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 …
Shillong: The Meghalaya State Pollution Board (MPSCB) will conduct a public hearing on a proposal of the Cement Manufacturing Company Limited (CMCL) to acquire more land for mining of limestone in Lumshnong area in Jaintia Hills. The public hearing assumes significance in the context that degradation of the environment in …
Budget proposal for dedicated logistics corporation draws applause The railway budget push to improve last-mile connectivity has come as a major relief for user industries in the sectors of coal, power, steel and shipping. The new rail link projects, when commissioned, would go a long way in reducing the time …
New Delhi The Centre has put Orissa government’s plans to get 33% free power from coal reject-based power plants on hold. The coal ministry has asked Orissa government not to hold up any clearances for coal blocks on the basis of such condition till a proper policy is formulated in …
Certain legal aspects need to be incorporated: Mukul SHILLONG: Meghalaya, which does not have a mining policy till date, will have to wait further as the State Cabinet on Monday night deferred the finalisation of the much-awaited policy saying that certain legal aspects need to be incorporated in it. Briefing …
Guwahati, March 2: Cement companies operating from the state have come under the scanner over the alleged unreasonable price hike recently, compelling Dispur to commit in the state Assembly to take all possible steps to check the rise. Senior ruling Congress member Anjan Dutta, supported by party colleague Gautam Bora, …
The report is the result of a two-year study on the technology and policy options for improving energy efficiency of the Indian cement manufacturing industry. It takes into consideration the diversity in processes, raw materials, fuels and operating conditions. It provides analyses and insights for the implementation of Perform-Achieve-Trade (PAT), …
SHILLONG, Feb 26 – Deputy Chief Minister, in-charge of Mining and Geology, Bindo Lanong literally tore apart a recent report of a High Level Committee (HLC), stating, cements plants in Jaintia Hills have not violated State laws. The report of the HLC comprising six senior officers drawn from State Forest …
Industrial houses come forward to offer guards; free seedlings to be given against promise of proper upkeep You can not miss the signboards propped up on medians at prominent localities in the city, flashing messages of planting trees, and urging residents to avoid using plastics. With going green being the …
GUWAHATI: The All Assam Shramik Krishak Kalyan Parishad (AASKKP) has lashed out at Dispur constituency MLA Akon Bora for giving permission for the setting up of industrial units on agri land in the Dimoria area. Addressing a press conference in Guwahati today, All Assam Shramik Krishak Kalyan Parishad general secretary …
Pakistan’s environment protection agency has suddenly gone soft on the stone crushers in the Margalla Hills, allowing them to go on denuding the hills, but without degrading the environment. A U-turn certainly in its past policy of shutting down illegal quarrying in the hills, which lie in the protected National …
Indiscriminate environmental clearances to projects in cement, coal mining, iron and steel and thermal power plant sectors are going to worsen the water crisis in the country. The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) cautions that even though an additional 3.8 lakh hectares have been allocated to these sectors in …
SHILLONG: The Meghalaya Government’s clean chit to cement plants which are breaching the forest conservation act has been out rightly questioned by the Maitshaphrang Movement, an NGO which used the RTI findings to reveal the alleged exploitation of forest by these cement giants in the Khliehriat sub-division of Jaintia Hills …
GUWAHATI: For the development of the backward Greater Dimoria Area, the Star Cement Manufacturing Company Limited is setting up a plant at the Chamatapathar area. But the development of the Greater Dimoria Area has its dark side too. Noor Mohammed, a local resident of the area, alleged that the Star …
The mineral-rich Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya faces an acute drinking water crisis as major rivers there have been declared “unfit” for human use due to high level of acidity caused by unscientific mining. The rivers close to coal mining areas and cement plants have acquired a blue colour over …
Shillong, Feb. 21: Deputy chief minister in-charge of mining Bindo Lanong today claimed that the cement plants set up in Jaintia Hills were following the rules, despite several high-level reports indicating that the companies were violating the norms. Briefing reporters about his recent visit along with the other officials to …
SHILLONG: Endorsing the State government official team’s clean chit to four giant cement factories operating in Jaintia Hills district, Meghalaya Deputy Chief Minister Bindo Lanong attributed unscientific coal mining as a major cause of pollution of streams and rivers in Khleihriat sub division. It is an irrefutable fact that unscientific …
China's heavily polluted capital, Beijing, plans to reduce air pollution levels by 15 percent by 2015 and 30 percent by 2020 through phasing out old cars, relocating factories and planting new forests, state media said on Thursday. The level of air pollution in the capital varies, depending on winds. But …
Hit by a dip in production of coal from Coal India Ltd (CIL) and gas from private sector major Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), the mining sector is set to contract by 2.2 per cent this year. The sector grew five per cent in 2010-11. While the mining sector accounts for …
SHILLONG: A joint investigation committee (JIC) comprising State Chief Conservator of Forest and Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forest from the Union Ministry of Forest and Environment, Regional Office has been constituted to relook into the alleged random exploitation of forest land by the cement industries in Jaintia Hills district. …
Projects of over two dozen corporates, including NTPC, Coal India, Hindalco, Essar and Adani, to be fast-tracked Taking note of a formal end to the controversial ‘no-go’ classification of coal mining projects, the coal ministry has asked states to give revised proposals to the environment ministry for projects stuck in …
