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 …
The Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on gas will have to take a call on several issues when it meets on Friday. Among them are: giving continued priority to fertiliser and power sectors in gas allocation, fixing the proportion of fuel supply to non-core sectors like steel, and deciding on …
Demand higher tariff for plants fearing CIL imports may raise their production costs. Eight industrialists, including Cyrus Mistry, Anil Ambani, Gautam Adani and GM Rao, met principal secretary in PMO Pulok Chatterji to demand higher tariff for their power plants as they fear coal imports by Coal India Ltd would …
Private power producers sought Government intervention for immediate allocation of gas to projects recommended by the Power Ministry, while seeking a solution to the coal pricing issue. Eight top honchos of the sector, including Mr Anil D Ambani, Mr Cyrus Mistry, Mr G.M. Rao, and Mr Naveen Jindal, under the …
Hit by a dip in production of coal from Coal India Ltd (CIL) and gas from private sector major Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), the mining sector is set to contract by 2.2 per cent this year. The sector grew five per cent in 2010-11. While the mining sector accounts for …
Farmers in Punjab and officials related to the agriculture sector have expressed a serious concern over the proposed suggestion by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MPNG) to the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) to cut off the supply of domestic natural gas to fertiliser units producing phosphorous and …
Effluents and toxic fumes from factories and refineries and high concentration of vehicles on roads, besides the Deonar dumping grounds (now partially closed) contribute to pollution in Chembur, one of the most polluted suburbs in the commercial capital of the country. A joint survey by the Ministry of Environment and …
Agartala: State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) will set up a Rs 5,000 crore, gas-based fertilizer plant in Tripura to meet the growing shortage of urea, the most commonly used soil manure in the northeastern region. “ONGC has already initiated the process to set up the natural gas-based urea …
Close on the heels of the PMO stepping in to play a direct role in sorting out the fuel woes faced by coal-fired power project developers, a much-delayed ministerial panel meeting on gas allocations to upcoming projects is slated to take place later this month. The meeting of the empowered …
The Oil Ministry has suggested key changes in the natural gas allocation policy in the view of sharp drop in output from Reliance Industries’ eastern offshore KG-D6 block. In a note to the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, the ministry has proposed to stop …
New Delhi: As many as 345 industries continue to violate pollution norms in various parts of the country despite strict pollution norms and closure of polluting industries in the past. Of the 2,600 highly polluting industries across 17 sectors like fertilisers, thermal power, sugar, petrochemicals, cement and integrated iron and …
New Delhi The government on Wednesday said that natural gas price cannot be raised overnight and that any revision has to be in line with the paying capacity of user industries like power and fertilisers. Now domestic natural gas is priced in the range of $4.2-$5.65 per million metric standard …
From the UN Rio+20 preparatory meetings in New York, ETC Group launches Who Will Control the Green Economy? The report connects the dots between the climate and oil crises, new technologies and corporate power. The report warns that the world’s largest companies are riding the coattails of the “Green Economy” …
BANKURA, 29 NOV: The sale of chemical fertiliser in the black market has had an adverse effect on common farmers in various blocks of Bankura. This has hit potato cultivation, in particular, in the district. Potato cultivation requires a judicious management of minor irrigation and chemical fertilisers. Nitrogen, phosphate and …
New Delhi: To encourage the agriculture sector in the capital, Delhi cabinet has decided to waive off the value added tax on fertilizers. This decision was taken in a cabinet meeting chaired by chief minister Sheila Dikshit. Dikshit said the government has been receiving representations from the farmers requesting substantial …
This is one reform measure that is coming back to haunt the UPA government. Since potash and phosphatic fertilisers were decontrolled at the beginning of last fiscal, their prices have skyrocketed, raising concerns in the Planning Commission over the likely impact of higher input costs on farm GDP and food …
Thousands of tonnes of various types of substandard fertilisers were sold in Punjab - India’s food bowl - in recent years. By the time “stop sale” orders were issued - in some cases, a year later - these proved meaningless as by that time the dealers had already sold the …
In the din of Anna Hazare’s fast, glaring cases of irregularities smacking of alleged corruption involving thousands of crores of rupees in the fertiliser sector have gone unnoticed. A “performance audit” of the fertiliser subsidy (Department of Fertilisers (DoF), Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers) by the Comptroller and Auditor-General of …
TALCHER: The Union Cabinet has approved the revival package of the Talcher fertiliser plant at a meeting on Friday. According to sources, the urea plant will be revived jointly by Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilisers (RCF), Gas Authority of India Limited and Coal India Limited. The projected cost of Talcher plant …
The Committee on Policy for Pooling of Natural Gas Prices and Pool Operating Guidelines was asked to examine the procedure for discovery of gas price. While refraining from suggesting a viable scheme for pooling of gas prices, it has focused its attention on preferential allocation of domestically produced natural gas …
New Delhi The petroleum ministry has on Thursday passed a fresh order asking Reliance Industries to fully meet the contracted gas supplies to priority consumers in sectors like fertiliser, LPG, power and city gas distribution in spite of the fall in gas production from the D6 field in the Krishna …
