Three months after a fire ravaged the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, a rare glimpse inside the burned masterpiece revealed it to be eerily empty and with rubble still littering the nave.
At present, India allows 100% foreign direct investment in exploration and production of oil and gas through a production sharing regime.
The capture of Baghouz comes almost three months (December 2018) after US President Trump declared that IS had been defeated in Syria.
NCC cadets and hundreds of volunteers, with help of compact excavators and trucks cleaned up Juhu beach this morning, after Ganesh idol immersion along the city coast.
CBI sources say that they have information that 50 lakh metric tons of iron ore has been mined in various parts of the state and the value of the same is Rs 2500 crore.
A miner was on Tuesday killed while an official went missing after water gushed into a coal mine of the Central Coalfields Limited (CCL) in Bokaro district during excavation of coal.
The hunt for a reported treasure trove in the heart of Hyderabad city by the State Archaeological Department was suspended on Monday afternoon after a two-day digging operation did not yield any results. Mohammed Siddique reports.
Unless the Taliban goofs up in a big way, which seems highly unlikely, we are looking at a regime that will be around for quite a long while and present a level of governance that the puppets of the richest and most advanced countries failed to provide, predicts Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Karnataka's mining baron, Janardhan Reddy is in trouble. The chargesheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation has suggested that Reddy earned Rs 4,300 crore through illegal mining.
The first phase will end in 2018 and have the world's largest terminal under one roofThe first phase will end in 2018 and have the world's largest terminal under one roof
The incident took place when some people from nearby villages were collecting coal from the "over-burdened" dump yard located near the mining area.
The daunting excavation work to build the world's longest railway tunnel beneath the Swiss Alps is complete.
Since the treasure at Thiruvananthapuram's Sree Anantha Padmanabhaswamy Temple has been discovered the value of the riches and what should be done with it has become the talk of the town. But little attention has been paid to the rich history and culture of the state that these valuables reveal, says P J Cherian, director, Kerala Council for Historical Research and the director of the archaeological excavations at Pattanam in Ernakulam district.
In a faux pas, NSG Chief R C Tayal on Tuesday claimed his men defused an Improvised Explosive Device recovered from high-security DRDO Bhawan after "no other agency" could handle the situation, but it later turned out to be a bomb of World War II vintage.
Addressing Maharashtra Chief Minister and Shiv Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray, Ranaut posted a video message saying his 'ego will be destroyed' the way her Bandra home was demolished.
This Haryana village believes it has 'found' the Saraswati river of the Vedas.
An inquiry has been ordered by the Director General of Mines Safety and a high-level committee of experts has been constituted by Coal India to investigate the causes of the accident.
Headed by Central Bureau of Investigation Deputy Inspector General Abhay Kumar, the team comprising a number of armed commandoes reached the residence on Sahu Road in Muzaffarpur, where the shelter home and the office of the Hindi daily 'Pratah Kamal' owned by Thakur, the main accused in the sex scandal, are also situated.
There is much more to the September 24 Ayodhya verdict than just the settlement of 'who owns the disputed land' issue.
Nuclear Power Corporation's first indigenous 700 Mega Watt Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor at Kakrapar Atomic Power Project in Gujarat is expected to be commissioned in 2015.
The verdict on deemed licences has the Street question whether Sesa Sterlite owns any mines in Goa.
On July 16, a senior National Mineral Development Corporation official was traveling towards Chhattisgarh's Bailadila hills, where a major iron ore excavation project is going on. Just 20 kms from Jagdalpur, which is the district headquarters of the Bastar plateau, his vehicle was stopped in the middle of the night by some Maoist cadres. He was asked to step out of the car, and after he was thoroughly frisked and his vehicle checked, he was allowed to go.
After about 58 hours of rescue operation involving different agencies, the child, daughter of a farm labourer, was found dead.
Seven people, including two ambulance drivers were assaulted and 20 men have been arrested and were remanded to judicial custody.
The Pakistani Taliban have taken control of mines producing precious lapis lazuli stones in the insurgency-hit Swat valley and started operating them on their own. The Taliban have confirmed that they took control of the mines two months ago, when they arrived in the hilly area of Fiza Ghat, a resort on the outskirts of Mingora, the main city in Swat valley. The militants have appointed hundreds of local labourers to work round the clock to excavate lapis lazuli stones.
"There is need to extract iron ore, coal but it should not be done at the cost of tribals," he said.
Here's a recap of events that occurred in India in the past 24 hours.
Move over swimming pools and health clubs - eco-friendly is the new must-have in the high-end residential sector.
The Comptroller and Auditor General report tabled in Gujarat legislature has indicated security lapses and mismanagement by the jail staff in the state prisons.
Three reconnaissance permits were issued during 2006-07 enlisting private participation for use of sophisticated equipments in exploratory work. Madhya Pradesh is the top state in India today in diamond mining with the Panna mine producing 15000 carats of both gem and industrial variety stones annually.
The ISRO team is expected to commence the mapping operations in February, Mishra told rediff.com.
Bones suspected to be of victims of post-Godhra riots were found by a Supreme Court-appointed investigation team at Ode village in Anand district of Gujarat during an excavation of the place, sources involved in the operation said. The SIT has been conducting a search operation since a couple of days at three sites at Ode village where about 25 people were killed by rioters six years ago.
By Thursday, 830 confirmed cases of pneumonia, caused by the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), had been reported in 29 provincial-level regions in the country.
Thirteen persons were killed and 27 injured in a collision between a government bus and a cement laden lorry at T Kallupatti, about 40 km from Madurai in Saturday, police said.
The three policemen have been charged with abduction, illegal confinement and murder and are likely to be produced before the court for remand.
The digging work was conducted largely in and around an abandoned well that is in a farm behind Vanzara's massive bungalow and is owned by him and located in Sabarkatha district, about 100 km from Ahmedabad.
A landslide destroyed a remote village in Indonesia, killing at least 20 people, an official said, as rescuers used their bare hands and sticks to search through the mud for scores of missing in the absence of heavy-lifting equipment.
A special anti-money laundering court in New Delhi has attached assets worth over Rs 37.86 crore belonging to former Karnataka minister and mining baron Gali Janardhan Reddy and his wife in connection with an alleged multi-crore iron ore mining scam.
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