Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
With the government planning to start 20 per cent blending of bio-diesel with diesel, Indian oil companies are fast firming up their bio-diesel ventures. The state-run Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), for instance, is slated to announce a joint venture with the Government of Chattisgarh shortly to take up large scale …
fuel crisis in nepal: As India curtails oil supplies to Nepal, financially bankrupt Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) has sought a Nepali Rs one-billion loan from its government to partially clear the mounting dues. In a letter to ministries of supplies and finance, the state-owned company requested for funds to avert …
lankan fuel crisis: Sri Lanka recently reached a settlement with the Lanka Indian Oil Corporation (LIOC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Indian Oil Corporation, to resolve a fuel crisis in the country. LIOC was unable to import any fuel from India unless the Lankan government paid at least Rs 1 billion …
The Indian government has permitted the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ongc) and the Indian Oil Corporation (ioc) to buy assets of Russian oil giant Yukos. Yukos is currently reeling under crisis. Its chief executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky was recently detained for fraud and tax evasion. Its shares have dropped and …
With the government set to end GAIL's monopoly over gas pipelines, new players are finalising their own plans. In the bargain, gas as a fuel may become competitive. Sometime soon in the future, a 1,400-km gas pipeline will snake its way from Kakinada to Ahmedabad. But this won't be just …
india's urea industry has decided not to sign contracts with liquefied natural gas (lng) marketers Gas Authority of India Limited (gail) and Indian Oil Corporation (ioc) Limited. This is because it wants the stalemate over lng prices to get broken first. It may be noted that in the majority of …
Four oil companies - Indian Oil Corporation, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation, Bharat Petroleum Corporation and Reliance Industries - have signed a memorandum with industry and scientific institutions for a study on "appropriate solutions" to air pollution. They will jointly pay for this study, which they say is necessary because current approaches …
The Assam Pollution Control Board (apcb) has served a closure notice to the Digboi authorities for releasing highly toxic effluents, including oil and grease, into waterbodies. According to an official of the apcb, untreated effluents from the refinery is causing extensive damage to agricultural fields and forests. In response, the …
Indian oil tanker Pratibha Yamuna displays her scooped out starboard side the day after the ship caught fire off southern Japan on May 27. The tanker, weighing 26,450 tonnes, went up in flames in the East China Sea, sullying its waters with oil and triggering off a major environmental disaster. …
the general manager, deputy general manager and chief executive of Indian Oil Corporation ( ioc ) have been served notices by seven farmers of Mota Thavaria village near Jamnagar in Gujarat. They are demanding a payment of Rs 7.25 crore as compensation for damage to their farmland caused by leakage …
NATURAL FIBRE:A new method to extract fibres from wild species of banana trees of Mizoram hills has been identified by Botanical Survey of India ( bsi ). Locally called Chang-El or wild plantains, its six different species yeild a kind of hemp which has immense commercial value. The species were …
WITH September 17, the next date for the Supreme Court (SC) hearing on the air pollution case in Delhi, approaching, the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) has suddenly done a volte-face. Despite the Union ministry of petroleum and natural gas (MPNG) having submitted an affidavit to SC, stating that it will …
the residents of Municipal Corporation of Delhi's ( mcd) flats at Soami Nagar have accused the Delhi Development Authority ( dda ) of allotting a plot of land to the Indian Oil Corporation ( ioc ) for building a petrol pump on a piece of land that was earmarked for …
vaccine launch: SmithKline Beecham (SB), an International Healthcare system, would launch several vaccines in India during 1998-99. These include a hepatitis-A vaccine, a two-in-one hepatitis A & B vaccine and another targeted at preventing chicken pox. Says M McDonald, managing director of SB Pharmaceuticals-India, "The combined recombinant-based hepatitis A&B; vaccine …
INDIAN Oil Corporation (IOC), a leading petroleum refining and marketing company, is a "low-profile, high-performance company" with a proactive approach to environment manage- ment. All its refineries meet the minimum national standards (MINAS) for effluent treatment. Additionally, it has an in-house system of environmental audit by multidisciplinary teams. Each refinery …
The Government of India announced its decision in 1973 to set up a 6 million tonne per year Petroleum Oil Refinery at Mathura under the Indian Oil Corporation of India. Some apprehensions were expressed about the possible adverse effects on the historic monuments in the Agra-Mathura region from the gaseous …
