New Delhi, Sept 29 : Petroleum Secretary R. S. Pandey on Monday said that the Reliance Industries wants tax changes to make diesel sales from its export-oriented refinery commercially viable in the domestic market.
Surging demand has forced state-run refiners to import diesel, while Reliance sells the same fuel overseas as domestic sales would attract heavy duties due to the tax concessions given to its refinery against a commitment to export.
New Delhi, Sept 29 : The President''s office has clarified that there has been no attack on the convoy of President Pratibha Devisingh Patil, during her visit to Chhattisgarh today, as reported by some sections of the media.
A Rashtrapati Bhawan Spokesperson on Monday said that the President was not traveling by road as she travelled from Chitrakut to Raipur by helicopter.
President Patil visited the famous Chitrakoot water fall in the Bastar District of Chhattisgarh today.
The President is on a two-day visit to the State which began on Sunday.
New Delhi, September 29 : The world knows of Radha as the consort of Krishna in childhood, playing on the banks of Jamuna at Gokul. But few are aware of her travails when her consort left her to become the charioteer of Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, and her longing to become the wife of the Lord remained unfulfilled.
Smita Prakash in a Bharatanatyam dance performance on Saturday (Sep. 27) narrated the story in an appealing manner at the Triveni Kala Sangam here. The programme ''Radha''s dilemma'' presented the innermost joys and sorrows of Radha, the girl known for her undying love for Krishna.
New Delhi, Sept 29 : The Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) on Monday presented the family of slain Delhi Police Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma a sum of Rs. 19.98 lakhs.
LIC’s Senior Divisional Manager A K Sharma personally visited Sharma’s house in Dwarka and handed over cheques to his wife Maya Sharma, who was the nominee under all his insurance policies.
In a press release, the company said that the family wasn’t aware about his polices, but it came forward to settle the entire insured amount.
Inspector Sharma died of excessive bleeding after leading an encounter in Delhi’s Jamia Nagar on September 19,
New Delhi - At least eight people, including six children, were killed in an explosion in a village in eastern India as people were making firecrackers ahead of a festival, news reports said Monday.
Two villagers were injured in Sunday's explosion in Balasore district, 230 kilometres north of Orissa's state capital, Bhubaneshwar, the PTI news agency reported.
The blast occurred when people were illegally making firecrackers in a house and some of them caught fire, police told The Statesman daily.
New Delhi, Sept.
New Delhi, Sept 29 : Petroleum Secretary R. S. Pandey on Monday said that the Reliance Industries wants tax changes to make diesel sales from its export-oriented refinery commercially viable in the domestic market.
New Delhi, Sept 29 : The President''s office has clarified that there has been no attack on the convoy of President Pratibha Devisingh Patil, during her visit to Chhattisgarh today, as reported by some sections of the media.
New Delhi - At least eight people, including six children, were killed in an explosion in a village in eastern India as people were making firecrackers ahead of a festival, news reports said Monday.
