Singapore: Reliance Industries will restart a crude distillation unit one to two days after a fire at its older, 660,000 barrels-per-day (bpd) refinery in Jamnagar, a company spokesman said on Friday. The fire broke out during maintenance on the unit, which was shut at the time, said Reliance spokesman Tushar Pania.
Pania said the fire was minor and was contained immediately. The company is still investigating the cause of the fire, he said, without providing details of the unit's capacity.
No firm dates have been set yet for a separate planned maintenance at Reliance's newer 580,000 bpd Jamnagar refining complex in January, Pania said.
The company is planning to shut a 13.5 metric tonnes per annum (270,000 bpd) crude distillation unit for about 40 days in January, industry sources have said. It is also planning to shut a 6.5 mmtpa vacuum gasoil hydrotreater unit, one of the sources said....
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12:51 PM, Dec 21, 2012
Why did Rahul Gandhi keep off campaigning in Gujarat till the last moment? Is it because the Congress has accepted defeat even before the actual polls? CNN-IBN's Ahmedabad bureau chief Meghdoot Sharon joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Q. If my guess is right, if Congress losses badly that will because of lack of organistion in Gujarat. If it makes some improvement in the tally it will...
12:38 PM, Dec 12, 2012
Rajkot: The persistent water woes of Saurashtra, a scarcity-prone area of Gujarat, has become one of the main poll issues in the 2012 assembly elections in Rajkot as people are angry that virtually nothing has been done in the last ten years to resolve the problem permanently. Saurashtra, an area without a perennial river and having inverted pan topography, suffers from water scarcity as average rainfall is also very less....
10:30 AM, Dec 09, 2012
The INDIA TODAY-Nielsen Sex Survey of four metros (Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai) as well as 12 towns (Hisar, Moradabad, Kota, Kolhapur, Jamnagar, Ratlam, Salem, Kottayam, Guntur, Asansol, Baleshwar and Aizawl) throws up some interesting facts about how people from India's small towns behave between the sheets. The 10th annual sex survey highlights the state of India's sexual health in the country's far flung extremities. However, what came off the...
04:29 PM, Dec 04, 2012
At least nine Indian Air Force (IAF) personnel were killed in a mid-air collision of two MI-17 helicopters near Jamnagar Air Force Station in Gujarat on Thursday. ...
07:24 PM, Aug 30, 2012
Ahmedabad: At least nine Indian Air Force (IAF) personnel have been killed in a mid-air collision of two MI-17 helicopters near Jamnagar Air Force Station in Gujarat. The tragic accident in which five officers and four other ranks lost their lives took place at around 12:05 pm on Thursday; just five minutes after the helicopters had taken off from the Jamnagar Air Force station for a routine training sortie. The...
04:40 PM, Aug 30, 2012
Five minutes after taking off on training sorties, two Air Force helicopters collided mid-air in Gujarat, leaving eight dead. ...
03:53 PM, Aug 30, 2012
Ahmedabad: Eight Indian Air Force personnel were killed after two Air Force MI-17 helicopters crashed near Sarmat village in Jamnagar in Gujarat after a mid-air collision on Thursday. There were four people on board each MI-17 helicopter and all of them died in the tragic crash. One of the helicopters caught fire after the collision, which took place almost 20 kms from the Jamnagar Air Force Station. The helicopters had...
01:09 PM, Aug 30, 2012
New Delhi: The Intelligence Bureau has issued an alert of a possible terror strike in Gujarat. A specific input from the Intelligence Bureau indicated that six terrorists from the Lashkar-e-Taiba are likely to target Ahmedabad and Jamnagar. Police on Saturday searched residential areas around major petroleum refiners in the Jamnagar city, and released photographs of six suspected LeT terrorists. Coast Guard has beefed up the security along the Jamangar coast...
09:39 PM, May 05, 2012
Jamnagar: A court in Jamkhambhalia on Tuesday issued bailable warrant against suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt for not appearing during the hearing of a case of alleged police atrocity, which had resulted in one death. Sessions judge NT Solanki issued bailable warrants against Bhatt and four other police personnel who did not appear before the court which was to hear the case today. Bhatt, who has filed an affidavit against...
12:47 AM, May 02, 2012
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will sit on a day-long 'sadbhavna fast', his fourth fast in 'sadbhawna series', in Jamnagar on Tuesday. Not to be left behind, the Congress is going to stage a parallel fast in the same town. Ahead of the fast, Jamnagar BJP city unit has planned to take out 'padyatra' from Dhorol town to Jamnagar city, party sources said adding the yatra would be flagged...
08:23 AM, Dec 20, 2011
New Delhi: Suspended Gujarat IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt was on Friday asked by the Supreme Court to withdraw his petition in connection with the Jamnagar custodial torture case. The officer complied with the instructions of the court and withdrew the petition. The apex court asked Bhatt to approach High Court in connection with the case. Bhatt had challenged the legality of the proceedings initiated against him in Jamnagar custodial torture...
11:52 AM, Nov 18, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will on Friday hear the plea of suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, challenging the legality of the proceedings initiated against him in Jamnagar custodial torture case of 1990. An apex court bench of Justice P Sathasivam and Justice BS Chauhan had said the matter would be listed on its scheduled date after Bhatt's counsel D Sharma did not press for a stay of the trial...
07:00 AM, Nov 18, 2011
The girl was gangraped between Aug 21 and 26 in Jamnagar and Mumbai. ...
10:24 AM, Aug 31, 2009
The pregnant woman had gone to a hospital in Jamnagar for check up. ...
10:19 PM, Jun 20, 2009
Flight Lieutenant Dheer, was rescued after he bailed out of the aircraft . ...
04:47 PM, Sep 01, 2008
London: Chris Tremlett has been rewarded for his exploits in the Ashes series by being awarded an incremental contract by England for 2010-11. The Surrey fast bowler qualified for the contract having played for England in the final three Ashes Tests and three one-day internationals in the tour of Australia. Tremlett claimed 17 wickets after coming into the side as a replacement for the injured Stuart Broad midway through the ...
02:01 AM, Dec 04, 2007
The school claims it is taking necessary steps to resolve the issue. ...
02:40 AM, Aug 07, 2007
4 people were killed and 16 others injured in a fire that broke out in the Essar's refinery complex in Vadinar on Thursday. ...
09:08 AM, Feb 01, 2007
