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 …
Move ensures uninterrupted urea supply to Indian market Govt not to drag Gulf nation to International Tribunal The government has accepted the proposal seeking hike in prices of gas supplied by Oman to an Indian fertiliser plant in the Gulf nation to $1.5 per mmBtu for this year, a move …
Fertiliser ministry has sent a proposal to finance ministry for creating a sovereign wealth fund. This fund will help the government as well as private companies in the acquisition of mineral assets abroad. “We have sent a proposal to finance ministry for setting up this fund. The ‘size’ of the …
New Delhi Oman has halved the price at which it will sell natural gas to an Indian fertiliser plant in the Gulf nation to $1.5 per mmBtu but has added an annual escalation clause. Oman, which had previously proposed to raise rates of gas sold to OMIFCO’s urea manufacturing facility …
New Delhi Costlier gas to raise urea price; ministries differ over pros & cons of arbitration The Union Cabinet will soon take a call on the vexed issue of whether to go for international arbitration at a London tribunal against Oman, which raised natural gas price from 77 cents to …
The medicine price regulator, the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA), has found a price fixing mechanism suggested by its parent ministry, chemicals and fertilisers, has failed to meaningfully lower the prices of key cancer medicines. A group of ministers (GoM) headed by agriculture minister Sharad Pawar is expected to meet …
Tuesday's meeting to examine the pricing policy prepared by ministry of chemicals & fertilisers On Tuesday, a group of ministers (GoM) led by agriculture minister Sharad Pawar will examine the proposed National Pharmaceutical Pricing Policy (NPPP) prepared by the ministry of chemicals and fertilisers. The key issue is to vet …
A high-level panel constituted by the health ministry is likely to suggest a system of negotiated prices for all new medicines approved in the country. The proposal to control the launch prices of drugs comes at a time when the chemicals and fertilisers ministry, responsible for deciding medicine prices, is …
New Delhi: The fertilisers ministry has opposed the petroleum ministry’s move to snap supply of cheaper gas from RIL’s Andhra offshore field to units manufacturing potassic and phosphatic fertilisers, even as government is grappling with fall in production from India’s gas bowl. In a letter to oil minister S Jaipal …
Secy to seek funds in addition to . 67700cr already received this fiscal year. The fertiliser ministry may seek more funds from the finance ministry to meet its subsidy obligations as it needs more than the allocated amount to take care of the rising subsidy bill, a top official said. …
The fertiliser industry is seeking a higher cap on urea cost than the proposed $340 a tonne for the purpose of calculating subsidy to the new plants. With the fertiliser ministry in the process of finalising recommendations for a New Investment Policy in Urea, the industry also wants that the …
A Planning Commission expert committee may soon recommend a revised price for ethanol, currently pegged at an ad hoc price of Rs 27 a litre. Official sources said the commission will forward this to all ministries. It will then be finalised by a group of ministers (GoM). The revised price …
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 …
NEW DELHI: The Fertiliser Ministry today rejected reports that it plans to decontrol the urea sector and effect a steep 40 per cent hike in retail prices of the product vis-a-vis the prevailing rate of Rs 5,310 per tonne. Urea is the only fertiliser product that remains under full price …
New Delhi The finance ministry, which has been strongly pushing for decontrolling the price of urea, a commonly used fertiliser, has finally decided against it. It has now endorsed the fertiliser department's apprehension that the price to the farmer will shoot up sharply once producers are given pricing freedom. The …
Govt plans to fix and regulate prices of all 348 essential drugs & their combinations The new pharmaceutical pricing policy proposed by the chemicals and fertilisers ministry last week will create distortions in the market and hamper the industry’s growth, some drugmakers and regulatory experts have claimed. Under the National …
The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has decided to “defuse” noisy firecrackers this year. The board has prepared a list of noisy firecrackers and has sought help from the explosives department, which works under the Union ministry of chemicals and fertilisers, and the police to curb noise pollution during Diwali. …
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 …
Has To Reply In 4 Weeks On Making Essential Medicines Affordable To Poor New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday wanted to know how serious the Centre was in bringing essential medicines, used by poor patients to fight ailments like tuberculosis, diarrhoea, heart diseases and malaria, under ambit of price …
PMO Reminder Likely To Sour Ties With DMK New Delhi: A terse reminder from the PMO urging the fertilizer ministry to expedite ‘urea decontrol’ is set to test DMK’s reduced heft in UPA after the telecom scam and election rout, while raising prospects of the party clashing with Congress over …
New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Monday sought response from the Centre on a plea seeking transfer of the corpus of the erstwhile Bhopal Memorial Hospital Trust to it. The trust was set up to look after the victims of the 1984 gas tragedy. A Bench headed by Chief …
