Chairman-cum-Managing Director of Uranium Corporation of India (UCIL) Diwakar Acharya has said that adequate uranium reserves have been proved for India's nuclear power programme and the future belonged to mineralisation of poor grade uranium ore. Read more...

IL&FS Transportation Net-works had emerged as the lowest bidder for the six-laning of Barwa-Adda-Panagarh section of NH2 from 398.240 km to 521.120 km including Panagarh Bypass in the states of Jharkhand and West Bengal under NHDP phase V to be executed on DBFOT basis issued by NHAI. Read more...

Keeping in mind the difficult terrain and dominance of rebels in Jharkhand, the government has decided to provide roads to even those villages which have a population of more than 100, said Union Rural Development Minister. Read more...

According to data given by the state-run banks to the Union Finance Minister, P Chidambaram, 215 projects worth over Rs 7 lakh crore are stuck because of various reasons including lack of coal or fuel linkages, statutory approval etc. Read more...

The steel production in Jharkhand is set to increase by around 5 mn tpa by June this year taking the production figure to 18 mn tpa as expansion of TATA Steel in Jamshedpur will be completed and the Greenfield project of Electorsteel will begin in Bokaro. Read more...

Essar Oil received approval from the ministry of environment and forests for its phase III operation in Raniganj block, West Bengal.The clearance will enable the firm to invest another Rs 2,500 crore to increase the number of drilled wells to 300 by the end of this year. This would raise the production to 3 million standard cubic metre of gas per day (scmd) from around 60,000 scmd. Read more...

National Thermal Power Corporation's (NTPC) proposed project in Jharkhand has been stuck for more than a decade between the Power and Coal Ministries. But soon, an NTPC team will start finalising the process for competitive bidding to procure equipment for its 1,980 MW super-thermal power plant in Jharkhand. Read more...

Steel Authority of India (SAIL) aims to raise its captive iron ore mining capacity to 45 million tonne at an investment of Rs 10,284 crore.Of the total investment, around Rs 6,500 crore has been earmarked for the company's Rowghat mines in Chhatisgarh and on the Gua mines in Jharkhand. Read more...

The much debated issue of location of the North Karanpura Thermal Power Project in Jharkhand is likely to come for discussion at the second meeting of high-powered Cabinet Committee on Investment (CCI). The Rs 10,000 crore project has been stuck since 1993 because of disagreement between the Union Power and Coal ministries over six bn t of high-grade coal reserves. Officials concerned said that CCI will discuss coal projects with a production potential of 37 mn t in which Rs 1,347 crore worth of Read more...

IL&FS Transportation Networks has stated that the company has submitted a bid with the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for six-laning of Barwa-Adda-Panagarh Section of NII-2 from km 398.240 to km 521.120 including Panagarh Bypass in Jharkhand and West Bengal under NHDP Phase V to be executed on DBFOT basis. Read more...