New Delhi The petroleum ministry has on Thursday passed a fresh order asking Reliance Industries to fully meet the contracted gas supplies to priority consumers in sectors like fertiliser, LPG, power and city gas distribution in spite of the fall in gas production from the D6 field in the Krishna Godavari basin.

The government patched together an intricate

The government on Thursday raised the benchmark prices at which fertiliser companies and designated traders can import phosphatic and potash fertilisers with subsidy support so that farmers have uninterrupted supply of plant nutrients in the coming monsoon season despite higher global prices.

With the unrest in Middle East expected to raise fertiliser prices for the kharif crop, the Cabinet, scheduled to meet on Thursday, is likely to take a decision for upward revision in the nutrient based subsidy (NBS) rates of phosphatic and potassic fertilizers under the NBS regime that came into force in April last year.

The move has been necessitated with the Fertilizer Ministry pointing to t

Even as the government tries hard to rationalise its subsidy payout

New Delhi: Just when UPA is grappling with food inflation, Union minister M K Alagiri has sounded alarm over shooting fertilizer prices under the Nutrient-Based Subsidy (NBS), saying the policy introduced in the last budget was hurting the poor farmer.

Ten months after the Centre freed fertilizer price and linked subsidy to constituents of phosphatic and potassic fertilizers, Alagiri has wr

TAMLUK, 10 FEB: Farmers of Midnapore East finally heaved a sigh of relief as the agriculture department and the district authorities have issued a

Despite partial decontrol of two classes of fertilisers from April last year, the total fertiliser subsidy requirement for the fiscal is likely to go up by about Rs 10,000-15,000 crore from the Rs 54,981 crore already provided as fertiliser consumption has shot up due to a good monsoon.

In a development that could impact Indian companies trading in carbon credits, the European Commission (EU) has said it would ban the most common type of offsets, for use in the EU emissions