State-owned Gas Authority of India Ltd has discovered oil and gas near Ahmedabad, in onshore block awarded under the exploration policy.
Petroleum Minister Ram Naik said on Thursday that he expected a new government in Iraq to honour any oil exploration contracts held by Indian companies.
The additional delivery charge for 'urgent' supply of LPG cylinder is nothing but a fraudulent exercise. It is just another backdoor price hike, former Petroleum Minister Ram Naik said.
Petroleum Minister Ram Naik said on Wednesday that he would forward to the Cabinet Committee on Divestment the proposals from public sector units under his ministry to bid for Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd after examining individual proposals.
Ram Naik, Union petroleum minister in the Vajpayee government, on the Manmohan Singh government's effort in managing the situation in view of rising global oil prices.
Maharashtra, by this month end, would become only the second state after Uttar Pradesh to sell ethanol doped petrol at all retail outlets, Petroleum Minister Ram Naik said on Monday.
Petroleum Minister Ram Naik Friday indicated that prices of domestic cooking gas may be hiked before the Budget to check growing subsidies but said consumer interest will be kept in mind while taking any such decision.
Petroleum Minister Ram Naik said the terms and conditions of the strategic sale of HPCL and and public offer in BPCL would be worked out by a core group of secretaries on divestment.
A decision on sale of government equity in HPCL, BPCL could be delayed beyond the Dec 7 deadline with PetroMin Naik stating he has no idea about the next CCD meet.\n\n\n\n
Another big discovery of gas, like the one in Barmer in Rajasthan, was expected in a week's time, Petroleum Minister Ram Naik, said on Monday.
Swati said that she had lodged an FIR against the "misdeeds" of BSP workers led by Naseemuddin Siddqui "at the behest of Mayawati".
Petroleum Minister Ram Naik hinted on Wednesday that prices of petrol and diesel may be cut further at the fortnightly review on Thursday, in tune with the global softening of crude prices.\n\n\n\n
Iran may offer Indian oil firms equity in its oil and gas fields in return of New Delhi agreeing to buy natural gas from it.\n\n\n\n
India's crude oil imports in 2002-03 rose to 82.34 million tonnes from 78.7 million in the previous year, Oil Minister Ram Naik said.
Petroleum Minister Ram Naik said on Monday the government planned to boost the country's strategic crude oil reserves to 45 days from 15 for an estimated cost of Rs 43.50 billion.\n\n\n\n
India to urge OPEC to hike oil production
A delegation of BJP and Congress leaders on Wednesday met UP Governor Ram Naik and submitted a memorandum demanding dismissal of Ram Murti Verma who is accused of orchestrating killing of a Shahjahanpur scribe.
Syed Firdaus Ashraf on the futility of the 'who is a Hindu?' debate.
When the governor and chief justice objected to his choice, the UP chief minister just changed the law.
Bypolls are due in Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Telangana, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Prominent personalities from Mumbai have appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to interfere in the forest land issue in the city suburbs, where over 1 lakh families will be displaced if the government adheres to a court order.
In front of a 50,000 odd strong audience, which also had Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath was sworn in as Uttar Pradesh chief minister on Sunday. Here's a glimpse of the big names that attended the big-ticket event.
Jaswant Singh said that Advani was the natural choice for prime ministership as the former deputy prime minister has worked alongside Vajpayee for over five decades.
Petroleum Minister Ram Naik, Lok Sabha Speaker Manohar Joshi, and MP Kirit Somaiya joined the Gujarat CM.
The passengers were taken out from the back through the emergency exit.
The government has extended the supply of subsidised cooking gas to educational and social welfare institutions.\n\n\n\n
In a damage control exercise, actor-turned-Member of Parliament, Govinda has called a press conference on Wednesday night to clear the confusion after a Mumbai-based tabloid claimed that the actor has a poor attendance record in Lok Sabha, and that it was doubtful whether he attend the no-confidence motion in the Lok Sabha on July 22.
The Bharatiya Janata Party's disciplinary committee today recommended the expulsion of senior party leader Madan Lal Khurana for a period of six years
The government on Tuesday extended the deadline for the mandatory supply of ethanol-blended petrol in nine major sugarcane-producing states and four union territories by three months to September 30, this year.
"Kumar was travelling with a friend in his car on the Andheri-Kurla Link Road when four persons in a Qualis came parallel to their car and pointed a gun at him. They Qualis later overtook them," DCP Ravindra Shengaonkar said.
The Cabinet reshuffle has yielded two unexpected spinoffs - it has altered equations in the second rung of the BJP's leadership and has put ministers under pressure to pursue economic reform in their ministries.
In an apparent bid to resolve the row over divestment in public sector units including the one involving HPCL and BPCL, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee held an informal meeting of senior Cabinet ministers.\n\n
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