Ishita Ayan Dutt & Arijit Barman / Kolkata/mumbai June 17, 2010, 0:06 IST

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Kakinada, June 16: Thousands of fisherfolk in East Godavari are worried over government

Upset with the stiff inter-ministerial differences continuing to derail its efforts in bringing about greater transparency in the mining sector by streamlining the grant of mineral concessions, the Centre today constituted a Group of Ministers (GoM) to iron out the wrinkles.

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The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials.

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BHUBANESWAR: Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik will visit the three gram panchayats in Jagatsinghpur district, where thousands of villagers oppose displacement and demand the shifting of the site of a proposed Posco steel plant.

Mr. Patnaik agreed to the Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti's demand that he visit the site when four of its representatives met him here on Sunday.

Coal supply to 1080 Mw captive power plant of the public sector National Aluminium Company (Nalco) located at Angul may be snapped soon as the Bharatpur coal mine in the Talcher coalfields which supplies coal to this plant is on the verge of closure due to non-availability of land.

Kalpana Pathak / Mumbai June 14, 2010, 0:44 IST

The estimated $3-bn Vedanta University was to start Phase-I by mid-2011 but is facing stiff opposition from locals.

Mining sector reforms have long been a victim of state apathy, which has led to the endemic menace of illegal mining. The reform process is now mired in inter-ministerial differences.