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BPCL hikes petrol prices by Rs. 2.96; IOC, HPCL to follow suit


With the BPCL hiking petrol prices, a motorcyclist buys additional fuel, in Hyderabad on Tuesday evening. Photo: P. V. Sivakumar

Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) on Tuesday hiked petrol prices by about Rs. 2.96 a litre effective midnight tonight, and other state-owned oil companies Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) will follow suit on Wednesday.
The Oil Ministry on Tuesday gave the three companies a go-ahead to raise petrol prices after international crude oil prices touched $90 per barrel.
BPCL, the second largest fuel retailer in the country, took the lead to raise petrol prices by Rs. 2.96 a litre to Rs. 55.87 per litre in Delhi, sources privy to the decision said.
IOC, the largest fuel retailer in the country, and the HPCL will do the same by an equal measure on Wednesday, sources said.
State-run oil companies are taking turns to increase prices so that they are not accused of acting as a cartel in revising the price of a commodity which has been freed from government control.
Sources added that the three are losing about Rs. 4.17 per litre on selling petrol below import cost.
Sources said a Rs. 2 per litre hike in diesel prices is on the agenda of an Empowered Group of Ministers headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee when it meets on December 22. The oil firms are losing Rs. 5.40 per litre on selling diesel below import cost, sources said.
Even though the government had decontrolled petrol prices in June, State-run retailers continue to informally consult the oil ministry before revising the rates.
On November 9, they raised petrol prices by Rs. 0.32 per litre to Rs. 52.91 a litre in Delhi.
IOC, BPCL and HPCL have revised rates only four times since June 26 when petrol price was deregulated, while crude oil has jumped from $73-74 per barrel at that time to $90 a barrel now, sources said.
After today’s increase, petrol prices have gone up by Rs. 4.44 a litre since deregulation.
The basket of crude oil India buys was at $ 89.34 per barrel on Monday. It has averaged $ 88.47 per barrel in December as against about $ 79 a barrel at the time of last hike in petrol price on November 9.
If prices are not revised, IOC, BPCL and HPCL are likely to end the fiscal with close to Rs. 67,000 crore revenue loss on sale of diesel, domestic LPG and kerosene below cost.
The oil retailers lose Rs. 272.19 on the sale of every 14.2 kg LPG cylinder and Rs. 17.72 per litre of kerosene.

UP village elects HIV+ve woman to block panel to fight callous hospital

At a time when neglect and social ostracism for HIV-positive people are rife, a village in Uttar Pradesh has rallied around an HIV-positive woman. Praveen Devi (30), a resident of Tuksan village in Hathras, has been elected to the local block development committee so she can battle a private hospital in Aligarh, where she allegedly contracted the infection through a blood transfusion.

The people voted for her even though she never came out for canvassing. “We never cared what she will do for the village, we just wanted her to win the election to fight her own battle,” said Dinesh Chowdhary, a villager.

“We hoped that after winning, she may get support to fight her case. No one listens to the common man,” said Mukesh Kumar, the pradhan of Tuksan.

Before Praveen was declared elected on October 31, the Health Department authorities did not listen to her. Now things have started moving, with the intervention of state Power minister Ramveer Upadhyay. “I have asked the Aligarh Commissioner to look into the matter,” said Upadhyay. Aligarh’s Chief Medical Officer Dr Uma Kant Gupta has formed a three-member committee to probe the issue.

நடிகர் ரஜனிகாந்தையும் என்னையும் ஒப்பிட்டுப் பார்க்க வேண்டாம் கமலஹாசன்

Monday, 06 December 2010 10:43

 சென்னை: நடிகர் ரஜனிகாந்தையும் தன்னையும் ஒப்பிட்டுப் பார்க்கவேண்டாமென நடிகர் கமலஹாசன் தெரிவித்துள்ளார்.கமலஹாசன்திரிஷா ஜோடியாக நடித்துள்ள "மன்மதன் அம்பு' படத்தை உதயநிதி ஸ்டாலின் தயாரித்து இருக்கிறார். இந்த படத்தைப் பற்றிய அறிமுகக் கூட்டம், சென்னையில் நேற்று நடந்தது.அப்போது  கமலஹாசன் நிருபர்களுக்குப் பேட்டி அளித்தார்.

கேள்வி: 56 வயதிலும் இவ்வளவு இளமையாக இருக்கிறீர்களே, தங்கபஸ்பம் சாப்பிடுகிறீர்களா? பதில்: வயதைப் பற்றிப் பேசக்கூடாது. இளமையாக இருக்க வேண்டும் என்று நினைத்தாலே இளமைதான். எல்லோரும் மூன்று வேளை சாப்பிடுவது மாதிரி நானும் மூன்று வேளை சாப்பிடுகிறேன். தங்கபஸ்பம் எதுவும் சாப்பிடுவதில்லை. தங்கபஸ்பம் சாப்பிடுகிற அளவுக்கு என்னிடம் தங்கம் இருந்தால் அதையும் சினிமாவிலேயே போட்டு இருப்பேன்.கேள்வி: ரஜனிகாந்த், ஷங்கர் டைரக்ஷனில் "எந்திரன்' என்ற பெரிய பட்ஜெட் படத்தில் நடித்தார். அதேபோல் நீங்களும் அப்படி ஒரு பெரிய பட்ஜெட் படத்தில் நடிப்பீர்களா?

பதில்: நான் யாரையும் "காப்பி' அடிப்பதில்லை. எனக்கென்று தனித்துவம் இருக்கிறது. நடிப்பில் எனக்கு சந்தேகம் ஏற்பட்டால் என் குரு சிவாஜியைத்தான் நினைப்பேன். அவரிடம் இருந்து கற்றுக்கொள்ள நிறைய இருக்கிறது. என்னையும் ரஜினியையும் ஒப்பிட்டுப் பார்க்க வேண்டாம். எங்களை நாங்கள் ஒப்பிட்டுப் பார்ப்பதில்லை என்றும் சேர்ந்து நடிப்பதில்லை என்றும் பல வருடங்களுக்கு முன்பே ஒப்பந்தம் செய்துகொண்டோம். "தசாவதாரம்' பெரிய பட்ஜெட் படம்தான். அதேபோல் "மன்மதன் அம்பு' படமும் பெரிய பட்ஜெட் படம்தான்.

கேள்வி: "மன்மதன் அம்பு' படத்தின் படப்பிடிப்பைக் குறிப்பாக ஒரு சொகுசு கப்பலில் நடத்தியது ஏன்?பதில்: "மன்மதன் அம்பு' படத்தின் கதை, உல்லாசப் பயணம் சம்பந்தப்பட்டது. அதில் நான் முன்னாள் கமாண்டேõவாக நடிக்கிறேன். அந்தப் படத்தின் கதைப்படி கப்பல் தேவைப்பட்டது.கேள்வி: மாதவன் உங்கள் படங்களில் தொடர்ந்து நடிப்பது ஏன்?பதில்: மாதவனுக்கும் எனக்கும் இடையே நல்ல நட்பு இருப்பதால்தான்...கேள்வி: சினிமாவுக்கு ஒத்திகை அவசியமா?

பதில்: 5 இலட்சம் செலவில் நடைபெறும் நாடகத்துக்கே ஒத்திகை தேவைப்படும்போது, 50 கோடி செலவில் தயாரிக்கும் சினிமாவுக்கும் ஒத்திகை அவசியம் இல்லையா? சினிமாவுக்கும் ஒத்திகை பார்ப்பது என் கண்டுபிடிப்பு அல்ல. மார்டன் தியேட்டர்ஸ்  காலத்திலேயே ஒத்திகை இருந்தது. ஒத்திகை பார்ப்பதற்கு என்றே அந்த ஸ்டூடியோவில், மிகப்பெரிய "ஹால்' இருந்தது.

கேள்வி: இனிமேல் கமலஹாசன் எழுதும் கதைகளில்தான் கமலஹாசன் நடிப்பாரா?பதில்: "நல்ல கதை யார் எழுதினாலும் அதில் நான் நடிப்பேன். உங்களிடம் நல்ல கதை இருந்தால் நான் நடிக்கத் தயார்' எனத் தெரிவித்துள்ளார்.தினத்தந்தி

 

Indian (Malayalee) hurdler Joseph Abraham wins gold

Indian hurdler Joseph Abraham wins gold

Indian hurdler Abraham may be a pocket-sized athlete,  but he is a dynamo  on the tracks... he proved just that by clinching gold yesterday Joseph Abraham is definitely not built like an athlete. At just a little over 5 ft,he was the shortest in the line-up of the remaining seven taller and more accomplished runners in the men's 400m hurdles final of the Asian Games yesterday.
Joseph Abraham is all smiles after becoming the first India
athlete to win a gold medal at the Asian Games. pic/AFPThe top four finishers
of the 400m men's hurdles at the last Asian Games in Doha were alongside
Abraham, dwarfing him with their height that ranged from 5ft 6inches to 6 ft
5
inches. Japan's Kenji Narisako, China's Yan Meng, Japan's Naohiro Kawakita and Kazakhstan's Yevgeniy Meleshenko had finished in
that order exactly
four years ago, with Abraham nowhere near them then. However
he not only
went above them all, but did so in fine fashion leading the race
almost
from
the half-way mark to the finish. He even created history in the
bargain by
becoming the first men's athletic gold medallist in the Asian
Games.While
talking to MiD DAY
about being the shortest in
yesterday's line-up, the 29-year-old Kottayam athlete said:
"Not only in this
line-up,
I'm the shortest in Asia in the event. But it
doesn't matter.
World No 1 400m
hurdler Bershawn
Jackson too is of the same height as
me, so height is no problem," he said. Just
for the record, American Bershawn Jackson is
a good
5ft 8in while Joseph
looks barely 5ft 4in, but that's not what
mattered last
night.Also, the fact
that Japan's defending champion Narisako was in the
line-up, didn't matter to
Abraham. "I've been watching and running
alongside
him for sometime now. Even in
last year's Asian Championships
I was not too
far behind him. And then after I
ran my heat and I saw him
running his heat,
I was even more confident of beating
him in the final.
I was sure I'd win
some medal, but my coach Rajinder Singh told me 'if
you have to get a
medal then let it be gold'," said Abraham, who clocked his
season's best
of
49.96 to clinch gold. A thigh injury had forced Abraham to miss
the
Beijing
Olympics, but London Games is all that's on his mind right now. "I
should
not be over-confident. I must now focus on the 2012 London
Olympics," he
said.


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EID MUBARAK

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Karde maf hum logo ki sare Naformani,
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Khuda ka hi raho mai hum chalange sada.
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May Allah accept your good deeds, forgive your
transgressions and ease the suffering of all
people around the globe
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