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India under no moral conflict on buying Russian oil, reiterates Puri

Union petroleum and natural gas minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Monday reiterated that India is under no moral conflict to stop buying oil from Russia

Ethanol blended petrol may be available from Dec or Jan: Hardeep Puri

Ethanol-blended petrol is likely to be available in the country from December or January, ahead of the April 2023 target, Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Friday. "We are constantly reviewing the ethanol production and I believe, 20 per cent blended fuel would come in the market in December or January ahead of April 2023 (target)," he told reporters here. Citing the example of Brazil where flex-fuel vehicles are available and the consumer can take ethanol or petrol as per choice, he said that this will be the ultimate goal of the government. However, to reach that stage, certain technical aspects are there and work is going on. "We are going to hold a major meeting with automobile manufacturers on ethanol blending," he said. India has advanced the target date for achieving 20 per cent ethanol-blending in petrol by five years to 2025. The minister also said that for the targeted 20 per cent blending of ethanol in petrol, the country will need a 1,

Confident India will navigate through OPEC+ production cut: Hardeep Puri

Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri on Friday said that India will navigate through the OPEC+ decision to cut oil production from November

No decision taken on oil refinery plant location in Maharashtra, says Puri

Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Saturday said the Centre has not taken any decision to set up an oil refinery project in any specific area in Maharashtra. Speaking to reporters in Chandrapur, he said the state government will have to discuss the project's location with the Central government. He alleged the erstwhile government (in Maharashtra) had allocated land for the project but later refused under the pretext of changing the location, which derailed the project. "Following this, the state (Maharashtra) and the country faced huge economic losses in the last two-and-a-half years," Puri alleged. Puri was apparently referring to the Ratnagiri Refinery and Petrochemical project, proposed to be built at Nanar village in Ratnagiri district in coastal Konkan, but it was scrapped before the 2019 polls at the insistence of Shiv Sena, the then alliance partner of BJP. Establishing a 60-million metric tonne per annum oil refinery will be the biggest plant in the world, Puri ...

Scientific processing of waste provides way for innovation: Hardeep Puri

Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs, Hardeep Puri reiterated the commitment of the Centre to provide all support to the startups involved in finding solutions towards promoting cleanliness

Top headlines: AI puts in place transformation plan;BPCL divestment stalled

The carrier, which plans to induct 30 new wide-body and narrow-body aircraft, on Thursday announced 'Vihaan.AI', a comprehensive transformation plan with a detailed road map for next five years

BPCL disinvestment plans stalled as of now: Oil minister Hardeep Puri

The government currently owns a 52.98 per cent stake in BPCL. It had sought to sell its entire stake in the disinvestment process

India's crude oil production falls 3.8% to 2.45 MT in July: Govt data

India's crude oil production fell 3.8 per cent in July on lower output from fields operated by state-owned ONGC and private sector firms, government data released on Tuesday showed. Production of crude oil, which is refined to produce fuels such as petrol and diesel, fell to 2.45 million tonnes in July from 2.54 million tonnes a year back. The output was lower than the monthly target of 2.59 million tonnes, the data released by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas showed. Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) produced 1.7 per cent less oil at 1.63 million tonnes on lower output from western offshore. Fields operated by private firms saw a 12.34 per cent decline in production. But the oil production during the first four months of the current fiscal that began on April 1 was only marginally lower at 9.91 million tonnes as opposed to 9.96 million tonnes during April-July 2021. Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on August 4 tweeted that the declining trend in crude oil production

Sounds from Rohingya colony: From hope to fear in a matter of hours

Mariam, a Rohingya Muslim who lives in a squalid Delhi locality, was happy she and her daughter would get to live in a pucca house for the first time in a decade. A tweet by Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri had raised her hopes, but a quick clarification by the Home Ministry meant the hope of getting a roof over her head in a faraway land was short-lived. "We don't know why the Government of India changed their decision. The only thing I was happy about was that, my daughter and I would be living in a pucca building for the first time after a decade," the 35-year-old, living in Delhi's Kalindi Kunj, told PTI. A section of the refugees living in Delhi's Kalindi Kunj has been apprehensive about their deportation in an "unfair" manner, after the Ministry of Home Affairs directed the Delhi government to declare the camps of the Rohingyas in Delhi as detention centres. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) made it clear Wednesday it had not given any directions to provide flats to Rohing

Helter-skelter shelter: Why are Rohingya refugees in the news again?

No sooner did the union minister Hardeep Puri hail giving Rohingyas a permanent shelter than the MHA denied any such order

India's bet on gas-based economy runs into Ukraine war challenges

As the Ukraine-Russia conflict pushes up prices and Europe outbids South Asia for scarce supplies, billions of dollars in domestic gas infrastructure investment are at risk

Central Vista Avenue redevelopment project to be completed by July 18: Puri

Earlier this week, Puri had visited the stretch and said that Delhiites, who have warm memories of the place, would be pleasantly surprised to see how it is being totally transformed

Other countries facing steep inflation as compared to India: Hardeep Puri

The surge in inflation is largely driven by rising fuel and food prices, government data showed

States should cut VAT to give relief to consumers: Puri on fuel prices

All BJP-ruled states have reduced VAT on petrol and diesel, Puri pointed out

PM Modi's govt provided new definition of governance: Hardeep Puri

Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Wednesday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government has given a new definition of governance in the last eight years

Govt to take measures to provide relief to consumers from high fuel prices

India relies on overseas purchases to meet about 85 per cent of its oil requirement, making it one of the most vulnerable in Asia to higher oil prices

FM raises concern on rising oil prices; Puri says oil cos to decide on hike

India relies on overseas purchases to meet about 85 per cent of its oil requirement, making it one of the most vulnerable in Asia to higher oil prices

Govt took many steps to reduce black money in property deals: Official

As the real estate sector becomes cleaner, Housing and Urban Affairs Secretary Manoj Joshi said more and more women would come to work in this industry

'We don't tell oil marketing cos to raise or lower prices,' says Puri in LS

Puri also said prices have gone up by only 30% in the last 7 years, that is from 2014-2021 period and emphasised that various steps have been taken to deal with the situation of high oil prices

9% ethanol blending in petrol achieved; 20% target by 2025: Hardeep Puri

India has achieved 9 per cent ethanol blending in petrol and is confident of meeting the 20 per cent target by 2025, Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Thursday.