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  Petrol, diesel prices may be hiked to fund fuel upgrade

  June 13, 2014 19:48 IST

  New Delhi: Petrol and diesel prices will be hiked by 75 paise a litre each if the government accepts an expert panel report that recommends nationwide fuel standards be upgraded to eliminate cancer-causing particle emissions

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  Japan OKs fuel removal from pool at nuke plant

  World | October 30, 2013 10:52 IST

  Tokyo : Japanese regulators have given a final approval for a plan to remove fuel rods from an uncontained cooling pool at a damaged reactor building considered as the highest risk at the crippled nuclear

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  Moily wants to close petrol pumps at night to save fuel

  India | September 01, 2013 21:07 IST

  New Delhi: The government is considering various proposals including shutting petrol pumps in the night to taper fuel demand as it looks at ways to cut the massive oil import bill, Oil Minister M Veerappa

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  Japan receives 1st nuclear reactor fuel since 2011

  World | June 27, 2013 10:35 IST

  Tokyo, June 27: A power plant has received the first shipment of reprocessed nuclear reactor fuel sent to Japan since the 2011 disaster that forced it to shut down reactors.   The fuel, a mixture of

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  'Chinese n-help emboldened Pakistan to fuel Kashmir insurgency'

  India | October 16, 2012 16:21 IST

  New Delhi, Oct 16: Chinese assistance to Pakistan in developing a nuclear bomb emboldened it to fuel the Kashmir insurgency in 1989, says a noted security expert who has done considerable research on the issue.

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  Discounts galore on petrol cars post fuel price hike

  May 24, 2012 21:09 IST

  New Delhi, May 24: A day after petrol prices were hiked by an all-time record of Rs 7.50 per litre, leading car makers Maruti Suzuki, Tata Motors and Hyundai Motor today announced discounts of up

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  Fuel, LPG price hike unavoidable, says PM

  April 28, 2012 13:30 IST

  Bhatinda, Apr 28:  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said India needs to rationalise  (read: hike) the prices of petroleum products while insulating the common man from its effects. Dedicating the Rs 20,000 crore-Guru Gobind Singh

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  Milk, Meat Prices Push Inflation To 9.47 Pc

  April 18, 2012 19:31 IST

  New Delhi, Apr 18: Spurt in prices of milk and its products, vegetables, meat, edible oil and fuel pushed the retail inflation to 9.47 per cent in March, suggesting deterioration in the price situation.Retail inflation,

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  HPCL Resumes Fuel Supplies To Kingfisher

  March 08, 2012 11:25 IST

  New Delhi, Mar 8: State-owned Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL) today resumed oil supplies to Kingfisher Airlines after the beleaguered airline agreed to pay for daily fuel off-take.HPCL, which is Kingfisher's biggest aviation fuel supplier,

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  No Money For Fuel, 49 Chandigarh Police Gypsies Lying Idle

  India | February 08, 2012 9:59 IST

  Chandigarh, Feb 8: Sixty brand new Maruti Gypsy vehicles were purchased for Chandigarh police recently, but out of them, only eleven are operational, while the remaining 49 vehicles are lying idle for want of money

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  Headline Inflation Inches Up To 9.73 Pc In October

  November 14, 2011 12:45 IST

  New Delhi, Nov 14 : Headline inflation hovered stubbornly near the double-digit mark in October, rising marginally to 9.73 per cent as prices of food products, fuel and manufactured goods put more pressure on the

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  Decontrol Diesel Prices, Says CII

  July 04, 2011 17:49 IST

  Chennai, July 4: Confederation of Indian Industry today favoured decontrolling diesel prices saying the subsidy on fuel would hit the country's growth in the long term.  “We are not in favour of subsidies...Though it is

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  Pranab Writes To State Govts To Cut ST, VAT On Fuel

  India | June 26, 2011 13:08 IST

  New Delhi, Jun 26: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has written to state governments to reduce sales tax or value added tax being levied on fuel to lessen the burden on the common man. In his

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  Fuel Price Hike Unlikely Till May

  India | March 09, 2011 20:12 IST

  New Delhi, Mar 9: State-owned fuel retailers may not hike petrol and diesel prices till Assembly elections in five states are completed in May, even though their losses on auto fuel sales continue to mount.

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  I Didn't Fuel Summer Unrest, Says Geelani

  India | December 16, 2010 21:26 IST

  Srinagar, Dec 16 :  Hardline Hurriyat Conference chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani today refuted police claim that the summer unrest in the valley was fuelled by him."The police claim is a lie... The government is

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  Pay More For Cars, Fuel, TVs, ACs, Cigarettes, Cement

  India | February 26, 2010 23:23 IST

  Car, fuel, AC, TV, gold and silver jewellery, cigarettes and other tobacco products will cost more in the new fiscal with Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee proposing a hike in duties and change in tax structure