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Dec 30, 2020 05:18 PM IST Cabinet has also approved the export of Akash Missile System.
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Dec 18, 2020 08:33 AM IST The $60 billion spend envisages creating gas infrastructure till 2024, including for pipelines, LNG terminals and city gas distribution networks
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Dec 06, 2020 09:22 PM IST Pradhan's statement comes in the wake of a steep hike in the prices of petrol and diesel recently.
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Dec 02, 2020 01:32 PM IST Vedanta had on November 18 confirmed putting in an expression of interest (EoI) for buying the government's 52.98 percent stake in BPCL.
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Nov 27, 2020 03:50 PM IST The government gives 12 cooking gas (LPG) cylinders of 14.2-kg each to households in a year at a subsidised rate. This subsidy is directly paid into the bank accounts of the users.
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Nov 19, 2020 04:47 PM IST So far, India uses petrol, diesel, CNG and auto-LPG as fuels to run automobiles. LNG is a new fuel that can be dispensed from outlets similar to petrol pumps, and is used not just in long long-haul buses and trucks but also in running mining equipment, as bunker fuel, and rail locomotives.
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Oct 13, 2020 08:07 PM IST Pradhan said India's dependence on hydrocarbons will continue in the near future. And to meet the future demand, the planned refinery on the west coast was essential.
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Oct 07, 2020 09:16 PM IST Hailing the reform measure, Prime Minister Modi tweeted, "India is moving ahead on the path of futuristic reforms. Today's Cabinet decision on Natural Gas Marketing Reforms' add strength to the efforts of making India a gas based economy."
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Oct 07, 2020 05:35 PM IST The Union Cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, approved a standard e-bidding procedure to discover price of gas.
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Sep 14, 2020 04:08 PM IST New Delhi, Sep 14 India's crude oil import bill fell to a third in the first four months of the current fiscal after international oil rates ..
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Sep 14, 2020 03:41 PM IST The draft framework policy aims at facilitating setting up of greenfield steel clusters along with development and expansion of existing steel clusters, Pradhan said while replying to a question in Lok Sabha.
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Jul 18, 2020 07:17 PM IST This emerged at a virtual ministerial meeting of the US-India Strategic Energy Partnership that was co-chaired by Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan and US Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette.
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Jul 17, 2020 10:56 PM IST The US has 714 million barrels of oil storage capacity in its strategic petroleum reserve (SPR), the world's largest supply of emergency crude oil.
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Jul 06, 2020 04:46 PM IST Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and other senior officials of the ministry "reviewed the ongoing oil and gas projects started by PSUs since the resumption of economic activities from April 20, 2020".
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Jul 01, 2020 07:56 PM IST While he did not spell out the roadmap for freeing gas prices, Pradhan said the current practice of fixing zonal tariffs of a gas pipeline, which typically rises as the gas travels from source to consumption centres, will be replaced by uniform rates.
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Jun 30, 2020 08:00 PM IST The proposed BAT would be imposed on imported goods in addition to customs duty to bring the imported product at par with locally-made products.
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Jun 30, 2020 10:11 AM IST Defending the price rise, Pradhan said the national as well as global economy was going through a challenging time and that it had impacted the demand and supply of fuel across the world
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Jun 29, 2020 05:09 PM IST The government also rolled out the domestically manufactured iron and steel products policy (DMISP) policy to boost the use of domestic steel products in government organisations.
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Jun 26, 2020 08:12 PM IST To boost gas usage, India is expanding infrastructure including building new liquefied natural gas (LNG) import plants and connecting households with an expanding gas pipe network.
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Jun 26, 2020 07:34 PM IST Stating that the last date of submitting EoIs stands at July 31 as of now, Pradhan said the actual timing of the sell-off will depend on the market.
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Jun 20, 2020 05:50 PM IST In the last few quarters, domestic demand for steel has declined due to the economic slowdown followed by the COVID-19 outbreak and resultant shutdowns.
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Jun 18, 2020 06:44 PM IST Buyers and sellers on the platform can trade in spot and forward contracts at designated physical hubs.
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Jun 16, 2020 02:50 PM IST Speaking at a webinar on 'Atmanirbhar Bharat: Fostering Domestic Steel Usage in Oil & Gas Sector', he said construction of a new 60 million tonnes a year west coast refinery, which is crucial to the capacity doubling plan, will start soon.
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Jun 14, 2020 03:11 PM IST After visiting the well site, the Union minister said the Centre and the state government are trying for a permanent solution to the disaster so that it never recurs.
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Jun 10, 2020 08:15 PM IST Oil India Ltd's gas well in its Baghjan oilfield in Tinsukia district of Assam had a blowout or uncontrolled gas emission on May 27. The well caught fire on June 9 as the company brought in experts from the Singapore-based firm Alert Disaster Control to contain the blowout.