Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of News item titled: 5 Jharkhand forest officers attacked by Stone mafia, appearing in The Times of India dated 24.03.2025. The application was taken up on the basis of a news item published in the Times of …
New Delhi The Steel Ministry today said Posco and Severstal cannot have majority stakes in their proposed joint ventures with state-run SAIL and NMDC respectively, envisaging a total investment of Rs 36,000 crore. "Talks are going on. There are problems in regards to the shareholding. But, we can't give them …
The recent furore in Rajasthan over mobile towers installed near schools and hospitals triggered a similar protest in Jamshedpur, though on a smaller scale, but the district administration remained clueless on what to do, citing lack of clear-cut directions from the state government. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court came …
2 yrs have elapsed since state had demanded free power in Sep 2010 but Centre is yet to respond Odisha is sore over the Centre's apathy towards its demand for allocation of free power from coal-fired power plants and power generated from coal washery based rejects. Two years have elapsed …
Enough stink has been raised about government schools that don’t have toilets or dirty ones at best. Now, a recent national survey reveals that even some posh schools for PLU (people like us) in Jharkhand that charge four-figure fees don’t have sanitation facilities to boast of. Seven Central Board of …
The central government has banned states from allowing sale or export of iron ore by companies granted mining leases for own steel production. “The entire ore produced in the mining operation (of captive mines) shall be used exclusively for own consumption in iron or steel making and cannot be either …
India’s state-owned power generator NTPC Ltd is still awaiting re-allocation of five of its coal mines allocations for which were cancelled earlier due to delays in production. The cancelled coal blocks, in addition to the other three awarded to the company, hold the key to the company’s future fuel securing …
Agency seeks details of the period when Sushilkumar Shinde headed the ministry After proceeding against a number of private companies given coal blocks, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is now questioning the power ministry. It has sent questionnaires to the ministry, to know the basis on which it had …
A common criticism of the National Rural Employment Guarantee programme is that it does not lead to the creation of permanent assets and a sustained increase in incomes. This fi eld study of the construction of wells in one block in Ranchi district of Jharkhand shows that asset creation under …
Ranchi, Sept. 19: Government officials and a representative of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), Ranchi, will attend a meeting in New Delhi tomorrow to take the first step in securing green clearances for the Mahulia-Baharagora-Kharagpur road, over six months after an agency was picked to execute the widening project. …
Kolkata Sanjiv Goenka-controlled power utility CESC may lose its Mahuagiri coal block in Jharkhand, which was allotted to it in 2007 and is scheduled to be put to use in 2016 when its 1,260 MW thermal power project at Dumka in Jharkhand is ready. CESC’s Mahuagiri block is among the …
The blocks facing action are part of the 29 under the IMG scanner The Inter-Ministerial Group (IMG) reviewing the controversial allotment of coal blocks for captive mining on Wednesday recommended cancelling those given to three companies, including Rungta Mines Ltd, due to production delays. It also said the government should …
New Delhi The inter-ministerial group (IMG) on Tuesday recommended the cancellation of one more coal block, Macherkunda, and deduction of bank guarantees in case of another two — Jitpur and Chitarpur — for delay in development work. The Macherkunda block belongs to Bihar Sponge Iron while Jitpur and Chitarpur are …
Three more coal blocks de-allocated. The Inter-Ministerial Group (IMG) on coal today recommended deduction of bank guarantee of two blocks, including Jitpur, given to Jindal Steel & Power Ltd (JSPL) in which Congress MP Naveen Jindal is Chairman-cum-Managing Director (CMD). The amount of the bank guarantee to be encashed was …
New Delhi The government on Monday cancelled the allocation of another coal block over allegations of irregularities and deducted bank guarantees of two allottees for failing to develop the mines in time. The cancelled allocation was that of Gourangdih ABC block given to JSW Steel and Himachal EMTA. The move …
The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has been accused of allocating over 1.86 lakh hectares of forest land for mining without the consent of gram sabhas as has been made mandatory under the Forest Rights Act. In all, 1,82,389 hectares of forest land was diverted by the environment ministry …
Director of AMR under scanner for allegedly twisting allocation facts The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today questioned Arvind Jayaswal in the coal block allocation scam. Jayaswal, director of AMR Iron and Steel Pvt Limited, was questioned for allegedly misrepresentating and concealing the fact that the company had already been …
IMG recommends bank guarantee deduction of Tata Power and Hindalco JSW Steel and Himachal Emta Power today lost a coal block in West Bengal, while Tata Power and Hindalco Industries are likely to lose the bank guarantee for their block in Jharkhand. Today, the government cancelled the allocation of the …
Deallocates Gourangdih ABC, jointly given to JSW Steel & Himachal EMTA, with this, govt has approved cancellation of licenses of 5 coal blocks The Government today decided to deallocate one more mine - Gourangdih ABC, jointly given to JSW Steel and Himachal EMTA besides deduction of bank guarantees of two …
With a number states deciding to ban use and sale of gutka, the Union health ministry has urged the Uttar Pradesh (UP) government to follow its counterparts in rest of the country in banning sale of such products in the state. So far, states of Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Bihar, Rajasthan, …
apex court has seven queries on: Petitioner’s plea for quashing allotments in six states: Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh. Guidelines framed by the government for allocation of coal blocks. The process adopted for allocation of the coal blocks. Whether guidelines contained any inbuilt mechanism to ensure …
