<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) regarding illegal sand mining being done at the Balod Pod sand mine located in Balod district, Chhattisgarh.</p> <p>A report was called
The State Government is making all possible efforts to bring benefits of research findings in agricultural laboratories to farms while also connecting the younger generation with agricultural education,
To kickstart bidding process for the Orissa project before the end of current calendar year. The government will kickstart the bidding process for the 4,000-mw Orissa ultra-mega power project (UMPP) before
This paper takes a look at regional patterns of human and child deprivation in India, based on district-level data. It presents and compares two simple summary indices of living conditions at the district
There has been a sharp decline in groundwater levels in several parts of Delhi, West Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan over the years, the government said on Friday. According to the data released here, which is part of country’s first ever aquifer atlas, Himachal Pradesh has the best groundwater level as water exploited is quickly recharged. The atlas, first ever compilation of aquifer systems in India, says that within the national capital, southwest Delhi is the worst affected by depleting groundwater levels.
New Delhi The CBI probe into the coal block scam is set to widen as the agency has now registered a preliminary inquiry into the allocation of captive coal blocks to state-owned mineral corporations and
West Bengal along with Orissa and Chattisgarh are opposed to price-pooling in coal, a top official of the West Bengal Power Department said on Thursday. Speaking at the CII organised Energy Conclave, West Bengal power department principal secretary Malay K De said that West Bengal had written to the Union coal and power ministries opposing the move. "West Bengal has opposed the move for price-pooling and we have already written to the coal and power ministries opposing the move. Along with us, at least two other states, I know, Orissa and Chattisgarh were not in favour of the plan," De said. De said there was no question of agreeing to the proposal in which common people of the state would have to pay additional electricity tariff.
New Delhi: While agreeing with the constitution bench that auction was not the only constitutionally permissible mode for distribution, Justice J S Khehar in a separate opinion referred to the Mines and
‘28, Najafgarh Road, New Delhi’. This was the address used by four companies of Congress MP and industrialist Naveen Jindal that applied for coal blocks between 2006 and 2009. Two of them — Nalwa Steel
Seven Eastern States appear to have brought about a Green Revolution in paddy cultivation. Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Monday said the chronically food-deficit Eastern region has made a
After prolonged litigation and arbitration proceedings, Lanco Infratech will be entering into a fresh agreement with the Madhya Pradesh government for supply of the entire 300 Mw power from its Korba power plant in Chattisgarh. The state has agreed to waive the rate ceiling for power to be supplied from the plant, after the two sides reached a settlement through arbitration. The company had commissioned the plant two years before at a cost of Rs 1,350 crore and was forced to sell it to Punjab in a short-term contract after it found the Rs 2.25 a unit ceiling on power rate was unviable.
