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Bhubaneswar: To improve last-mile delivery of cooking fuel and resolve recent distribution challenges, the Odisha government has announced that 5-kg LPG cylinders under the Centre's Free Trade LPG (FTL) scheme will soon be widely available at petrol pumps, authorised LPG agencies, and special distribution camps across the state. State Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Minister Krushna Chandra Patra made the announcement, addressing confusion over the availability of smaller cylinders following ...Read More >
Panchkula: People from the working class are unable to get the small, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders that have 5 kg gas in them despite the Centre's orders to provide these cylinders to migrant labourers and workers. The gas agencies in Chandigarh and Panchkula in Haryana have been claiming that the problem pertaining to the shortage of small gas cylinders will be resolved soon. Rajinder Kumar, a migrant street vendor from the Panchkula Industrial Area, claimed that he had to return e ...Read More >
New Delhi: India's petroleum sector remains resilient despite ongoing geopolitical tensions impacting global energy supply chains, with the government asserting that domestic LPG and fuel availability remains stable and well-managed. Addressing a press briefing on Thursday, Sujata Sharma, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, said that while international disruptions have affected imports, the government has taken proactive steps to shield domestic consumers. "Nearly 60 ...Read More >
Kolkata: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday unveiled six guarantees to the people of West Bengal as he slammed the Trinamool Congress over economic mismanagement and the failing rule of law in the state. Speaking at a rally in Haldia, which goes to polls in the first phase of voting on 23 April, PM Modi promised to establish the rule of law, bring transparency to governance, investigate every case of corruption, remove infiltrators, and implement the 7th Pay Commission if the BJP is voted ...Read More >
Haldia (West Bengal) [India], April 9 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday unveiled "six guarantees" for West Bengal, which will ensure an "accountable and fully answerable" administrative machinery to serve the people. Addressing a public rally here, the Prime Minister promised the implementation of the 7th Pay Commission, while assuring the establishment of trustful atmosphere, which will restore faith in the rule of law. He further vowed action and reopening cases of corruption, s ...Read More >
BHUBANESWAR: Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare minister Krushna Chandra Patra on Wednesday announced that five kg LPG cylinders will now be made widely available at petrol pumps across the state to address recent confusion over their distribution. The minister said the small cylinders will be supplied under the Centre's Free Trade LPG (FTL) scheme and can be obtained by consumers upon showing a valid identity card. "The confusion regarding five kg LPG cylinders has been resolved. These cylind ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Delhi government will roll out a special outreach initiative to improve access to cooking fuel for migrant labourers, following a decision by the Centre to increase the allocation of 5 kg free trade LPG (FTL) cylinders under the migrant category, an official said on Wednesday. According to an order issued on Tuesday, the daily availability of 5 kg FTL cylinders in Delhi doubled from 684 to 1,368. Officials said the enhanced allocation is expected to expand access and improve dist ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: Amid the ongoing chaos and confusion, Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Minister Krushna Chandra Patra today clarified that students and migrant labourers can now obtain 5 kg LPG cylinders and refill them at fuel stations by producing a valid identity proof. The Minister informed that there is ample supply of LPG cylinders in the state and now the 5 kg gas cylinders will be available at petrol pumps along with camps. This facility will be available under the Centre's Free Trade LP ...Read More >
New Delhi, April 8: LPG supply across the country remains smooth with adequate stock available, and efforts are being made round-the-clock to ensure uninterrupted availability of cylinders for households, Indian Oil Corporation Limited said on Wednesday. In a post on social media platform X, the country's largest oil marketing company urged consumers to remain calm and avoid unnecessary bookings, assuring that sufficient cylinders are readily accessible and distribution systems are functioning e ...Read More >
New Delhi, April 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Centre on Wednesday announced that increase in the commercial LPG limit to 70 per cent of the pre-March 2026 bulk consumption level will be extended to industrial units in the pharma, food, polymer, agriculture, packaging, paint, uranium, heavy water, steel, seed, metal, ceramic, foundry, forging, glass, and aerosol sectors. The increase will be subject to an overall sectoral limit of 0.2 thousand metric tonnes per day. Besides, conditions regarding regi ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 8 (ANI): The All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) on Wednesday lauded West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, calling her the Didi and the daughter of the people of Bengal, ahead of the upcoming assembly polls. Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee filed her nomination at the Survey Building from Bhabanipur assembly constituency for the 2026 State Assembly elections. In a post on X, the party recognised it as a "decisive step" towards serving the people. As ...Read More >
Kolkata, April 8: Nearly 91 lakh voters' names have been deleted from the electoral rolls in West Bengal following the completion of the SIR exercise in the State, according to the Election Commission figures, sharpening an already polarised campaign, and turning the SIR from a bureaucratic exercise into the defining political flashpoint ahead of the first phase of Assembly polls on April 23. While Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused the poll body of undertaking "targeted deletions of Matua, ...Read More >
Bhabanipur: West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC candidate from Bhabanipur, Mamata Banerjee, on Wednesday said that the party will move to the court if the names of valid voters are not restored in the electoral rolls following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday filed her nomination at the Survey Building from Bhabanipur assembly constituency for the 2026 State Assembly elections, from where she ...Read More >
West Bengal is set to vote in two phases on April 23 and 29, with counting scheduled for May 4. "When even judicial officers are not safe, how can you expect that common people will be safe under TMC rule? What happened in Malda is an example of TMC's maha jungle raj," Modi said, referring to the incident where judges were allegedly held for hours during protests over voter roll revisions. He further alleged that "democracy is bleeding every day on the sacred soil of Bengal" and accused the Ma ...Read More >
Bhabanipur: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday filed her nomination at the Survey Building from Bhabanipur assembly constituency for the 2026 State Assembly elections. Mamata Banerjee is contesting from the Bhabanipur seat, from where she will face a repeat clash with BJP leader and Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari. Adhikari had also challenged Mamata from Nandigram in the 2021 West Bengal polls, from where h ...Read More >
Bhabanipur (West Bengal) [India], April 8 (ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday filed her nomination at the Survey Building from Bhabanipur assembly constituency for the 2026 State Assembly elections. Mamata Banerjee is contesting from the Bhabanipur seat, from where she will face a repeat clash with BJP leader and Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari. Also Read | Delhi Water Cut: Parts of National Capital Fa ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday filed her nomination from Bhabanipur, staging a show of strength with a road march from her Kalighat residence to the Alipore Survey Building in Kolkata. Flanked by supporters chanting slogans in her favour, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief walked nearly 800 metres, greeting party workers with folded hands as she sought to project confidence ahead of a high-stakes contest.Soon after filing her papers, Banerjee launched a sharp ...Read More >
Bhabanipur (West Bengal) [India], April 8 (ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday filed her nomination at the Survey Building from Bhabanipur assembly constituency for the 2026 State Assembly elections. Mamata Banerjee is contesting from the Bhabanipur seat, from where she will face a repeat clash with BJP leader and Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari. Adhikari had also challenged Mamata from Nandigram in the ...Read More >
Kolkata, Apr 8 (PTI) West Bengal's 2026 assembly elections will be fought on an electoral map radically redrawn by the SIR, which has wiped out over 90.83 lakh names from the rolls, upending the arithmetic in scores of constituencies and throwing both the TMC's citadels and the BJP's expansion zones into fresh uncertainty. The state's electorate has shrunk from 7.66 crore to 6.77 crore, forcing the TMC and the BJP to fight the two-phase elections later this month on terrain very different from ...Read More >
New Delhi, April 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) Under Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta's instruction, the government has enhanced commercial LPG availability, doubling allocation for migrant labourers and students from 180 to 360 cylinders daily (19 kg equivalent), an official said. This follows the revised order allocating a total of 6,480 cylinders (19kg equivalent) across sectors, with essential services like health establishments, PSU/Govt institutions, hotels/restaurants/dhabas/food processing, and ot ...Read More >
New Delhi, April 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) Offering a big relief to over 45 lakh migrant residents living in Delhi's unauthorised colonies, Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Manohar Lal on Tuesday announced the regularisation of 1,511 "unauthorised colonies" on an "as is, where is" basis, removing the clause for approved layout plans for these settlements. The Union minister also offered hope to over 60 upscale, affluent unauthorised colonies, Sainik Farms and Anant Ram Dairy, saying the reside ...Read More >
Thane, Apr 7 (PTI) A labourer has been arrested for allegedly raping a seven-year-old girl at a construction site in Maharashtra's Thane city, police said on Tuesday, adding that the victim is undergoing treatment at the civil hospital. The incident triggered outrage with political parties demanding verification of migrant labourers employed at the construction sites. The 45-year-old accused was nabbed within hours of the crime, which occurred in the Naupada area on Monday evening, an official ...Read More >
Cachar (Assam) [India], April 7 (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday expressed confidence that the BJP will again form a government in Assam and said a decision to bring the Uniform Civil Code will be taken in the first meeting of the state cabinet. Addressing election rallies on the last day of the campaign for the assembly polls in Assam, Amit Shah said that after UCC is implemented in the state, no one will have permission to marry four times. Also Read | CBSE Class 10 Results 20 ...Read More >
New Delhi, April 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Centre announced on Tuesday that it has doubled the daily quantity of 5 kg LPG cylinders being provided to each state for disbursal to migrant labourers. "The supply of 5 kg LPG cylinders is being doubled based on the average daily supply to migrant labourers during March 2-3, 2026, beyond the limit of 20 per cent mentioned in the letter dated March 21. These 5 kg cylinders will be at the disposal of the state government for supplying only to migrant labo ...Read More >
Kolkata, Apr 7 (PTI) The EC's disclosure on Tuesday that around 91 lakh names had been deleted from West Bengal's electoral rolls after the Special Intensive Revision triggered a political slugfest, with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accusing the BJP of targeting Matuas and minorities, and opposition leader Suvendu Adhikari claiming the exercise had merely exposed "Muslim infiltrators" protected by the ruling TMC. The EC figures, which pushed the total deletion to over 90.83 lakh names from an ...Read More >
Bengaluru: With barely a day left for Kerala to vote in a new government, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his Telangana counterpart Revanth Reddy engaged in a final war of words, sparring over each other's governance record. Also Read: Kerala Polls: A rebel comrade stands between LDF's grip & UDF's hope in Red Citadel Highlighting his government's performance, Vijayan said Kerala had delivered "measurable outcomes" through the Nava Kerala Missions. In a series of posts on X, he cited the A ...Read More >
Cachar (Assam) [India], April 7 (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday expressed confidence that the BJP will again form a government in Assam and said a decision to bring the Uniform Civil Code will be taken in the first meeting of the state cabinet. Addressing election rallies on the last day of the campaign for the assembly polls in Assam, Amit Shah said that after UCC is implemented in the state, no one will have permission to marry four times. He attacked Congress leader Rahul Ga ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 7 (ANI): Addressing the recent developments in the West Asia crisis, Sujata Sharma, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, denied any shortage of LPG in India, asserting that no "dryout" has been reported at petrol pumps across the country. She further noted that 6,500 tonnes of commercial LPG were sold yesterday to meet the ongoing demand for the fuel. Speaking at the Inter-Ministerial briefing on recent developments in West Asia, the Joint Secreta ...Read More >
Bengaluru: Mob Storms Home, Assaults Bengal Woman Over Flesh Trade Claim (Rep pic)Police have arrested five people, including three women, for allegedly storming into a house and brutally assaulting a young woman over accusations of running a flesh trade racket. Police have arrested five people, including three women, for allegedly storming into a house and brutally assaulting a young woman over accusations of running a flesh trade racket. The accused -- Fateh Dafedar, his wife Seema Dafedar, B ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 7 (ANI): The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has conveyed that the daily quantity of 5 kg FTL (Free Trade LPG) cylinders allocated to each State for distribution to migrant labourers is being doubled. In its letter to the Chief Secretaries of all states and Union Territories, the Ministry stated that the increase is based on the average daily supply (number of cylinders) provided to migrant labourers during March 2 to 3, and is beyond the earlier limit of 20% ment ...Read More >
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