Petrol, diesel prices hiked from Saturday midnight

The price of petrol has been hiked by Rs 1.39 per litre and that of diesel by Rs 1.04 a litre, in sync with firming international rates. The hike comes the on back of a Rs 4.85 per litre reduction......

Direct cash transfer of LPG kicks off in 18 districts

Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister M Veerappa Moily today formally launched the direct benefit transfer scheme for liquefied petroleum gas at Tumkur in Karnataka. It was launched simultaneously in......

The big city-gas dream

As India floats high on the prospects of a gas-based economy with supplies beginning to flow from Reliances KG Basin, the general elation has been tempered by deflation on one front: City-gas......

Essar, RIL have set up over 1,000 petrol pumps

The Ruias-managed Essar Oil is fast catching up with Reliance Industries in the number of petrol pumps set up by private sector retailers. As on March 1, 2007, Essar Oil had 1,149 petrol bunks, few......