर में भाजपा की राष्ट्रीय कार्यकारिणी की बैठक में उन्होंने कहा, हम नहीं चाहते कि तीन तलाक के मुद्दे पर मुस्लिम समाज में टकराव हो। हमारी मुस्लिम बहनों को भी न्याय मिलना चाहिए। किसी का शोषण नहीं होना चाहिए।’ उधर, मुस्लिम पर्सनल लॉ बोर्ड ने लखनऊ बैठक के बाद साफ कहा है कि मुस्लिमों को अपने पर्सनल लॉ का पालन करने का ‘संवैधानिक’ हक है और तीन तलाक उसका हिस्सा है। हालांकि बोर्ड ने…
(BS) Reliance Industries (RIL) and other producers of coal bed methane have been granted pricing and marketing independence as well as permission to sell fuel to affiliates after the formal policy notification. Through the April 13 notification, the oil ministry said a coal bed methane (CBM) producer has to call for open bids for sale of coal gas and seek price quotes to discover the market price. The producer will have to issue advertisement in national dailies and run a competitive bidding to arrive at the arm’s-length sale price, it said. The process prescribed is the same as the one RIL…
(AT) भुवनेश्वर में बीजेपी कार्यकारिणी में पीएम नरेंद्र मोदी की डिनर टेबल की ख़ूब चर्चा रही. पीएम मोदी के साथ डिनर करने वालों में बीजेपी अध्यक्ष अमित शाह, मुरली मनहोर जोशी, संगठन महासचिव रामलाल, मध्य प्रदेश के मुख्यमंत्री शिवराज सिंह चौहान और उत्तर प्रदेश के मुख्यमंत्री योगी आदित्यनाथ मौजूद थे. हालांकि यहां सबसे ज्यादा चर्चा मुरली मनोहर जोशी को लेकर हो रही है, जिन्हें पीएम के साथ डिनर करने के लिए अमित शाह ने डिनर टेबल पर आमंत्रित किया था. इससे पहले पिछले साल जून में इलाहाबाद में हुई बीजेपी राष्ट्रीय कार्यकारिणी की बैठक में भी पीएम मोदी और जोशी की…