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 …
New Delhi: The coal ministry has asked the West Bengal government to realign projects of Videocon, Bhushan Steel and Abhijit Group in Raniganj to ensure that they do not disturb coal reserves in the area. In a recent letter to West Bengal chief minister Budhadeb Bhattacharjee, Jaiswal said,
Tata Steel and South Africa based Sasol Synfuels (Pty) Ltd on Monday expressed their desire to set up a 3.6-million-tonne per annum Coal to Liquid (CTL) plant in Orissa. Tata Steel vice chairman, Mr B. Muthuraman, and Sasol Synfuels (Pty) Ltd managing director, Mr Ernst Oberholster, met the Orissa Chief …
MADURAI: A public interest litigation petition has been filed in the Madras High Court Bench here against the proposed expansion of Sterlite Industries in Tuticorin district on the ground that it might seriously affect the environment. A Division Bench comprising Justice Prabha Sridevan and Justice B. Rajendran ordered notice to …
The proposed ban on import of sandstone by the US has upset mine owners as well as exporters in Kota and Jaipur and they are seeking intervention by the Central Government. According to official sources, the US Commerce Ministry had sent a letter to the Indian Embassy in Washington a …
The captive power plant of National Aluminium Company (Nalco) in Angul has started regulating power supply to the smelter, located next to it, owing to acute coal crisis. The Nalco CPP has reached super critical condition where it has only two days coal supply. The power supply to the Nalco …
STEEL companies such as Ispat Industries, Essar and Rashtriya Ispat Nigam (RINL), may get access to captive iron ore mines for their steel making needs as government plans to give preferential raw material linkage to all existing steel making facilities that do not have captive source of their own. The …
Secretary Says Move To Help Fast-Track POSCO, ArcelorMittal & Other Projects Subhash Narayan NEW DELHI THE steel ministry has sought powers to grant iron ore mining lease to companies in a bid to fast-track steel projects, including those of steel giants POSCO and Arcelor Mittal, stuck for want of assured …
MK VENU, KG Narendranath New Delhi: Steel minister Virbhadra Singh has advised the promoters of ArcelorMittal and Posco to offer annuities (long-term income stream) to the indigenous people who will need to be rehabilitated from the steel majors
Q&A;: P K Mukherjee, Managing Director, Sesa Goa Abhineet Kumar / Mumbai December 24, 2009, 0:03 IST P K MukherjeeAs the global economy picks up, the demand for steel and, in turn, its raw material, iron ore, is expected to see a surge. India
Why are politicians and bureaucrats in Jharkhand uninterested in spending central development funds even when the state is so backward? And why are they not apprehensive about what this would do to their electoral fortunes? The Madhu Koda case supplies the answers. The ruling elite relies on a share of …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government today ordered closure of five mines in Keonjhar district for violation of forest laws. The mines which have been asked to be closed are the Katasahi Tata mines, BC Deb iron ore and manganese mines, Thakurani iron ore and manganese mines, the OMDC mines at Belagunthi …
CBI officials today questioned Karnataka ministers Janardhana Reddy and Sreeramulu over alleged illegal mining activities by a company owned by them in the state and neighbouring Andhra Pradesh. A 11-member CBI team visited Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC), owned by Tourism Minister Janardhana Reddy's brother Revenue Minister Karunakara Reddy, as part …
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 13 of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 (67 of 1957), the Central Government makes the following rules further to amend the Mineral Concession Rules, 1960.
