Pulok Chatterji

• Centre calls meeting of district magistrates to review direct benefits transfer scheme Monday

  Amid concerns over faulty monitoring of the ambitious Direct Benefits Transfer (DBT) subsidy programme, the government has called district magistrates of all the 121 targeted districts here Monday to discuss ways to address hitches that may have been detected.

• PMO asks Oil Ministry to expedite LPG direct benefits transfer

  With liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) set to be included in the Direct Benefits Transfer (DBT) subsidy scheme, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has written to the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas asking it to expedite preparations for the roll-out in 20 districts from May 15.

• Defence Ministry clears oil blocks of Reliance Industries, others

  Ending weeks of stalemate, the Defence Ministry has cleared Reliance Industries' producing KG-D6 block and gas discovery area NEC-26 along with most of the areas where it had either barred any oil and gas activity or put stringent conditions.

• Markets likely to get a soft-to-cautious start today

  The Indian markets extended their fall on Friday and indices lost their psychological levels of 18000 (Sensex) and 5500 (Nifty). Today, the mood is likely to remain cautious and the indices may consolidate further. There will be reaction in the markets related to Sterlite-Sesa Goa deal.

• EGoM meet on gas allocation policy tomorrow

  An Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is likely to meet on February 24 to consider changes in the natural gas allocation policy.

• Reliance Power seeks gas for Andhra plant, writes letter to PMO

  Anil Ambani has written to the Prime Minister's office asking for gas allocation for the Samalkot power plant

• PM assures help, forms committee to address power industry concerns

  Troubled by problems like coal shortage, high fuel prices and delayed green clearances, top industrialists engaged in power sector, including Ratan Tata and Anil Ambani, on Wednesday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. After hearing them out, the Prime Minister assured that a Committee of Secretaries, headed by Principal Secretary to the Prime Minis...

• PMO reshuffle: Sonia's man in Manmohan's team

  In a reshuffle in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister T K A Nair has been appointed as his adviser while senior bureaucrat Pulok Chatterji will take Mr Nair's place.