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

Despite a ban on mining in the five km area along the Delhi border, illegal mining has not come to an end totally. The authorities conducted a raid near Gurukul in Aravalli Hills and arrested some

A gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in eastern China, killing at least 63 miners and leaving 23 others missing 500 metres underground, local officials said. Xinhua said 27 of the 113 people

How should states sitting on mining assets be compensated now that the Constitution has given the Centre the authority to extract these resources? The CM of one such state says the process should

Julia Bonds, a grandmother living in the state of West Virginia, usa, has been awarded the 2003 Goldman environmental prize for her fearless campaigning against the hazardous practice of mountaintop coal mining. Bonds, the director of the protest group Co