Investor enthusiasm for gold may be waning as financial market concerns supporting it over the past two years have started to fade, UK-based investment bank Barclays Capital said in a report on commodity investor attitudes. “‘Avoid gold’ appears to...
As this story was being written, reports from Japan suggest that a full meltdown of the nuclear cores in two reactors at the country’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station may not be averted. Japanese officials have already acknowledged a...
UK film-maker, Simon Chambers, last month visited Korba town in India’s Chhattisgarh state which, in late 2009, suffered one of the country’s worst recent industrial catastrophes. He discovered there was more to this “natural disaster” than...
Orissa Mining Corporation (OMC), the mining body of the Orissa government, was planning to appeal in the Supreme Court on Monday for speedy hearing of its case it filed against the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) last week. Almost six months after the MoEF...
For Posco India, trouble for its proposed 12 million tonne steel project seems to be far from over. The South Korean steel major, which has been encountering strong opposition for five years despite key government clearances, on Sunday faced a strong political rally...
The government of the world’s poorest state (by aggregated numbers of impoverished people) has been accused of granting tax concessions to corporate enterprises amounting to 2. 4 billion rupees – around US$ 48 million – each day. We say...
