Once the world's third-biggest iron ore exporter, India now resorts to importing the steelmaking ingredient due to a court-led crackdown on illegal mining.
Softbank, Foxconn and Bharti Enterprises have already pledged to invest about $20 billion in solar projects in the country.
Vedanta, country's largest private miner, led the resumption with a ceremonial opening at its Codli mine, heralding the return of a once-big exporter just when iron ore prices are inching up after...
The unit of Swiss food giant Nestle is at the centre of India's worst food scare in a decade after FSSAI found its Maggi noodles contained dangerous levels of lead.
Vedanta, controlled by billionaire Anil Agarwal, is running its main plant at a third of capacity even as global output in the first half of the year rose at its fastest pace since 2010. China, th...
A mining law enacted in March by the government means the company would now also have to buy a mining licence in an auction. Originally, the Odisha government had promised to help the company obta...
Further dismaying local firms such as JSW and Kalyani Steels, this week India extended a deal to provide high-grade iron ore to Japan and South Korea as part of bilateral ties.
More than half of India's farms lack irrigation and millions of farmers still depend on the vagaries of the monsoon rains that run from June to September, and hit the southern coast last week, fiv...
The outlook by Skymet should help allay concerns of farmers who have already been hit hard by unseasonal rains earlier this year and have been on edge ever since the government forecast what could...
Reviving output from the nationalised coal sector has been one of Modi's most tangible achievements during his first year in office, one that he hopes will secure continuous power to all and eat i...