In a bid to ensure transparency, National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) will put all information related to private public partnership (PPP) projects taken up by them in the public domain.

"NHAI proposes to place all information relating to projects taken up by them under PPP mode in the public domain to be available on a link -- www.Nhai.Org.In. Specific project details can be obtained by typing the name of the particular stretch or project implementation unit along with this link," according to an official statement.

Often, you hear of a scion taking his/her family to court over internal family disputes. But can you imagine a leading public sector organisation taking its major stakeholder, the central government, to court?

Unprecedented perhaps, but this is what Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has done; it has dragged the Centre to the Delhi High Court. The kernel of ONGC's complaint is the alleged theft of 18 billion cubic metres of natural gas since 2009 by Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) from adjacent ONGC blocks in the Krishna-Godavari basin.

State-run Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL) is planning to open an office in Singapore to expand its global reach and participate in crude oil trading.

The Singapore office, two senior company executives said, would also help the company trade in energy derivatives, international financing and other joint ventures that the company may plan in the future.

Days after Finance Minister Arun Jaitley asked his officials to come up with reform ideas, the ministry is said to be considering a unified law for all financial-sector regulators, including the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), for better regulation. This might function on the lines of the Indian Penal Code, which covers aspects of all states' criminal laws, even as the states have individual control over the police.

New Delhi, June 2: The Centre today approved a six-month extension for cabinet secretary Ajit Kumar Seth, less than a fortnight before the government’s top bureaucrat was to retire, apparently to ensure continuity and help the new regime settle down.

With Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi reluctant to take on the responsibility of leading his party in the Lok Sabha, party chief Sonia Gandhi on Monday nominated Mallikarjun Kharge as the leader of the party in the lower house. However, it is still unclear whether the Congress, with its all-time low tally of 44, will get the Leader of the Opposition status.

After the annual T20 cricket extravaganza, the Indian Premier League, Multi Screen Media (MSM) is roping in sponsors for the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup 2014, which kicks off on June 13 in Brazil. The event will be telecast on MSM’s sports channels — Sony Six and Sony Six HD in English — and Sony Aath, the network’s only regional channel, in Bengali.

Three technology workers groups in the US have announced a boycott against Infosys, IBM and Manpower claiming that the companies have indulged in hiring practices that excludes US workforce from local job openings in that country.

The boycott will continue until these three technology majors demonstrate employment practices that follow laws prohibiting discrimination in the upcoming jobs for FY2016, the three groups-- Bright Future Jobs, Programmers Guild and Washtech, said in a press release. Recruitment for these jobs will start from October this year.

Telangana formally became the country's 29th state on Monday but it would take a while before it is reflected in the official geographical and political map as the ministry of home affairs (MHA) is yet to provide boundary details to Survey of India.

"The MHA will have to provide us with final boundaries of the state. Then we will incorporate them and release the official map. Some of the district boundaries in Telangana will become state boundaries with other state," an official of the Survey of India said.

Tata Motors Non-Executive Vice-Chairman Ravi Kant (pictured) retired from India’s biggest automotive company on Saturday at the age of 70.

Kant, an alumnus of IIT-Kharagpur, was managing director of the company before being promoted as vice-chairman five years ago. He, along with Prakash Telang (former MD who retired in 2012), is among the last batch of previous generation senior-level staff with the Mumbai-based company.

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