Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
Mumbai London-listed Essar Energy said it has reduced its dependence on crude imports from Iran for its refinery in Gujarat, amid mounting US pressure to curtail Iranian imports. “Our imports today from Iran is in very small quantities, as an expansion at our Vadinar refinery enables us process ultra-heavy crude …
JAIPUR: Jaipur is among the five cities in the state where malaria control activities would be monitored on a regular basis. The move came after the Centre directed the state to intensify monitoring in the five districts as deaths were reported due to malaria in 2011. Four malarial deaths were …
JAIPUR: The medical, health and family welfare department managed to achieve only 85.09% of target set for full immunization of infants against various diseases in the financial year 2011-12. The latest figures released by the health department shows that nine districts have failed to touch even 80% of the set …
Uncertainty prevails over Cairn India’s 74-km section of the 670-km-long Barmer-Jamnagar crude oil pipeline. Landowner farmers in 24 villages of Salaya and Bhogat taluks in Jamnagar district are demanding adequate compensation for the pipeline passing through their fields. Work remains suspended unofficially since August 2010, and officially since April 26. …
Cairn can raise output from its largest oilfield in Rajasthan block by 25,000 barrels per day to 150,000 bpd After more than six-month wait, the Government today gave approval to Cairn India to raise output from its largest oilfield in Rajasthan block by 25,000 barrels per day to 150,000 bpd. …
Jaisalmer/Jaipur: Mining of lignite coal in Barmer, one of the largest reserves in the country, can lead to loss of thousands of crores and burden the common man with higher power tariff if the flawed bidding process and award of contract are not reversed. he gross irregularities, observed by Rajasthan …
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 …
Interview with A.R. Ansari, Chairman-cum-Managing Director of the Neyveli Lignite Corporation. IN the context of the Neyveli Lignite Corporation's (NLC) plans to diversify from lignite-based electricity generating stations in Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan into setting up coal-fired power stations in Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Odisha, Frontline …
JAIPUR: The Rajasthan government, for the first time, is experimenting with scientific ways for maintaining land records in the state. Under the national land records modernization programme, the settlement department has initiated a landmapping project with the use of Electronic Total Station (ETS) technique and is planning to later use …
In the remote Kailashnagar village (Jalore district), on the border of Rajasthan and Gujarat, lives Parbhu Ram, a farmer who has never been to either Punjab or Haryana. But Parbhu knows about the grievous damage to once-fertile soils of India’s grain bowl — all due to years of overuse of …
Concern over decline of Rajasthan's State bird population The critically-endangered grassland species, the Great Indian Bustard, will be counted in the desert terrain of Rajasthan in the second week of February. Rajasthan, specially its desert region, accounts for maximum population of the bird which is globally threatened and listed in …
Gas And Oil Production Likely To Increase By End Of 2012 Jaipur: The state government’s talks with Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) have reached an advanced stage for setting up a refinery at Barmer oilfields. The long pending demand of the Rajasthan government to have its first refinery in …
Jaipur: Malnutrition among children in Rajasthan has taken ominous proportions. The Hungama (Hunger and Malnutrition) survey carried out recently by Naandi Foundation indicates that the situation in many districts has worsened when compared to what it was about a decade back. The Hungama Survey, released on Tuesday by Prime Minister …
New Delhi A crackdown on illegal iron ore mines, restrictions on coal mining and a moderate decline in gas production from Reliance Industries’ Krishna-Godavari block have contributed to a contraction in mining output in the second quarter of this fiscal. The situation could only worsen in the third quarter as …
Realty Prices Skyrocket Amid Big-Ticket Investment By Cairn India, JSW Energy Barmer: Mularam has learnt quickly how to fend off the pushy and persistent insurance agents. But his worries don’t end there. Becoming an overnight crorepati hasn’t been easy for this street vendor. His ancestral house amid the sprawling Bajra …
Down to one case this year, India is hoping to attain polio-free status by the end of 2011. The government will now treat every new reported case of polio as a public health emergency to push for the eradication goal. For the first time since efforts began in 1985, the …
JSW Energy today said it had started full commercial operations at its 1,200-MW Ratnagiri thermal power plant, besides resuming operations at Barmer power project. The company has started commercial operations of the fourth unit, with 300 MW capacity, at the Ratnagiri plant in Maharashtra yesterday. "As a result, the entire …
JAISALMER: The Centre will shortly be making an atlas of the many windmills that are fast being built in this desert district. The atlas will not only help regulate the growth of windmills here but will also keep a track of areas where windmills are being set up. In a …
JAISALMER: The interim order of the Rajasthan High Court banning all mining activities near the IAF stations in western Rajasthan has come as a big relief to the Air Force. Though mining continued for two or three more days after the order, the mining department and police stepped in to …
Rajasthan Agriculture Minister Harjiram Burdak flagged off the first-ever consignment of certified organic food to be exported from Rajasthan to the United States here on Thursday. The organic food comprises mainly conventional pulses for which there is a heavy demand in the U.S. They were produced from the processing unit …
