Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd, a subsidiary of the Indian Oil Corporation, is planning an investment of Rs 2400 crore during the 10th Plan period, M S Ramachandran, chairman of IOC group companies, said on Thursday.
Even as there are signs of revival in the industrial sector, Indian industry leaders and economists are unanimous that fresh investment in green field projects is a year or two away at least, as huge capacities were still being under utilised.
The first Indian woman grappler to win an Olympic medal, a bronze in the 58kg freestyle at Rio, she was the obvious choice as P V Sindhu, India's only other medallist, who bagged a silver in the women's singles badminton, left for Hyderabad on Saturday.
Taking exception to Health Minister Harsh Vardhan not mentioning the death of healthcare workers due to Covid-19 in his statement in Parliament, the Indian Medical Association has published a list of 382 doctors who died due to the viral disease and demanded that they be treated as "martyrs".
18 MNCs have been issued show cause notices by the Enforcement Directorate for paying salaries abroad to their foreign national employees working in India without the RBI's permission.
The Cellular Operators Association of India on Monday clarified it had no intention of 'suing' the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on its recent move to release a consultation paper on unified licensing regime.
"Chinnamma has given valuable suggestions to Amma regarding party administration and also on governance. Like this, the list of traits of Chinnamma can go on," he said.
Top seed Dipika Pallikal entered the finals of the Australian Open squash event, a PSA world tour event, after posting a 6-11 11-6 11-7 11-4 win over Hana Ramadan of Egypt. Dipika, who recently finished runner-up in the Victoria Open a few days ago, faced an initial scare from the Egyptian qualifier before she managed to grab an opportunity and turn the tables around in her favour.
Shiv Sena leader and Heavy Industries Minister Balasaheb Vikhe-Patil on Saturday resigned from the Union Cabinet.
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.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Wednesday
Petro retailer IBP Co Ltd said on Thursday that it will invest Rs 528 crore (Rs 5.28 billion) in expanding its retail petrol pump network in 2004-05 and launch a pilot project for use of LNG in automobiles directly.
'I admire Jayalalithaa. What drove her to do and achieve what she did?'
Both Rajini and Kamal have to first convince the Tamil Nadu voters that even if they are entering active politics relatively late in life, they are here to stay, and are serious about politics, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
Sixteen former ministers of the United Progressive Alliance government are staying unauthorised in government bungalows for over a month now and have been served eviction notices, the Lok Sabha was told on Wednesday.
The Tamil Nadu CM appealed people to vote for AIADMK in upcoming bypolls.
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam general secretary and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Wednesday turned 68, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeting the leader on her birthday.
Rajinikanth will win the elections whenever they are held, predicts A Ganesh Nadar.
Who's telling the truth? The government? Or the high-profile group with interests in para banking, aviation, real estate and the media?
Who's telling the truth about the Sahara India group? The government of India? Or the high-profile corporate group with interests in para banking, aviation, real estate and the media?
The US Export-Import Bank said on Tuesday that it will provide $75 million in loan guarantees for exports of US technology, equipment and services to build Indian Oil Corp's Rs 5104 crore (Rs 51.04 billion) integrated petrochemical complex at Panipat
The Indian Oil Corporation and Oil and Natural Gas Corporation's overseas arm ONGC Videsh Ltd will mount a joint bid for acquiring the South Ghawar gas field, one of the largest onshore fields in Saudi Arabia.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Monday, met the Indian athletes who will represent the country at the forthcoming Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and wished them luck.
The December 1996 raid came following a complaint by BJP's Subramaniam Swamy naming late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa.
This alliance is for personal survival, not ideology-based support. This alliance is for power, not for the people. This alliance is for personal ambitions, not people's aspirations," the PM charged.
State-run Indian Oil Corporation will import 31.41 million tonnes of crude oil this fiscal, 53 per cent of which would be on term contracts.\n\n\n\n
"The result of the RK Nagar bypoll is an outcome of the tacit understanding between DMK working president M K Stalin and Dinakaran," Panneerselvam and Palaniswami said in a joint statement on Sunday night.
Indian Oil is exploring possibility of bidding for Iraqi oil in future export tenders the company said on Monday.
Fighting as an independent, Dinakaran was up against ruling AIADMK's E Madhusudanan and DMK's N Maruthu Ganesh.
CBI sources said a crack team raided a place where Perumal Swamy alias Babu was accepting a bribe of Rs 400,000 from an IRS official Anurag Vardhan.
The rich and diverse culture of India's North East was on display in all its splendor as curtains went up on the 12th South Asian Games in a colorful opening ceremony with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a host of other dignitaries in attendance.
"It is all your imagination and guess work," a senior leader said when asked about reports of Sasikala taking over from Chief Minister O Panneerselvam.
The Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagham leader is set to embark on a series of protests covering the Cauvery basin regions of Tamil Nadu beginning Saturday.
Having identified India as one of its major markets globally, Standard Chartered Bank on Wednesday said it was open to acquisitions and plans to more than double its branch network in the country to 150 by 2006-07.
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