The price of non-subsidised cooking gas (LPG), which consumers buy beyond the cheaper quota of six cylinders, was today hiked by Rs 26.50 to Rs 922 per unit on firming international rates.

A majority of LPG consumers are unlikely to get nine cylinders as promised by the state government in the light of the attached precondition that only the number of cylinders used the previous year wo

Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) says it has not decided yet on the payment of compensation to victims of the Chala LPG tanker mishap, which claimed 20 lives on Aug. 27.

“The IOC has not taken any decisi

Consumers are complaining that the quantity of gas in LPG cylinders supplied by gas agencies is less than the amount it should contain. It is mandatory for the delivery boys to carry weighing equipmen

Aggravating the LPG crisis, some distributor agencies of the Indian Oil Corporation(IOC) appear to be ignoring the queue system and supplying the cylinders to their more favoured customers.

The tran

The state government on Tuesday decided to give three additional gas cylinders at subsidised price to Below Poverty Line beneficiaries of the “Deepam” scheme.

Though the civil supplies minister, D. S

While housewives are still coming to grips with the Centre's decision to restrict the number of subsidised LPG cylinders in a year, the Confederation of Real Estate Developers' Associations of India (

Most shops, business establishments and educational institutions were closed in Srinagar and other towns in the Kashmir Valley on Friday as traders called for a strike against the cap on subsidised LP

The LPG crisis did not ease on Saturday despite the IOC diverting supplies to the city from its Chennai facility. Several agencies of IOC saw long queues of consumers carrying empty cylinders for a

Single domestic LPG connection holders possessing unauthorised extra cylinders better watch out.

To weed out unauthorised cylinders, oil marketing companies (OMCs) will deliver refills only if consu