Chennai: In a significant move, the Government of India, amid opposition, has instructed the Geological Survey of India (GSI) to reassess the Nayakkarpatti Tungsten Block in Madurai district, Tamil ...

The Tamil Nadu government has been requested to keep the process of issuing the Letter of Intent to the preferred bidder of the block on hold for the time being. The Centre on Tuesday asked the ...

The opportunity to pay an annual visit to a 14-inch (36cm) cube of tungsten has sold for a quarter of a million dollars, after the intensely dense objects became a meme among crypto traders. Despite ...

The announcement came a day after representatives of local Ambalakarars community from Madurai district met coal and mines minister G Kishan Reddy and urged him to cancel the sale of the block.

Inputs were taken from the Tamil Nadu government before the auction of the Nayakkarpatti tungsten block and no communication from any quarter, including from the state government, regarding any ...

Politics seems to have played a larger role than India’s strategic need for tungsten or the Centre’s and State’s claims that they had acted in deference to people’s wishes. Tungsten, or wolfram, a ...

Square's rebranding announcement as Block contained a strange reference to tungsten cubes. The mention was a signal to crypto enthusiasts, who were recently in a frenzy to buy the novelty objects. A ...

Chennai: No permission has been granted to Hindustan Zinc Limited, a subsidiary of the controversial Vedanta group, for carrying out any mineral exploration in the in Melur taluk of Madurai district, ...