Centre All Set To Fix Price At Rs 27/Litre; Industry Says Move To Spell Loss For OMCs

THE Centre is all set to fix the price of ethanol at Rs 27 per litre this week under intense pressure from the powerful sugar lobby. This will ensure fat bottom lines for the entire sugar industry even while it does not guarantee higher cane price for the producer.

S Sujatha NAMAKKAL

POULTRY farmers are betting on the advantages of the automated environmentally-controlled (EC) sheds as they suffer from manpower shortage, extreme climatic conditions and mounting feed costs. But many of them are worried about the high electricity costs as the sheds require uninterrupted power supply.

The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Dr K. Rosaiah, has decided to take up the issue of fuel allocation with the Centre and the Union Petroleum Ministry for the proposed power project in the IFFCO Kisan Special Economic Zone (SEZ) coming up in the Nellore district of the State.

LUCKNOW: The Dussehri belt of Malihabad was in the grip of a power cut that stretched for over 28 hours. The power cut, which occurred due to a "serious fault" in the grid supply to Malihabad, occurred at 12.00pm on Thursday.

Mumbai: Finally, chief minister Ashok Chavan has something to showcase. The state government has given approval to start work on the world

EVEN as the budget appears to have some benefits for the Punjab farmers, especially in terms of direct delivery of subsidies on fertilisers, easy mobility of grain from one state to another and conservation of natural resources especially groundwater resources, the increase in excise duty on petrol and diesel will result in higher cost of production for various crops, which may not go down well fo

Minister Gives No Assurance To Trinamool & DMK On Rollback; NCP Backs Pranab

DIFFERENCES have emerged within the government over mandatory blending of petrol with ethanol. Fertilisers & chemicals minister MK Azhagiri has written to the prime minister asking that the November 2009 decision of the cabinet committee on economic affairs (CCEA) be reviewed and the mandatory blending be deferred until such time as enough ethanol is available for consumers.