The Empowered Group of Ministers on Ratnagiri Gas and Power Pvt Ltd on Wednesday decided to pool the price of gas for Dabhol
"Be prepared for a modest or moderate hike in the prices of petrol and diesel, after the meeting of the empowered Group of Ministers in the first week of January," M S Srinivasan, secretary, ministry of petroleum and natural gas, told reporters.
The empowered Group of Ministers, on Tuesday, recommended a hike in maximum permissible equity participation in the proposed joint venture companies -- for the airports of Mumbai and Delhi
Employees and officers of the Airports Authority of India on Friday staged a demonstration at major airports across the country to protest against the privatisation of Mumbai and Delhi airports, but flights and other operations remained unaffected.
To provide better working conditions and social security to workers in the unorganised sector, an empowered group of ministers on Friday cleared a draft of the unorganised sector workers bill that provides for pension and insurance to the workforce.
The government is set to exceed its 2009-10 disinvestment target of Rs 1,120 crore through the first company that is slated to go to the markets this year -- NHPC.
The $3 billion Dabhol power plant in Maharashtra is likely to be completed by 2007-end, the Empowered Group of Ministers was informed on Thursday.
The government is likely to approve shortly a counter-guarantee of about Rs 950 crore (Rs 9.5 billion) to enable domestic lenders of Dabhol Power Company to buy out debts of foreign lenders
The next six months may see the Centre notifying 100 special economic zones.
Real estate and hotels major Royal Palms will invest around Rs 600 crore (Rs 6 billion) to set up an IT/ITeS special economic zone in Mumbai that would be ready for occupation by end of next year.
The empowered group of ministers on Saturday gave its approval to Air India's proposal to purchase 68 aircraft after completing final round of price negotiations with US manufacturer Boeing, which has offered massive discounts on the total value of t
The Union Cabinet is understood to have decided to constitute an empowered Group of Ministers to resolve the crisis plaguing the multi-billion Dabhol power project, promoted by the erstwhile Enron Corporation.
The Supreme Court on Friday questioned the Bihar government as to why it published its caste survey data but refused to restrain it from making public further data, and said it may examine if the state has power to conduct such an exercise.
Tabled by Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai, the legislation will reverse the effect of the Supreme Court verdict in May that gave the Delhi government power over administrative services.
The stage is set for opening of commercial bids for the modernisation of Delhi and Mumbai airports, with the empowered group of ministers on Civil Aviation scheduled to meet on Monday for taking a decision on technically qualified bidders.
Indian lenders to the Dabhol power plant are close to a settlement with Bechtel, which will clear the last major hurdle in reviving the 2,184 MW power plant that has been shut for over four years.
The Union home ministry issued a notification, announcing the formation of the tribunal.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the upcoming visit will affirm the deep and close partnership between the United States and India.
The freeze on special economic zones may go in the next 10 days, with the empowered group of ministers expected to give its nod to proposals that show land has already been tied up.
The ministry of finance has estimated that about Rs 1,800 crore (Rs 18 billion) would be needed to restart the Dabhol Power plant, lying idle for the past three years.
While asserting that the growth of coronavirus cases in the country has been more or less linear and not exponential, it also said testing has been ramped up consistently.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that India's economic growth is a 'natural by-product' of his nine-year-old government's political stability, as he expressed optimism that it will be a developed nation by 2047 with 'corruption, casteism and communalism' having no place in our national life.
The Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Bill, 2023, which will replace an ordinance promulgated for handling the transfers and postings of senior officers in the city government, was passed in the Lok Sabha on Thursday amid a walkout by opposition parties.
The government, however, dismissed allegations of any kind of surveillance on its part on specific people, saying it 'has no concrete basis or truth associated with it whatsoever'.
An Empowered Group of Ministers headed by Finance Minister P Chidambaram had on February 28 decided to sell the stake in IOC, the nation's largest oil firm, at a discount of 10 per cent through an off-market deal.
Tharoor also said the Congress must decentralise authority and truly empower the grassroots office-bearers of the party.
Vardhan said in India about 92 percent of the reported cases have mild symptoms, while oxygen therapy was required in 5.8 percent cases and intensive care in 1.7 percent cases.
On a mission to cool soaring bilateral tensions, United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday held extensive talks with his Chinese counterpart Qin Gang on a range of issues, including the Taiwan issue and the Ukraine war.
Industrialist Anil Ambani met Oil Minister S Jaipal Reddy on Wednesday, seeking natural gas allocation for his group's upcoming power projects.
K M Mani was appointed the chairman of the panel in March this year.
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