Bursts of volcanic lightning and lava lit up the night sky in southern Chile after the Calbuco volcano erupted twice after nearly half a century of inactivity, forcing over 5,000 people to......
Observing that a total ban on legal sand mining causes huge loss to the public exchequer, the Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the Bihar government to carry on mining activities through the Bihar......
Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma retained the key departments for his National Peoples Party, and gave the lesser politically significant ones to alliance partners Bharatiya Janata Party,......
In his second term in office Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has retained 34 portfolios. Syed Firdaus Ashraf and Hemant Shivsaran find out how this compares with his predecessors.......
A day after being arrested in connection with a money laundering case and remanded to the custody of the Enforcement Directorate, the Jharkhand government on Thursday suspended state mining......
Niti Aayog's plan to create a New India' in less than four years should invite scepticism, argues T N Ninan.Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com One of the features of the Modi government is its......
How many tones of gold and diamond deposits hasIndia got? 390.29 million tones of gold ore and 4.58 million carats of diamonds, to be precise.According to the national mineral inventory data......
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee presented the Budget for 2009-10 on July 6. Following is the BudgetSpeechof Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee: Madam Speaker, I rise to present the Budget for......