The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Don’t blame just the industry for the country’s mineral production falling 2.5% in April-September, dragging down the overall industrial output and GDP. Seven months after the Supreme Court lifted the ban on iron ore mining for the majority of lease areas in Karnataka that accounted for 70% of the state’s …
The Forest department has booked 57 mining companies, including the State-owned Mysore Minerals Limited (MML) and National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC), for carrying out mining operations in violation of the Forest department rules. Following the reports submitted by the Lokayukta and the Centrally Empowered Committee (CEC), the Forest department filed …
Under new method, ministry is ranking companies on different parameters Amid allegations of irregularity in coal block allocations, the coal ministry is being extremely cautious in the case of new allocations. Under a new method, the ministry is ranking companies on half a dozen parameters, before selecting the most suitable …
Decks have been cleared for India’s first 12-million tonne ultra mega steel plant (UMSP). State-run mining major NMDC, which has been named the nodal agency for the project by the Prime Minister-led National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council (NMCC), has started the process of acquiring land for the steel plant in Karnataka …
Commission’s term ends on October 16, Ministry denies it third extension The Centre is not extending the tenure of the Justice M.B. Shah Commission, inquiring into illegal mining in seven States. With its tenure ending on October 16, the one-man panel will have to wind up within two weeks, without …
Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh has hit out at state-run miner NMDC for allegedly “ignoring” the needs of the tribals in the state’s naxal-hit Bastar district by denying them promised employment and spending paltry money for their welfare. In a letter to steel minister Beni Prasad Verma late last month, …
Bangalore: Call it an irony or simply the absurd ways of our political system. M Shamim Banu, the retired IAS officer who was arrested, was part of a highlevel committee to review the report of the Lokayukta on illegal mining in 2011. Banu was part of the committee comprising four …
Venturing into thermal power generation, state-owned iron ore miner National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) will set up a 500MW power plant at UP's Gonda district. The company plans to invest about Rs 3,016 crore on the project. It has roped in IL&FS; Energy Development Company (IEDCL) as a partner for …
Petition challenges concessions given to mining giants by Chhattisgarh government July has been a bitter month for the mining tycoons of the country. In the first week, the CBI pulled up JSPL (Jindal Steel & Power Ltd.) chief Naveen Jindal, who allegedly misrepresented facts in the coal blocks allocation scam, …
On January 2, 1989 J&K; Government sanctioned mining rights for 20 years in favour of National Mineral Development Corporation for mining of Magnesite and Dolomite in Trikuta Hills near the Shrine of Mata Vaishno Devi. In 2011 it was renewed for another ten years. Though the total mining lease area …
Around 25 are still awaiting various approvals from the authorities Despite the Supreme Court allowing resumption of mining in Karnataka this April, only a dozen mines have managed to resume till now. Around 25 are still awaiting various approvals from the authorities. The delay is crippling both the mining and …
Only 10-12 mines out of 117 have actually started operations after SC lifted ban After the Supreme Court allowed category A & B mines to resume operations in Karnataka three months ago, only 10-12 mines out of 117 have actually started operations. Apart from procedural delays, most miners are hobbled …
NMDC is setting up a 1.8-million-tonne-per-annum (mtpa) beneficiation plant and a 1.2-mtpa pellet plant at an investment of Rs 650 crore KIOCL, a steel ministry undertaking facing severe shortage of iron ore for its pellet plant in Mangalore, is planning to partner public sector mining giant NMDC for a pellet …
The Rajasthan government has allocated a large iron ore block at Bhilwara to RINL in a move that has been approved by the union mines ministry. It is, perhaps, the first positive news coming out of the mining sector which is still reeling under the impact of the ban on …
Ore major keeping domestic price lower than landed cost of import; falling rupee does not come to rescue as international ore prices have also softened The rupee slide could result in a rise of the steel industry's import bill for key inputs, like coke. But, for now, it is unlikely …
If the M B Shah Commission's proposal for a complete ban on iron ore mining in Odisha is implemented, it may result in a fall of 11 million tonnes (mt) in the combined captive iron ore output of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) and Tata Steel. Earlier, iron ore …
The company has been accused of polluting two important rivers of Bastar namely Dankani and Shankani Chhattisgarh government would take up fresh survey work on the rivers in Bastar in which the National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) was allegedly flowing industrial waste causing pollution. The issue came up at the …
Acknowledging that the iron ore project of National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) in South Bastar is causing contamination of rivers, Chhattisgarh government has ordered a survey of the affected villages. A special team will survey the villages affected by water pollution caused by NMDC and its ill effects, if any, …
Category B mines allowed to resume mining subject to necessary clearances The forest bench of the Supreme Court has accepted all the reports submitted periodically by the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) regarding the mining in Karnataka. As per the CEC reports, Category B mines will be allowed to restart mining …
Dharwad-based NGO Jan Sangram Parishat (JSP) has urged the Union and the state governments concerned to accept and implement the report of the Western Ghats Expert Panel submitted to the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests on August 31, 2011. JSP convenor S R Hiremath said here at the weekend …
