Aizawl: State-owned exploration major Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) has begun looking for gas reserves in Mizoram, close to the site of known reserves, officials said on Thursday.

The team of divers deployed to check the wreckage and assess the amount of oil spillage happening from the tanks of sunk ship MV Rak Carrier began their operation on Thursday by identifying wreckag

New Delhi Prices of the fuel have gone up 33% since being decontrolled last year

Easing global crude oil price — $103 a barrel on Monday, down from an average $113 a barrel in the first quarter — has nearly covered the losses that retailers IOC, HPCL and BPCL make on petrol, encouraging the government to indicate a price cut in the auto fuel. Since it was decontrolled in June last year, petrol prices have gone up 33%.

JORHAT, Aug 9 – At a time when different species of local birds have become endangered in the region, the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited and the State Forest department have decided to set

New Delhi A group of ministers (GoM) led by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday recommended bringing urea, a commonly used fertiliser, under the nutrient-based policy, raise its price by 10% immediately and partially decontrol the commodity from the next fiscal. Even after the price decontrol, there will be some subsidy on the plant nutrient to cushion it from price volatility. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs will take a final call on the matter shortly.

The Government plans to conduct a major oceanic survey in the country's territorial waters, including parts of the Bay of Bengal, Gulf of Cambay and Andaman Sea, to look for prospects of under-sea

GUWAHATI, July 26 – The crisis faced by the State’s power sector today due to the rise in the prices of natural gas has its genesis in the hike effected in the natural gas price by the Union Govern

Plays Down Supply Cut Threat, Says Eco Affairs Dept Looking At Payment Issue

Iran on Tuesday again threatened to cut oil supplies to India from next month if New Delhi failed to route payments to clear a pending bill of around $5 billion by that time.
Agencies quotedthesemiofficial Iranian Fars news agency as saying that an unidentified senior oil ministry official of that country had thre

Erratic supplies from KG D6 and limited import options have led to a fall in power output of gas-based plants in June, said a Central Electricity Authority (CEA) report.

The gross monthly generation by thermal, nuclear and hydro power stations, however, witnessed a positive growth in the period under consideration.