By- Kiron Kakoty Advertisements On 2 January Indian Petroleum and natural gas minister M Veerappa Moily has identified Assam-Arakan basin as one of the areas for shale gas extraction. Shale Gas is the combustible gas trapped in the rock deep inside the earth’s crust. It can be extracted by pumping in special chemical fluid under […]
By- Staff Reporter | Date- February 25, 2012 Advertisements Assam lost around Rs 850 crore during the last financial year in terms of oil royalty due to the changed policy of the Central Government. The State earned a high Rs 2020 crore as oil royalty in 2008-2009 fiscal as oil royalty till then was charged […]
By- Correspondent| Date- September 14, 2011 Almost bringing back memories of the agitation in Assam during the 1960’s where youths protesting against crude oil of the state piped out to refinery at Barauni wrote with blood “Tez deem Tel nidiu” (we’ll give blood, we’ll not oil); protest banners stating “We will give blood, not our […]
By- Correspondent| Date- September 10, 2011 The Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) has been often spoken about as something very close to the heart of people of Assam, as it was one of the outcomes of the blood of 855 youth who sacrificed their lives during the historic Assam agitation. The Refinery itself owes its existence […]
By- Staff Reporter | Date- June 03, 2011 | Place- Guwahati ULFA hardliner group led by Brigadiar Paresh Baruah, warns oil company Shivani Oil and Gas Exploration Services Pvt Ltd to leave Assam within 45 days starting from today. In a fresh press release sent & signed by Lt(!) Arunodoy Dohotiya, the Commandant of Central […]
By– Staff Reporter | Date– May 19, 2011 | Place – Guwahati The new chief minister of Kerala, Oommen Chandy, who assumed office yesterday after winning the assembly elections, announced a sales tax cut on the recently hiked petrol price. He declared that his new government has decided to waive the sales tax on the […]