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Software, mining, book printing not part of 15% corporation tax relief: FM

The negative list includes computer software development, mining and printing of books as they are not manufacturing per se, the minister added

Great Eastern, Essar seek Bengal govt's approval for shale plans

The development comes after the central government eased the rules on exploration of unconventional hydrocarbons

An eye in the mine: Hindustan Zinc using drones underground to dig deep

HZL is currently using line-of-sight drones while it waits to try fully autonomous drones by next year

Auctions can't get new mines running, no lease inked for greenfield assets

Before the auction regime, 2,754 mining leases were executed during 2006-10 and 494 were executed between 2010 and 2014, most of which were greenfield

Mining the technology frontier

Innovation and technological changes are transforming mining activity