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Former PCC president Niranjan Patnaik has called for an urgent need to expose the political-bureaucratic-business nexus in the mining scam. Reiterating his earlier demand for a CBI probe into the mining scam of Odisha, Patnaik said that the scam ...

Pakistan's first democratic transfer of power should have been a moment of hope and triumph. But, as it stands, widespread violence has marred the historic elections and all but halted the public campaigning by several prominent parties outside of ...

THE election process is in full swing in . If the land mafia and the mining mafia had had an upper hand in during the two decades of liberalisation and privatisation, and more so during the rule of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the last five ...

Supreme Court in India provided welcome reprieve to the mining and steel industry after 20 month long imbroglio which had brought steel making and other associated economic activity on the knees. Historically judicial intervention came down with a ...

A view of the Indian Supreme Court building is seen in New Delhi. Reuters Related Top Stories Almost two years after its ban, the Supreme Court on Thursday allowed resumption of mining activities in 90 mines in Bellary, Tumkur and Chitradurga ...

International News: As the Supreme Court on Thursday asked it to go back to the gram sabha for the consideration of the tribals religious and cultural aspects, Vedanta's bauxite mining project in Odisha's Niyamgiri Hills got stuck once again. The ...

MANGALORE: Bullet tankers transporting LPG on the Mangalore-Mangalore National Highway will be a thing of the past in three years. The Hindustan Petroleum Corporation will be laying the Rs 600 crore LPG pipeline from Mangalore LPG Import Facility to ...

MoEF vs NHAI: Minister defends delay in GMR project clearance In conversation with NDTV, Jayanthi Natarajan, minister of environment and forests, says t... published: 16 Jan 2013 author: MoEF vs NHAI: Minister defends delay in GMR project clearance ...

A Special CBI Court today dismissed the bail plea of mining baron and former Karnataka Minister Gali Janardhan Reddy, a key accused in the illegal mining case involving his Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC). The Court dismissed the application on the ground ...