No-go Areas

The new US ambassador to the Netherlands refused on Wednesday to explain his 2015 comments that Muslims had brought chaos to the country "burning cars and politicians", as he took up his post.

Political and economic reforms in communist Cuba will be a no-go area during talks between Cuban leader Raul Castro and US President Barack Obama, the foreign minister said in Havana Thursday.

After clearing 5 "No-Go" areas for oil and gas exploration, the Cabinet Committee on Investment (CCI) will this month ease stringent conditions imposed by Defence Ministry on 31 other blocks.

Reliance Industries and its partner BP's KG-D6 gas fields and gas discovery area NEC-25 are among 14 oil and gas blocks that have been declared "no-go" areas by the Defence Ministry, barring any exploration or production activity.

With the row over 'go' and 'no-go' coal mining areas remaining unresolved, the government is believed to have referred the issue to the Forest Advisory Committee which will revert to a ministers' panel with a possible solution. "The Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) will look into the issue irrespective of the 'go' and 'no-go' classification,"...

A Group of Ministers (GoM), headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, has convened the first meeting to clear the logjam between the coal and the environment ministry regarding mining in forest areas and to decide on the 'go' and 'no-go' areas for coal blocks. During the meeting, coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal stuck to his ground and de...

Ahead of a meeting of the Group of Ministers (GoM) on the coal issue on Friday, Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has agreed to clear sixteen coal projects that have been stuck for a year now.Coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal told NDTV that he had a fruitful meeting with Jairam Ramesh who has agreed to relax pollution norms slightly, thus all...

The new US ambassador to the Netherlands refused on Wednesday to explain his 2015 comments that Muslims had brought chaos to the country "burning cars and politicians", as he took up his post.

Political and economic reforms in communist Cuba will be a no-go area during talks between Cuban leader Raul Castro and US President Barack Obama, the foreign minister said in Havana Thursday.

After clearing 5 "No-Go" areas for oil and gas exploration, the Cabinet Committee on Investment (CCI) will this month ease stringent conditions imposed by Defence Ministry on 31 other blocks.

Reliance Industries and its partner BP's KG-D6 gas fields and gas discovery area NEC-25 are among 14 oil and gas blocks that have been declared "no-go" areas by the Defence Ministry, barring any exploration or production activity.

With the row over 'go' and 'no-go' coal mining areas remaining unresolved, the government is believed to have referred the issue to the Forest Advisory Committee which will revert to a ministers' panel with a possible solution. "The Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) will look into the issue irrespective of the 'go' and 'no-go' classification,"...

A Group of Ministers (GoM), headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, has convened the first meeting to clear the logjam between the coal and the environment ministry regarding mining in forest areas and to decide on the 'go' and 'no-go' areas for coal blocks. During the meeting, coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal stuck to his ground and de...

Ahead of a meeting of the Group of Ministers (GoM) on the coal issue on Friday, Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has agreed to clear sixteen coal projects that have been stuck for a year now.Coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal told NDTV that he had a fruitful meeting with Jairam Ramesh who has agreed to relax pollution norms slightly, thus all...