Mining
Coalgate: Court tells CBI to further grill Manmohan Singh, others
16 Dec 2014
Refusing to accept CBI’s closure report, a special CBI court in Delhi today ordered it to record the statements of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who held charge of the coal ministry in 2005 in the coal block misallocation case
Australian regulator blocks Yancoal’s $2.3 bn equity issue
15 Dec 2014
The Australian takeovers regulator has stopped Yancoal from raising up to $2.3 billion in securities, after minority shareholders objected, fearing this to be a backdoor strategy by China's Yanzhou Coal to gain near complete control of the loss-making coal mining firm
Coal scam: Jharkhand ex-CM Koda, 6 others charged by CBI
12 Dec 2014
Former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda and seven others have been charged by the CBI in a case related to the coal block allocation scam
BHP to name proposed spinoff company South32
09 Dec 2014
The new company’s name represents its major assets in the southern hemisphere in Australia and South Africa, linked by the 32nd parallel south of latitude and the company’s regional approach to managing its operations
NMDC cuts iron ore prices as demand dips
05 Dec 2014
Jindal Steel shelves $10-bn coal-to-diesel project: report
24 Nov 2014
Jindal, which used to own some of these coal blocks scrapped by the Supreme Court, will now have to deposit about Rs3,000 crore with the government by December as a levy for the coal it has dug out from the mines that now stand cancelled
