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AU Financial Review
4 days ago
- Business
- AU Financial Review
Rio Tinto's departing CEO rejects talk of rift with chairman
Departing Rio Tinto chief executive Jakob Stausholm says there is no bad blood with chairman Dominic Barton, and the company's next boss could 'very well be' an internal candidate. Stausholm's comments come two weeks after his exit was announced and as the Danish executive hosted guests at the official opening of Rio's $2.4 billion Western Range iron ore joint venture with Chinese giant Baowu in the Pilbara region on Friday.
Nikkei Asia
4 days ago
- Business
- Nikkei Asia
Rio Tinto and China's Baowu open iron mine in Australia
SYDNEY -- Anglo-Australian resources giant Rio Tinto on Friday officially opened a joint-venture iron ore mine with China's Baowu Group in Pilbara, Australia's iron ore heartland. The $2 billion project, Western Range, has the capacity to produce 25 million metric tons of the metal a year, or enough to sustain the area's Paraburdoo mining hub for up to 20 years.
The Print
29-05-2025
- The Print
NIA starts probe into loot of huge quantity of explosives by Maoists in Odisha's Sundargarh
'The Odisha police is providing all required assistance to the NIA for undertaking the probe into the loot of explosives,' DIG, Western Range, Brijesh Rai told reporters at Rourkela. Senior NIA officers including a DIG, SP and Additional SP visited Rourkela. The NIA has started an investigation into the loot of around 200 packets of gelatin being transported to a stone quarry at Banko in Sundergarh district on Tuesday by Maoists. Bhubaneswar/Rourkela, May 29 (PTI) A team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday started an investigation into the loot of huge quantity of explosives by Maoists in Odisha's Sundargarh district, an officer said. He said the police have registered a case in this regard based on the statement of the driver of the truck which was transporting the explosive materials. The loot took place in the area in close vicinity of Saranda forests in adjacent West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand, considered the hotbed of Maoists. The armed miscreants reportedly threatened the driver at gunpoint and asked him to drive into a nearby forest, where a group of Maoists looted approximately four tonne of explosives. Though the truck carrying the material was recovered during a search operation on Wednesday, there was no trace of the explosives, an officer said. The truck driver said the Hindi-speaking Maoists spared him after he pleaded for mercy. Police sources said that there were indications of involvement of Jharkhand-based Maoists in the explosive loot incident. The DIG said the Maoists might have entered Sundergarh from neighbouring Jharkhand. The place of loot was in close proximity to West Singhbhum district in Jharkhand. Rai said as per the direction of DGP Y B Khurania, who visited the spot on Wednesday, the police have launched a search operation. On Wednesday, DGP Khurania along with IGP (Operation) Deepak Kumar, DIG (Western Range) Brijesh Kumar Rai and Sundargarh SP Pratyush Diwakar held a series of closed-door meetings and reviewed the situation. Meanwhile, the Odisha police along with security personnel of Jharkhand and CRPF have intensified operations in the Odisha-Jharkhand border area. PTI COR AAM AAM RG This report is auto-generated from PTI news service. ThePrint holds no responsibility for its content.
