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Ever wondered how Kareena Kapoor maintains her hair? When it comes to hair, what always works for it are natural products. Whether you want to grow out your hair or gloss it up, make it soft or simply to keep the frizzy curls under control, there are numerous natural options out there. Hair oils are the best to help you retain the lustre of your hair while also promoting hair growth. Whatever your hair problems may be, we have combined a few hair oil usages for you. Take a look: Coconut Oil Warm up this oil and massage it into your scalp to stimulate hair growth, and repair damaged hair. The oil which controls hair loss is also a natural conditioner and leads to shiny hair. Almond Oil This oil has Vitamin E in it and helps reduce hair loss. It also nourishes and strengthens your hair and gives you long, silky tresses. Sesame Oil Best used for remedial measures, this oil helps treat fungal and scalp infections. Along with nourishing the scalp, it also helps remove dandruff and … [Read more...] about Want hair like Kareena Kapoor? Try these 5 hair oils

New Delhi: India's crude oil imports from the US have jumped by over 72 per cent in the first five months of the current fiscal as the country looks to diversify oil purchases beyond its traditional suppliers in the Middle East, official data showed. According to data sourced from the Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics, the US supplied about 4.5 million tonnes of crude oil during April to August 2019 as compared to 2.6 million tonnes oil sourced from that country in the same period a year back. Iraq continues to be India's top crude oil supplier, meeting close to one-fourth of the country's oil needs. Iraq sold 21.24 million tonnes of crude oil to India during April to August, almost 12 per cent more than 18.99 million tonnes it had supplied in the same period of the previous fiscal. India provisionally imported 91.24 million tonnes of crude oil in April-August 2019, down from 93.91 million tonnes a year back. Saudi Arabia has traditionally been India's … [Read more...] about Oil imports from US jump 72 per cent, Iraq top supplier

NEW DELHI: The government has given Reliance Industries the go-ahead to appraise its discovery in the Cauvery basin, enabling the company and its partner BP to prepare a field development plan and extend its deep-water portfolio beyond the controversial D6 block, government and industry sources said.oil and 3 trillion cubic feet of gas, but experts say the true picture would emerge only after the block is appraised.RIL had announced the find in the CYPR-D6 block on April 21 last year as "a rich gas and condensate discovery". The block has an area of about 8,600 sq km, which was awarded to RIL in the third bidding round in 2003. Reliance's partner BP holds 30% stake in the block.KG-D6. On October 15, the company had said in a statement about its "focus on blocks at Krishna Godavari (KG-D6) and Cauvery Palar (CYPR-D6) basins." RIL is producing gas from the D6 block since 2009, where D1 and D3 gas fields have about 3.4 tcf reserves.oil ministry, RIL and its partner BP did not respond to … [Read more...] about Oil ministry asks RIL to assess Cauvery basin discovery

NEW DELHI: London-listed Hardy Oil & Gas plc today said it has won an arbitration proceeding to get an extension on its exploration licence in a Cauvery basin block. Hardy said the award of the extension would allow it to carry out appraisal activities on the block where it had made a gas discovery, named Ganesha, for a further three years from the date on which the block is restored. "The company has been successful in obtaining the extension of the CY-OS/2 licence," Hardy said in a statement. The Ganesha discovery was made in 2007, with the Ganesha-1 well flow testing at a rate of 10.7 million cubic feet per day, and is estimated to hold contingent resources of about 130 billion cubic feet. Work on the block had halted as Hardy carried out a formal dispute resolution process to extend the expiry date of the licence. "As operator of the CY-OS/2 Block, we are looking forward to recommencing our efforts to appraise the Ganesha-1 natural gas discovery," said Hardy chief … [Read more...] about London’s Hardy Oil gets extension on exploration in Cauvery basin block

NEW DELHI: A Parliamentary panel has asked the oil ministry to explain "in lucid terms", zero gas production from KG D6, noting that the estimated 80 mmscmd output from the gas block led to setting up of gas-based power plants which are stranded now due to no fuel supply. "The Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas should come out with the reasons, in the lucid terms, for zero production of gas from KG D6 as the estimated production of 80 mmscmd that was envisaged earlier and the steps taken by the Government against those who are responsible for this gross miscalculation about the production of gas from KG D6 which has put the reliability of the Ministry at stake," said the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy in its 42nd report on /Non-Performing Assets in Gas based Power Plants. The committee also recommend that the banks/lenders (to these stranded gas projects) should own responsibility and work towards finding the appropriate solution in the national interest. It … [Read more...] about Parliamentary panel asks Oil Ministry to explain ‘zero’ gas output from KG D6