Around 80 mn rural households are estimated to have no access to grid power.
The affected people said they got the smell of kerosene oil in the prasad, but ignored it.
The government will cut excise and customs duty on petrol, diesel, LPG and kerosene to contain the effect of spike in international crude oil prices, which touched an all-time high of $47 a barrel.
Attacking the ruling United Progressive Alliance at the Centre, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Thursday took potshots at the Congress, saying 'Hand' (the party's symbol) betrayed the state's interests.
The cabinet committee on economic affairs will meet this evening to decide on the prices of petrol, diesel, LPG and kerosene, petroleum minister Mani Shankar Aiyar said.
Oil and Natural Gas Corp will pay Rs 1025 crore (Rs 10.25 billion) to the state-run oil retailing firms for the losses they suffered during the second quarter for selling LPG and kerosene below the cost.
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Under-recovery or revenue loss on diesel has risen to Rs 10.48 per litre from Rs 9.99 a litre in the first fortnight of December, an official statement said in New Delhi.
With rupee falling to new lows, losses on diesel and cooking fuel have widened to their highest levels this year, upsetting the government's subsidy maths.
Lowest prices of key petroleum products were found in Venezuela & Egypt.
The two surviving women from the Nepalese family whose members immolated themselves died on Saturday after battling for life for three days in a hospital in Rajkot.
The Oil and Natural Gas Corp has asked the government to review the scheme of sharing of liquefied petroleum gas and kerosene subsidy with upstream firms and said the scheme should not be extended beyond March 2004.
The Kelkar Committee has recommended sharp reduction in subsidies on petroleum, food and fertiliser, which the government said was contrary to its policy of protecting the poor.
The government on Friday said it would not increase the cooking gas and kerosene prices despite escalation in the prices globally.
A 14-year-old girl attempted suicide by setting herself ablaze following an alleged rape bid by a youth two days ago, police said on Monday.The minor girl doused herself with kerosene before setting herself on fire, police said.
Senior policymakers say it is a tough task and the finance ministry may resort to the time-tested method of carrying forward part of the subsidy payment burden to the next fiscal year.
Indian Oil Corporation, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation and Bharat Petroleum Corporation are losing Rs 486 crore (Rs 4.86 billion) per day as they are made to sell diesel, domestic LPG and kerosene way below cost to keep inflation under check.
Delhi Bar associations' members said litigants are not allowed in due to security reasons.
Relief seen from easing global crude oil prices, phased diesel decontrol and capping of LPG cylinders.
To help them make up for the revenue lost on selling auto and cooking fuel below cost.
With the losses incurred by oil marketing companies (OMC's) on selling regulated fuels below their market prices (under-recoveries) reaching alarming levels, an urgent corrective action, like hiking the price of diesel, has become imperative, says a Crisil study.
Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy had announced assistance of Rs five lakh to the next to the kin of the deceased.
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Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh on Sunday said in Bhopal that rising inflation is a major problem but it was necessary to hike prices of petroleum products because of the international situation.
There will be no change in LPG and kerosene rates, Oil Minister M Veerappa Moily told reporters in New Delhi after the meeting on Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs. "I am happy to inform the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs has decided to raise the cap on subsidised LPG to nine cylinders per household in a year from existing six cylinders," he said.
Domestic LPG prices may go up by Rs 22-25 per cylinder this week as oil companies push for a hike in retail selling price in view of Budget 2003-04 lowering subsidy provision for cooking gas and PDS kerosene.
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Crude oil, or petroleum, is recovered mostly through oil drilling.
Ministry to propose a new subsidy mechanism to cap upstream firms' share.
The demonstration was staged at the Alka Talkies Square in the city where the women lit the earthen stove fire using wood and kerosene and offered the tea without milk to the bystanders, even as party workers raised anti-government slogans denouncing the fuel price hike.
Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com attended the Congress president's rally in Mumbai on Friday, and explains why people who came with high hopes left disappointed.
Government's direct cash transfer scheme is "anti-poor" as it would actually cut subsidies due to the high inflation rate and not cover the rising prices of foodgrains, the Communist Party of India-Marxist on Wednesday said opposing the move.
The expert group was tasked to suggest a methodology for pricing of diesel and cooking fuel.
A mob of over 150 people allegedly tried to set ablaze the district supply officer in Dehgava village, Uttar Pradesh, after he sealed a fair price shop selling adulterated diesel. An FIR has been lodged against 154 people, including 150 unidentified people, for the attack, police said on Friday.
A 19-year-old girl committed self immolation after a youth tried to rape her in Alwar district of Rajasthan. This is he second such incident in the state this week. The victim poured kerosene and set herself afire in her house in Alwar's Laxmangarh town on Thursday. She was admitted to a local hospital and referred to Jaipur's SMS government hospital, where she died on Friday, said the police.
The government on Tuesday ruled out any further increase in diesel and cooking fuel prices even though the current retail rates are lower than their cost of production.
In another shocker from Haryana, a teenage Dalit girl on Saturday immolated herself after allegedly being gangraped in Jind district of Haryana.
The demonstration was staged at the Alka Talkies Square in Pune where the women lit the earthen stove fire using wood and kerosene and offered the tea without milk to the bystanders, even as party workers raised anti-government slogans denouncing the fuel price hike.
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