India on Thursday pressed oil cartel Opec for an “affordable” oil price within a “reasonable band”. It also urged the producers to phase out production cuts. Opec nations such...

The Mamata Banerjee-government is lobbying the Centre in a bid to stop Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) from dismantling its raw material division in Calcutta that oversees the mining and supply of...

Oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday said Congress-led governments in Rajasthan and Maharashtra should cut high sales tax on petrol and diesel if the party was concerned about the fuel price burd...

The government will auction unmonetised large oil and gas fields of state-owned ONGC and OIL to boost the country’s hydrocarbon production, petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan said as the gove...

A Hindi paper recently printed snaps of Tejashwi Yadav, Kanhaiya Kumar and Chirag Paswan regarding their absence from Covid relief work. The image renewed attacks on Kumar for being a “celebrity...

The petrol bunks of the country that facilitate filling air in the tyres of two and four-wheelers free of cost at present may also offer the same facility to cycles soon. This became a possibility wh...

The war of words has escalated between the ruling Biju Janata Dal and the Opposition BJP over the shortage of Covid-19 vaccines in Odisha. Union petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Wednesday hit...

Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has suggested the prices have increased “due to intense cold” and a recent ice storm in the US had generated the spike in the price of diesel an...

Jharkhand finance minister Rameshwar Oraon has described as "illogical" Union petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s reasoning that the steep rise in fue...

Oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan warned on Thursday that rising oil prices could hurt global economic recovery in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic that caused most economies to shrink last year. ...