Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
State-run NTPC today said the law and order situation is not “conducive” in Pakri Barwadih coal block area in Jharkhand for carrying out mining operations. “Land owners are agitating for a higher land compensation and the law and order situation in that area is not conducive,” NTPC CMD Arup Roy …
NTPC on Thursday said the power producer along with Indian Oil Corporation Ltd have set up a pilot plant for bio-fixation of carbon dioxide at Faridabad power station. “Two conjoining algae ponds of area have been constructed to draw carbon dioxide from stacks at the project. The inoculation in small …
Intensifying its drive against firms sitting idle on mines, the Inter-Ministerial Group (IMG) on coal blocks has recommended deallocation of 11 blocks given to companies like JSPL and Monnet Ispat & Energy. "The IMG has recently recommended deallocation of 11 coal blocks of companies like JSPL and Monnet Ispat & …
State-owned NTPC Ltd is set to start mining from its captive Pakri Barwadih coal block in Jharkhand to produce power. “We are waiting for last minute approvals. Then it will go onstream immediately,” a senior Government official told Business Line. The coal block could start production from this week. Captive …
The power ministry plans to give a shot in the arm for ultra mega power projects and has approached the Cabinet to exempt the plants from a key provision of the Forests Act, 1980, that requires companies to identify land for mandatory compensatory afforestation. To facilitate this, the ministry has …
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, told parliament on Wednesday that Rampal power plant near the Sundarban would have no negative impact on the environment as claimed by a section of environmentalist groups in Bangladesh. ‘Inshallah, there will be no damage to the environment,’ she said during the question-answer session of …
Policy provides for subsidy in the form of viability gap funding Projects in batch 1, phase II of JNNSM will be supported with funds from the National Clean Energy Fund (Photo: Jonas Hamberg) The Centre has cleared the decks for setting up 750 MW grid-connected solar PV power projects under …
To take up relief and restoration works in the affected areas of Odisha. Chief minister Naveen Patnaik has sought an advance of Rs 1,000 crore from the government of India to take up relief and restoration works in the affected areas of Odisha. “I would request you to release an …
The proposal to set up 1,320-MW thermal power plant at Hajipur near Mukerian has run into rough weather as local MP and Union Minister of State for Health Santosh Chaudhary has written to the Union Power Ministry against the state government's "anti-farmer move". Farmers of as many as 28 villages …
National Citizen Society (NCS) at a discussion yesterday demanded cancellation of the proposed power plant project at Rampal near the Sundarbans. The Sundarbans will eventually be destroyed if the proposed coal-fired thermal power plant is constructed in its proximity, said Nasir Uddin Munshi, chairman of NCS. The discussion was held …
Leaders of National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports have said they will put up ‘mass resistance’ to the implementation of Rampal Thermal Power Plant Project in Bagerhat. The national committee on Wednesday staged demonstrations across the country in protest at the implementation of the power …
Odisha Integrated Power Ltd will conduct bidding process for selecting developer for first 4,000 MW The Union power ministry has decided to complete the process of bidding and award of projects for the Bhedabahal (Odisha) and Cheyyur (Tamil Nadu) ultra mega power projects (UMPPs) by January next year. The decision …
The High Court (HC) dismissed Sunday a writ petition seeking a stay on the coal-fired power plant at Rampal near the Sundarbans until assessment of the environmental impacts of the controversial project, reports UNB. A joint bench of HC, comprising Justice M Moazzam Husain and Justice Md Badruzzaman, passed the …
The High Court on Sunday summarily rejected a writ petition that had sought to halt the foundation stone laying of Rampal power plant project near the Sundarbans forest until an assessment of the environmental impact of the project was conducted. A bench of Justice M Moazzam Husain and Justice Md …
India and Sri Lanka will on Monday ink an agreement for the execution of the INR 40-billion 500 MW thermal power project at Sampur in Trincomalee, official sources said here today. India’s state-run NTPC and Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) had signed an agreement in 2011 to set up a coal-based …
Even as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) under the jurisdiction of Supreme Court (SC) investigates the multi-crore Coalgate scam, the union power ministry (MoP) has found out that many private power companies were violating the terms and conditions of coal block allocation. These companies had been allocated coal blocks …
The total viability gap funding requirement for the scheme works out to Rs 1,875 cr The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved the setting up of a 750-Megawatt (Mw) power generation capacity under the initial leg of the second phase of the National Solar Mission under implementation. The projects would be …
The Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) strongly criticised Thursday the government move for setting up the Rampal power plant project near the Sundarban mangrove forest and urged the authorities concerned to shift it to another suitable place. "The implementation of the coal-based project is giving a 'wrong signal' to the international …
All arrangements are in place to sign the Sampur Coal Power Plant agreement between the governments of Sri Lanka and India. These agreements will be signed within the next seven days, Power and Energy Ministry sources said yesterday. The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) will sign the agreement representing the Sri …
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the implementation of scheme for setting up 750-MW grid-connected solar power projects under the second phase of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission. This would be facilitated through viability gap funding (VGF), which would be funded from the National Clean Energy Fund. …
