India's NLC India Ltd and Hindalco Industries Ltd are among the companies that will be operating six coal mines that were put up for auction earlier this year, the government said on Friday.
Ukraine and its allies aim to rally global support for a peace blueprint in talks hosted by Saudi Arabia this weekend, with Western officials increasingly optimistic that China will attend, lending the talks a new weight.
August is the least likely month of the U.S. growing season to feature a rally in Chicago-traded soybeans, and weather forecasts through mid-month seem to favor that trend in 2023.
Air India Chief Executive Campbell Wilson has held talks with India's antitrust head on its pending merger with sister airline Vistara, weeks after the watchdog raised concerns about market power, people familiar with the matter said.
Chicago wheat climbed nearly 3% on Friday after a Ukrainian drone attack near the Russian Black Sea export hub of Novorossiysk rekindled fears of war disruption to global supplies.
South African citrus farmers want their government to lodge a complaint against the European Union at the World Trade Organisation over the European bloc's citrus black spot regulations which they say threaten thousands of jobs.
India is committed to ending crop burning this year, the government said, after agriculture and environment ministry officials met on Thursday to review progress towards preventing the major source of pollution during the winter months.
France's farm ministry on Friday raised its estimate of the country's 2023 soft wheat production to 35.59 million metric tons, 5.6% above last year's volume, from an initial projection of 35 million last month.
The United Nations food agency's world price index rebounded in July from two-year lows as vegetable oil markets rose following renewed tensions over grain exports from Ukraine and concerns over global production.
Vietnam's trade minister on Friday called on the country's rice exporters to honour their export contracts to maintain demand despite a recent surge in prices for the staple grain, state media reported.
Chicago wheat rose over 3% on Friday after Ukrainian drone attacks near the Russian Black Sea grain export port of Novorossiysk triggered concerns about potential disruption to global grain supplies.
Ethiopia's government on Friday declared a state of emergency following days of clashes in the Amhara region between the military and local Fano militiamen.
London copper traded in a tight range on Friday ahead of a U.S. employment report, while prices were heading for a slight decline for the week with investors cautiously awaiting more economic stimulus measures by top consumer China.
Australia on Friday used China's decision to drop anti-dumping tariffs on its barley imports to call for the end to all remaining trade restrictions, led by wine, as commercial ties between the two trading partners edge towards normalisation.
Rain pelted swathes of China's biggest grain producing province on Friday, submerging farms and worsening floods that have already swamped cities around the country as rescue workers scramble to contain the havoc caused by Typhoon Doksuri.
The whirring sound of a sewing machine can be heard a few paces from Judah Zunze's workshop in Harare's Warren Park township, as he stitches up political party regalia for a customer ahead of elections this month.
Algerian state agency ONAB is believed to have bought one consignments of about 40,000 metric tons of animal feed corn expected to be sourced from Argentina or Brazil in an international tender for up to 120,000 metric tons on Thursday, European traders said on Friday.
Hungary's calendar-adjusted retail sales fell by an annual 8.3% in June following a 12.3% drop in May, the Central Statistics Office (KSH) said on Friday.