Seventeen people sustained burns and around 150 huts were gutted in a major fire that engulfed a slum near Bandra station, officials said on Thursday. ...
04:17 AM, Mar 08, 2013
Vadodara: Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj on Saturday demanded immediate rollback of Centre's decision to cap annual supply of domestic gas cylinders, saying the move was hurting the common people. "This is an inappropriate decision taken even as prices are skyrocketing. I appeal to the government to withdraw this decision," she said addressing a campaign rally at Sama locality on Saturday. BJP candidate Jitu Sukhadiya is contesting...
02:26 AM, Dec 02, 2012
Mumbai: Oil marketing companies have decided to bring in technological interventions with a view to remove bottlenecks in distribution system and aim to make the system fool-proof by the end of this fiscal against the backdrop of capping in the number of subsidised cylinders. The three OMCs, which distribute gas to over 14 crore registered customers across the nation, are currently piloting three different interventions based on bar-coding, an RFID...
11:15 AM, Oct 14, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Wednesday said 65 per cent of the seven million LPG users in the state use six or less than six gas cylinders a year. The Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in New Delhi last week decided to put a cap of six cylinders at subsidised rates to all and which led to a widespread protest across the country. Addressing a hurriedly called...
01:42 AM, Sep 20, 2012
