The World Bank-backed coal mine project in Parej Hazaribagh, Jharkhand is violating various policies involving resettlement, environment, information and cultural property management, according to a

Village after fertile village along the Kortaliyar cutting across Tiruvallur district of Tamil Nadu face total destruction of water and land resources, as illegal and sand miners have descended on

Neither the recent truck strike nor the law has precented sand quarrying from the riverbed and main canals of reservoirs in Dindigul and Theni districts.In Palani taluk alone, about 30 lorries and

Large-scale mining activity in remote villages of Sanguem and Quepem talukas of Goa is being held responsible for affecting the livelihood of the villagers residing this taluka, as villagers who had

Partnership spanning political barriers, official apathy, money and muscle power, inter-gang rivalty, baiting locals and muzzling dissent explain looting of sand from the Cauvery bed in Karur

Six persons were killed and five others injured when a mud mine caved in at village Jamunia, in Chhindwara district of Madhya Pradesh. The villagers were collecting mud at the mine when it suddenly

Riverbeds in Tirunelveli are not only a good source of income to the exchequer, but they also enrich some people and provide them muscle power and political clout. For, some of the riverbeds are

It has been a decade since the World Bank approved the Coal India Environmental and Social Mitigation Project for funding the opencase coalmines at Hazaribagh in Jharkhand and two years since the

The Union Ministry of Coal and Mines wants to see all existing coal washeries under the management of different subsidiaries of Coal India Ltd (CIL) run profitably or else they would be closed down.

Putting an end to the controversial issue of indiscriminate sand quarrying in the Palar river basin in Kancheepuram district, the Madras High Court declined to extend quarrying permits to a batch of