Major General S C N Jatar, who passed into the ages on Monday night, thwarted anti-national forces at the peak of the Assam agitation. Colonel Anil A Athale (retd) salutes this officer and gentleman.
All these companies were provided loans by PNB as part of consortium lending.
With the skyrocketing oil prices heavily weighing on his mind, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Wednesday that the quest for access to oil resources will become a major factor of power play in the world and the Chinese have moved far ahead. "The world is not able to grapple with the crises that it faces."
The multilateral body has also asked the policymakers to take action to reduce risks arising from increased scarcity of oil resources.
Addressing his supporters in Tripoli on Wednesday, Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi on Wednesday dismissed allegations about his tyrannical rule and claimed that power was in the hands of the people of the nation.
The government is mulling divesting a minority holding in oil exploration firm Oil India Ltd but no decision has been taken on the mode of sale, Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar said on Wednesday.
Fourteen of the 15 Council members voted for the American draft resolution which would give the 'occupying\npowers' control of the country's oil resources, which they have promised to use for the benefit of the Iraqi people.
Members accused Washington of acting as a "big bully" saying that its wants to wage war against Iraq to take control of the countrys huge oil resources.
"The issue in Iraq is still an area of uncertainty.
Scientists have developed a new tool that can precisely pinpoint where petroleum and gas reserves have accumulated.
Obama said he wants to boost the use of natural gas in transportation
The United States and European Union have slapped tougher and "wide-ranging" sanctions on Russia, targeting its energy, finance and defence sectors for its continued support of separatists in Ukraine.
Participants are keenly waiting for the January IIP.
The task of Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to keep inflation under check, even when the country reeled under severe drought for two years in a row, and reduce the current account deficit, was made easier by low crude oil prices.
'As matters stand, Russia and Saudi Arabia, two of the world's biggest oil producers, are set for a hard landing as they didn't diversify their economies as much as they should have when the oil prices were booming.'
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