** Oil and gas index .NIFOILGAS rises over 2%; all 15
constituents log gains
** Rise comes after government raises windfall tax on crude
oil marginally and cuts tax on exports of diesel urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N35C06K
** Government also scraps windfall tax of 1.5 rupees per
litre on aviation turbine fuel
** Mahanagar Gas MGAS.NS , Adani Total Gas ADAG.NS , GAIL
GAIL.NS , Oil India OILI.NS and Indraprastha Gas IGAS.NS
are among the top gainers, in NIFOILGAS, rising between 3% and
6.2%
** Shares of upstream oil companies like ONGC ONGC.NS ,
Mangalore Refinery MRPL.NS , Chennai Petroleum CHPC.NS also
rise
** ONGC, which is up 2.6% as of 1:04 p.m. IST, is among the
top Nifty 50 .NSEI gainers
(Reporting by Bharath Rajeswaran in Bengaluru)
((bharath.rajeswaran@thomsonreuters.com; +91 9769003463))