Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
New Delhi Eleven cement makers whom the fair trade regulator CCI has found guilty of adopting anti-competitive practices, on Thursday approached Competition Appellate Tribunal (COMPAT) challenging its July 30 findings. It issued notices to the Competition Commission of India and listed the matter for next hearing on November 22. The …
SHILLONG, Oct 18: Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma on Thursday welcomed Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in retail and mining, despite opposition from several civil society groups. “FDI in retail would help in doing away with middlemen and benefit farmers, who form 80 percent of the population, and also consumers,” Sangma …
SHILLONG, Oct 17 – Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma today welcomed Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in retail and mining. “FDI in retail would help in doing away with middlemen and benefit the farmers, who form 80 per cent of the population and also the consumers,” Sangma said at the sideline …
The government’s Inter-Ministerial Group (IMG) reviewing progress of coal blocks is understood to have recommended cancelling two more acreages being developed by five companies, according to people close to the development. A final view on the recommendation will be taken by Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal soon. The two blocks include …
The Inter-Ministerial Group (IMG) on Thursday recommended de-allocation of two more coal blocks and deduction of bank guarantee (BG) of two more blocks. Thursday’s action concludes the IMG scrutiny of 29 blocks in the first phase. The blocks deallocated on Thursday are: Bhaskarpara, allotted to Kumarmangalam Birla-promoted Grasim Industries and …
To counter the BJP’s attack over the alleged malpractices in the allocation of coal blocks between 2004-09, seven Lok Sabha MPs of the Congress have urged the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) to ask the CBI to probe allotments of all coal blocks since 1993. The CVC is understood to be …
Four cement plants have been shut down in Chhattisgarh since early this month on alleged violation of air pollution control norms. The Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board (CECB) confirmed to Business Line that two plants of UltraTech and one each of Ambuja Cement and Lafarge have been under closure for over …
They were found to be reducing supplies and increasing prices In a ‘body blow’ to the industry, which is fighting a demand slide, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) has slapped a hefty penalty of over Rs.6,300 crore on 11 cement producers, who were found violating the provisions of the …
Ultratech, Ambuja, India Cement, Lafarge among those fined for cartelization Competition watchdog CCI has levieed penalty of nearly Rs 6,300 cr on 11 cement companies involved in price cartel. The companies include Binani Cement, Lafarge, Grasim, ACC, Ambuja, JK Cement, Madras Cement, India Cement, Jaypee and Ultratech. The companies have …
10-MT GUJARAT, ANDHRA UNITS ON THE BLOCK; COULD FETCH . 9,000 CRORE SABARINATH M, RAVI TEJA SHARMA & MAULIK VYAS The AV Birla Group and French cement giant Lafarge are in talks to buy out Jaiprakash Associates’ cement plants in Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh, after the New Delhibased company decided …
Cement manufacturing giant Lafarge Surma Cement Ltd today said it was adopting a standardised approach to sustainable development by adhering to various environmental norms in its operations across the world, including the one at Nongtrai village in Meghalaya’s East Khasi Hills district. Lafarge Umiam Mining Pvt Ltd (LUMPL), a wholly …
SHILLONG: The RTI findings on the cement plants in Jaintia Hills has exposed the connivance of the various Government departments including the Jaintia Hills Autonomous District Council (JHADC) and the traditional bodies which allowed the cements plants to carry out mining inside the forest areas in gross violation of the …
SHILLONG: While admitting that the issue of alleged encroachment of the cement plants in Jaintia Hills into the forest areas is a serious matter, Forest and Environment Minister Prestone Tynsong said that the Government would not hesitate to take action against the cement plants if it is established that they …
Shillong, Jan. 6: The Opposition NCP today demanded the immediate closure of the cement plants operating in forest areas in Meghalaya’s Jaintia Hills district. Apart from the closure, it also demanded from the state government to ask the companies to go for “compensatory afforestation” and to take necessary punitive action …
Shillong, Nov. 29: The high-level committee constituted by the Meghalaya government to probe whether cement plants in Jaintia Hills district have violated environmental norms has submitted its findings on November 25. However, a senior government official refused to divulge the details of the findings. Principal secretary (mining and geology department), …
SHILLONG: The Jaintia Youth Federation (central body) has expressed its serious concern over the fate of enquiry into the establishment of huge cement plants that are operating in the district and destroying vast forest cover in Jaintia Hills district. According to a statement issued by the JYF president P Majaw …
Shillong: In view of the July 2011 verdict of the Supreme Court vis-à-vis Lafarge cements on the issue of mining in ‘deemed’ forest land, the High-Level Committee constituted by the State as per directives of the Empowered Committee (EC) set up by the apex court earlier has now become redundant. …
Apart from destroying over 38,000 trees and affecting 1.26 lakh trees, as many as 50 families in Talain village will be displaced permanently by the controversial Lafarge cement plant being set up in the Alsindi-Ghanghar belt in Karsog subdivision in this district. The cement plant will spell doom for the …
SHILLONG: The State NCP has demanded an independent inquiry into the alleged use of forest land by as many as five cement companies in Jaintia Hills. Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday, Leader of Opposition Conrad Sangma asserted that these cement companies are operating in the middle of forest …
SHILLONG: The State Government-constituted high-level committee, which has been assigned the task to ascertain whether the cement plants in Jaintia Hills are mining limestone from forest areas, is likely to submit its report within November. “The Committee is going to submit its report in November. The State Government has purposely …
