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COIMBATORE, TAMILNADU, 09/12/2014: Consumers thronged the office of a gas agency at Ramnagar in Coimbatore on December 09, 2014, to submit necessary forms to get the subsidy for domestic LPG cylinders.
Photo: M. Periasamy

LPG subsidy transfer

It is a long haul ahead for the Direct Benefit Transfer for LPG scheme, aimed at giving “subsidy to the right beneficiary”.

Miners pull a cart full of coal in a mine in Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya, India, on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. India, reliant on coal for more than half its electricity, is struggling to ease blackouts as delays in adding railways hinder fuel supplies and discourage investors from building $36 billion of power plants. Photographer: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg

Coal block auction

Having opted for the e-auction route following the de-allocation of coal blocks, the government has to ensure a transparent and fool-proof bidding sys

KOCHI, KERALA, 11/11/2013: POOR RESPONSE: View of the LNG terminal at Puthuvypeen, Petronet is making losses on its Kochi operations because there aren't enough takers for gas from the city on November 11, 2013.
Photo:Vipin Chandran

Gas pricing

The new government decides on a policy of wait and watch on raising gas prices.

Sugar being loaded for export at Tuticorin Port in the southern Indian State of Tamil Nadu.
Photo : Bijoy Ghosh ( Digital Image )

Trade in rupee

India weighs rupee trade options with a number of countries, including many non-oil producing ones, to reduce the drain of forex reserves.

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Witch-hunt, says Reliance

Reliance rebuts allegations made against it by the AAP and others.

This is an undated company photo of a camel train passing a Cairn Energy exploration rig in Rajasthan, India. Shares of Cairn Energy Plc, a U.K. oil- exploration and production company, had their biggest gain in six months after the company said it found enough oil and gas to produce in India for 25 years. Source: Cairn via Bloomberg News.

Oil & gas policy

Good policy marred by poor implementation—this sums up India’s oil and gas exploration history. Will the new uniform licensing policy change the count

Look beyond Iran

With the geopolitical situation dictating the flow of crude oil, import-dependent India has to diversify its sourcing of crude.

$Workers prepare pipes used in the drilling of shale gas at a rig operated by Exalo Drilling SA, the oil and gas exploration unit of Poland's PGNiG, also known as Polskie Gornictwo Naftowe I Gazownictwo SA, in Lubocino, Poland, on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013. San Leon Energy Plc., an oil and gas explorer with four licenses in Spain, said some of the shale it's studying is comparable to rock in Poland, where it's a leader in using hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Photographer: Bartek Sadowski/Bloomberg$

Shale policy

The industry feels that only by offering subsidies and reducing royalty rates can India achieve success similar to what the U.S. has achieved in shale

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