BUILDING NEW FOUNDATIONS Aditya Birla company could end up building a 1-2 MT cement plant in the African country

Estimated to have a reserve of about 225 million tonne

Jindal Steel and Power Ltd (JSPL) today said it will begin production from its Utkal B-1 coal block in Odisha, that is estimated to have a reserve of about 225 million tonne, by August this year. Besides, the Naveen Jindal-led steel making firm will also begin shipping coal from its mines in Mozambique in next 3-4 months, JSPL's Deputy Managing Director & CEO (Steel Business) V R Sharma told reporters here on the sidelines of the 'Steel Guru' conference.

Low-cost solar panels and solar batteries will be provided to poor communities in 14 countries in Africa and Asia in the next four years, the UN Development Programme said Thursday.

Rainfall patterns in southern Africa are becoming erratic as climate change takes its toll, threatening long-term production of staple and cash crops in the region.

Brazil is a world leader in the fight against hunger and its experience can be shared with other countries, visiting World Food Program chief Josette Sheeran said Monday.

The world's governments and relief agencies need to plan now to resettle millions of people expected to be displaced by climate change, an international panel of experts said on Thursday.

Eni SpA, the Italian energy giant, has made a very large natural-gas discovery off the coast of Mozambique, big enough that it could turn the East African country into a major exporter of gas to As

The level of hunger worldwide has dropped in recent years but 26 countries still face extremely dangerous food shortages and are threatened by rising prices, a major report said Tuesday.

World rice production is expected to touch a record 480.5 million tonnes this year on the back of higher output in Asia, Egypt, Argentina, Mozambique, the US and Russian Federation, according to th