Cabinet Committee On Political Affairs

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  Smriti Irani, Bhupender Yadav Named In Key Cabinet Panel After Reshuffle

  Days after a major reshuffle of the Modi ministry, the government reconstituted the powerful cabinet committees, bringing in Union ministers Smriti Irani, Bhupender Yadav and Sarbananda Sonowal as the new members of the Cabinet Committee on Political

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  Rajnath Singh Not In Key Cabinet Panel In Big Revamp, Amit Shah In All 8

  Home Minister Amit Shah is in all eight key cabinet committees announced after Prime Minister Narendra Modi started a second term last week. PM Modi is in six of them and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is in two. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is in seven panels and Commerce and Railways Minister Piyush Goyal in five.

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  Profit on Sale of Diesel Swells to Rs 1.90 Per Litre

  Profit on sale of diesel has risen to Rs 1.90 per litre following a continued slide in global oil prices.

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  Sensex, Nifty Rise to Record Highs; Oil & Gas Stocks Rally

  BSE Sensex and Nifty rebounded in late trade today to close at new all-time highs, led by strong buying in oil & gas stocks after the Press Trust of India, citing sources, said the oil ministry is likely to move Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs for raising kerosene and LPG prices.

• Oil Ministry to Move Cabinet Panel on Raising LPG, Kerosene Prices: Report

  The Oil Ministry is likely to move the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA) soon with an expert panels recommendations of raising kerosene price by Rs 4 per litre and cooking gas (LPG) rates by Rs 250 per cylinder.

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  Sensex, Nifty Rebound; Oil & Gas Stocks Rally

  Sensex recovered in late trade, led by strong buying in oil & gas stocks after Press Trust of India citing sources said the oil ministry is likely to move Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs for raising kerosene and LPG prices as recommended by an expert committee.

• Opinion: Op-ed: Can the UPA's top 10 ministers win elections? An assessment

  In a sense, the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA) is the 'cabinet within the cabinet'. Revived by the UPA government in 2004 - the NDA had preferred the Cabinet Committee on Security as its brains trust - the CCPA is located at the intersection of governance and politics.

• Government to 'seriously consider' raising LPG cylinder quota: Oil Minister

  Mr Moily, who last week said there was no proposal to increase the quota, today said he will consult Finance Minister P Chidambaram and move the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA) on the issue.

• Direct benefit transfer for subsiding LPG cylinders gets Cabinet nod

  The Cabinet On Thursday gave its nod for Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) for subsiding LPG cylinders directly to the consumer.

• Ministerial panel's meet on SAIL disinvestment postponed amid political developments

  The meeting of Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on disinvestment, headed by Finance Minister P Chidambaram, has been postponed till Wednesday as some ministers, who are part of the EGoM, were not available, sources said.

• Diesel price hiked by 45 paise; petrol price cut by 25 paise

  While the price of petrol is purely market-determined, diesel is still under government control, even though oil firms now have the freedom to make minor revisions in the price.

• No objection to government's proposal to raise LPG cap: Election Commission

  The Election Commission has granted no objection to the government's proposal for an increase in the cap of subsidised LPG cylinders from six to nine in a year.

• Govt raises cap on subsidised LPG cylinders

  The government today raised the cap on subsidised LPG gas cylinders from six to 9 in a year. The decision was taken after a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA).

• Oil Ministry wants committee of secretaries to scrutinise RIL, Essar pricing proposals

  Oil Minister S Jaipal Reddy has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking formation of a committee of secretaries to scrutinise the coal-bed methane, or CBM pricing proposals of Reliance Industries and Essar Oil.

• Kingfisher, SpiceJet major beneficiaries of FDI in aviation: Experts

  Overriding the opposition of its ally Trinamool Congress, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Friday relaxed norms for foreign direct investment in the aviation sector, allowing international airlines to invest in domestic peers. Here is what experts have to say.