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EC Warns Governments on Fuel Subsidies

June 12th, 2008

The European Commission says oil prices are bound to stay high and cautioned European Union governments against giving short-term handouts to fishermen, farmers, truckers and others suffering from high fuel costs.
The Commission is drafting a report on the issue for next week’s spring meeting in Brussels of the 27 EU leaders.
Against a backdrop of protests [...]

Indian Govt. May Ask Iron Ore Producers to Cut Prices

March 30th, 2008

The union government on Thursday decided to call a meeting of country’s iron ore producers next week to discuss problems faced by the sector.
Speaking to reporters here, Commerce Secretary G.K. Pillai said: “We have called a meeting of the iron ore producers on 1st April. We will persuade them to reduce prices and any hike [...]

Jharkhand has huge quantity of mineral resources : Munda

June 18th, 2006

Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda today said the state has huge quantity of mineral resources including uranium which could be used to produce nuclear energy to solve the state’s power problem.
“Jharkhand could produce 1000 mw of nuclear energy as it has sufficient quantity of uranium but it was deprived of the facility,” he told a [...]