After lying low for a fortnight, illegal sand quarrying has again reared its head on the Vaigai riverbed.The "powerful"' miners, who work at their will in scooping sand from the riverbed, have not

A public interest litigation petition seeking to prevent sand quarrying on the Palar riverbed stretching from Walajah Anaicut to Kalathoor in Vellore and Tiruvannamalai districts has been admitted

The Madras High Court has admitted and ordered notice on a public interest writ petition praying for a direction to the authorities concerned to prevent further quarrying of sand from the Palar river

Philomena Peres, president of the Karnataka State's women's development Commission, visited the stone quarries in and around Pambur near Shirva last week and assured to solve the problems of the

Congress leader V M Sudheeran has alleged that Industries Minister P K Kunhalikutty has taken the people for a ride in the ilmenite mining issue in Kerala. Inaugurating a people's convention

12 thousand brick kilns located in Uttar Pradesh are rendering 35,000 hectares of agricultural land barren. The owners have been warned of dire consequences if they continued mining in the area which

After over a decade, investigation and drilling of uranium deposits by the Uranium Corporation of India (UCI) have resumed in Meghalaya. The UCI has conducted geo-physical survey in Domiasiat area

The Antony Government's controversial decision to permit the Cochin Minerals and Rutile Ltd to mine ilmenite rutile from the coastal villages of Thrikkunnappuza and Arattupuzha in Kerala has

The Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) has asked the Mallapuram panchayat and the Peddadisarlapudi mandal in Andhra Pradesh revenue officer to accord clearance to the Rs 415 crore uranium

The HP High Court has taken a serious note of the allegation of illegal and unscientific mining being done in Jandpur village of Baijnath subdivision. Taking action on the letter written by the