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India Unable To Export Iron-Ore To China Over Rail Wagon Shortage: Report
India's NMDC is unable to export low-grade iron ore to China, the country's biggest iron ore customer, due to logistics issues, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
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Graves A Barrier For Jindal Steel's $2 Billion South African Iron Mine
A plan by Jindal Steel & Power Ltd. to develop an up-to $2 billion iron-ore mine in South Africa is facing opposition from communities who say the operation would require thousands of homes and graves to be relocated.
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"Captive CBI Rescued Reddy Brothers": Congress Sharpens Attack At PM Modi
In one of its sharpest attack on BJP ahead of next month's Karnataka's assembly election, the Congress today put out documents that it said, showed how the federal probe agency CBI had shut down cases in the state's biggest iron-ore mining scandal that had cost BJP's BS Yeddyurappa the chief minister's chair back in 2011. Three mining baron brother...
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BS Sriramulu re-joins BJP, says Sushma Swaraj 'like my mother'
BS Sriramulu, close aid of the jailed mining baron Janardhan Reddy, re-joined the BJP in Bangalore today. Mr Sriramulu had left the party and formed the BSR Congress after differences with the party leadership. But he is now all set to return to the fold - and is expected to get the ticket from the iron-ore rich constituency of Bellary. The seat is...
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Karnataka elections: Reddy brothers' clout waning, Congress hopes to wrest Bellary from BJP
The iron-ore rich district of Bellary in Karnataka shot into national prominence politically in 1999 when Congress chief Sonia Gandhi took on and defeated the BJP's Sushma Swaraj in the Lok Sabha elections.
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Karnataka mines will take at least two years to be operational: official
Iron ore mining in Karnataka will take a minimum of two years to become fully operational after the Supreme Court verdict allowed resumption of mining at category-A & B mines in the state, an industry official has said.
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Bellary mining ban: Many livelihoods hit
The little town of Taranagar lies on the battered highway between Bellary and Sandur, in the iron-ore rich Sandur taluk. Around 5000 people live here - and every single family depends on mining for its livelihood. Taranagar sends out people as labourers, truck drivers, cleaners and supervisors.
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Bellary: Reddys flout Supreme Court mining order
Despite the Supreme Court order on Friday that all mining of iron-ore should be suspended in Bellary, the Reddy brothers, in blatant violation of the apex court's directions, seem to be carrying out their mining operations.
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Bellary: Mined over and over by Karnataka politicians
A six-hour drive from Bangalore leads to Bellary - home of what's referred to locally as "the black gold." This is one of the most under-developed regions of Karnataka, but it is crisscrossed with vast reserves of iron-ore which have led to its repeated rape.
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India Unable To Export Iron-Ore To China Over Rail Wagon Shortage: Report
India's NMDC is unable to export low-grade iron ore to China, the country's biggest iron ore customer, due to logistics issues, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
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Graves A Barrier For Jindal Steel's $2 Billion South African Iron Mine
A plan by Jindal Steel & Power Ltd. to develop an up-to $2 billion iron-ore mine in South Africa is facing opposition from communities who say the operation would require thousands of homes and graves to be relocated.
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"Captive CBI Rescued Reddy Brothers": Congress Sharpens Attack At PM Modi
In one of its sharpest attack on BJP ahead of next month's Karnataka's assembly election, the Congress today put out documents that it said, showed how the federal probe agency CBI had shut down cases in the state's biggest iron-ore mining scandal that had cost BJP's BS Yeddyurappa the chief minister's chair back in 2011. Three mining baron brother...
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BS Sriramulu re-joins BJP, says Sushma Swaraj 'like my mother'
BS Sriramulu, close aid of the jailed mining baron Janardhan Reddy, re-joined the BJP in Bangalore today. Mr Sriramulu had left the party and formed the BSR Congress after differences with the party leadership. But he is now all set to return to the fold - and is expected to get the ticket from the iron-ore rich constituency of Bellary. The seat is...
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Karnataka elections: Reddy brothers' clout waning, Congress hopes to wrest Bellary from BJP
The iron-ore rich district of Bellary in Karnataka shot into national prominence politically in 1999 when Congress chief Sonia Gandhi took on and defeated the BJP's Sushma Swaraj in the Lok Sabha elections.
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Karnataka mines will take at least two years to be operational: official
Iron ore mining in Karnataka will take a minimum of two years to become fully operational after the Supreme Court verdict allowed resumption of mining at category-A & B mines in the state, an industry official has said.
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Bellary mining ban: Many livelihoods hit
The little town of Taranagar lies on the battered highway between Bellary and Sandur, in the iron-ore rich Sandur taluk. Around 5000 people live here - and every single family depends on mining for its livelihood. Taranagar sends out people as labourers, truck drivers, cleaners and supervisors.
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Bellary: Reddys flout Supreme Court mining order
Despite the Supreme Court order on Friday that all mining of iron-ore should be suspended in Bellary, the Reddy brothers, in blatant violation of the apex court's directions, seem to be carrying out their mining operations.
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Bellary: Mined over and over by Karnataka politicians
A six-hour drive from Bangalore leads to Bellary - home of what's referred to locally as "the black gold." This is one of the most under-developed regions of Karnataka, but it is crisscrossed with vast reserves of iron-ore which have led to its repeated rape.
