International Coal Venture Ltd, a consortium of five state-owned steel and power companies, is in talks with New Zealand-based coal producer, Solid Energy, for potential coking coal blocks they can
State-run KIOCL has got the lease to the 10 million tonnes Chikkanayakanahalli or CNH iron ore reserve, paving the way for supplies to its ore plant at Mangalore for at least three years, according to a senior executive.
KIOCL, formerly Kudremukh Iron Ore Company, was forced to give up its mines in 2005 after a Supreme Court ban, and was running its pellet plant with supplies from national miner
It was Malcolm Forbes who said that diamonds are nothing but chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. Indian mine owners and global contractors seem to have finally paid heed to him. In December 2010, Thiess and state-owned energy giant NTPC entered a win-win deal.
The trend towards green buildings needs strong policy initiatives to maintain the momentumIf you were to move into ZED Collective, a residential enclave in Bangalore, you need not shop for half your vegetable supplies.
Will India give away too much at the Cancun climate summit?To many analysts and experts, the Conference of Parties (COP) 16 or the United Nations Climate Change Conference at Cancun in Mexico appears doomed even before it starts.
Stewart L. Udall, secretary of the Interior to former US President John F. Kennedy and supporter of environmental causes, once compared mining to a search-and-destroy mission.
