Mangaluru ISRPL gets 2 million barrel crude oil from Abu Dhabi
Mangaluru, May 21: The Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserve Limited (ISPRL), one of the emergency fuel store houses in the country, got two million barrel crude oil from Abu Dhabi national Petrol Company on Monday. With this, the ISRPL, near MRPL of Mangaluru, commissioned its service on Monday. This fuel could be used for ten days during emergency.
Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas Sanjay Sudhir, who inaugurated the occasion, said that among three ISPRL centres in the country, Mangaluru centre has the capacity of 1.5 million metric tons. However, Paduru centre has the capacity of 2.5 million metric tons and Visakhapatnam centre has the capacity of 1.33 million metric ton fuel storage. Shortly, some more crude oil would be filled in the centre. In the same way, Paduru underground fuel storage centre would also get the fuel in a phased manner, he said.
As per the agreement made between India and Abu Dhabi during the visit of the UAE delegates for Republic Day celebrations, the crude oil was imported as the first phase, for which he would thank the UAE government, Sanjay said.
National Oil Company Market, Distribution and Industry director Abdullah Salim Ul Dhaheri said that his country and the company would be looking forward to work with India. With this agreement, his company would distribute 10 percent of the total production in India, he said.
MRPL managing director H Kumar, ISPRL CEO and managing director HPS Ahuja, NRI businessman BR Shetty and others were present.
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Online fraud: Hotel chef from Udupi cheated of over Rs 1 lakh by WhatsApp contact
Udupi: Udupi City Police have registered a case of online fraud after a 62-year-old hotel chef was allegedly cheated of Rs 1.13 lakh by a woman who befriended him on WhatsApp, claiming to be based in London.
The victim, identified as Pandu Kariappa Poojary, a resident of Kuthpadi in Udupi, was working at a hotel in Mangaluru.
He reportedly came into contact with a woman identifying herself as Emilda William on WhatsApp. During their interactions, she told Poojary that she planned to start a cosmetics and hotel business in India and would meet him during a visit to Mangaluru.
On April 7, Emilda sent Poojary a flight ticket from London to Delhi via WhatsApp. The following day, Poojary received a phone call from a woman who informed him that Emilda had arrived at Delhi airport carrying a demand draft worth Rs 5 crore along with other items. The caller allegedly asked him to pay Rs 70,000.
Subsequently, Poojary also received a call from Emilda, who was reportedly crying and spoke about the situation. Believing the claims, he transferred a total of Rs 1,13,300 in phases using a scanner. He later realised that he had been cheated.
