25 minerals exempted from customs duty. Sitharaman also announced setting up of ‘Critical Mineral Mission’ for production, recycling, and overseas acquisition of mineral assets.
India has been pursuing a trade agreement with Peru since 2017. The two countries held the 6th round of negotiations last month and talks are scheduled to be held again in December.
This was the 2nd time this year that the Australian Foreign Investment Review Board blocked a Chinese company from investing in the country's critical minerals sector.
Bill to amend Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act to be tabled during monsoon session. Govt also seeks to allow commercial mining of mineral resources in offshore areas.
Increasingly, lenders have stepped in where equity funding has slowed amid global market volatility. But instead of helping startups, they end up extracting a pound of flesh that outlasts the crisis itself.
Rural ownership of motor vehicles jumped from 19 percent in 2011-2012 to 59 percent in 2023-2024, while urban rose from 40 percent to 68 percent during the same time period, study by two members of PM-EAC says.
At the Jindal Literature Festival, Maj Gen (Retd) Lakhwinder Singh reveals secrets from 25 years ago, speaking about the decision that outwitted Musharraf and changed the course of the war.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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