Sunday 28 December '08
Navy Vice-Admiral as Maritime Security Adviser will coordinate between Navy, Coast Guard; biometric IDs for all fishermen, transponders on 3 lakh vesselsSaturday 27 December '08
The UPA government today decided in principle to end a plethora of administrative controls on energy pricing with a direction...Wednesday
24 December '08MoD wipes dust off a year-old proposal for 16 interceptor vessels for Coast GuardWednesday
24 December '08MURLI Deora’s much-acclaimed kerosene marker project has been hit by a double whammy.Wednesday
17 December '08Four years after floating a tender, the Cabinet Committee on Security today gave the Ministry of Home Affairs...Monday
15 December '08An Archaeological Survey of India officer, suspended last year for not carrying out changes in a counter reply to the Supreme Court on the Ram Sethu project...Sunday
14 December '08There is trouble brewing on the government’s revenue front. Indian Oil Corp, the leader among the three state-run oil marketing companies...Friday
12 December '08Political propriety may have prompted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to steer clear from the slippages in key projects under the ministers from his UPA government’s ally parties, but as Finance Minister, Singh is not prepared to allow further delay.Thursday
11 December '08It has also been suggested that OMCs’ contribution be brought to zero. On June 4, the CCPA had fixed Rs 20,000 crore as contribution from the three OMCs — Indian Oil Corp, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan PetroleumWednesday
10 December '08India today reaffirmed its strategy to secure crude oil abroad at any cost by allowing ONGC Videsh Ltd to buy UK-listed Imperial Energy even though the returns expected from it have fallen below 10 per cent - the norm fixed at the time of approval last August.Saturday
6 December '08Frittering away an opportunity to remove pricing of auto fuels from its controls...Friday
5 December '08The UPA government today opted for a cut of Rs 5 per litre in petrol price and Rs 2 per litre in diesel, effective from midnight tonight.Friday
5 December '08An extra dose of Rs 17,400 crore in social spending and a fiscal package, spearheaded by an interest subsidy of 2.5 per cent to fix home loan interest at 9.5 per cent...Thursday
27 November '08Almost a fortnight after India declared itself free of avian flu, preliminary reports have confirmed a fresh outbreak of the virus in Hajo block of Kamrup district in Assam...Monday
24 November '08Peace is rare in the North-East, so one state has demanded that it should be rewarded for maintaining it.Thursday
20 November '08Following Finance Minister P Chidambaram’s intervention, the World Bank has given Road Transport & Highways Minister T R Baalu...Tuesday
18 November '08RIL has for the first time indicated that it plans to reopen its petrol pumps but wants domestic sales from its export-oriented refinery and the upcoming SEZ refinery to be given deemed export status and exempted from extra duties.Tuesday
11 November '08PM Manmohan Singh, in his letter to Maharashtra CM Vilasrao Deshmukh, had sought 'strongest possible measures' against Raj Thackeray and his men for fomenting trouble against North Indians. A fortnight has gone by and there is no move by the state government to show that it is acting tough with either, say PMO sources.Tuesday
4 November '08The magnitude of mayhem in last week’s blasts in Assam has got the Centre out of stupor.Saturday
1 November '08Domestic airlines are unlikely to get permission to import jet fuel for their flights as current suppliers...Saturday
1 November '08Going by the tenor of Petroleum Minister Murli Deora’s letter to his Iranian counterpart...Tuesday
28 October '08Germany has committed 364 million euros to India for financial and technical cooperation projects in 2008 and promises more under a new Climate Protection Initiative.Tuesday
21 October '08Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has written to Finance Minister P Chidambaram asking him to re-impose import duty on edible oils and cotton...Tuesday
21 October '08Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday approved Pulok Chatterji’s name for India’s next Executive Director...Saturday
18 October '08In 2007-08, India consumed 118.8 million tonnes of petroleum products which was largely met by processing crude oil...
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