For the country's maiden offshore mineral mining auction, the Centre is planning to relax the rules on the number of chances for bidding. Under the newly announced draft Offshore Areas Mineral (Auction) Rules and Offshore Areas (Existence of Mineral Resources) Rules, the ministry of mines is planning to offer three chances to potential bidders in its forthcoming inaugural offshore mining auction. If a single bid is not received during the second attempt, the plan is to initiate a new round of bidding for the third time.
Local television showed images of a fallen mosque minaret with rubble lying on smashed cars.
Glaciers in the Karakoram region are in a stable condition, but those feeding the Ganga and the Brahmaputra river basins are melting at a faster rate, the earth sciences ministry has said.
The quake struck about 70 kilometers from the coastal city of Dumaguete on the Philippine island of Negros, the US Geological Survey said.
British Geological Survey accessed in September 2011 produced a list of countries by production of gold.
'Cracks continue to appear in more and more houses.' 'We believe the government is not going to tell us the truth.'
Tamil Nadu-born, Boston-based, Ramaswamy, who is in her mid-thirties, has traversed the world since her teens. And for years she was a geologist researching extreme environments and working for the United States Geological Survey.
There are conflicting reports about the magnitude of the earthquake that shook Delhi and its adjoining areas. While the Indian Meteorological Department measured the quake at a scale of 4.9, the United States Geological Survey put the magnitude at 5.2 on the Richter scale.
China produced the most gold in world in 2012, making it the largest producer for the sixth straight year even as it remained the second largest consumer of the yellow metal after India.
The Union Public Service Commission will hold the Geologists' Examination, 2009 commencing from December 5, 2009.
The decision was taken in a high-level review meeting chaired by principal secretary to prime minister PK Mishra.
A major quake of 7.3-magnitude rocked the Caribbean nation of Haiti and damaged the presidential palace besides other government buildings in the country's capital Port-au-Prince, an incident termed as 'catastrophe of major proportions'. The devastating quake struck at about 15 km south-west of the capital at 4.53 pm local time and was followed by three aftershocks. Several buildings, including the presidential palace and a hospital, have reportedly collapsed.
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Faced with one setback after another in expanding the scope of mining in the country, almost all the major miners of the world have wound down their operations in India.
As such, the Obama Administration has proposed do a resource assessment of certain shale basins in India by the US Geological Survey, and provide workshops to train Indian geophysicists on how to do their own resource assessments.
A sudden drop in atmospheric temperature and small earthquakes convinced seismologists to alert Assam government for a major earthquake in the near future.
A strong earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale struck off northeast Japan early on Thursday, the US Geological Survey said, but no tsunami warning was issued.
A strong aftershock of magnitude 7.1 jolted Japan's northeast on Monday on the one-month anniversary of the devastating quake and tsunami that had left thousands of people dead, prompting authorities to evacuate workers from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. The epicentre of the latest quake, which occurred at 17:16 hours local time, was in an area in Fukushima prefecture, about 164 km northeast of Tokyo, and it struck at a depth of just 10 km.
A major earthquake of 7.2 magnitude hit Baja California in Mexico, shaking skyscrapers in San Diego and Los Angeles, whose strong tremors were felt as far as Phoenix and Las Vegas as well.The immediate impact of the earthquake on people and buildings were not immediately known. The quake was centred approximately 25 kilometre south-southwest of Guadalupe Victoria, the United States geological survey said.
India has about 9 per cent of the total gold reserves in the world, yet imports gold worth more than Rs 65,000 crore. The government plans to reduce gold and diamond imports by Rs 20,000 crore.
Thousands were feared killed when a major quake of 7.3-magnitude rocked the Caribbean nation of Haiti and damaged the presidential palace besides other government buildings in the country's capital Port-au-Prince, an incident termed as 'catastrophe of major proportions'.
'India joined a select group of countries at the global level after this finding and it will fulfil the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat' (self-reliant India)'
Japan's meteorological agency has issued a tsunami warning following a powerful quake off western Indonesia. The quake, measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale, struck Indonesia's Sumatra island on Tuesday afternoon, triggering panic in the area. The undersea quake struck at 3:08 pm local time, some 312 kilometres west-southwest of the North Sumatra capital Medan, according to the US Geological Survey.
The Centre will invest around Rs 200 crore over five years for the exploration and development of these mines.
A meteor had lit up the night sky over at least 11 districts on September 27.
Hotels Malari Inn and Mount View, which have developed more cracks, will be demolished on Tuesday.
Hundreds of people ran out of their houses as the quake, which hit near the town of Faizabad in Afghanistan after 8:00 am local time, shook the buildings.
Two of the seven possible openings have been probed using thermal infrared imaging, which shows that their temperature is pretty constant at any time of day.
Meanwhile, the US Geological Survey issued a preliminary report placing saying the quake measured 6.8.
Three persons -- Vishal Verma, Rajesh Chouhan and Govind Verma -- engaged in collecting fossils as a hobby found the eggs.
Taking a lesson from last year's tsunami disaster, sensors are being planted in the seabed to record seismological changes, according to the Indian Space Research Organisation.
The local administration has set up relief centres at four-five places in the Himalayan town, Garhwal commissioner Sushil Kumar said.
An accurate early warning system that correlates rainfall and the potential for landslides. That is the imperative, say experts as rains create havoc in hills across India and the toll mounts in Kerala's Wayanad slopes where landslides buried entire homesteads and possibly hundreds of people.
The 7.0-magnitude quake struck at about 7:50 pm west southwest of the coastal community of Crescent City, according to the US Geological Survey Web site.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's state visit to the US is expected to see discussion on India's possible entry into a US-led global alliance on critical minerals, officials told Business Standard. In June last year, the US, the European Union, and other G7 partners launched the Minerals Security Partnership to ensure that China did not further strengthen its grip on supplies of critical minerals the world over. Various ministries, including the Ministry of Finance, have communicated to the Ministry of External Affairs to explore the possibility of India joining the partnership, officials said.
The density of population and mushrooming of building complexes posed a serious threat to the Pink City.
As a consequence of global warming, the melting of ice sheets and glaciers in the high mountains would lead to a rise in sea level and adversely affect the low lying coastal areas in the Indian subcontinent.
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