The Western Australia state government said that Ms Julia Gillard’s PM of Australian, tax on iron ore and coal company profits is illegal because it limits state governments’ ability to finance development. Western Australia ...
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Business Standard reported that iron ore consumption in domestic steel units went up in December after the Odisha government asked the miners to set aside half of their mineral production for local industries. In December, local crusher ...
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Business Standard reported that GAIL has started issuing compensation to land owners who have lost their land to the gas pipeline project, connecting the Kochi LNG terminal to Bangalore and Mangalore. The first set of cheques were ...
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Business Standard reported that in a bid to find alternate source of bauxite for the Lanjigarh alumina refinery of the Vedanta Alumininium Ltd which is shut down for want of raw material since December 5, Odisha Mining Corporation has ...
Business Standard reported that French carmaker,PSA Peugeot Citroen,has lost a third of the land allotted to it in Sanand.After waiting for over a year for payments,the Gujarat government recently sold around 200 acres of the 584 acres ...
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CII has welcomed the announcement of the New Industrial Policy for the State. The Industry has been eagerly awaiting the new policy since the last 5 year industrial policy was announced in November 2006. Unlike the previous policy that ...
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Business Standard reported that with the conventional energy projects unable to address the power crisis, 2012 saw the emergence of renewable energy in a big way. The state government announced a new solar policy with a target to set up ...
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After halting land acquisition at the proposed plant site areas of POSCO steel project near Paradip,Odisha government recently announced plans to resume land acquisition tomorrow after a gap of 1 year. Mr SK Mallick collector of ...
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The state government has revived its plan to illuminate Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, a Unesco world heritage site with LED lights. The project is expected to cost Rs 7.5 crore. The lighting will also be done in keeping with the occasion ...
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Seeing the increasing demand of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) produced linen and tweed cloth in international markets, many global companies have come forward to form partnerships with the state government for supply of export quality products ...
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Business Standard reported that the Odisha government has approved a proposal for withdrawal of land acquisition process for Sterlite Iron and Steel Company,a Vedanta group firm,which proposed to set up of a 5 million tonne steel plant in ...
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Business Standard reported that Chhattisgarh government is mooting to go Odisha way and ask the mining companies to reserve half of its production for the local units. In Odisha, it was the private iron ore miners who had come under ...
Business Line quoted a report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India as saying that illegal mining during the period 2006 to 2011 in 3 districts of Karnataka has resulted in a loss of INR 3,414.45 crore in revenue, of which the ...
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Almost every house in the vicinity of an iron ore mine in Goa's Sanguem, Sattari and Bicholim talukas is likely to have a 10 tonne tipper truck parked in its backyard. Some have 2, 3 or even 4 trucks parked. In all, there were about 25,000 ...
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The Ministry of Mines has vide order dated March 4th 2009 constituted a Central Coordination cum Empowered Committee under the chairpersonship of Secretary (Mines) to monitor and minimize delays at various levels in grant of approvals for ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy