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From Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Congress high command is looking for a young and charismatic face to head state Congress Committee after poor performance of the party in recently concluded assembly polls. Now Congress is focusing on Mission 2014 for Lok Sabha polls. It would be worth mentioning here that...
By Nantoo Banerjee Who is this Noam Chomsky? What is his nationality? Why is he trying to protect an extremely shabby existence of a few hundred squatters on a public property, stalling the development of the Kolkata metropolitan region, the country’s most neglected and infrastructurally-handicapped megacity? Did Chomsky ever...
A newly-born child, who has six legs, rests on his grandmother’s lap at his family home in Sukkur in Pakistan’s Sindh province April 14, 2012. A baby born in Pakistan’s Sindh province has six legs, with a doctor assessing that the removal of the parasitic limbs could be a...
NEW DELHI: Persisting with its strategy to pre-emptively contest a likely government move to restrict the cost recovery at the KG-D6 offshore gas field, the Mukesh Ambani-run Reliance Industries (RIL) along with one of its consortium partners on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court, seeking direction to the government to...
NEW DELHI: In order to give more operational flexibility to Maharatna and Navratna companies, that will help them achieve their annual targets, the heavy industries ministry will soon come out with fresh guidelines. Also, it will provide a review and a peak mechanism for Maharatna and Navratna companies for...
NEW DELHI: The initial hype over India’s shale gas potential seems to be making way for a more sober assessment of the unconventional energy that could actually be extracted from rock formations. From an initial assessment of 300 trillion cubic feet (TCF) to 2,100 TCF of producible and non-producible...
The current fiscal will be challenging for the department of disinvestment. Despite the dismal show last year due to adverse market conditions and the failure to reach the target for divestment revenue, the department has lined up a slew of proposals for stake sales in public sector undertakings (PSUs)...
India and Afghanistan failed to agree on transit fee for gas passing through Afghan territory under the USD 7.6-billion Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan- India (TAPI) pipeline project, officials said today. Consequently, Islamabad and New Delhi too could not agree on the transit fee for the segment of the pipeline passing through Pakistan,...
NEW DELHI: The valuation of Gujarat Gas, the BG Group company on the block, depends on the outcome of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board’s decision on granting exclusivity rights for city gas distribution in its operating areas. PNGRB recently awarded authorisation to the BSE-listed company for city...
MUMBAI: Reliance Industries (RIL), the country’s biggest company, has completed 4.4% of its announced buyback programme that began in the first week of February. The company has bought back more than 52.6 lakh shares in the last two months, against an announced buyback of 12 crore shares, which equals...