Indian green energy pioneers shortlisted for coveted global prize – Ashden Awards

Three Indian green energy pioneers have been shortlisted today for the 2013 International Ashden Awards, moving a step closer to winning up to £40,000 in prize money, as well as access to business support, international media exposure and membership of the prestigious Ashden India Sustainable Energy Collective. The organisations are: · Friends of Women’s World …

Inchcape Shipping Services opens North Africa operations desk

Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS), the world’s leading maritime services provider, has opened a new North Africa operations desk to co-ordinate customer requirements across ports in Libya, Algeria and Morocco. Providing a new single point of contact for North Africa will deliver quick and decisive solutions to global customers using extensive local knowledge and contacts. Based …

In Defense of Mamata Banerjee: Destination Resurgent Bengal

Take a state. Subject it to misrule for more than three long decades, systematically purging it of all industrial activities with a committed agenda of destroying its institutions by infiltrating the ranks with loyalists and forcing out the deserving. Add to this fiscal profligacy leading to a state where the exchequer is empty with the …

Think before you tweet

Even while the news about the two girls getting booked for facebook-ing their dissent hogs the headlines, here comes another piece that urges restraint. A UK based politician is suing 10,000 tweeters who helped spread a salacious bit of news alleging that he was involved in a sex related scandal. While BBC which had originally …

SunCoke enters India, settles for Visa as partner

In a major industry event, SunCoke Energy Inc. with interests spread across the Americas has entered into an agreement with Visa Steel to enter the coke making domain in India. As part of the agreement, Visa Steel will hive off its existing coke making business to a SPV floated for the purpose christened Visa Coke …

Mechel Announces Signing Contracts on Supplies of Extra-size Tires with Japan’s Marubeni Corporation

Moscow, Russia — November 20, 2012 – Mechel OAO (NYSE: MTL), one of the leading Russian mining and metals companies, announces the signing of five-year contracts for supplies of extra-size Bridgestone tires with Japan’s Marubeni Corporation during the 10th session of the Russia-Japan Inter-Government Commission on Trade and Economic Issues in Tokyo, Japan.  On the …

Silver Institute Releases Report on Silver Industrial Demand

REPORT FEATURES OUTLOOK FOR MAJOR SILVER FABRICATING AND SILVER INDUSTRIAL MARKETS (Washington, D.C. – November 20, 2012) – The Silver Institute today released a  report, the Outlook for Silver Industrial Demand,  that examines the current and future outlook for global industrial silver demand.  The 14-page report features an economic outlook, as well as current and …