Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
In a double blow to Jai Prakash Associates Limited (JAL), the Himachal Pradesh High Court today quashed environmental clearance to its 25 MW thermal plant and imposed a penalty of Rs 100 crore for obtaining clearance for the cement plant by indulging in blatant “fraud and falsehood”. Delivering a landmark …
New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal on Tuesday agreed to hear a body of farmers and villagers in the case filed by Nirma Ltd against Union environment ministry’s decision to revoke the green nod for its Bhavnagar cement plant in Gujarat, rejecting the company’s opposition. Nirma had moved the tribunal …
New Delhi: Reflecting a slowdown in the economy, the growth rate of eight core infrastructure sectors dipped to 2% in March and 4.3% during 2011-12 on account of poor performance in crude oil and natural gas. The growth rate of eight industries — crude oil, petroleum refinery products, natural gas, …
Some states have banned mechanised mining, but the mafia is not ready to obey. Illegal mining is hollowing the riverbed putting at risk the stability and ecology of rivers. This special report in Down To Earth examines the murky business of sand mining. Where there is a river, there is …
Jaipur: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has criticized the state government for its underassessment and non-recovery of revenue worth Rs 588.18 crore in the financial year 2010-11. The report, placed on the floor of the assembly on Thursday, finds several lacunae like the absence of input check controls and …
GUWAHATI: While Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma keeps talking about reforms in the health sector, the people of his own constituency have to breathe polluted air because of mushrooming of air-polluting industrial units. After Sonapur and Rani, it is now the people of North Guwahati who have come out on …
Twenty-one iron and steel plants, having capacity of 0.5 million tonnes a year and above, are up for an independent “green” rating. The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a New Delhi-based NGO, has completed a survey of the country's top steel-sector players for the environmental ratings. The results of …
BUILDING NEW FOUNDATIONS Aditya Birla company could end up building a 1-2 MT cement plant in the African country Aditya Birla group’s UltraTech Cement, India’s largest cement maker, is in talks to acquire a large limestone mine in Mozambique for about . 1,500 crore. The negotiations between the Mumbai-based conglomerate …
Jaipur:In a bid to make full use of the natural resources and enhance employment opportunities, the state government has decided to allot mining licenses of two major minerals, iron ore and limestone, only to those companies who are keen to set up plants or value addition processing units in the …
New Delhi The growing demand of coal in the domestic market is likely to push up its international prices. Coal industry experts feel that the prices may go up significantly in near future, driven mainly by the demand in China and India. Coal prices in the international market have gone …
A new outfit, the Rayalaseema Rashtra Samiti, has launched a campaign against cement firms in Rayalaseema. The samiti has decided to organise a 48-hour satyagraha at Kadapa from April 16. Their demands: allotment of cement to locals at a subsidised rate of Rs 150 in lieu of lands allotted, jobs …
The CSR Association of Pakistan honoured Lucky Cement with the National Corporate Social Responsibility Excellence Award for third consecutive year in fulfilling its CSR. It received the award also for Best Corporate Communications this year for its benchmark projects related to reporting, publications and all internal and external communications. Pakistan …
SHILLONG: Following CAG exposé on the failure of the state government to adhere to the Forest Conservation Act has compelled the Jaintia Youth Federation (JYF) central body to further pressurize the government to close down the cement factories operating in Jaintia Hills. “This is a very serious matter indeed and …
This is the draft EIA report of integrated project (cement plant, captive power plant & captive limestone mine) at Gulbarga district, Karnataka by Orient Cement. Orient Cement (a division of Orient Paper & Industries Ltd) proposes to setup a Greenfield cement plant near Itgi & Digaon villages, Chittapur Taluk, Gulbarga …
New Delhi The CAG might choose to call it “unintended benefit” to certain firms rather than loss to the exchequer, but the policy of captive coal blocks formulated in 1993 has clearly given ample opportunity for a veritable cross-section of corporate India to grab the dwindling natural resource for a …
New Delhi For the first time, New Delhi is looking to the North American continent to secure its energy needs. India has started talks to import natural gas from Canada, the world’s third-largest producer which is facing falling demand from the US, where a shale gas bounty has brought self …
This article is devoted to the problem of the detection of overt or tacit collusion equilibrium in the context of the choice of the appropriate econometric method, a choice that is determined by the amount of information that the observer possesses. The author addresses this problem in two steps. First, …
SHILLONG: The KSU’s Jaiñtia Hills district unit has decided to oppose Friday’s public hearing on the proposal of the Cement Manufacturing Company Limited (CMCL) to acquire more land for mining of lime stones in Lum Shnong area in Jaiñtia Hills. The Meghalaya State Pollution Control Board (MSPCB) is scheduled to …
JAMMU: The inhabitants of village Nagander in tehsil Pampore of South Kashmir district Pulwama have expressed serious concern over the increasing pollution in the area due to setting up of cement plants in the locality. Sarpanch of the area, Mohammed Shafi in a statement issued here today said that the …
Shillong, March 18: A social organisation in Meghalaya’s Jaintia Hills district has exhorted residents of the Narpuh Elaka not to lend support to a cement plant which is intending to increase the area for limestone mining. According to a government notification issued recently, a public hearing would be held on …
