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 …
Indraprastha Gas, the sole supplier of CNG in Delhi-NCR, has revised the price of CNG in Delhi by R1.55 per kg to R39.90 due to increased input gas price and related taxes. Consumers will have to pay R39.90 per kg in Delhi and R45.10 per kg in the Noida, Greater …
The ministry of petroleum and natural gas has allowed power companies to club or divert the allocated gas between two or more power plants of the same company so as to improve the plant load factor and increase power generation. Following a significant drop in the plant load factor due …
Fertiliser majors waiting to make investments in new urea plants have reasons to cheer as the government has promised, subject to a ceiling, it would cover the additional cost from natural gas imports given the paucity of domestic gas. Currently, the Asian spot price of the feedstock, which forms over …
The fertiliser ministry has opposed Reliance Industries' demand for hiking the KG-D6 gas price in line with the Asian LNG spot price, effective from April 2014. The ministry wants the price to be not more than $8/mmBtu. RIL pitched for the gas price, post March 2014, to be about 10% …
The Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Ltd, (IFFCO) Paradeep Unit has been Awarded as “Water Efficient Unit and received "9th National Award for Excellence in Water Management 2012” by Confederation Indian Industry (CII) and along with certification. This award was presented by Government of Rajasthan at Water Conclave 2012 held on …
Policy aims to incentivise fertilizer cos to set up new plants The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), on Thursday, approved a urea investment policy, which is likely to incentivise fertilizer companies to set up new plants and expand existing capacity. India imports over 30 per cent of its urea …
MumbaiZuari Agro Chemicals and Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) Maritime City on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to set up an integrated Di-ammonium Phosphate (DAP) manufacturing facility in UAE with an estimated project cost of $800 million. Zuari Agro Chemicals, the flagship of $3 billion Adventz Group, is a …
Agartala: State-owned ONGC’s proposed gas-based fertiliser plant in Tripura would meet the growing shortage of urea in the eastern and northeastern states of India and neighbouring Bangladesh, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said here Wednesday. ONGC in association with Tata Chemicals and the Tripura government would set up a Rs.5,000 …
The Board for Industrial & Financial Reconstruction (BIFR) will take up hearing on the closed fertiliser plant of Fertiliser Corporation of India (FCI) on October 30. BIFR has directed FCI to submit all audited accounts- balance sheets and profit & loss accounts along with auditor reports from the date of …
PANJIM: Goa’s 16 major private and public sector companies in the field of power generation, steel production, liquor, fertilizers and pharmaceuticals were issued show cause notices on Thursday by Goa State Pollution Control Board for failing to install online stack emission, effluent and ambient air quality monitoring system. GSPCB Member …
ANGUL: The construction of the gas-based Talcher Fertiliser Revival project will start in six months. Board of Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR) had recently given a go-ahead for the project. This was announced by the Union Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilisers, Srikant Jena, at a public meeting here …
IIM-Ahmedabad study favours continuation of fertilizer subsidy with better targeting and rationing Even as the union government has estimated country's subsidy burden touching 2.4 per cent of the GDP this financial year, a recent study by management experts believe that removal of fertilizer subsidy would make farming unprofitable in many …
The state government, which is contemplating to offload 74 per cent stake in Odisha Thermal Power Corporation Ltd (OTPCL), a 50:50 joint venture between Odisha Mining Corporation (OMC) and Odisha Hydro Power Corporation (OHPC), is keen to emulate the steps of Chhattisgarh to go about it. The Chhattisgarh government recently …
We Indians have got so used to seeing garbage spilling over from municipal dustbins at street corners and often even strewn around in open public spaces, that we accept this phenomenon as inevitable. We look the other way with what seems like futile hope that some day, someone will find …
Bhopal: Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s demand to the Union Government for reduction in fertiliser prices in the larger interests of farmers has drawn support of even non-BJP ruled states’ Chief Ministers. Supporting Shri Chouhan’s stand, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Sushri Jayalalitha, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Shri Akhilesh Yadav …
The oil ministry has forwarded the contentious issue of pricing methane gas produced from coal seams by Essar Oil and Reliance Industries to an empowered panel of secretaries after raising objections and holding back approvals for nine months. The companies had submitted pricing proposals after inviting bids from prospective customers …
The government last week allowed private companies to import urea for preparation of complex fertilisers used in agriculture. Till now, such companies could only import urea for industrial use, in preparation of chemicals. For agricultural purposes, private companies used to source urea from imports made by government canalising agents, such …
Decision on paddy procurement price soon Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Tuesday expressed the State’s strong protest against the Central policies that lead to high fertilizer prices. Replying to a calling attention motion moved by former Agriculture Minister Mullakkara Ratnakaran, he said it was wrong for the Union government to …
In what may be termed as a clear indication of imminent slowdown in the economy, the growth rate of eight infrastructure decelerated sharply to 2.2 per cent in April as against 4.2 per cent growth clocked in the corresponding month last year, largely on account of a dismal performance by …
Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), a statutory body under the Union ministry of power, is planning to save 2,308 Mw of energy worth around Rs 11,540 crore during the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-17) by mandating the labelling of electronic products. Of this, 400 Mw, worth Rs 2,000 crore, is …
