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 …
Signs MoU with Assam Mineral Development Corporation to Birla Corporation, flagship company of the M. P. Birla Group, is planning to set up a one-million tonne cement plant in Assam at an investment of around Rs.450 crore. The company signed a memorandum of understanding with the Assam Mineral Development Corporation …
Jaipur: A memorandum of understanding was signed between Rajasthan State Industrial Development & Investment Corporation (RIICO) and UltraTech Cement Ltd to set up a Rs 2,000-crore cement project in Jhunjhunu district on Wednesday. The MoU was signed between the managing director of RIICO, Rajendra Bhanawat and senior executive president of …
Studies have shown that adverse respiratory health effects seen in the people exposed to cement dust, exemplified in increased frequency of respiratory symptoms and decreased ventilatory function, observed among cement workers could not be explained by age, BMI and smoking, thus are likely to be caused by exposure to cement …
For India to play its part in helping to realise deep cuts in global CO2 emissions by the middle of the 21st century, it will need to achieve rapid economic development over the next 40 years with only a very small increase in emissions. Currently there is no precedent for …
Shoumojit Banerjee Proposed asbestos project could lead to a ‘Turner & Newall' epidemic Marwan (Muzaffarpur): There is a spectre over the verdant fields of Bihar's Muzaffarpur district, hitherto suppressed by the clamour and euphoria of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's massive electoral mandate. Its cause is asbestos — the magic mineral, …
Vijay Arora Legal Correspondent What HC said n Illegal on part of the Centre to waive the condition of holding public hearing on request of then CM Virbhadra Singh n Sets aside notification issued by state for acquisition of land for project Shimla , December 13 In a significant decision, …
GUWAHATI, Dec 8: Another industry that gets a huge amount of transport subsidy in States in the Northeast is cement industry. Of all the industrial units of different kinds, it is the cement industrial units that have got a major chunk of the transport subsidy. The cement manufacturing units of …
Dalmia Cement plans to set up two new cement units, with a capacity of 2.5 million tonnes each, in Meghalaya and Karnataka, expected to go on stream within two-and-a-half years. The company will pump in Rs 2,500 crore, of which Rs 600 crore is internal accrual. The rest of the …
Twenty one new cement plants will be set up in Madhya Pradesh. 18 Big industrial groups like Aditya Birla Group, Ambuja Cement, Dalmia Cement, Imami Cement and Essar Cements Ltd etc will invest Rs 25726 crore for setting up 21 new cement plants. Around 25 thousand people are expected to …
This report aims to provide a technological, economic and policy underpinning for the development of a global technology roadmap for CCS in industry. The roadmap will build on the IEA roadmap on CCS that has already outlined a set of actions and milestones for CCS in the power sector and …
An independent monitoring report released by the local environmental NGO Himparivesh and Community Environmental Monitoring Campaign has implicated two cement plants in the Nalagarh area of emitting hazardous pollutants in the air. The lives and the health of people living in their vicinity have been put to grave risk, the …
FARMERS of 15 coastal villages in Gujarat’s Bhavnagar district have intensified their stir against Nirma company’s cement plant proposed on a waterbody. Activists are mobilizing people against the plant by screening films showing the impact the project will have on farmers of Mahuva tehsil. The latest round of protests were …
Himachal* Renuka dam, Tidong hydel plant, cement units among projects awaiting environment clearance The Renuka dam is the latest in a series of projects in Himachal Pradesh that have been either scrapped or delayed due to environmental concerns. The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) rejected the state government
ON SEPTEMBER 17, the National Environment Appellate Authority (NEAA) cancelled two environmental clearances: Vedanta’s bauxite mining in Niyamgiri Hills in Odisha and the National Hydro Power Corporation (NHPC’s)Kotli-Behl 1B dam on the Alakananda river in Uttarakhand. A few days earlier, it had cancelled the environmental clearance for the integrated cement …
Jaipur: A three-member committee under panchayati raj minister Bharat Singh has been constituted to ensure the smooth transfer of five subjects (departments) to the panchayats on October 2. The decision was taken at the state ministerial meeting held under CM Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday. The committee, which includes water resources …
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court on Monday dismissed the review petition filed by a group of farmers against the court verdict giving green signal to Nirma Ltd to construct a cement plant along Mahuva’s coastline. Shree Mahuva Bandhara Khetiwadi Pariyavan Bachav Samittee, which had fil-PIL in the high ed the …
JOWAI: Farmers of Elaka Nongkhlieh have alleged that mining operations by Lafarge India Pvt. Ltd in within the Elaka would greatly affect them if the government and the concerned authority gave a go ahead to the company to operate there. "Our lands and forests, water sources and rivers will be …
