A panel set up by India's top court recommended lifting a ban on iron ore mining in Goa, albeit with conditions that include lowering production.

Miners in the western state, which exported almost all its ore before the Supreme Court order in October 2012, should limit output to 20 million tonnes, the panel said on Wednesday in a report. The quantity is about 40 per cent of what the state produced in the year ended March 31, 2012.

NEW DELHI: In what may eventually help in further relaxing the Supreme Court's iron ore mining ban in Goa, an expert committee set up for the macro environmental impact assessment (EIA) study has s

PANJIM: The Supreme Court’s six-member expert panel has recommended upto 20 million tonne cap on mining of ore per annum in Goa, observing that there was large scale degradation of landscape, incre

PANJIM: Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said that he would resume mining within a few minutes of the Supreme Court lifting the ban, provided Union government revokes its decision which had suspende

Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority (GCZMA) has ordered demolition of structures constructed by three resorts in Mandrem, as they were built in the no development zone in violation of CRZ notific

The Goa State Pollution Control Board has begun the process of issuing notices to polluting stone crushers in the Sao Jose de Areal-Sarzora-Dramapur-Gudi belt to show cause why their operations sho

Just two of 15 critically endangered bird species mentioned in the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) latest list were sighted by birders in Goa in recent years, but now no lon