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 …
Even as a cornered Government went red in the face denying media reports that alleged quoting a draft CAG audit that undue benefits worth Rs 10.7 lakh crore were given to various public as well as private power companies while allocating coal blocks, the Coal Ministry, almost as a knee-jerk …
ALLAHABAD: Amid growing emphasis on adopting alternative and environmental-friendly means to meet energy demands, the first solar power unit of Uttar Pradesh has started functioning on the outskirts of the city. Situated at Naini, about 25 kms from Allahabad, the 5 MW solar power plant developed by Kolkata-based company, EMC …
Dehradun Power major NTPC today said it is implementing three big hydel projects with a total capacity of 942 Mw in Uttarakhand. These three projects include Tapovan Vishnugad (520 mw), Rupsiyabagar-Khasiabara (261 mw) and Lata Topovan (171 mw) in the state, NTPC’s regional executive director (Hydro) Malvinder S Soin said.While …
As many as 18 power plants in the country are faced with critical level of coal shortage, Minister of State for Power K C Venugopal informed the Rajya Sabha today. Of the 89 thermal power projects being monitored, 34 had fuel (coal) stock less than seven days and 25 of …
A number of solar mission projects operational only on paper. The Government has decided to act tough with 14 companies which did not commission their solar power projects in time. NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam Limited (NVVN), the power trading arm of the state-owned National Thermal Power Corporation, penalised them by …
A number of solar mission projects operational only on paper. The Government has decided to act tough with 14 companies which did not commission their solar power projects in time. NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam Limited (NVVN), the power trading arm of the state-owned National Thermal Power Corporation, penalised them by …
PURULIA, 13 MARCH: Uncertainty looms over the 1320-MW Adra thermal power project, announced in 2010 by then railway minister Mamata Banerjee, even as the country prepares for another railway budget tomorrow. Miss Banerjee, in her Budget speech, announced setting up of this thermal power project at Adra, which would entail …
GAIL India is in the process of making operational the long delayed LNG terminal at Dabhol in Maharahstra by month-end or by early April, Chairman and Managing Director B. C. Tripathi said here on Monday. GAIL owns 31.52 per cent stake in Ratnagiri Gas and Power Co Ltd. (RGPL), which …
New Delhi The coal-rich Jharkhand state is set to get a second ultra mega power project (UMPP) soon, with the power ministry clearing a project in Deogarh district, sources said. This will be the seventh UMPP to be launched in the country. Major industry players like Tata Power, Lanco, Adani, …
Tata Power, Reliance Power, ArcelorMittal, Jindal Steel & Power and Monnet Ispat & Energy are among 60 companies that face the risk of cancellation of mining licences for being slow in exploration of coal blocks. A review committee, headed by coal ministry’s additional secretary Zohra Chatterjee, has recommended issuing ‘show-cause …
Bhubaneswar: State-run NTPC on Saturday said that it would invest over Rs 24,000 crore to set up two power projects in Orissa in the 12th five-year plan with a view to augmenting generating capacity by about 4,500 MW in the state. Two super thermal power projects will be set up …
The government on Thursday decided to relocate the Rs 10,000-crore Karanpura power plant, being set up in Jharkhand by NTPC Ltd, and laid the blueprint for faster environment clearance for two coal blocks of private power producers. The decisions were taken by a 12-member Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by …
A high-level, inter-ministerial group has asked state-run NTPC to proceed with its 3×660 MW power plant project at North Karanpura coalfields in Jharkhand. However, it has asked the power giant to scale down its land requirement by more than 40 per cent to 970 acres. In its meeting today, a …
Prolonging the agony of corporate bigwigs like Kumarmangalam Birla, Shashi Ruia and Anil Ambani, a ministerial panel on Thursday referred the two coal blocks - Mahan and Chhatrasal to a sub committee, which has been given a mandate of 10 days to decide the fate of these reserves, in short, …
Reliance Power Ltd and Essar Power Ltd will have to wait for some more time to secure clearances for coal blocks in Chhattrasal and Mahan respectively in Madhya Pradesh, allocated for their ultra mega projects. This is because the Group of Ministers headed by the Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, …
Ramesh Gauns, Goa, speaks on mining and mineral based industries at the Anil Agarwal Dialogues on green clearances organised by CSE at New Delhi on the 24th and 25th of February, 2012
The plant has the most advanced reactor; safety design is sound The Kundankulam plant has the most advanced reactor and operations and the safety design adopted is sound with “excellent regulations”, R. Chidambaram, principal scientific advisor to the Government of India, said on Tuesday, stressing the role of the plant …
With some Central industries discharging their effluents into major rivers of the State, the Odisha Government has asked them to develop their wastewater treatment facilities. This was stated by Forest and Environment Minister, Mr Debi Prasad Mishra, while replying a question in the Assembly. “The State Pollution Control Board has …
Bangladesh has signed a deal with India in New Delhi Tuesday to import 250MW of power. . "Every unit of power would cost Tk 4 according to the agreement," Bangladesh's power secretary Abul Kalam Azad told the media on the signing of the deal over telephone from New Delhi. "The …
The Kundankulam plant has the most advanced reactor and operations and the safety design adopted is sound with “excellent regulations”, R. Chidambaram, principal scientific advisor to the Government of India, said on Tuesday, stressing the role of the plant in fulfilling the country's energy needs. Dr. Chidambaram, who was the …
