Centre sets ball rolling for biggest round of oil & gas hunt with ‘Urja Varta’ meet on July 17 IANS | 09 Jul, 2025 Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri on Tuesday said that he was looking forward to engaging with ministers, officials and industry leaders at Urja Varta 2025 at Bharat Mandapam on 17 July in the run-up to India’s Round X of exploration & production bidding for oil and gas blocks, which is the biggest globally.
Targeted reforms will enable India to reach a $1 trillion chemical sector and achieve 12 per cent global value chain (GVC) share by 2040, thus becoming a global chemical powerhouse, a NITI Aayog report said on Thursday.
Coal production from the country's captive and commercial mines shot up by a robust 16.4 per cent to 46.01 million tonnes during the first quarter (April-June) of the financial year 2025–26 from 39.53 million tonnes in the same quarter of the previous year, according to official figures released on Wednesday.
India’s gross sugar production is likely to rise 15 per cent in sugar season 2026 to about 35 million tonnes, aided by above average monsoon, boosting cane acreage and yields in key sugar producing states such as Maharashtra and Karnataka, a Crisil report showed on Friday.
Union Minister of Ports, Shipping & Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal on Thursday inaugurated the Sagarmala Finance Corporation Limited (SMFCL), India’s first Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC) in the maritime sector.
