Dangers of climate change very real: Suresh Prabhu Reviving water bodies and rivers should be India’s biggest priority, as the threat of water crisis looms large due to climate change, said Suresh
Anand Sharma rules out compromise on UPA government’s gamechanger Citing national consensus and political unanimity on food security, India on Monday took a tough line on the issue and slammed farm lobbies of developed countries a day before the World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial meeting in Bali.
India has told its partner countries fighting for a permanent solution against challenges to their food security initiatives at the World Trade Organisation that the “currently designed’’ interim relief
In March 2012, the Ministry of New and Renewable energy ended a scheme under which 20% subsidy was offered to consumers on purchase of electric vehicles Expressing disappointment over lack of support to promote electric cars in India, Mahindra & Mahindra CMD Anand Mahindra today asked the government to grant subsidies to automakers to promote green cars.
Unless India’s minimum support prices for farmers and food subsidies are safeguarded against the rules of the World Trade Organisation, the Ninth WTO Ministerial scheduled for next month in Bali could
Aluminium smelter plant was on risk of turning unlivable amid uncertainty in receipt of alumina from the company's refining unit at Lanjigarh. Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) has sought extension of SEZ (Special
The Odisha government has recommended to the Union ministry of commerce & industry to extend formal approval for Tata Steel's multi-product Special Economic Zone (SEZ) at Gopalpur for one year. "The state government has been pleased to recommend the proposal of Tata Steel for extension of formal approval for another one year from June 18 this year to June 17, 2014, in respect of multi-product SEZ at Gopalpur.
Faced with prospects of a continued decline in economic activity, a tumbling rupee and falling investor interest, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday directed the fast-tracking of infrastructure
<p>There is incontrovertible evidence that the Adani project – port and SEZ – at Mundra in Gujarat has violated and not complied with environmental clearance conditions says this report of a committee set up by MoEF to inspect the project. The five-member committe was headed by environmentalist Sunita Narain.</p>
The PIL contends that if the road was to be built many date palm trees will have to be chopped off and local farmers would face heavy loss Gujarat high court on Thursday issued notice to the Centre over a public interest litigation (PIL) objecting to laying down of a road in Mundra block in southern Kutch. Petitioner Sulaiman Turk has questioned the construction of 9.6 km long road from the Adani group owned Mundra Port to the National Highway No 8A.
NEW DELHI: The environment ministry has thrown a spanner in the works of the commerce ministry's initiative to launch an online single window for making it easier to do business in India, a move that is reminiscent of its earlier solitary resistance to the National Investment Board. An official familiar with the matter told ET that the ministry of environment and forests is not willing to comply with the concept of single-window clearance under the eBiz portal, which is designed to provide a platform to businesses to apply for licences from and pay the application fee to all ministries and departments concerned at one go.
