Petrol and diesel prices in the country on Saturday touched new all-time highs after rates were increased for the fourth time this week. Petrol and diesel prices were hiked by 25 paise per litre each, according to a price notification from oil marketing companies. This took the petrol price in Delhi to Rs 85.70 per […]
Day: January 23, 2021
Tata Power Solar wins Rs 1,200 cr order from NTPC to set up 320 MW project
Tata Power Solar on Saturday announced that it has bagged an order worth Rs 1,200 crore from state-run power giant NTPC for setting up of 320 MW ground mounted solar project. Tata Power Solar, India’s largest integrated solar company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Power, has received a “Letter of Award (LoA)” to build […]
Pakistan Airlines pays $7 mn to jet company after plane seized in Malaysia
The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) on Friday informed the London High Court that it has paid around USD 7 million to Peregrine Aviation Charlie Ltd in the case related to two jets leased to it by the Dublin-based AerCap. This comes a week after the Malaysian authorities seized a PIA Boeing-777 at the Kuala Lumpur […]
Flight services to and from Kashmir affected due to heavy snowfall
The air traffic to and fro Kashmir was affected on Saturday in the wake of snowfall in most parts of the valley, officials said. The snowfall began early in the morning and was continuing when the last reports came in. “No flight operations have taken place at the Srinagar airport so far this morning,” an […]
Six miners killed in Meghalaya
Six miners were killed while working in a remote coalmine in Meghalaya on Thursday evening after a machine malfunctioned, according to a statement issued by the police. Five of the victims were from Assam, four from Karimganj and one from Cachar district. One of the deceased is yet to be identified. The bodies were recovered […]
Calcutta High Court asks CBI for central order in coal case
Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the CBI to produce the document issued by the Union government that had led the central agency to probe against Anup Majhi alias Lala, an Asansol businessman, in a case related to illegal trading of coal. The central government had claimed in the middle of 2020 that it had […]
Reliance profit up 12% for December quarter of 2020
Buoyed by a strong performance from Jio, Reliance Industries (RIL) on Friday beat Street estimates to post a 12.55 per cent growth in net profits for the December quarter of 2020. The oil-to-telecom conglomerate recorded a net profit of Rs 13,101 crore compared with Rs 11,640 crore in the same period of the previous year. […]
Cabinet move to end GAIL monopoly
The Union cabinet may soon consider the oil ministry’s proposal to set up an independent gas pipeline operator which would end the monopoly of state-owned GAIL in the pipeline business. The petroleum ministry, which has held inter-ministerial consultations on setting up a transport service operator (TSO), would send a formal proposal to the cabinet soon […]
Relief soon near Avishikta crossing
The widening of a stretch of EM Bypass near the Avishikta crossing is nearly complete and cars will be running on the widened portion in about 10 days, a senior official of the Calcutta Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA), the custodian of EM Bypass, has said. Twenty-five metres have been widened on the western side and […]
NTPC CMHQ organises MSME Vendor development programme
A “MSME Vendor development programme” was organised by Shared Service (SSC)-C&M Dept , NTPC Coal Mining Headquarters, Ranchi on Friday in which vendors and participants of NTPC participated in online mode. Business Unit Heads of all Coal Mining Projects i.e Pakri Barwadih, Dulanga, Talaipalli, Keredari, Heads of the Department of Contracts from SSC C&M and […]
Petrol, diesel prices touch all-time highs
Petrol and diesel prices in the country on Saturday touched new all-time highs after rates were increased for the fourth time this week. Petrol and diesel prices were hiked by 25 paise per litre each, according to a price notification from oil marketing companies. This took the petrol price in Delhi to Rs 85.70 per […]
HP CM directs to speed up work on developmental projects
Himachal Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Friday directed the officers concerned to complete all the ongoing developmental projects in a stipulated time frame in Kullu district. The Chief Minister was presiding over a meeting with the officers of the Kullu district administration to review progress on various schemes at Kullu. He said that the […]