Everything you need to know about Burma Mines: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Burma Mines: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Brasilia, June 19 (IANS/EFE) President Dilma Rousseff has proposed a new regulatory framework for mining in Brazil, one of the world's biggest producers of iron, bauxite, gold, nickel, manganese and other minerals.
Kuala Lumpur, June 13 (IANS) CIMB Group announced Thursday that the CIMB Classic, the first official PGA Tour FedExCup event in Asia, will move to the Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country Club (KLGCC).
Washington, June 3 (ANI): The Rohingya community in Myanmar who are being held in squalid camps and even beaten up, have been told that there is only one way out - by identifying themselves as Bengalis.
London, May 29 (ANI): Muslims and Buddhists in Burma have clashed over the burning of a mosque and some shops owned by Muslims.
Bangkok, May 28 (ANI): Burma's government should publicly revoke a discriminatory population control regulation that restricts Rohingya Muslims to having two children, Human Rights Watch said today.
London, May 28 (ANI): Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has condemned a decision by local officials in Rakhine state to enforce a "two-child policy" on Rohingya Muslims.
Washington, May 24 (ANI): HSBC's controversial 1.9 billion-dollar settlement deal with American authorities over money laundering charges, has been stalled after a row between the Department of Justice and the judge overseeing the case.
Washington, May 21 (IANS) US Secretary of State John Kerry has expressed concern at global problems of discrimination and violence against religious groups, including Baha'is, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, Christians, Muslims, and Sikhs besides increasing use of blasphemy and apostasy laws.
IIT- JEE Advanced 2013 admit cards are available for download for which Joint Entrance Exam (Advanced) 2013 has been scheduled to be conducted on June 2, 2013.
Rio de Janeiro, May 16 (IANS/EFE) A two-day Brazilian oil and natural gas auction has received strong demand from companies based in Brazil, Colombia, Portugal, France, Britain and other countries, with bid prices far exceeding the regulator's expectations.
Panaji, May 7 (IANS) A delegation of Goa's mining workforce, who were in Delhi to lobby for restarting Goa's banned mining industry, Tuesday said they met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Minister for Mines Dinsha Patel in Parliament House.
New Delhi, May 7 (ANI): Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) 2013 scores are expected to be declared at 4 pm today. Conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education, JEE (Main) 2013 scores will determine admission to the National Institutes of Technology (NIT) and the Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIIT) and other deemed Universities.
Washington, May 1 (IANS) A US federal advisory body has reiterated its concerns about Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's admissibility to the US due to his alleged "complicity in the 2002 riots" in the state.
The Communist Party of India-Marxist secretary for Goa, Thalmann Pereira, also said that mining leases given to handpicked, crony Goan families by the "hated" colonial regime headed by Portuguese dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar decades ago should be wrested back, and a government corporation should be formed to run the mining on these leases.
London, April 24 (IANS) Amid damning reports showing official Myanmar complicity in ethnically cleansing entire Muslim towns and villages, the world's foremost Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, has condemned the violence that has left hundreds dead and an estimated hundreds of thousands homeless.
London, Apr 24 (ANI): Burma has freed at least 56 political prisoners after the EU decision to lift the last of its sanctions.
Bhubaneswar, April 22 (IANS) Odisha's ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Monday held a demonstration here to protest against the alleged neglect of the state by the Congress-led central government.
London, Apr 22 (ANI): A new video has emerged that shows Burmese police officers standing by while Buddhist rioters attacked minority Muslims in the town of Meiktila.
Kolkata, April 19 (IANS) In a bid to increase production, state-run Coal India Ltd (CIL), the world's largest coal miner, is planning to extract nearly two to three billion tonnes of coal reserves locked up as pillars in its existing and abandoned mines, a top official said Friday.
Shanghai, April 10 (IANS/EFE) Peruvian President Ollanta Humala has wrapped up his first official visit to China in Shanghai, the country's economic capital, where he presided at an investment forum attended by executives from more than 100 companies.
New Delhi, April 4 (IANS) Five people, including two Myanmarese nationals and a former Assam Rifles officer, have been arrested for smuggling pseudoephedrine tablets of worth Rs.15 crore to northeastern states of India and Myanmar, police said Thursday.
London, Apr 2 (ANI): In yet another important milestone on Burma's journey to democracy, private daily newspapers are being sold in the country for the first time in almost 50 years.
Washington, Mar. 29 (ANI): Myanmar's army chief marked Armed Forces Day by saying the military will continue to play a political role during the country's transition to democracy.
Bangkok, March 27 (IANS) The Myanmar government is systematically restricting humanitarian aid and imposing discriminatory policies on Rohingya Muslims, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.
Lima, March 23 (IANS/EFE) A consortium made up of Spain's Corsan Corviam and Brazil's Engevix and Enex has been chosen to build a hydroelectric power station in southern Peru, officials said.
Panaji, March 18 (IANS) People indicted for illegal mining could henceforth be barred from applying for ore extraction licences, a government report states.
New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) A 48-year-old stockbroker was arrested for cheating a former chairman of Coal India Limited (CIL) of his life savings of Rs.5 crore through illegal transfer of his shares, the police said Saturday.
Amid the much speculation regarding the India?s development and its economic emergence, now experts think that it is playing a key role as an emerging development partner for neighbours and also for other countries. Experts assume that it has been playing key role especially
Washington, March 14 (IANS) India is playing a key role as an emerging development partner for neighbours and other countries, particularly Africa, thanks to a US-India partnership, according to the USAID administrator Rajiv Shah.
Yangon, March 12 (IANS) A Myanmar commission, led by opposition leader and parliamentarian Aung San Suu Kyi, has proposed that a copper mining project in which a Chinese company has a stake should go on.
Washington, March 12 (IANS) Describing forging deeper partnerships with emerging powers as a key pillar of US strategy for the Asia-Pacific, a top aide of President Barack Obama says Washington not just accepts, but fervently supports India's rise.
Naypyidaw, March 6 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russia is seeking improved ties including military cooperation with Myanmar, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said here during an official visit.
Panaji, March 3 (IANS) After duping the state treasury of billions of rupees, one would think illegal mining would be villain No. 1 for the Goa government and rapacious mining companies the faces of this brazen villainy.
New Delhi, Mar. 1 (ANI): President Pranab Mukherjee will release a commemorative stamp on the occasion of bicentenary celebrations of the 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment (Special Forces) at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here on Saturday.
New Delhi, Mar. 1 (ANI): President Pranab Mukherjee will release a commemorative stamp on the occasion of bicentenary celebrations of the 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment (Special Forces) at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here on Saturday.
Washington, March 1 (ANI): A South Dakota School of Mines and Technology assistant professor and his team have discovered a new species of herbivorous dinosaur and reported the first fossil evidence of prehistoric crocodyliforms feeding on small dinosaurs.
New Delhi, Feb 27 (ANI): The Geoscience Advisory Council (GAC), under the ministry of mines, will hold its third meeting here today.
New York, February 24 (ANI): A small state college in remote western South Dakota might soon introduce the first technology that can allows shoppers pay by pressing their fingerprints onto a pay pad, rather than swiping a credit card.
London, Feb. 17 (ANI): Archaeologists have called off the hunt for Spitfires that were buried in Burma after World War II.
Panaji, Feb 16 (IANS) Google satellite imaging and global positioning systems (GPS) are flawed when it comes to monitoring illegal mining and encroachment of forest land by mining companies, the Goa government has told the Supreme Court.
New Delhi, Feb 15 (IANS) The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) turns 150 Sunday but its first mission to India took place in 1917 and it formally set up presence here only in 1982.
New Delhi, Feb. 13 (ANI): The 52nd Central Geological Programming Board (CGPB) meeting of the Geological Survey of India, Ministry of Mines, will be held here on Thursday.
London, Feb. 8 (ANI): Burma will be establishing a committee to review the detention of its remaining political prisoners.
Washington, Feb 6 (ANI): Michelle Obama's effort to promote low-calorie school lunches was met with the usual protest against the federal government meddling in local business, which then quickly found its way around to the First Lady's posterior.
London, Feb 5 (ANI): The Burmese government has reached an agreement with ethnic Kachin rebels to work to end a bloody conflict.
London, Jan 30 (ANI): The Burmese authorities have lifted a 25-year-old ban on public gatherings of more than five people.
London, Jan. 28 (ANI): Burmese pro-democracy crusader Aung San Suu Kyi has said she is still 'fond' of her country's army, even though it kept her under house arrest for 15 years.
New Delhi, Jan 24 (IANS) Expressing doubts whether the allocation of coal blocks by the central government was in accordance with statutory provisions, the Supreme Court Thursday questioned the government's powers to do so.
New Delhi, Jan.24 (ANI): The Coal Mines (Conservation and Development) Amendment Bill,2012 , as introduced in Lok Sabha on Dec 22,2012 and pending therein has been referred to the Departmental Related Standing Committee on Coal and Steel of parliament for detailed examination and report.
London, Jan.19 (ANI): Archaeologists searching for 100 Spitfire planes, which were said to be buried in Burma at the end of the Second World War, have come up with nothing.
London, Jan 18 (IANS) A British team of archaeologists on a trip to Myanmar to dig out Spitfire planes reportedly buried during World War II have hit a blank after digging for almost two weeks.
Sydney, Jan. 11 (ANI): Burma's first sex education magazine, Hyno, has sparked debate since hitting bookstores in November, just a few months after the end of censorship in the former junta-ruled nation.
London, Jan 5 (ANI): An archeological team is heading towards Burma to unearth dozens of British Spitfires said to have been buried there at the end of the World War II.
London, Jan. 3 (ANI): Burma's military aircraft have been targeting rebel areas in country's northern Kachin state over the last five days, video footage has revealed.
London, Jan 2 (IANS) Military aircraft in Myanmar have been targeting rebel areas in the country's northern Kachin state since the last week of December 2012, BBC reported.
London, Dec 29 (ANI): The Burmese government will allow circulation of privately owned newspapers from April 2013 for the first time in almost 50 years.
Yangon, Dec 27 (IANS) Myanmar will assess the environmental impact of a copper mining project in which a Chinese company has a stake.
Sydney, Dec. 25 (ANI): Nearly 50 members of the Indian community believed to be descendants of one of the lost tribes of Israel have arrived in the Jewish state, completing their immigration.
Washington, Dec 15 (IANS) Over 100 people have been killed and dozens of others injured in several school shootings in the US over the last 20 years with the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007 being the deadliest claiming 32 lives, including two Indians.
London, Dec. 13 (ANI): Buddhist monks held rallies across Burma to demand further apologies from the authorities over a crackdown against a copper mine protest last month.
Washington, Dec 12 (ANI): The British banking giant HSBC, which has been slapped with a record 1.9 billion dollars fine by US regulators for money laundering, will no arrests within the firm, according to a report.
London, Dec. 10 (ANI): A whole squadron of Second World War Spitfire fighter planes could be buried under houses in Birmingham, a pensioner has claimed, after admitting that he had helped hiding them.
Washington, December 6 (ANI): The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission, NASA's twin probes orbiting Earth's moon, have generated the highest resolution gravity field map of any celestial body.
Kolkata, Dec 5 (IANS) Afghanistan is likely to sign an agreement with a SAIL-led consortium in January 2013 to mine Hajigak iron ore in Bamiyan province after getting cabinet clearance.
Kolkata, Dec 4 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Tuesday visited Birbhum district's Loba village, four weeks after 33 people including six villagers were injured in a mob-police clash, and assured peasants that their land would not be acquired forcibly.
London, Dec. 4 (ANI): A dissident Buddhist monk who had been released for President Barack Obama's Burma visit and gave a welcome to democratic reforms introduced in the country, has reportedly been thrown back in jail after over alleged fears that he might protest again.
London, Dec. 4 (ANI): US-based blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng has urged China's new leader Xi Jinping to institute reforms and uphold human rights in the country.
Shimla, Nov 23 (IANS) The Indian Institute of Advanced Studies (IIAS), a research institution in Shimla, has published another edition of Myanmar's pro?democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, the institute's official said Friday.
Sydney, Nov 23 (ANI): Pro-democracy crusader Aung San Suu Kyi has expressed disappointment that governments were calling her country Myanmar, a name chosen by its military rulers, rather than Burma.
New Delhi, Nov 22 (IANS) A new collaborative effort aims to realise the full potential of Myanmar as Asia's rice granary.
London, Nov 22 (ANI): The Burmese government has said it is ready to open the country to comprehensive international inspection to make it clear that it does not have a covert nuclear programme.
New Delhi, Nov. 21 (ANI): President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday said the mining industry occupies an important position in the national economy by not only employing over one million persons, but also producing basic raw materials for many industries, including the core sector.
Washington, Nov. 21 (ANI): President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton found time aboard Air Force One to recollect about their long relationship and unlikely alliance, as they took their final trip abroad together amid the Middle East crisis.
Washington, Nov 19 (ANI): U.S. President Barack Obama has praised Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi for her 'courage and determination', during a historic visit to the once repressive country.
London, Nov 19 (ANI): US President Barack Obama has urged Burma's leaders to continue the reform process, saying more progress is needed in the country.
New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) With the winter session starting Nov 22, parliament is facing a burden of over 100 pending bills with successive sessions failing to transact much legislative business.
Bangkok (Thailand), Nov. 18 (ANI): Attacks and arson in late October by ethnic Arakanese against Rohingya Muslims in Burma's Arakan State were at times carried out with the support of state security forces and local government officials, Human Rights Watch said today.
Washington, Nov. 17 (ANI): US President Barack Obama's trip to Myanmar could offer an opportunity for China and the US to work together, even as Beijing eyes the visit with a wary eye, analysts have said.
New Delhi, Nov. 16 (ANI): Travelling down the memory lane, Nobel Laureate and Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Friday that she felt that she was partly a citizen of India, given that she had acquired her college degree from her alma mater Lady Sri Ram (LSR) College for Women here.
Rangoon, Nov. 16 (ANI): Burma has started releasing 452 prisoners under an amnesty on Thursday, but pressure groups and relatives said that they have not yet heard of any political detainees being among those freed.
New Delhi, Nov 14 (IANS) In a deft balancing act, Myanmar's opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi Wednesday said while New Delhi had once "drawn away" from the struggle for democracy in her country, she hoped that India will now stand by her in "the last difficult phase" ahead.
New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrived here Tuesday on a six-day visit during which she will meet India's leaders as well as friends from her school and college days in Delhi.
New Delhi, Nov 12 (IANS) The Myanmar community here is all agog about pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's visit to Delhi, the first by her to India in 40 years.
New Delhi, Nov 12 (IANS) India and Afghanistan Monday signed four agreements to cooperate in areas of social welfare, fertilizer, coal mining and youth affairs, an official here said.
It says something about the world that we live in that six people set themselves on fire in just about as many days to protest their diminishing freedoms and it barely captures any attention at all.
Kolkata, Nov 9 (IANS) The West Bengal government and villagers of Loba, who had clashed with the police over a land acquisition dispute Nov 6, Friday held a meeting.
Bogota, Nov 8 (IANS/EFE) Average oil output in Colombia climbed to 960,953 barrels per day in October, up 0.9 percent from the same month of 2011, the Mines and Energy Ministry said.
Bhubaneswar, Nov 6 (IANS) Odisha has served show cause notices on 103 state mines for extracting ore in excess of their stipulated limit, state Steel and Mines Secretary Rajesh Verma said Tuesday.
London, Nov. 4 (ANI): After the World Bank gave millions of dollars in aid to Burma, European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso has now offered the country more than 100 million dollars in development aid as he met President Thein Sein.
London, Nov 3 (ANI): The World Bank is giving millions of dollars in aid to Burma, for the first time in 25 years.
Melbourne, November 1 (ANI): The search for new medicines to beat malaria could spur developments in the fight against other diseases, researchers have claimed.
Excerpts from "India And The War", official history of the Indian Armed Forces in World War II, brought out by the History Division, Ministry of Defence. Re-published this week by Pentagon Press and made available to IANS:
Rio de Janeiro, Oct 31 (IANS) A blackout that plunged northeast Brazil into complete darkness for several hours last week was caused by human error, an official said.
New York, Oct.30 (ANI): New York-based Human Rights Watch has said that the authorities in Burma need to do more to protect displaced Rohingyas, even as the Bangladesh Government has shown no interest in doing so.
London, Oct 29 (ANI): Over 22,000 people from mainly Muslim communities have been forced to flee their homes in western Burma amid a fresh wave of sectarian violence, the United Nations has said.
London, Oct. 28 (ANI): Burmese president Thein Sein has acknowledged major destruction and ethnic unrest in the west of the country.
Kuala Lumpur, Oct 27 (IANS) Title holder Bo Van Pelt of the United States charged to the top of the $6.1 million CIMB Classic after a spectacular nine-under-par 62 saw him tie with overnight leader Robert Garrigus in the third round here Saturday.
Kuala Lumpur, Oct 25 (IANS) American Troy Matteson produced a magical eight-under-par 63, thanks to four closing birdies, including a closing hole "slam-dunk", as he put the shade on Tiger Woods in the first round of the $6.1 CIMB Classic here Thursday.
Kuala Lumpur, Oct 25 (IANS) India's Gaganjeet Bhullar stood tall amongst other golfers on the PGA Tour in the opening round of the CIMB Classic, shooting a fabulous six-under-par 65 to emerge as the leading Asian here Thursday.
London, Oct. 25 (ANI): Burmese authorities have imposed a night-time curfew in at least two towns in western Rakhine state as inter-communal violence continues to spread in the nation.
