Kharagpur

Tata Metaliks firms up after Kharagpur facility gets environmental clearance

Tata Metaliks rose 1.06% to Rs 611 at 11:51 IST on BSE after the company said it received environmental clearance for increasing production at its existing facility in Kharagpur, West Bengal. The announcement was made after trading hours yesterday, 30 January 2019. Meanwhile, the S&P; BSE Sensex was up 405.03 …

Tata Metaliks firms up after Kharagpur facility gets environmental clearance

Tata Metaliks rose 1.06% to Rs 611 at 11:51 IST on BSE after the company said it received environmental clearance for increasing production at its existing facility in Kharagpur, West Bengal. The announcement was made after trading hours yesterday, 30 January 2019. Meanwhile, the S&P; BSE Sensex was up 405.03 …

Nationwide drive to find TB, malaria drugs

New Delhi: Giving crowd sourcing a whole new meaning, scientists at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) have initiated a countrywide venture to build a chemical library with diverse compounds that will successfully drive drug discovery programmes, particularly for neglected diseases like tuberculosis and malaria. CSIR had launched …

Heatwave grips West Midnapore

MIDNAPORE, 6 JUNE: An intense heatwave is prevailing in most parts of West Midnapore district for the past one week, paralysing normal life as day temperature continues to hover above 45 degrees Celsius in most places. Although unofficial sources have reported 26 sunstroke deaths across the district in the last …

Partha signs second round of land deals

The Bengal government today signed seven land lease agreements for 546 acres with industries involving an investment of over Rs 5,000 crore. The big names today included Matix Fertiliser, which is building a urea plant at Panagarh and TVS, which along with Mahabharat Motors, is building a two-wheeler manufacturing hub …

CBI files two cases in iron-ore scam

NEW DELHI, 31 JAN: The CBI has registered two cases against unknown officials and private companies for allegedly causing a loss of over Rs 1,000 crore to the government exchequer by making false declarations in transportation of iron-ore and its end use. The cases were registered against unknown officials of …

Industry awaits Bengal pill for land problems

Calcutta, Nov. 7: Industry association Assocham today urged the Bengal government to play a greater role in the process of land acquisition to set up industries. “Land holdings are highly fragmented in Bengal. If some private investor wants a big chunk of land to set up industry, they should be …

Land relief for JSW, other investors

Kolkata, 1 NOV: The Cabinet sub-committee on industry chaired by the chief minister, Miss Mamata Banerjee today gave its approval to the regularising of ceiling-excess land purchased by private investors who had signed agreements with various government departments, including Jindal Steel (JSW) and Patton, but attached a condition that the …

Railways investigation exposes Bengal’s Bellary

With national attention held by investigations into illegal mining in Karnataka, greater loot of higher quality iron ore in eastern India and the diversity of associated corruption have gotten short shrift. Now, a Railways' investigation has unearthed massive fraud by the Bengal-based Rashmi Group (3,000 crore turnover) in the transport …

State serves partial closure notice to sponge iron plants

Bhubaneswar: Tightening its noose against polluting industries in the state, the Odisha government on Monday issued partial closure notices to 26 sponge iron plants for not complying with the stipulated pollution control norms, official sources said. The 26 sponge iron units are found not enhancing their bag filter capacity and …

CDP for Cuttack presented to CM

Bhubaneswar: IIT, Kharagpur on Monday presented the Cuttack Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP) Vision 2030, to chief minister Naveen Patnaik at the State Secretariat here. Prof BK Sengupta of Khargpur IIT while handing over the CDP to the chief minister also gave a presentation on the plan in detail. The state …

Mamata unveils three-point panacea for healthcare

KOLKATA, 13 JUNE: Chief minister Miss Mamata Banerjee (in sns photo) today urged doctors of state-run healthcare establishments to take initiative to help people to restore faith in government hospitals. She was addressing the doctors of state-run hospitals at Town Hall this morning. She regretted that often patients are kept …

Orisaa PCB chalks out Vision-2030

BHUBANESWAR: Orissa already among top investment destinations, the State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) has chalked out plans which will give industries a regulatory frame-work that is responsive, efficient, equipped with a sound enforcement mechanism and scientific at the same time. The pollution watchdog of the State has already stitched up …

Zonal plan to guide city development policies

BHUBANESWAR: The Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP) of Bhubaneswar region is done. It's time for the Detailed Zonal Planning which will get underway soon. The capital region, or the Bhubaneswar Development Plan Area (BDPA) as it is called, has been divided into 14 special zones under CDP. Digital maps of each …

Analysis of ground water potential through pumping of river sub-surface bed: A case study on Kasai in West Bengal

Long-term pumping tests were carried out on Kasai river bed in connection with augmentation of existing water supply of Kharagpur Municipal town in the district of Midnapore (West), West Bengal to cater to the need of growing population as well as industrial units.

Bio-energy centre at tech hub

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, is set to launch one of the first bio-energy centres in the country. The P.K. Sinha Centre for Bio-energy will be inaugurated on Tuesday on the institute

Vision Cuttack-2030 invites flak from CPM

CUTTACK: The Vision Cuttack-2030 prepared by IIT Kharagpur has come in for sharp criticism from political parties with CPM terming it

Citu bungs job spanner in Tata works

The CPM and CPI labour arms today planted red flags and stopped work at an under-construction Tata project in Kharag- pur demanding that each landloser family be given jobs at the plant when completed. The Rs 600-crore excavator-manufacturing unit, expected to be operational from October, is coming up on 250 …

Free the polyphenols

Locked in wheat, once released they protect from diseases wheat is more nutritious than was previously known. But this nutrition

Sen loses land cell in Buddha makeover

Calcutta, May 21: Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today kicked off efforts to distance himself from the land controversy by stripping his point man on industrialisation, Nirupam Sen, of a board meant to identify land for industry. The chief minister took the land-use board away from industries minister Sen and gave it back …

Bengal government rejects land acquisition bid

Kolkata: The Left Front Government, already facing criticism for land acquisition, on Thursday rejected a proposal to acquire 120 acres at Kharagpur for setting up a city centre. In the first Cabinet meeting of his government post-election, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee withdrew the proposal. At the very outset of the …

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