A Coast Guard Dornier surveillance aircraft with three crew members on board went missing on Monday night off the coast of Chennai.
Steel baron Lakshmi N Mittal is eyeing to buy half of Hindustan Petroleum Corp's exploration arm Prize Petroleum for about Rs 200 crore (Rs 2 billion). Mittal, which made rapid advances in oil sphere this year first with a 49 per cent stake in HPCL's Bhatinda refinery and then partnering the state-run firm for a separate refinery on the east coast, is in talks with financial institutions to buy out their 50 per cent stake in Prize Petroleum.
The US has realised that China is cutting lucrative deals in South America as more nations are joining Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative.
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation said on Wednesday it will begin production from its ultra deep sea gas discovery in the Krishna-Godavari basin off the east coast by 2012-13.
The latest developments come amid pressure from the United States and Japan on North Korea to return to stalled negotiations on its nuclear ambitions.
The ministry of home affairs has identified around 1,700 km of fencing that needs to be done, BRO's additional director general (East) PKH Singh said.
CPM leader Tapen Sen has asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for a probe into what he called 'artifical inflation' in Reliance Industries' KG-D6 spend and the Mukesh Ambani-run firm's 'manipulation' of gas price.
A Committee of Secretaries will meet on July 6 to discuss pricing of natural gas to be produced from Reliance Industries' block off the east coast and whether the Centre should take its share in cash or kind.
ONGC signed an agreement with the Norwegian deepwater export to develop deepwater oil and gas blocks on Monday evening.
Jute baron Arun Bajoria is on a selling spree. After deciding to sell India Jute to the Kajarias, Bajoria is divesting three mills in Andhra Pradesh.
Guillermo Canas won his first tournament since a 15-month doping ban when he claimed the Brazil Open.
The US senator Edward M 'Ted' Kennedy was stopped and questioned along the East Coast five times in March.
For the past week, NASA astronaut Terry W Virts has been flying over India. He has chronicled his journey through numerous stunning images and fabulous videos on his Twitter page.
IT major Infosys and Microsoft have entered into a multi-year strategic engagement with Ausgrid to accelerate the cloud transformation of the largest electricity distributor on Australia's east coast. This programme will further Ausgrid's vision to connect communities and empower lives with a focus on affordability, reliability and sustainability, Infosys said in a regulatory filing on Monday. "With over 4 million Australians relying on our services every day, it is essential we are maintaining our high standard of reliability and connectivity, as well as delivering on the expectations of Australian communities," Nick Crowe, acting CIO at Ausgrid, said.
Priyank Panchal smashed an unbeaten 99 off 69 balls as West Zone coasted to a comfortable nine-wicket victory
Reliance Industries Ltd has discovered huge oil reserves in its gas-rich D6 block in Krishna Godavari basin off the east coast, its minority partner Niko Resources of Canada has said.
Friends from India's north-east living on the US west coast as well Tibetans attended the funeral of Tshering Bhutia who was killed in a college shootout last week. Ritu Jha reports
BG Group of UK is planning to buy stake in ONGC's oil and gas blocks.
The reported test came amid escalating cross-border tensions, with the North threatening retaliation over the start of South Korea-US military exercises condemned by Pyongyang.
Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and Gujarat, have been left out, despite a strong start to the monsoon in June
The very severe cyclonic storm 'Biparjoy' intensified into an 'extremely severe cyclonic storm' and is likely to cross Saurashtra-Kutch and adjoining Pakistan coasts around the afternoon of June 15 as a 'very severe cyclonic storm (VSCS)', the India Meteorological Department said on Sunday.
South and North Korea have agreed to officially open railways and roads linking the two countries in late October, South Korea said on Sunday.\n\n
"Independence means if government has done something wrong, you say it's wrong. But at the same time, you should have courage when the government is doing the right thing every day. You have to also say that," he Gautam Adani was quoted as saying by FT.
Indian Oil Corporation may expand its Haldia refinery in West Bengal to 7.4 million tonnes from 6 million tonnes, IOC chairman M S Ramachandran said on Monday.
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation said on Tuesday it was making an annual loss of Rs 700 crore (Rs 7 billion) on sale of gas at administered prices even as Reliance Industries stated it followed a transparent process to discover the price of gas.
India and Saudi Arabia on Monday called on states to reject the use of terrorism against other countries and prevent access to weapons, including missiles and drones, to commit acts of terror.
Navin Shetty was vacationing in Pondicherry with three friends when tsunamis struck on December 26 morning.
The National Security Strategy document should flag all major issues concerning security strategy and provide guidelines to concerned departments to work out suitable action plans. Since the global and regional geopolitical canvas is dynamic, the NSS document should be deliberated at length before formulation and should be reviewed periodically, recommends Commodore Venugopal Menon (retd).
It will be Reliance Industries' gigantic gas find on the east coast versus the imported LNG offered by ONGC and Indian Oil Corporation in the tender for supply of gas to the 1400 MW power plant in Karnataka.
