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Saturday, March 14, 2026
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Topic: Mines

India holds workshop on offshore mining, reviews auction plan

Workshop held in Delhi focused on the development of sustainable and environment-friendly offshore mining and technology to support it.

India inks pact to boost critical minerals processing, clean energy transition

Ministry of Mines signs MoU to boost domestic critical minerals processing industry, aims to become a global hub.

Ministry of Mines to host Critical Minerals Summit in New Delhi

The summit will bring together industry leaders, startups, government officials, scientists, academics, and policy experts.

South Africa’s deep mines grapple with thousands returning to work

Social distancing, screening and testing will hamper the country’s deep-level mines, which have been operating with half their workforce since a five-week shutdown ended at the beginning of May. @Saif Ullah Khan

Our harbours may be vulnerable for 20 years, and Indian Navy can’t do much

Indian Navy’s sole remaining mine-sweeping and mine-hunting vessel is due for de-commissioning soon.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.