J&K Council chief taps Pune firms for limestone, marble mining

A massive traffic jam ensued as protests by mining workers continued on Monday, demanding renewal of mining licences.With the traffic mess continuing and agitators refusing to budge, Transport Minister Sudin Dhavalikar went to the Mandovi Bridge, where the ...

Goa's mining industry body GMOEA today sought clarity from the government on the commencement of mining operations in the state, warning that failure to do so could amount "harsh decisions", including layoffs in the sector.However, GMOEA--the body ...

Chief Minister Raman Singh on Tuesday said that the allegation made by the Congress party in the state Legislative Assembly that he had invited an associate company of PNB fraud case accused Nirav Modi, to invest in the state were 'baseless and ...

'We plan to launch blockchain project with bigger diamonds - 2-carat and higher.' 'We are taking all care for testing diamonds; even retailers use our equipment to test when they sell.' Despite various challenges, the past year was a good one, says Bruce Cleaver, chief executive officer of the De Beers Group, the global corporation that has been the leading one in all aspects of the diamond trade for over a century. Edited excerpts of a talk with Rajesh Bhayani on what's ahead for the trade.

Facebook-owned WhatsApp, the popular instant messaging service with over 200-million active users in India, might not be as secure as being claimed, with experts raising questions about certain provisions of the user agreement wherein most of its wrongdoings ...

Chennai : Thousands of people gathered in Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi on Saturday demanding the closure of Sterlite's copper smelting factory in the coastal town, which is a part of Vedanta Limited group, it was only the latest in a series of protests going back ...

Cracking the whip on alleged misuse of user data on Facebook, the government on Friday issued a notice to United Kingdom-based Cambridge Analytica, asking it to give a list of clients and the source of data it had collected. The notice came after reports that political parties had used the data analytics firm during elections.   The IT ministry has asked Cambridge Analytica -- the firm at the centre of Facebook data breach scandal -- to respond by March 31 on six questions, including how ...

Totally 13 global brands were surveyed by NGO on whether they ensured human right protection while sourcing gold and diamonds Human Right Watch, a London-based NGO active in the field, has rated Indian jewellery brands like Tanishq, TBZ and Kalyan Jewellers as being ‘very weak’ in sourcing gold and diamonds from places that ‘are not tainted with human rights abuses'.   Thirteen global brands having a 10 per cent share in global jewellery business were selected on the ...

San Francisco: Taking a cue from Facebook, Google has announced that it will ban advertisements for cryptocurrencies and other "speculative financial products" across its ad platforms. "In June 2018, Google will update the financial services policy to ...