As the shipment arrived, the Ceylon Electricity Board announced that 13-hour power cuts would now be reduced to nearly 2 hours from Sunday.
Immediate neighbour to the island nation, India has come to rescue with nearly $2.5 billion financial assistance from January to purchase essential such as fuel, food, and medicines.
Sri Lanka's worsening foreign-exchange shortage has seriously impacted the energy sector, which largely depends on imports for fuel.
The march came as Sri Lankan Parliament debated the national budget for 2022.
The explosion in Karachi was result of short-circuiting inside a room where electric system is controlled, according to Nasir Aftab, who is deputy-inspector general for the city’s police.
Addressing the annual session of industry body PHDCCI, Gadkari further said that the govt is working to develop an ethanol economy.
Nitin Gadkari also batted for adopting a low-cost broad gauge metro line to connect Pune with other western Maharashtra districts and proposed to rope in private travel operators to operate them.
M Fuel Kart Pvt Ltd has signed an agreement with BPCL to offer doorstep delivery of high-speed diesel in Delhi-NCR.
The price of petrol and diesel in Mumbai are Rs 103.89 and Rs 95.79 per litre respectively today.
Reliance BP Mobility Ltd, the fuel retailing joint venture of Reliance Industries Ltd and BP, has deployed a mobile fuel bowser in Mumbai for supplying fuel free of cost to ambulances on COVID-19 duty, a company statement said on Tuesday.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee held protest against price hike of fuel and cooking gas in Siliguri on March 07.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee held protest against price hike of fuel and cooking gas in Siliguri on March 07.
The petrol and diesel prices have increased 25 times in 2021 with the two auto fuels increasing by over Rs 7 each per litre.
Petrol and diesel prices on Saturday surged again in India and Bhopal witnessed hike in the rates of fuels with ₹93.59 per litre and Rs 83.85 per litre respectively.
Oil marketing companies continued to hold back any change in retail price of petrol and diesel continuing with their wait and watch stance that has kept the prices of two auto fuels static for past 12 days.
A team led by an Indian-origin scientist in the US has developed a new system that can extract oxygen and hydrogen fuel from the salty water on Mars, and may radically change the logistics of future missions to the Red Planet and beyond.
India's fuel demand is beginning to flatline after showing signs of returning to life, as consumption dipped 11.7 per cent in July, official data showed.
In Madhaul area of Muzaffarpur, Bihar, a petrol-filled tanker collided with a truck and began to leak petrol. Seeing the petrol fall from the truck, people started looting petrol carrying buckets, gallons.
India's fuel demand has reached 80-85 per cent of pre-Covid levels in the first half of June but return to 5 per cent growth trajectory may take up to two years, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and industry leaders said on Tuesday.
India's fuel consumption fell almost 46 per cent in April as all petroleum products, except LPG, saw massive demand erosion following the nationwide lockdown that halted economic activity and travel.
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