Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
An old-time fisherman, Ahmed Kaka, 63, from Luni village off the Kutch coast of Gujarat, complains that several species of fish have disappeared. “Earlier, we would capture 129 different species, including large pomfret and octopus, but today, these have all vanished,” said Mr Kaka. Mr Kaka’s views are shared by …
Requirements on minimum size, contiguity and vacant stretches to be eased MAT and DDT to stay The ministry of commerce and industry would soon announce relaxed land-related norms for Special Economic Zones (SEZs) to arrest the slackening pace of growth in these tax-free zones by making certain changes in the …
New Delhi India has offered key incentives to exporters to tap the growing demand for clean energy equipment and non-polluting electric vehicles in overseas market, which would help it overcome the rising trade deficit. The commerce ministry has identified a total of 16 green products including solar power equipment for …
New Delhi Commerce and industry minister Anand Sharma has mooted a new formula to the group of ministers (GoM) on pharma pricing to keep prices of essential medicines in check. Sharma recommended that the weighted average price of all drug brands that have more than 5% market share in a …
India and the United Arab Emirates on Friday discussed the prospects of closer energy ties including more import of oil, which could partly offset declining purchases from Iran, and investment in the downstream sector such as refineries. While visiting External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna and his visiting UAE counterpart Sheikh …
Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday rejected the Parliamentary standing committee's suggestion to delete a clause in the Land Acquisition Bill allowing the government to acquire land for public-private-partnership (PPP) projects. He said the government would not compromise with the fundamental principles in the Bill, whose thrust is on …
Two countries to set up joint task force to explore investment opportunities. With the US continuing to nudge India to reduce its dependence on oil from Iran, India today indicated that it was looking at the possibility of increased oil supplies from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Addressing a joint …
With the Union commerce ministry turning down the demand for declaring tea the national drink, tea associations will seek Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s intervention in this regard. Minister of State for Commerce Jyotiraditya Scindia told the Rajya Sabha that a proposal to declare tea the national drink was examined during …
The Group of Ministers (GoM), headed by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, to formulate a comprehensive pharmaceutical policy aimed at making essential drugs more affordable to the common man, on Monday, met leading lights of the pharmaceutical industry to elicit their views on the issue. The GoM is mainly examining the …
Says it would prefer basing its estimate on crop cutting method and not bale press method proposed by textiles ministry The Union ministry of agriculture has rejected the draft Cotton Trade (Development and Regulation) Bill, 2012, proposed by the textile ministry for streamlining output estimates for the industry. The agri …
Barely 24 hours before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is scheduled to reconvene a meeting to discuss policies on export of farm products and storage of grains, the government has conceded another major demand of Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar by allowing export of caesin, a value-added milk product. “Export of casein …
Committee to review demand-supply situation after three weeks to prevent abnormal rise in prices The commerce ministry has decided to lift the ban on export of cotton and allow traders to apply afresh for registration. The ban was lifted barely hours before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was scheduled to chair …
New Delhi The government is set to lift a ban on fresh cotton export registration, although efforts to resolve the controversial issue amicably by putting a cap on further shipments eluded a consensus on Sunday, a day before the meeting convened by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discuss farm exports. …
Guwahati: Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Saturday assured the tea planters in Assam that he will take up the issue of declaring tea as India’s national drink with the union ministry of commerce and industry. Ahluwalia gave the assurance while attending the 75th anniversary celebration …
Irked by curbs on milk, cotton and sugar exports, Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar has shot off a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stating that the government’s policies are hurting farmers who are being asked to subsidise the industry. Mr Pawar wrote to the Prime Minister on Tuesday, a …
In a move to invite industry to the cash-strapped Punjab, the state government is ready to amend and even bring in a new industrial policy, Industries & Commerce Minister Anil Joshi said Wednesday. “We will review the industrial policy and if need be, make amendments or create a new one …
A group of ministers on Monday decided to continue with the ban on cotton exports, even as the prohibition on outbound shipments had led to intense political pressure on the government. "For the time being, there is no move to ease the export ban,&" said a senior official who participated …
India has told the US that it does not intend to alter the domestic content requirement in its ambitious national solar power generation programme as it is essentially procurement by the government, which is outside the purview of the World Trade Organisation. “India is not a signatory to the Government …
JODHPUR: Union Textile and Commerce & Industry minister Anand Sharma on Saturday, while expressing concern over the closed textile units, announced to set up a high level committee to look into the damages caused by the textile industry to the local environment and ecology at Jodhpur, Barmer and Pali. Headed …
The Mamata Banerjee government on Monday passed its first pro-industry Bill amending Section 14Y of the West Bengal Land Reforms Act, 1955, that lifts the land ceiling in several cases of industrial operations. Monday’s legislation gave a much wider ambit to Section 14 Y of the Act, which only allowed …
