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 …
BS Reporter / Lucknow October 14, 2008, 0:30 IST The Allahabad High Court today extended the stay on privatisation of about 33 Uttar Pradesh Sugar Corporation mills till the next date of hearing on October 20. Hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by Rajeev Kumar Mishra of Maharajganj district, …
Virendra Singh Rawat / Lucknow October 14, 2008, 0:29 IST With the 2008-09 crushing season to start within a month, the farmers and the sugar industry are squabbling on the contentious sugarcane price in Uttar Pradesh. While the farmers want the cane price to be Rs 160 per quintal, the …
Pune, October 3 No new sugar mills should be allowed in the state, even if the sugar commissioner has granted certificates, said Shivaji Deshmukh, director general of Vasantdada Sugar Institute (VSI) in a report that was submitted to the Bombay High Court in late July. The report calls for a …
The objective of this study is to find out the optimum OLR at which the UASB reactor can be operated in treating domestic sewage and sugar mill effluent, in conjunction at a predetermined optimum mixing ratio of 75:25.
land compensation Tikait arrested Bhartiya Kisan Union leader Mahendra Singh Tikait was arrested in Ghaziabad on August 18. He was on his way to lend support to a farmers
Dilip Kumar Jha / Mumbai September 2, 2008, 3:57 IST Concerned with the abnormally high prices of molasses, sugar mills have asked oil companies to raise the ethanol procurement price by 40 per cent for the recently-floated tender. Two years ago, the government and sugar industry representatives had fixed the …
Press Trust Of India / New Delhi September 02, 2008, 2:58 IST Sugar mills in Uttar Pradesh will have to pay farmers an additional Rs 1,480 crore following the Supreme Court
Ajay Modi & Virendra Singh Rawat / New Delhi/lucknow July 31, 2008, 3:41 IST The Uttar Pradesh sugar mills have challenged the Allahabad High Court's recent ruling, which restored the Rs 125-130 state-advised price (SAP) of sugarcane for the 2007-08 season (October-September) in its final judgement. The Uttar Pradesh Sugar …
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Virendra Singh Rawat / Lucknow July 22, 2008, 0:10 IST The Uttar Pradesh government is taking immediate steps for total privatisation of the beleaguered sugar sector in the state. This move is aimed at ushering in operational efficiency, improve production, reduce non-performing assets (NPAs) and mitigate non-productive overheads running into …
Ajay Modi / New Delhi July 22, 2008, 0:10 IST The mills say the move will take away from them the areas they have developed over decades. In a move that could help millions of farmers and bore a hole in the pockets of sugar producers, the Union Food Ministry …
The government's proposal to decontrol sugar in a phased manner seems just another half-hearted bid to liberalise this sector without lifting all curbs and regulations. The note referred by the food ministry to the Cabinet for approval talks of two-pronged liberalisation: doing away with the mandatory 10 per cent levy …
The United States may drop a tariff on Brazilian ethanol. But the industry is still the victim of much misplaced criticism When John McCain laid out his plans for reducing America
A fund-driven surge in sugar prices at the start of 2008 has been wiped out as a huge glut of the sweetener reasserted its grip on the market, but growing demand for cane-based ethanol could fuel future price gains. Raw sugar futures powered out of the starting blocks of 2008 …
The lack of rationalisation of prices and a coordinated policy leads to a rich harvest of litigation. There is a season for harvesting sugar crops and the laws have defined a
The quality of water in four streams of Cauvery River in Mandya District, where many small scale sugar and brewery distilleries are located, was analysed. Sampling was carried out from four streams designated as station 1 (upstream of effluent discharge point), station 2 (effluent discharge point) and station 3 (downstream …
The Sindh Chamber of Agriculture has hailed the announcement of Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani to increase the support price of wheat from Rs510 per 40 kg to Rs625, but expressed concern over the inordinate increase in prices of fertiliser, diesel and seed. It urged the government to release water …
IN times when the world is debating the extent to which the developed countries should be made to limit their farm subsidies running into billions of dollars, a question on the temporary export subsidies being given by India to its sugar industry raised at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) by …
Against the background of a glut in sugarcane production, the State Government has decided to continue with last year's decision to provide transport subsidy to sugar factories to provide relief to sugar factories in varied parts of the state. A meeting chaired by Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh okayed the decision …
