A slow and ineffective response to allegations of scams under the erstwhile United Progressive Alliace government strengthened anti-Congress impressions in the minds of voters, which resulted in the party's poor show in the Lok Sabha polls, senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar said on Thursday.
Goldman Sachs' controversial note on corporate governance in Oil and Natural Gas Corp that evoked a strong reaction from the company, is not the first instance of the US investment bank having a run-in with the state-owned firm.
500 posts for coaches at various training institutes run by the Sports Authority of India are lying vacant.
Undoing Mani Shankar Aiyar's move to exercise greater control on public sector oil firms, the petroleum ministry has restricted the number of government directors on boards of public sector oil companies to just two.
Petroleum ministers from major oil producing countries will meet in New Delhi on January 6 as part of India's initiative to tackle the surging global oil prices, Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar told the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.
India on Wednesday said the $4.16 billion Iran-India gas pipeline passing through Pakistan will have to be considered as a part of wider economic and trade cooperation between New Delhi and Islamabad.
Ahead of Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz's visit to New Delhi later this month, India has formally asked Pakistan to remove diesel from its negative list and permit its imports from Gujarat and Haryana through land and sea routes. \n
Gail India has protested Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar's plans to open up laying of natural gas pipelines to the private sector, saying competition cannot protect consumer interest.
The Union government on Thursday ruled out any increase in the prices of petrol and diesel despite the surge in global crude prices.
The Veer Savarkar issue rocked both Houses of Parliament for the third consecutive day on Thursday as the Shiv Sena and Bharatiya Janata Party members demanded an apology from Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar.
Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar will present options, including raising prices of LPG and kerosene for the rich, to bridge the vast gap between the cost of fuel and their current retail price
Diesel to cost Rs 2 per litre more, but there will be no increase in LPG and kerosene prices.
Concerned over the huge losses to oil PSUs including Indian Oil Corp in the absence of suitable revision in petro product prices, Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar on Monday said he would raise the issue at the Union Cabinet.
The government on Tuesday categorically said that the United States had not any objections on the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project with New Delhi.
India's Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar has predicted that the 'oil bubble' will burst soon.\n\n
The finance ministry has rejected a cut in duties to avoid an increase in petro prices even as Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar will begin a consensus-building exercise within the UPA for a fuel price hike.
Noted advocate and Bharatiya Janata Party member Ram Jethmalani on Thursday created a flutter in the Rajya Sabha when he made certain remarks against persons having money stashed away in Swiss banks.
Minister of State for External Affairs Minister V K Singh on Monday represented the government at the Pakistan National Day reception.
LPG prices will go up by Rs five per cylinder every month with the government on Tuesday saying there is no roll-back in the decision.
The government will look into the issue of revising the petrol and diesel prices in view of the steep increase in international crude oil prices, the new Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Mani Shankar Aiyar said on Monday.
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India is increasingly becoming a 'democracy of sound bytes' because of 'undue' coverage given by the media to disruptions in Parliament and not to serious debates. This was the general sense expressed by politicians across the board who nudged the media -- both electronic and print -- to cover less the noise in Parliament and give more weightage and coverage to serious issues that are raised in the House.
Public sector oil firms spent over Rs 800 crore (Rs 8 billion) on advertisements during the last three years with Indian Oil Corp topping the list with an expenditure of Rs 275.35 crore.
State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, the latest entrant in auto fuel retailing, plans to set up 15 petrol stations in Karnataka and Gujarat in the current year.
The government may not revise petrol and diesel prices on April 1 as Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar, who has piloted a note on the issue for discussion in the Cabinet, will be out of the country at the next due date for revision in fuel prices
During a meeting with a visiting Indian parliamentary delegation on Wednesday evening, the lawmakers, including former ministers Mani Shankar Aiyar and Yashwant Sinha, noted that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had "rightly said that Yusuf Raza Gilani was a man of peace".
The government is likely to give public sector oil firms limited autonomy to fix petrol and diesel prices within a narrow price band once international markets stablise, Oil Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar said on Monday.
International crude oil prices may have eased but the government has no immediate plans to pass on the benefit to the consumers, as it wants to wait for the prices to stabilise further.
Public sector oil companies have demanded a Rs 1.60 per litre increase in diesel price and Rs 0.65 per litre hike in petrol prices in step with the surge in international oil prices.
A hike in the prices of petrol and diesel is unlikely before June 15 as the Congress-led government does not want a showdown with its allies in the first session of Parliament beginning June 2.
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