
March 19, 2003 00:00 IST
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s Golden Quadrilateral highway project has distracted attention from its equally important rural co...
Wed, Mar 19, 2003
March 15, 2003 00:00 IST
Petroleum Minister Ram Naik may have girded up by stocking up ahead of a likely assault by the US on Iraq, but his work is being undone by t...
Sat, Mar 15, 2003
March 10, 2003 00:00 IST
Narendra Modi’s landslide victory in Gujarat elections has changed his power equations with the Centre. After getting the Prime Ministe...
Mon, Mar 10, 2003
March 09, 2003 00:00 IST
Never mind the allies’ opposition to his economic agenda, Prime Minister Vajpayee’s reform yatra moves on and his next stop is adm...
Sun, Mar 09, 2003
March 01, 2003 00:00 IST
The petroleum ministry has hit back at Jaswant Singh for ignoring the oil sector in his Budget by increasing sharply the price of petrol and...
Sat, Mar 01, 2003
February 24, 2003 00:00 IST
Save for cooking gas, LPG, stocks of petroleum products in the country are enough to feed the domestic demand for two months — a limit ...
Mon, Feb 24, 2003
February 20, 2003 00:00 IST
Petroleum Minister Ram Naik has lifted the ban on state-owned oil companies from setting up petrol pumps and LPG agencies but has stopped th...
Thu, Feb 20, 2003
February 19, 2003 00:00 IST
Small-scale planters will have a reason to cheer about tomorrow if the Centre clears a plan to compensate them when they get less market pri...
Wed, Feb 19, 2003
February 15, 2003 00:00 IST
After sinking more than $600 million in the Sakhalin oil and gas field in Russia, ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL) has informed its lender that its...
Sat, Feb 15, 2003
February 10, 2003 00:00 IST
When it comes to downstream petroleum refining and marketing business, public sector undertaking Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) does...
Mon, Feb 10, 2003
February 08, 2003 00:00 IST
It was perhaps the parting gift the minister could not give to the cellphone operators. A week before his exit from the government, former T...
Sat, Feb 08, 2003
February 04, 2003 00:00 IST
Gently bending existing guidelines, the Government plans to bestow freedom fighter status to those who participated in the Goa Liberation st...
Tue, Feb 04, 2003
February 03, 2003 00:00 IST
Get ready to dump your 15-year-old car or motorcycle for the Government plans to introduce an additional cess and an enhanced road tax on ve...
Mon, Feb 03, 2003
January 26, 2003 00:00 IST
The Bharatiya Janata Party-led government has decided to repay its debt to one of the founders of the Jan Sangh, Deen Dayal Upadhyay. The In...
Sun, Jan 26, 2003
January 26, 2003 00:00 IST
The pipeline has ended up as a pipedream. Oil ministers of India and Iran on Saturday quietly buried the proposed natural gas pipeline betwe...
Sun, Jan 26, 2003
January 22, 2003 00:00 IST
Revenue realisation from disinvestment of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) will take a beating if the finance ministry on Wednesda...
Wed, Jan 22, 2003
January 21, 2003 00:00 IST
Barely a month after his poll victory, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is dictating terms to the Centre. This time, Prime Minister Atal...
Tue, Jan 21, 2003
January 19, 2003 00:00 IST
Enron’s India debacle has claimed another victim. Government-owned Shipping Corporation of India (SCI), a partner in the joint venture ...
Sun, Jan 19, 2003
January 17, 2003 00:00 IST
The government has found a novel route to keep its Budget look good while keeping its grip tight on the ‘de-controlled’ oil sector...
Fri, Jan 17, 2003
January 13, 2003 00:00 IST
In a move that could salvage India’s first LNG (liquefied natural gas) project, Qatar has agreed to bring down the price at which it wi...
Mon, Jan 13, 2003
January 11, 2003 00:00 IST
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today voiced concern over building security reserves of crude oil as the clock ticks towards a US milita...
Sat, Jan 11, 2003
January 09, 2003 00:00 IST
Underworld don Abdul Salem and his wife Monica Bedi will not be awarded the death penalty or a life term beyond 25 years if brought to India...
Thu, Jan 09, 2003
December 31, 2002 00:00 IST
With elections in five states scheduled next year, the Prime Minister is not willing to take any chances. Last Friday, he put off a decision...
Tue, Dec 31, 2002
December 20, 2002 00:00 IST
Brushing aside objections over its choice of investment, ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL) signed a $720-million MoU in October with Canada’s T...
Fri, Dec 20, 2002
December 20, 2002 00:00 IST
The Government today approved a shift in norms for calculating the price paid to producers for urea, which could annually save about Rs 620 ...
Fri, Dec 20, 2002




