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: Expressing concern over the manner in which some cement plants in Jaintia Hills district are flouting the rules and procedures laid down by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests, the Nationalist Youth Congress (NYC), Meghalaya State Unit has called up the Centre to take stringent action against those …
This new study by Centre for Science and Environment finds unprecedented scale of clearances being given by the Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) to industrial projects from 2007 till August 2011. New assessment by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) finds unprecedented scale of clearances being given by the …
A new technology roadmap on Carbon Capture and Storage in Industrial Applications shows that carbon capture and storage (CCS) has the potential to reduce CO2 emissions from industrial applications by 4 gigatonnes in 2050. Such an amount is equal to roughly one-tenth of the total emission cuts needed from the …
PANJIM: In a bid to improve segregation of dry waste, Corporation of the city of Panaji has introduced further segregation of dry waste at source itself through the ‘four bin system’. The system that CCP has already begun implementing includes installation of four separate bins in each residential complex --one …
Shillong: The cement lobby is a powerful group in Meghalaya. They have succeeded in toppling governments and changing chief ministers. The State Forest Department is a willing collaborator in the forest land acquisition of cement companies. The MoEF’s repeated attempts to blow the whistle over the issue met with inaction. …
In a setback to Nirma industries, the Supreme Court has asked the company to prove that the land allocated to it in Gujarat to set up a cement plant is wasteland. Otherwise the project should be scrapped, said a bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia. The court said …
The Keran Taryamber Kisan Kalyan Samiti has filed a complaint before the SP, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Shimla, alleging that Harish Cement Company was cheating farmers whose land would be acquired by the company if the plant would be set up near here. It was alleged in the complaint …
Read text of the latest SC order on Nirma cement in Bhavnagar. The apex court has made it clear that Nirma will have to scrap this plant if it fails to prove that the project does not fall in eco-sensitive wetlands. Supreme Court order dated 09.09.2011 in SLP (Civil) No(s).14698/2010 …
Two important processes that could decide the fate of our common water future are in the pipeline now in the country. The National Water Policy 2002 is up for a revision and the Planning Commission is drafting India’s Twelfth Five Year Plan. A country which is fast turning into a …
The Jharkhand government has failed to pocket revenues to the tune of Rs 61.46 crore because of an endless delay in renewing leases of mining areas owned by the erstwhile Indian Iron and Steel Company (IISCO) and at Chiria and another patch belonging to Associated Cement Company (ACC) in West …
SHILLONG: At a time when Meghalaya is finding ways and means to comply with the Union Plastic Waste (Management and Handling) Management Rules, 2011 to curb the plastic menace, the cement plants in the State can come forward with a process of incineration. This idea was presented by the senior …
The Tokyo Cement Group is planning to invest Rs. 1.9 billion on a biomass-dendro power project in a 2.5 hectare land in Mahiyangana which is expected to produce 5 MW to the national grid and create additional income to the rural community, the company announced yesterday (22). "The Biomass Dendro …
It’s been more than seven months. Farmer representatives from 12 villages in Nawalgarh are on a sit-in protest outside the sub-divisional magistrate’s office. Their demand: do not give our fertile land to industry. Three cement giants are eyeing this limestone-rich area in Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan. Limestone is the prime …
Environment minister Jayanthi Natar-ajan can’t easily disown the legacy of her predecessor, it seems. Her ministry has hardened its stand on the demand for release of coal blocks for mining in thickly forested areas in Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, a move that could adversely impact at least three dozen …
Drafting of norms at final stage New Delhi, July 25: The Government expects to introduce competitive bidding for auctioning coal blocks by the end of financial year. The Coal Minister, Mr Sriprakash Jaiswal, said his Ministry was in final stages of drafting the norms for competitive bidding, which would bring …
Bangalore: Karnataka lags behind Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh in using municipal solid waste as a co-processing (raw materials as a source of energy) in industries. Co-processing can be used in cement kilns, power plants and integrated iron and steel industry and can replace natural resources and fossil fuels like …
SHILLONG: Close on the heels of a moral victory after the Supreme Court verdict to allow Lafarge Umiam Mining Private Limited (LUMPL), a subsidiary of French cement giant Lafarge, to resume its business operations in Meghalaya, Lafarge India is now engaged in talks with the promoters of Meghalaya-based Star Cement …
NHAI to award 7,994-km highway projects in the current financial year; steel, cement and bitumen companies to benefit most. Consumption of cement, steel, and bitumen is to get a boost of Rs 42,000 crore, as the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has announced to award 7,994 km of highway …
New Delhi The Supreme Court on Wednesday permitted Lafarge of France to resume limestone mining in Meghalaya to feed its $255-million cement plant in Bangladesh. A special forest bench headed by Chief Justice SH Kapadia vacated its February 5, 2010, order halting mining operations. The project, Lafarge Surma Cement (LSC), …
