GURUGRAM: There has been a 125% increase in the number of illegal mining cases in Gurugram in the past one year, revealed the response to an RTI query.

Windhoek — The Ministry of Environment and Tourism has revealed that they arrested more than 222 suspects for poaching and illegal possession of either rhino horns or elephant tusks in 2016.

Move aimed at filling demand-supply gap to check sand prices

BHOPAL : Former minister and BJP leader Kamal Patel filed a petition regarding illegal mining near Narmada river against Union of India, chief secretary of MP, secretary of MP government’s departme

Dudhai's villagers may be the first in India to have got financial ben efits under the Biological Diversity Act, 2002.They have also used its provisions to end rampant illegal mining on the Swarna

Dar es Salaam — Tanzania faces a decline in wildlife population and environmental degradation due to population growth, environmental mismanagement and economic activities, a report indicates.

NAINITAL: The Uttarakhand high court, on Thursday, stayed the state government's decision of cancelling mining leases or licences in Dehradun, Udham Singh Nagar, Nainital and Haridwar districts.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Police recovered 25 bodies, believed to be those of illegal miners, from a disused Harmony Gold mine shaft, near an area where 76 illegal miners died in 2009 in what was on

HARIDWAR: After a hiatus of about five years following the banning of mining in the Ganga by the Uttarakhand high court and the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Haridwar (rural) MLA Yatishwa

Over 9,303 cases of illegal mining were detected and fine worth Rs 4.01 crore recovered in connection with illegal mining activity in the state in the recent past.