(The New Indian Express) Home-grown Tata Steel, which is adopting low carbon emitting steel making technologies in India and Europe, aims to have 10-15 million tonnes of production through recycling route in the next 10-15 years, the company’s CEO and MD T V Narendran has said. In FY25, Tata Steel produced 30.92 million tonnes of steel out of its total capacity of 35 million tonnes spread over India, the UK, the Netherlands and Thailand. “Linearity to circularity is one shift we are making … you will see in the next 10-15 years, 10-15 million tonnes of Tata Steel’s production will…
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(Mint) The Centre is likely to narrow its fiscal deficit to 4.2-4.3% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2025-26, better than its target of 4.4%, driven by higher-than-anticipated dividends from state-run enterprises, banks, and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). A narrow gap in revenue and expenditure will provide the central government with added fiscal space to maintain capital spending to keep the growth engine humming, two people aware of the development told Mint. While the 2025-26 budget pegs the fiscal deficit at 4.4% of GDP, the actual figure is likely to come in lower, much like in 2024-25, said…
(FE) Coal stocks at the country’s thermal power plants stood at 60.9 million tonnes on June 12, registering an year-on-year rise of 26.7%. This allays the fears of power outages or supply deficits amid rising mercury levels. The improvement in fuel stocks can be attributed to higher production and dispatches of coal from both public and private companies. At this level, coal stocks at thermal power plants are at 85% of normative level of 71.45 million tonnes, which is sufficient to keep the plant load factor at generation units elevated. The government has estimated peak power demand to touch 270…
(PIB) Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Shri Amit Shah reviewed the preparation for the forthcoming Census with the Union Home Secretary, RG&CCI and other senior officials in New Delhi, today. The notification to conduct the Census will be published in official gazette on 16th June, 2025. The Census will be conducted in two phases. In phase one i.e. Houselisting Operation (HLO), the housing conditions, assets and amenities of each household will be collected. Subsequently, in second phase i.e. Population Enumeration (PE), the demographic, socio-economic, cultural and other details of every person in each household will be collected. In Census…
(DH) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday distributed appointment letters to the newly-recruited constables of Uttar Pradesh Police at a ceremony held here. The event marked the biggest-ever direct recruitment drive for civil police constables in the history of the state police, the Uttar Pradesh government said in a statement. Under the ‘Civil Police Direct Recruitment’ drive, as many as 48,196 male and 12,048 female candidates have been selected by the Uttar Pradesh Police Recruitment and Promotion Board. The statement said the recruitment drive received 48.17 lakh applications, including 15.49 lakh from women. Despite the scale, the examination and selection process was completed smoothly through the use of advanced technology and strict supervision, the statement said. The state government stated that it has not only ensured timely recruitment but…
(HBL) Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman virtually inaugurated several development projects on Sunday in Leh, Ladakh, during her four-day visit to the Union Territory. The Ministry of Finance said this reaffirms the Government of India’s commitment to inclusive growth and infrastructure development in the Union Territory of Ladakh. The Union Finance Minister also interacted with the officials of the Union Territory administration. On the second day of her visit, she addressed an audience during the Credit Outreach Programme in Leh and handed over sanction letters from banks to beneficiaries under various Central Government schemes. During the…
(FE) The authorities have suspended the Kedarnath Yatra from Sonprayag until further notice after one person was killed and two others injured following a landslide that struck the walkway to Kedarnath in Rudraprayag district. According to a statement from Rudraprayag Police, the landslide was triggered by continuous heavy rainfall, sending debris and large stones crashing onto the trekking route. The walkway to Kedarnath Dham has been blocked and damaged after the landslide. Officials added that a yellow alert has been issued for the region, forecasting persistent rainfall over the coming days. Citing safety concerns for devotees, the district administration has decided to…
(FE) Adani Green Energy scored highly on the ESG ratings released by the National Stock Exchange this month — ranking first in the utilities/power sector. The company was also among the top five entities in the ratings assessed from the top 100 listed companies by revenue across the NSE. Data shared on the stock exchange website indicated an ESG rating of 74 for the company founded by Gautam Adani. “Our governance is of global standards, and our compliance frameworks are robust and non-negotiable,” the Adani Group chairman had noted in the company’s FY25 annual report. Details uploaded onto the NSE website…
(HT) Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Sunday announced that a centralised command and coordination centre will be established in Dehradun to monitor real-time operations of helicopters in the state even as the government booked two officials of the company which operated the chopper that crashed on Sunday morning, killing seven on board. “The centralised command and coordination centre will include representatives from the DGCA, the disaster management department, civil aviation ministry, Uttarakhand civil aviation development authority and private heli operator companies,” he said, adding that safety of citizens is the top priority and no compromises will be tolerated.…
(HT) Nearly two months after the deadly terror attack left 26 persons dead in Pahalgam, the tourism trade in this south Kashmir resort is limping back to normalcy as locals and a “trickle” from Punjab have started visiting the Valley of shepherds after the Eid holidays. A significant number of Kashmiris from other parts of the Valley made their way to Pahalgam on the third day of the Eid, much to the delight of people associated with the tourist trade in this resort, which is 100 km from Srinagar. “We have been visiting Pahalgam every year irrespective of whether there…