India will hold talks with a SAIL-led consortium of steel and mining companies to ease their entry into Afghanistan for the first-ever deal.

The SAIL-led consortium plans to scale down the size of its proposed steel plant in Afghanistan in the first phase to 1-2 mtpa.

SAIL-led consortium is bidding for copper and gold reserves in mineral-rich Afghanistan, the government said today.

SAIL-led consortium and Afghanistan government are likely to ink a final pact in May to develop rich Hajigak iron ore mines.

The SAIL-led consortium that bagged mining rights for three iron ore mines at Hajigak will sign the final agreement with the Afghanistan go...