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 …
American capitalism often arouses extreme emotions. It’s loathed as an arrogant system standing in the way of an equitable world order. It’s also lauded as an agent of liberalism and democracy. Capitalists who had very little idea about big business laid the foundations of this great economy; they engaged in …
US $1 TRILLION WORTH OF MINERALS Afghanistan is suddenly richThe Pentagon recently announced that Afghanistan is sitting on mineral wealth worth US $1 trillion—about 1,000 times the government’s annual revenue. The untapped mineral deposits, including iron, copper, cobalt, gold and lithium, a key raw material for laptop, cell phone and …
Narendra Plastic, one of the largest manufacturer and exporter of plastic packaging products in India, plans to invest over Rs 90 crore for setting up two new manufacturing units in Daman and Uttarakhand. Itochu Corporation of Japan, a Fortune 500 trading company, has picked up 30 per cent of the …
The UK-based Ultra Motor Company has pulled out of a technical collaboration with the Munjals of the Hero group for the electric two-wheeler company, Hero Ultra Pvt Ltd. The company sold 11,000 electric scooters in FY08. Ultra Motors already operates in the country through a fully owned subsidiary, Ultra Motors …
The National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX), India's largest agri-trading platform, has announced the launch of the futures contract in certified emission reduction (CER), a type of carbon credit certificate futures contract. The contract will be launched on April 10 for delivery in December 2008. But, with a number of …
The Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC) has earned the highest-ever gross income of Rs.100.90 crore during the just concluded financial year 2007-08 as per the provisional financial results, Managing Director Rajeev Arora said here on Wednesday. He disclosed that this was a quantum jump of 76.87 per …
India Inc is in hot pursuit of coal. Twenty-eight Companies have lined up for developing and running the two coal blocks of MahaGuj Collieries Ltd (MGCL) in Orissa. The Ambani brothers are there, through Reliance Industries and Reliance Energy, respectively. So are groups like Adani, GVK, Indiabulls, Bharat Forge and …
Engines and construction equipment maker Greaves Cotton is planning to leverage the current buoyancy in demand for engines from the agricultural sector. It has lined up several products targeting this sector, according to sources from the company. The company makes engines ranging between 1 and 4 HP, used mainly for …
I am writing this article by the light of a gas lamp in my home in the forest sanctuary of Binsar in the hills of Kumaon. The sun has set, and the pinpricks of light in the valley below testify to the march of development. Every year, the valley is …
Royal Dutch Shell has been quietly working with Iraq's oil ministry over the past two years, advising it on how to increase the production of two oilfields. Under an agreement struck after the 2003 invasion, no one from the company, Europe's largest oil group, has set foot in the troubled …
Assam hopes to revive the tea industry's flagging fortunes using the Internet. TERESA REHMAN reports from Guwahati THE HAMMER that comes down at the world's largest CTC tea auction centre just might become a thing of the past if the modernisers have their way. In a bid to revive the …
THAT'S NOT COUNTING the energy efficiency technology market aimed at reducing power consumption. GE has identified 17 products worth $10 billion in annual sales, including jet engines, locomotive engines, consumer appliances, plastics and water treatment plants as part of the Ecomagination platform where it could embed a greater amount of …
POWER sector financing company Power Finance Corporation (PFC) and Railways technical advisory wing RITES, on Thursday, signed an MoU to jointly import coal from countries, including Africa, to ease scarcity of the fuel in view of rising demand by electricity generators. An SPV may be formed later in partnership with …
Eni, the Italian oil and gas group, plans to invest $4bn in Venezuela, the biggest commitment to the country by a western oil company since President Hugo Ch
The outlook provides historical statistical information about the U.S. ethanol industry from gallons produced to bushels of corn utilized. In addition, the Outlook provides easy-to-read charts and graphs highlighting the critical facts about American ethanol production, including water usage, distillers grains production and consumption, economic contributions, and environmental benefits of …
Spiralling raw material prices are forcing car makers to contemplate a price hike as soon as June or July. While no one is ready to go on record on the quantum of the increase, top executives from the auto industry said the hike could be around 3-5 per cent. Most …
Chinese group here to identify land for industrial zone A Chinese delegation led by Vice President of the Sichuan Chapter of the China Council for Promotion of International Trade Li Gang called on Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake at his office yesterday. The delegation briefed the Premier on the 9th Western …
