Eighteen candidates from state-owned companies have applied for the post of chairman and managing director of the country's largest gas marketer, GAIL India, nine months before the incumbent retires.
The government on Thursday approved selling 10 per cent of its stake in EIL through the FPO route and issuing two bonus shares for every share of the company before the launch of the public offer.
External agencies were digging and struck the pipeline on a road in Andheri, leading to a leakage. Some source of ignition led to the fire.