Mining giant Vedanta is all set to diversify into steel business. Sesa Goa Ltd in which Vedanta has the controlling share, has begun negotiations with Japanese and European companies to set up a steel plant in India. Sesa Goa, an iron ore producer, recently acquired VS Dempo and Co Ltd (another iron ore mining company in Goa) and has the capacity to produce 50 million tonnes iron ore. Anil
Mumbai municipality to induce rains; activists call it a sham torrential rains pounded Mumbai in the last week of June, but failed to help the city tide over the severe water shortage. The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai is now making frantic efforts to ease the crisis. On July 15, its standing committee decided to induce artificial rains through cloud seeding. As per
FOSSCOM to oppose NASSCOM companies and civil society groups supporting open source software standard in e-governance are planning to form a separate pressure group. They have proposed to form fosscom to oppose the IT industry body nasscom that has been lobbying with the government to adopt proprietary software standards. Free and open source software (foss) codes can be
To state-level CAMPA committees The Central ad-hoc CAMPA will disburse the money The governing committee of the state CAMPA will take policy decisions on what the money should be used for The steering committee (state) will clear the state
Port Blair bench allows resort that may endanger Jarawas THE Calcutta High Court has cleared the construction of a holiday resort near the forest area reserved for the threatened Jarawa tribe in South Andamans. The Andaman administration had appealed against building the resort saying it was within the five-kilometre buffer zone of the reserve and would endanger the tribe
MEF decision sparks row, business focus of Hillary visit early in July, at the Major Economies Forum (mef) meet in Italy, India signed a statement which created a major controversy back home. A few days later sparks flew during US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
greenhouse gas emissions UK plans to go low-carbon The UK government unveiled a plan to make the country a low carbon emitter. The plan, announced by energy and climate change secretary Ed Miliband, details how the country will meet its domestic climate targets, set out under the climate change act, to cut emissions by at least 34 per cent by 2020 on 1990 levels. The goals include
When it comes to climate change and the teaching of evolution there is a large gap between what scientists think and the views of ordinary Americans, a new survey has found. Almost all scientists surveyed accept that human beings evolved by natural processes and that human activity, chiefly the burning of fossil fuels, is causing global warming but the general public is far less sure.
