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Congress accuses Dharmendra Pradhan of ignoring oil well fire in Assam

Assam Congress says blaze in Tinsukia district is now in its 14 days but union minister, his officials don't care.

Govt is looking at starting home delivery of petrol, CNG: Pradhan

Indian Oil Corp (IOC), the nation's largest fuel retailer, started home delivery of diesel through a mobile dispenser in 2018. This service is available only in a handful of cities.

Dharmendra Pradhan reviews pipeline projects, bats for Atmanirbhar Bharat

Project work along the Pradhan Mantri Urja Ganga, JHBDPL pipeline, has resumed in full swing post lockdown

India benefits from low-cost oil, fills 32 mn tonnes of commercial storage

India, the world's third biggest oil importer, buys over 80% of its oil needs from overseas markets. The nation has annual refining capacity of about 250 million tonnes

Speed up delivery of free cylinders to PMUY beneficiaries: Pradhan

Under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan package, over 80 million PMUY beneficiaries are eligible to get three free cylinders over the next three months

Centre permits conversion of surplus rice to ethanol for hand sanitisers

Move will lead to use of part of a stockpile of 30.57 million tonnes, which is almost 126% more than the buffer stock and strategic requirement norms

PM hails ministries' response, says humanity will overcome Covid-19

"The world is fighting Covid-19 together. Humanity will surely overcome this pandemic," Modi wrote on Twitter while retweeting a tweet by the Indian Embassy in Switzerland.

G-20 energy ministers bat for cheaper energy supplies to support healthcare

The G20 Energy Ministers' focused on ways and means to ensure stable energy markets, which are affected due to demand reduction as result of coronavirus pandemic

PMO asks ministers to file daily report on steps taken to curb virus impact

These ministers are instructed to work as a bridge between the Centre and the States, said a report

Odisha to mop up Rs 20,000 cr incremental revenue from e-auctions: Pradhan

Recently, Odisha successfully conducted electronic auctions of 19 lapsing iron and manganese ore blocks now run by merchant or non-captive iron ore blocks

US becomes sixth largest supplier of crude to India: Dharmendra Pradhan

The jump of the US with in a span of three years is significant as India is importing crude from a wide basket of 39 countries

Trump's India visit: Pradhan, US energy secy discuss strategic partnership

The meeting was attended by the US and Indian energy firms

Dharmendra Pradhan directs SAIL to draw action plan to enhance production

The minister said this while interacting with officials of SAIL's Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) in Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, the PSU said in a statement

Coronavirus outbreak to impact steel industry for next 2-3 years: Pradhan

The minister also asked Indian steel companies to enhance output, particularly special steel, to grab larger global market share

I believe SC's AGR ruling does not apply to non-telecom PSUs: Pradhan

Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday said he believes non-telecom PSUs are not covered by the Supreme Court order that asked telecom licence holders to pay statutory dues after including non-telecom revenues. Following the October 24 Supreme Court ruling that non-telecom revenues of telecom firms such as Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea should be included for considering payments of government dues, the telecom department sought Rs 1.83 lakh crore from gas utility GAIL India Ltd, about Rs 48,500 crore from OIL, Rs 21,953.65 crore from Power Grid Corp and Rs 15,020 crore from Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd. The government's demand from such companies was many times more than their net worth. "The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has served notice to government oil companies due to some communication gap. We have placed our side after doing all legal consultations," Pradhan told reporters here. He went on to state that neither of the public sector ...

Moving towards a gas-based economy

Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi India has taken a strong turn in the energy road map towards renewables and rebalancing the energy mix

KEC sees civil works opportunity in oil & gas sector in absence of IL&FS

To test the waters, Kejriwal says they'll bid for smaller projects worth Rs 50-250 crore

Over Rs 1 trn investment in oil, gas projects lined up in AP: Pradhan

The projects include Rs 26,264 cr modernisation of Visakhapatnam refinery by 2022-23, and Rs 68,000 cr in the development of offshore oil and gas fields.

Russia's largest oil producer Rosneft keen to bid for BPCL: Report

The government is selling all of its 53 per cent stake in BPCL in the country's biggest privatisation plan

As Delhi election nears, Dharmendra Pradhan holds door to door campaign

The minister went door to door and handed booklets of BJP to the residents of the colony. He was accompanied by other party workers and later joined by residents too