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Parliament Passes Bill To Provide Fixed 50-Year Production Lease For Offshore Minerals
A bill to provide a fixed 50-year production lease for offshore minerals was passed by Rajya Sabha today amid a walkout by the opposition members over the situation in ethnic violence-hit Manipur.
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Amid Probe Into Illegal Mining, CBI Books Retired IAS Official For Corruption
The CBI has booked a retired IAS officer for alleged corruption in giving leases to facilitate illegal mining of minor minerals in Kaushambi in Uttar Pradesh when he was posted as a district magistrate during 2012-14, officials said today.
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Barack Obama Bans New Oil, Gas Drilling Off Alaska, Part Of Atlantic Coast
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday banned new oil and gas drilling in federal waters in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, in a push to leave his stamp on the environment before Republican Donald Trump takes office next month.
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Piyush Goyal Seeks States' Cooperation For 100 Per Cent Electrification By 2018
Union Power Minister on Friday sought cooperation from the states to implement various schemes and asked them to expedite the process of mining lease auction as well as the formation of District Minerals Fund.
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Uncertainty Over POSCO Threatens Farmers' Livelihood in Odisha
With the ratification of the Mines and Mineral (Development and Regulation) Bill, 2015 by Parliament, which disallows preferential treatment for giving mining leases, uncertainty looms over the future of the steel-giant POSCO, threatening the future of over 2,000 families in Jagatsinghpur district of Odisha, who had given away their land for the pr...
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Mining operations in Karnataka likely to resume today
Mining operations in Karnataka are likely to resume from today, a senior state government official said. Partially lifting its ban on mining operations in Karnataka ordered more than a year back, the Supreme Court on Monday gave its green signal for extraction of iron ores on 18 leases subject to certain conditions being fulfilled.
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Parliament Passes Bill To Provide Fixed 50-Year Production Lease For Offshore Minerals
A bill to provide a fixed 50-year production lease for offshore minerals was passed by Rajya Sabha today amid a walkout by the opposition members over the situation in ethnic violence-hit Manipur.
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Amid Probe Into Illegal Mining, CBI Books Retired IAS Official For Corruption
The CBI has booked a retired IAS officer for alleged corruption in giving leases to facilitate illegal mining of minor minerals in Kaushambi in Uttar Pradesh when he was posted as a district magistrate during 2012-14, officials said today.
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Barack Obama Bans New Oil, Gas Drilling Off Alaska, Part Of Atlantic Coast
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday banned new oil and gas drilling in federal waters in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, in a push to leave his stamp on the environment before Republican Donald Trump takes office next month.
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Piyush Goyal Seeks States' Cooperation For 100 Per Cent Electrification By 2018
Union Power Minister on Friday sought cooperation from the states to implement various schemes and asked them to expedite the process of mining lease auction as well as the formation of District Minerals Fund.
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Uncertainty Over POSCO Threatens Farmers' Livelihood in Odisha
With the ratification of the Mines and Mineral (Development and Regulation) Bill, 2015 by Parliament, which disallows preferential treatment for giving mining leases, uncertainty looms over the future of the steel-giant POSCO, threatening the future of over 2,000 families in Jagatsinghpur district of Odisha, who had given away their land for the pr...
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Mining operations in Karnataka likely to resume today
Mining operations in Karnataka are likely to resume from today, a senior state government official said. Partially lifting its ban on mining operations in Karnataka ordered more than a year back, the Supreme Court on Monday gave its green signal for extraction of iron ores on 18 leases subject to certain conditions being fulfilled.
