One step forward, two steps backwards

New Delhi Despite a wider excise duty difference between petrol and diesel, the group of ministers on fuel pricing led by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee has ruled out imposing any additional excise duty on diesel cars, which was proposed last year in a report by former Planning Commission member Kirit Parikh that formed the basis for sweeping oil price revisions last year.

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Agartala, June 20: India

AGARTALA, June 20

It has been a week since underground water started overflowing from various outlets in the small town of Olpad, close to Surat city in south Gujarat. If anything, the situation has only worsened in the last one week or so. And now, neighbouring villages have reported the same problem.

Agartala, June 17: A major gas leak from one of ONGC

Agartala, June 16: Natural gas continued to leak from an ONGC well in western Tripura on Thursday, nearly two days after the leak was first detected, officials here said. Experts and engineers are on a constant battle to cap the well.

AGARTALA, June 15

In a disquieting development for Reliance Industries, oil regulator DGH has refused to accredit three natural gas discoveries made by the company at its KG-D6 block, where revival of the sagging output depends on production from new finds.

The Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) rejected D-30, D-31 and D-34 finds in the KGDWN-98/3 or KG-D6 block as commercially exploitable discoveries on

The Supreme Court would start its final hearing on the $125-million ONGC contract for laying offshore pipelines along the country