Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said the larger interest of the public sector would be fully protected.
From taking charge of Jharkhand as its youngest chief minister at 38 to establishing himself as a 'fighter' for tribal rights, Hemant Soren, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate, is an accidental leader thrust into politics after a family tragedy.
Two teams of the National Disaster Response Force consisting of over 60 personnel reached on Friday morning, while 12 personnel from the State Disaster Response Force are already at the site.
The Gujarat high court has suspended the life sentence of Shiva Solanki, an accused in the 2010 murder of RTI activist Amit Jethwa, and granted him bail pending hearing of his appeal against his conviction by a CBI court.
A group of 91 retired bureaucrats has appealed to the Centre to withdraw the Green Credits programme, which they claimed may facilitate diversion of forest land to private entities. "Quick, smooth and easy diversion of our forest lands in favour of user agencies is apparently the sole intention of this set of Green Credits rules. "We urge the MOEFCC to recognise this danger and withdraw the Green Credits notification expeditiously," the group of former civil servants wrote in an open letter to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC).
Adani's Carmichael project has been stuck in the approvals process for the past five years.
At the time of bidding, Amit Bahadur had Rs 4,840 in his bank account.
Progress on the mine was blocked in August after a claim Adani failed to take into account the welfare of the yakka skink lizard and ornamental snake.
India was once the world's third largest iron ore exporter and Goa its biggest exporting state
The Uttar Pradesh government on Wednesday reluctantly admitted before the National Green Tribunal that illegal sand mining was going on in the state and not even a single environmental clearance had been granted for it in Gautam Budh Nagar district.
Three experts from Western Coal Fields, a subsidiary of Coal India Limited, camped at the Silkyara tunnel site from November 20.
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.
The new mining policy must be rock solid
'This move rendered the chiefs of important investigative agencies to the status of daily wage earners. It undermined the autonomy and independence of the agencies.'
It is up to the government to take a decision on this before it starts auctioning.
Those for power sector to see tussle between prior owners & new challengers
Yashasvi Jaiswal's Test career is just nine games old but the great Brian Lara feels if there is anyone who can get close to his lofty feats, including the record 400 not out, it is the 22-year-old southpaw from India.
Jindal Steel and Balco emerged as the top bidders.
The BJP is treading cautiously on the crucial land bill and will take it up only after the passage of the Mines and Coal bills in Rajya Sabha on Thursday.
Rana Gurjit denied the charges saying neither he nor his company - Rana Sugars Limited - has any direct or indirect stakes in sand mining business.
Ray of hope for power, metal companies.
The Supreme Court on Friday ordered withdrawal of the Look Out Circular (LOC) issued against Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee and his wife Rujira in connection with the money laundering cases against them linked to an alleged coal smuggling scam in West Bengal.
Environmental campaigners say they hope two outstanding court cases can still stop India's Adani Enterprises Ltd from developing a A$10 billion ($7.6 billion) coal project.
Some landowners had alleged that Adani was 'misleading' the public.
The brokerage earnings estimate for the January-March 2024 quarter (Q4FY24) for Nifty 50 companies hints at a slowdown in corporate profit growth while revenue increase is likely to be in low single digits as in the previous two quarters. According to various brokerage estimates, the companies' combined net profits are expected to grow 3.1 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) in Q4FY24, the slowest in the last five quarters. For comparison, the index companies' combined net profits were up 8.2 per cent Y-o-Y in Q3FY24 and 3.4 per cent Y-o-Y in Q4FY23.
Breeders and importers of exotic dogs worried; animal rights activists say the industry needs to be tamed.
The Enforcement Directorate has issued fresh summons to Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren to appear before it in Ranchi on November 17 for questioning in a money laundering case linked to alleged illegal mining in the state, official sources said Wednesday.
The Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court on Tuesday refused bail to advocate Surendra Gadling in connection with a 2016 Surjagarh iron ore mine arson case, noting that prima facie the accusations against him are true.
Mining baron and former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy, an accused in the illegal mining case involving his Obulapuram Mining Company and his personal assistant K Mehfuz Ali, also an accused in the case, were taken to Bangalore from Chanchalguda Central Prison in Hyderabad on Thursday.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday filed a chargesheet against K Mehfuz Ali Khan, an accused in the Obulapuram Mining Company scam involving jailed former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy.
Former Karnataka minister and mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy will be brought to Bangalore on March 2 after a transit warrant issued in his name by the Nampally special Central Bureau of Investigation court.
State Home Minister Anil Vij said the probe will also go into all aspects of illegal mining in the area.
India's resource-hungry corporations are going aggressive to acquire natural resource assets overseas.
The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leader had asked the ED to advance the date of appearance to November 16, which has not been agreed to by the agency, they said.
Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Thursday said he will attend the inauguration of the Ram temple at Ayodhya in January if he is invited to the programme.
If Pitroda's blunder cost him his office, what should the BJP's unrepentant attitude cost it?, asks Shyam G Menon.
The plea came up for hearing before a bench comprising Justices B V Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan.
Rejecting Das's plea, the court observed that it appeared that Shah's photo was shared with the intention of defaming him and tarnishing his image, and it clearly suggested "mens rea" (intention/knowledge of wrongdoing).
At the heart of Paytm's slide lies the abject failure of its Super App strategy, notes Indrajit Gupta.
They misbehaved with her, attacked their vehicles with canes and pelted stones
