Union minister Dinsha Patel meets Modi

Illegal mining knows no colour; reported cases are just the tip of the iceberg. On December 10, 2012, Dinsha Patel, minister for mines, prepared a statement in reply to an unstarred question placed before the Rajya Sabha. The content went largely ...

The cheque for interim dividend was handed over to Shri Dinsha J. Patel, Union Minister of Mines, by Shri Ansuman Das, CMD, NALCO, here today, in the presence of Shri R.H. Khwaja, Secretary, Ms. Gauri Kumar, Special Secretary, Shri Arun Kumar, Joint ...

: Following is the list of the council of ministers after Monday's cabinet reshuffle: - Manmohan Singh: Prime minister, Minster of Personnel and Public Grievances and Pension, Minister of Planning, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of ...

The Mines Ministry is likely to give another one year extension to the Justice M B Shah Commission, which is currently probing illegal mining issues in seven mineral-rich states, as it is yet to cover four states of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya ...

The Chief Minister has been accusing the Centre of ignoring the State's demand under pressure from the mining lobby. | EPS file photo Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday once again raised the issue of introducing mineral resource rent tax ...

The stalemate over reopening of Zinc Smelter here continues with the Centre delaying constitution of a technical committee to examine various options on its future. Zinc Smelter was shown as a loss-making unit by the management of Hindustan Zinc ...

KOLKATA (miningweekly.com) - The Indian government has rejected the domestic steel industry's demand for exempting iron-ore imports from custom duty levies in the wake of a shortage of the raw material from domestic sources. According to a statement ...

Hindustan Copper (HCL) plans to raise the production capacity of Khetri Copper Complex (KCC) from 1 mn t to 3.1 mn t at an investment of about Rs 533 crore, informed Union Mines Minister, Dinsha Patel in the the Lok Sabha. The company will invest ...

Three weeks ago, when the Supreme Court reopened the iron-ore mining door some more in Karnataka, miners in Orissa breathed a Rs 50,000 crore sigh of relief. Also in the dock for some offences of a similar nature, Orissa's iron-ore miners, who ...