"Savings on account of the direct benefit transfer (DBT) to be made by sending subsidy into bank accounts will not be commensurate with the...

“There is a consensus emerging between the Centre and the states that subsidy will have to be targeted,” Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to...

The government has decided to bear this loss as well and pay all of the Rs 3,279 crore subsidy on LPG and Rs 2,870 crore on kerosene for th...

The official said the Budget for 2015-16 has provided for Rs 22,000 crore towards LPG subsidy and another Rs 8,000 crore on kerosene.

State-run oil and gas producers are expected to bear a subsidy burden of Rs 5,000 crore-Rs 6,000 crore this fiscal under a new subsidy shar...

The Centre is considering a revamp in kerosene subsidy to complete fuel pricing reforms, which will significantly reduce the burden on exch...

Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved extension of PDS Kerosene, Domestic LPG Subsidy Scheme and Freight Subsidy Scheme for a furt...

IIT Bombay started a programme last year to distribute solar lamps to students living in non-electrified areas of the country.

Fair price shop owners, who sell kerosene in the retail market, are up in arms against a sharp reduction in supply that has affected their ...

State-owned Indian Oil Corp (IOC) today restored supply of subsidised cooking gas (LPG) and kerosene to Bhutan after a month long hiatus.

The oil secretary will directly monitor marketing operations of state firms every week to ensure smooth transition to the proposed cash tra...

Govt plans to strictly enforce its plan to cut the $9-bn subsidy on kerosene and cooking gas, and will penalise states that oppose reform.

An EGoM has in-principle agreed to give direct cash subsidy to the poor for kerosene, but it will launch the scheme only after consulting t...

However, to protect the poor, the govt will give them cash compensation but only to actual buyers of the fuel, government officials said.

While Dikshit didn’t reveal the timeline for the launch of the scheme, the announcement comes in the run-up year to the civic polls schedul...

The poor may now hope to use non-polluting lanterns instead of carbon emitting kerosene lamps.

The government's policy on subsidies for controlled products like LPG and kerosene is still unclear with the retail prices still being admi...