Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
The coal ministry will push for allowing mining in two densely forested coal areas, Mahan and Hasdeo Arand, at a meeting of the group of ministers on the “no-go/go” forest areas for mining. It has rejected environment ministry’s decision to deny permission to Essar and Hindalco to mine the Mahan …
Steel companies are planning to raise product prices by around . 1,000 a tonne, driven by the sharp rise in input costs and recent production cuts. The price hike, likely to be made early next week, would be the first in four months which would make most consumer goods costly …
Environment minister Jayanthi Natar-ajan can’t easily disown the legacy of her predecessor, it seems. Her ministry has hardened its stand on the demand for release of coal blocks for mining in thickly forested areas in Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, a move that could adversely impact at least three dozen …
New Delhi The new mining Bill cleared by a group of ministers last week envisaging direct benefit to people from the minerals underneath the land they own, also has a provision for setting up a clutch of ultra mega mining plants (UMMPs) in the country. As per the proposal, state …
Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has refused to issue forest clearance to the Mahan coal block in the Singrauli field of Madhya Pradesh, meant for the use of Essar and Hindalco power plants. However, this is not the final rejection. Instead, Mr. Ramesh has merely washed his hands of on the …
State-run iron ore miner NMDC Ltd has finalised a Rs 3,000-crore slurry pipeline project for evacuating ore from its Bailadila mines in Chhattisgarh to Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. Rana Som“I have just finalised the complete structure of laying the pipeline for evacuation of material from our Bailadila mines to Jagdalpur …
Move to incentivise steel plants that invest in improving iron ore facilities The government will give priority in iron ore mine allocation to steel companies that build pellet plants, as an incentive to prompt more companies to invest in ore improving facilities. This would reduce the need to export certain …
BHUBANESWAR: Finance Minister Prafulla Chandra Ghadei has requested Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to pressurise the Centre for making budget provision for four-laning of Chandikhol-Duburi-Talcher road. In a letter to the Chief Minister, Ghadei said traffic has increased manifold on 133 km stretch, making its upgradation necessary. The Cabinet Committee on …
New Delhi The petroleum ministry has on Thursday passed a fresh order asking Reliance Industries to fully meet the contracted gas supplies to priority consumers in sectors like fertiliser, LPG, power and city gas distribution in spite of the fall in gas production from the D6 field in the Krishna …
On February 26, as night fell on the tranquil Gahirmatha beach in Odisha, thousands of Olive Ridley turtles crawled in. Using their rear flippers, they dug pits in the soft beach sand and started laying eggs, more than 100 at a time. Then they skilfully covered the nests with sand …
The steel ministry has decided to broadbase the mandate of International Coal Ventures (ICVL) by allowing it to buy iron ore mines also overseas. The move is part of the government
After Posco India, Vedanta Aluminium, and Jindal Steel & Power (JSPL), Essar Steel has come under fire from green activists for alleged violation of environmental and forest laws. Wildlife Society of Orissa (WSO), on the basis of documents obtained under the Right to Information Act, has alleged that Essar Steel …
ESSAR Steel, the country's second largest private steelmaker by capacity, has signed up contracts with private iron ore miners from Orissa, including the Ahluwalia group and the Mesco group, for supplies over a 10-year period. The move is to ensure raw material security even as the company seeks to buy …
MUMBAI: The Essar group on Thursday said it had signed a definitive agreement to purchase the Aries' coal mines in Indonesia to secure long-term fuel linkages and capture the complete value-chain in all its power generation (Essar Power) businesses. The deal will provide Essar Power access to an estimated resource …
Becomes fourth Indian firm to buy coal mines in the South-East Asian nation. The Essar Group has acquired a coal mine in Indonesia to fuel its upcoming thermal power projects. Sources said the acquisition, from an undisclosed local company, was for about Rs 900 crore. The Aries coal mines in …
The Essar Group is close to buying Trinity Coal, one of the top 10 coal producers in the US, in a deal worth $550-600 million (Rs 2,500-2,735 crore). Trinity is owned by private equity investment firm Denham Capital Management, Sources with knowledge of the developments said Essar
PARADIP: Land losers of Essar Palette project gheraoed the district officials and boycotted the award passing camp at Kujang demanding hike of land rate yesterday. The land acquisition process for Essar project has not progressed for the last three years due to non-finalisation of private land rate. The land losers …
