New Delhi, Mar 14 (PTI) Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Monday slammed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his comments asking consumers to tank up in preparation for an imminent hike in petrol and diesel prices, saying that one statement led to "hoarding" of 20 per cent fuel. Replying to supplementaries during Question Hour, Puri [...]
Bengaluru, Mar 14 (PTI) Karnataka Minister for IT-BT C N Ashwath Narayan on Monday launched India's first digital water data bank ‘AQVERIUM’, formed by AquaKraft Group Ventures. Launching the digital startup of the company that is headquartered here, the minister said this is a unique innovation combining sustainable and green technologies along with information technology, [...]
New Delhi, Mar 14 (PTI) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday presented a Rs 1.42-lakh-crore budget for Jammu and Kashmir for the year 2022-23 in Lok Sabha, amid opposition accusations that the government was rushing the proposals through Parliament. Sitharaman also presented the supplementary demands for the year 2021-22 totalling Rs 18,860.32 crore for the [...]
New Delhi, Mar 14 (PTI) Retail inflation inched up to an eight-month high of 6.07 per cent in February, remaining above the RBI's comfort level for the second month in a row, mainly on account of a rise in food prices, official data showed on Monday. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based retail inflation was [...]
New Delhi, Mar 14 (PTI) India, the world's third-largest energy-consuming and importing nation, is pinning hope on resumption of crude oil supplies from Venezuela and Iran as well as higher production from OPEC+ nations to help cool international oil prices that have hit multi-year highs. It will also evaluate the Russian offer to sell crude [...]
New Delhi, Mar 14 (PTI) Infrastructure-construction firm Power Mech Projects has bagged orders worth Rs 2,120 crore under the Jal Jeevan Mission programme, a company statement said on Monday. The company has won the new orders under the Phase-III of the Jal Jeevan Mission covering 2,120 villages in Pratapgarh, Fatehpur and Meerut districts of Uttar [...]
Telecom tribunal TDSAT has denied any immediate interim relief to debt-ridden telecom company Vodafone Idea in a matter related to the penalty imposed by the Department of Telecom for selling pre-activated SIM cards. The Department of Telecom (DoT) has imposed a penalty of Rs 1.9 crore on VIL and will seize bank guarantee of the [...]
New Delhi, Mar 14 (PTI) The government on Monday said it has received multiple preliminary bids for HLL Lifecare. "Multiple expressions of interest received for privatization of HLL Lifecare Limited (HLL). The transaction moves ahead to the next stage," DIPAM Secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey tweeted. Now, the due diligence process will start, following which financial [...]
