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 …
The ministry of chemicals and fertilisers is expected to apprise the cabinet committee on economic affairs (CCEA) of its reservations on the decontrol of the urea price as it will have an adverse impact on the marginal farmers. The ministry is likely to move a Cabinet note on urea decontrol …
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 …
Bhubaneswar: Steel and mines minister Raghunath Mohanty on Monday said that it was not possible and desirable on the part of the state government to be in the mining business. Reacting to the suggestion of the Union chemical and fertiliser minister Srikanta Jena that the state government should bring all …
Fertiliser ministry opposes plans on hiking urea prices Amendments to the urea investment policy of 2008 are likely to be delayed further, as the department of fertilisers (DoF) has formally opposed the move to raise urea prices. The price of this fertilizer has a direct bearing on the investment policy …
The government may make it mandatory for all doctors to write the generic or chemical name of drugs they prescribe, a move that can cut medicine costs by more than half. Last year, the health ministry had asked doctors in over 300 central government hospitals, clinics and autonomous institutions under …
Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Ltd (BCPL), also known as Assam Gas Cracker Project, has achieved financial closure with a consortium of banks led by Punjab National Bank. Chemicals and fertilizers ministry officials said loan arrangements for Rs 156 crore over and above the capital and feedstock subsidy from the government …
The Kerala State Pollution Control Board (PCB) on Tuesday ordered the closure of the Kochi unit of Hindustan Insecticides Limited (HIL), a PSU under Union Ministry of Fertilisers and Chemicals, which manufactures endosulfan and other pesticides. The immediate provocation for the decision seems to be the Left government
BHUBANESWAR: Union Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilisers Srikant Kumar Jena has suggested that the State Government should take control over all the chromite and iron ore mines in Orissa. In a letter to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, the Union minister said the mineral wealth of Sukinda valley itself …
With the unrest in Middle East expected to raise fertiliser prices for the kharif crop, the Cabinet, scheduled to meet on Thursday, is likely to take a decision for upward revision in the nutrient based subsidy (NBS) rates of phosphatic and potassic fertilizers under the NBS regime that came into …
THE timing and the message of the conference could not have been more stark. At a time when the endosulfan problem is in the limelight, sparking calls for a nationwide ban on the pesticide, its manufacturers staged a remarkable feat. They held a three-day conference on rural prosperity at Delhi’s …
R Ravichandran The Centre is expected to announce a new pharma policy in the next few months. The ministry of chemicals and fertilisers has discussed with concerned stakeholders and will seek further inputs on the matter before placing the draft note to a group of ministers (GoM) for final touches, …
New Delhi, 14 Nov: The external affairs ministry does not know who was its minister in December, 1984 when Bhopal Gas tragedy accused Warren Anderson, the then Union carbide chief, left the country after securing bail. In a strange reply, the ministry has said the question who held the charge …
LALIT SHASTR BHOPA The Supreme Court has issued notices to the respondent Union ministry of chemicals and fertilisers and welfare commissioner, Bhopal, in a petition filed earlier in March 2010 by Bhopal NGOs regarding the death and injury claims arising out of the Bhopal gas disaster. The same petition was …
Sale Of Urea In Kharif 2010 Season Up To July 31 Rose To 73.59 LT From 68.05 LT In Year-Ago Period THE newly-introduced nutrientbased subsidy (NBS) policy seems to have failed to change the consumption pattern with most farmers still preferring to use urea, the cheapest fertiliser. Consumption of urea …
Trade agreements with stiff intellectual property protection requirements combined with buyouts of India’s top generics makers by multinationals threaten to deny affordable medicines to millions of poor. The cost of essential medicines is a major barrier to healthcare, writes LATHA JISHNU. But the Indian government is doing little to control …
In an ideal market economy competition lowers prices of consumer goods. It is just the opposite in the case of pharmaceutical products. More expensive brands sell more. Take Cyclovir, an ointment for treating skin infection caused by herpes. Its therapy cost (cost of one course) is Rs 812, while a …
Bindeshwari, a scrap dealer in Punjab’s Ludhiana district, was asked to buy Cefzy-250 by the doctor treating his wife. She had delivered a baby in the government civil hospital in June-end. The chemist at the hospital’s Jan Aushadhi Store gave Bindeshwari Ceftazidime, a generic version of Cefzy- 250; both drugs …
