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 …
Commentarao S.L. Rao Results first Subsidies have been the albatross around the necks of finance ministers, from Manmohan Singh in 1991 to P. Chidambaram today. These have constrained the freedom to invest in agriculture and in infrastructure, both physical and social. This has resulted in increased inequalities in sectoral growth …
People have been protesting against mining around temple at Honnebagi Equipment of mining companies set afire 40 farmers hurt in police lathi-charge Tumkur: C.N. Halli in Tumkur district was rocked by violence on Thursday when people set fire to the equipment of mining companies near a place of worship and …
DH News Service, Chintamani: The deputy commissioner has issued stringent orders to provide permits to the farmers for the distribution of DAP and complex fertilisers in the district. A meeting had been called in this regard, which was attended by the agriculture officers and the executive officers of the taluk …
Khammam, July 20: Keeping the demand in the district for fertilisers in view, the government decided to send a consignment of 2,500 tonnes. The District Central Cooperative Bank (DCCB) is selling the fertilisers to farmers through its primary agricultural cooperative societies. The DCCB so far sold fertilisers worth of Rs …
DH News Service, Chikkaballapura: Members of Karnataka Prantha Raitha Sangha took out a protest march demanding government meet their various demands including satisfactory supply of fertilisers. Farmers who gathered in thousands took out a march in the main streets of the town raising slogans against the government. They demanded satisfactory …
Joe C Mathew / New Delhi July 09, 2008, 0:41 IST The Madhya Pradesh High Court has stayed the implementation of the central government's pricing policy on single super phosphate (SSP) fertilisers. The decision may affect the supply of SSP in the state as the industry is apprehensive of selling …
Warangal, July 8: The minister for agriculture, Mr N. Raghuveera Reddy, and the minister for major irrigation, Mr Ponnala Lakshmaiah, had a tough time in pacifying the irate farmers, who took the ministers to task on the shortage of fertilisers and the irregular power supply. The ministers had an embarrassing …
REUTERS World Bank President Robert B Zoellick holds up a bag of rice and a loaf of bread at a news conference in Washington The un acknowledges that in the past few decades governments and international financial institutions have not paid any attention to agriculture. Now the un, states and …
CABINET DECISIONS DAP has been brought on a par with imports for calculating concessions. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) today approved a new concession scheme for phosphatic and potassic (P&K;) fertilisers that would reduce subsidy bill by Rs 1,163 crore, besides providing incentives to the industry to increase …
NEW DELHI: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Thursday approved the concession scheme of the Department of Fertiliser on de-controlled phosphatic and potassic fertilizers, which would reduce the subsidy bill by Rs. 1,163 crore, besides encouraging the industry to raise production. Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office, …
Shailesh Menon & Gaurav Pai MUMBAI BULLS stormed fertiliser counters on Thursday, cheered by the government's measures aimed at improving profits of key companies in the sector. Most of these stocks shot up between 5% and 15% following the policy announcement. However, market watchers point out that although the policy …
MOVE TO ENCOURAGE RAISING LONG-TERM OUTPUT, CUT SOP BILL BY Rs 1,164 CR IN A move aimed at encouraging the fertiliser industry to raise its production outlay in the longer term, the government on Thursday announced a concession scheme for decontrolled phosphatic and potassic (P&K;) fertilisers. The decision taken by …
Joe C Mathew With the Union Cabinet expected to consider a new pricing policy for phosphatic fertilisers tomorrow, the three-month long uncertainty of the fertiliser companies over the maximum possible farm gate prices of phosphatic and potassic (P&K;) fertilisers may come to an end. Unlike other regulated sectors, price approval …
THE spectacular rise in prices of crude oil and some food items may have hogged the limelight the world over, but the increase in prices of some fertilisers has left some other commodities pale in comparison. An official study on price movements of select food, energy and fertilisers shows that …
Anantapur, June 24: All-party committee leaders have decided to organise a Jail Bharo agitation and lay siege to the agriculture department joint director's office on June 26 in protest against the alleged negligence of the Congress government in solving farmers' problems. Speaking at a meeting organised at the CPI office …
By C. ANAND REDDY The fertiliser department will pay subsidy to companies only after ens-uring that the supplies reach district godowns. The responsibility or the role of the fertiliser ministry, so to say, ends there. This assumes significance as farmer suicides on account of shortage of fertilisers in states like …
Tiruchi Bureau "The basal fertilizer requirement for core delta districts is about 20,000 tonnes' TIRUCHI: Just as kuruvai cultivation is gaining momentum in delta districts, there have been widespread complaints of scarcity of fertilizers. Though the timely release of water has raised farmers' hopes, their biggest worry this season is …
Nagpur: Rising petroleum prices are likely to make PET products costly. With crude on the boil, polymers the raw material for making plastic products have become dearer by over Rs 10,000 per tonne within a month. As a result there is a likelihood of plastic packaging material manufacturers passing on …
