'General Zia was real startled'

'But he was very quick and did a very stylish adab.''Of course, I didn't expect him to hug.' IMAGE: Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri and her husband Hardeep Singh Puri, currently India's minister of......

Kidnapped ONGC employee released by ULFA(I) after a month

Kidnapped ONGC employee Ritul Saikia was released by United Liberation Front of Asom-I militants on Saturday morning in Myanmar near its border with India's Nagaland, police said. Saikia,......

Gas leak at ONGC well off Mumbai coast; no casualty

A high pressure, highly inflammable gas leak was on Saturday reported at a well state-owned ONGC was drilling at its prime Mumbai High oil and gas fields, off Mumbai coast. Oil and Natural Gas Corp......

ONGC shuts down some wells in Andhra after gas pipeline blast

State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp has shut some wells on two onland gas fields in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh following the fire in a pipeline that carried the gas to......

Govt may charge domestic natural gas users more

An inter-ministerial panel on Wednesday agreed on the need to charge more from users of domestic natural gas so that imported LNG can be made affordable.The inter-ministerial committee, headed by......

ONGC to invest $4.05 bn in natural gas block

State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) plans to invest $4.05 billion in producing natural gas from its ultra deepsea UD-1 discovery in a block that sits next to Reliance Industries' prolific......

Natural gas price doubled to $4.20 per mmBtu

The government has raised the prices of natural gas by more than double to $4.20 per mmBtu, leading to a hike in power and fertiliser production costs. However, a hike in CNG rates will come into......

Govt plans to rationalise natural gas prices

The government is planning to rationalise multiple prices of natural gas in the country to make fuel costs uniform for all consumers, Oil Secretary S Sundareshan said on Wednesday. "The challenge......

How Qatar is maintaining stadiums for FIFA World Cup

Preparing turf for the World Cup, being held for the first time in the Middle East, is environmentally costly.  Qatar has also countered the risk of fungus and disease outbreaks with a......