Six hospitals in the national capital have exhausted their oxygen supply while seven others have less than five hours of oxygen left, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia told Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Thursday.
The Delhi high court on Wednesday said it appeared that the Centre wanted people to die as according to the new protocol on use of Remdesivir for Covid-19 treatment, the drug was to be given only to those on oxygen support.
Cheque payments will be safer; the limit for contactless card transactions hiked.
PM also said that states must act against any hoarding of oxygen and directed officials to ensure that the oxygen supply to various states happens in a smooth, unhindered manner and called for fixing responsibility with the local administration in cases of obstruction.
GAIL India plans to consolidate presence in petrochemicals and renewable energy, allocate a percentage of annual capital expenditure for exploration and production (E&P), pick up equity in upstream LNG projects abroad, and pursue investments in shale gas projects in and outside.
Punjab has sent an email saying that four deaths suspected to be due to lack of oxygen have been reported in a private hospital in Amritsar district, Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya said in a written reply.
He also said that efforts were on to increase the use of natural gas by four times in this decade and to double the oil refining capacity in the next five years.
The likely solution that appears before the AAP government is to seek for a higher quota of domestic natural gas for Delhi, which would bring down auto and cooking gas prices.
This is the first "Green budget" of the government for effective containment of pollution in the city, the deputy chief minister said in the budget session of the assembly in the presence of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
Reaching out to the youth of the Kashmir Valley, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday spelled out initiatives for peace and development, and assured they will not inherit the problems faced by their parents and grandparents.
NTPC was to open letter of credit in favour of RIL for an amount equivalent to a month's supplies.
Fifteen Cabinet ministers and 28 Ministers of State were sworn-in by President Ram Nath Kovind at a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Wednesday evening.
Mumbai sources all of its gas requirement from domestic fields and as such there will be no cut in rates in the city.
Now, expectations are high that the incoming government will act swiftly to put the sector back on the rails.
Close on the heels of Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries seeking coal mines to convert coal into oil, younger brother Anil-run Reliance Natural Resources has applied for coal blocks to turn coal into gas. Reliance-Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (R-ADAG) president J P Chalasani in a January 14 letter to Coal Secretary H C Gupta sought allocation of "captive coal blocks for the purpose of converting coal to gas."
Reliance Industries chairman and managing director Mukesh Ambani confirmed the truce pact with Anil Ambani.
A major reason for the decline in the consumption of kerosene was an increase in the number of LPG consumers in rural India after the government launched the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana. in 2016.
A deal with the Assam government, which holds majority stake in the company through Assam Industrial Development Corporation Ltd, is likely by October.
Govt looks to take cooking gas to tiger reserves, Naxal-hit areas
'The oxygen crisis is at its worst. It is adding more pressure on the functioning. No one is able to help'
The Delhi high court had directed the Centre on Tuesday to show cause as to why contempt should not be initiated against it for failing to comply with its order.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her third Budget on February 1.
The Congress will give 40 per cent of tickets to women in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections beginning next year, party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said here on Tuesday.
She said that despite government scheme and initiatives ranging from roads to agriculture, housing, scholarships to electricity benefiting lives of people, a false narrative was being created by the opposition that the government was working for cronies.
Strengthening the portfolios of the home minister and the finance minister is a message that should not be missed, points out A K Bhattacharya.
Almost all infrastructure ministries continued spending on capex throughout the lockdown, even as the Centre tried to maintain some semblance of economic normalcy.
Polarisation and the increase in index weight of a few a stocks have weighed on performance. The worst performers include Nippon India Large Cap and HDFC Top 100 (2.6 per cent).
Before the pandemic hit the world and led to shutdowns, the company had received nearly half a dozen offers. But bidders are now withdrawing. They want to reassess the situation. They want to conserve cash and avoid acquisition.
The 1,967 MW plant has not been operating since August because of stoppage of natural gas supplies from domestic fields.
To minise wasteful administrative costs, number of enterprises in strategic sectors will ordinarily be only one to four; others will be privatised/merged/brought under holding companies, she said.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday reviewed the preparations for Cyclone Yaas including the evacuation of people on the high seas as well as in vulnerable coastal areas and the safety of COVID-19 facilities.
He also asserted that ease of living and ease of doing business were behind the spirit of the work being done under the Central Vista project.
The govt must fix regulatory hurdles to ensure growth.
A look at the key decisions taken by the Narendra Modi government in its six months.
A report of five-member sub-group constituted by the Supreme Court to audit oxygen use in hospitals in the national capital during the second wave in April-May said the Delhi government "exaggerated" consumption of oxygen and made a claim of 1,140 MT, four times higher than the formula for bed capacity requirement of 289 MT.
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The ministry of civil aviation has disagreed with a proposal of the Prime Minister's Office to explore raising the cap on the number of weekly flights from Qatar in exchange for discounts on additional supplies of liquefied natural gas from there.
Chaudhary sent his resignation immediately after assuming charge at 1 pm, informed sources said.
The Delhi high court on Tuesday directed the Centre to show cause as to why contempt not be initiated against it for failing to comply with order on supply of oxygen to Delhi for treating COVID-19 patients.
With over half the Plan funds that Parliament approves being spent through non-government channels, to cite the figure in CAG Vinod Rai's presentation to the Planning Commission, members of the Parliament have no way of knowing whether the money is properly spent.
The government was planning to come up with a new fiscal model giving 'special incentives' for fields that were given out on nomination to ONGC and Oil India, reports Shine Jacob.
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