Gulbarga: Chief Minister Siddara­maiah, who is under pressure to drop minister for infrastructure and information Santosh Lad for his alleged involvement in illegal mining, announced on Saturday that

Striking miners killed one man by setting him on fire on Thursday while another was fatally shot, apparently by police, in rekindled labor unrest in South Africa that saw police firing tear gas and ru

Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Sunday said bauxite mining would not be allowed at any cost in the Visakhapatnam agency area to protect the interests of tribals.

He said this follo

Just a week after filing cases in coal block allocation scam, CBI has begun probing alleged irregularities in the country's first-ever attempt to explore untapped mineral wealth worth thousands of

Tamil Nadu government has issued a lookout notice against Union Chemicals and Fertilisers Minister M.K. Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi Alagiri for his alleged involvement in the multi-crore granite mining scam.

Iron ore miner NMDC has increased the contract price of key steel-making raw material by 8-13 per cent for the July-September period to cash in on the current demand-supply mismatch scenario in the ma

South Korea on Monday announced that it has secured exclusive rights to explore and develop a deep sea mine in the resource-rich Indian Ocean that can produce over USD 300 million worth of minerals li

The state government has finally terminated the Memorandum of Understa-nding with Brahmani Industries Limited for setting up an integrated steel plant in Kadapa district, stronghold of the YSR family.

The Supreme Court decision to allow partial mining in Karnataka has provided some relief to the local iron and steel industry that produces about 16 million tonne (MT) of metal alloy in a year.

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Fifteen miners died and another three were injured after a tramcar derailed in a coal mine in central China, authorities said Thursday, in the latest accident to hit the nation's mining sector.

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