Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
Agovernment panel has proposed that prices of patented medicines be based on the country’s per capita income, a move that would substantially reduce prices of costly drugs made by global pharmaceutical firms. The proposal, which seeks the input of other government agencies as well as industry groups, could provoke the …
The C Rangarajan committee’s proposal to nearly double the domestic price of natural gas, if implemented, could adversely affect the government’s subsidy reduction plan and make the new urea investment policy “redundant”, is the thinking at the ministry of chemicals and fertilisers. The administrative ministry for the fertiliser industry, whose …
BHUBANESWAR: The Indian Red Cross Society (IRCS), state branch, is planning to increase the number of Jan Aushadhi stores to 400 within a year. At present, just 16 such fair price shops sell generic medicines in the state. The shops, established under Centre-sponsored Jan Aushadhi scheme, sell 'quality' medicines, manufactured …
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% …
When Union Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilisers Srikant Jena described Orissa’s mining scam as bigger than those of Goa and Karnataka put together, it might have been only a figure of speech. But indication of how big it could be has come now, with a penalty demand note …
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 …
The ministry of chemicals and fertilisers had proposed to set up a national chemical centre to formulate environment and human-friendly policies and contain risks posed by chemicals. This is aimed at streamlining legislation governing the industry and making entities concerned responsible for their acts. The industry, at present, is governed …
New Delhi: India will, for the first time, put a cap on the maximum price at which essential drugs can be sold in the country. These include commonly used AIDS and cancer drugs, besides a horde of painkillers, TB drugs, sedatives, lipid lowering agents and steroids. In a landmark decision, …
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government today said paddy production is likely to be affected by an average 12 per cent during this kharif season due to inadequate and untimely fertiliser supply to farmers. The farmers could not get adequate fertiliser at the proper time. Therefore, paddy production is likely to be …
The Supreme Court on Tuesday came down heavily on the Central government for delay in finalising a new drug-pricing policy which will determine prices at which pharma companies can sell essential medicines in the retail market. The apex court, while observing that the government might not find it appropriate if …
New Delhi The Vijay Kelkar committee has outlined a programme for the Centre to keep its budget deficit in check for the next three years, leaving the 14th Finance Commission (2015-2020) to decide on the action required in subsequent years. The committee set up by the finance minister P Chidambaram …
Tamil Nadu government has issued a lookout notice against Union Chemicals and Fertilisers Minister M.K. Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi Alagiri for his alleged involvement in the multi-crore granite mining scam. But the state opposed a bunch of petitions in the Madras High Court seeking a CBI probe into the illegal …
NEW DELHI, 30 AUG: Parliament today passed a Bill that prohibits transfer of specified toxic chemicals from and to a country which is not party to the Chemical Weapons Convention. The Chemical Weapons Convention (Amendment) Bill was taken up for consideration and passing in the Lok Sabha as Opposition NDA …
Bhubaneswar: Close on the heels of the verbal duel between the state agriculture minister Debi Prasad Mishra and Union minister for chemicals and fertiliser Srikant Jena over the scarcity of fertiliser for farmers of the state, the district level enforcement squads of the agriculture department have launched massive raid across …
New Delhi A suo motu study on drug pricing by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs has revealed exorbitant profit margins on 21 common drugs manufactured by Indian companies. Though pricing regulations of the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) say that companies can keep a profit margin of maximum 100 per …
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 …
New Delhi In a setback to government-owned NMDC’s efforts to acquire assets abroad, Australian firm Minemakers has dropped the iron ore miner as its potential joint venture (JV) partner for developing the Wonarah rock phosphate reserves in Australia. Blaming “NMDC’s inability to make a timely decision” in forging a partnership, …
With the Rs 28,000-crore refinery project of Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) at Paradip under a cloud of delay, the Odisha government has decided to ink an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) with the oil marketing firm to stipulate timeline and milestones for commissioning of the project. IOCL being the anchor …
The Centre is contemplating to hike retail prices of urea by 10 per cent. The proposal is likely to be put up before the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs soon for its consideration. A panel, led by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, had last year approved a new draft urea policy, …
The revival of the Namrup fertiliser plant depends on the finalisation of its funding pattern. The Planning Commission has suggested that the funding pattern has to be finalised before seeking in-principle approval for the project and hence the Department of Fertilisers may explore the possibility of open bidding and expression …
