The President has given his assent to the Offshore Areas Mineral Bill, 2002. With this, the Bill passed during the water session of Parliament has been notified in the Gazette of India as Act no. 17

The Orissa Pradesh Congress Committee has demanded a CBI probe into the alleged irregularities in the decision to allow a private company to extract chrome ore from the Tangarpada mines in Dhenkanal

Uttaranchal village relieved

The Navin Patnaik government (Orissa) is set to hand over the lion's share of chrome-ore mining on lease to Jindal Strips Ltd through a joint venture ostensibly on the basis of a report of the

Indonesia is considering issuing a decree to allow mining firms to operate in areas protected by the country's forestry law, Mines and Energy Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro said. Purnomo said the 1999

Evidence has been submitted to Supreme Court, in the form of documents and receipts, that illegal mining, blasting and transportation of minerals was continuing in Faridabad and Gurgaon districts

The chairman of the newly formed export promotion council for hundred per cent export-oriented units (EoUs) R Veeramani has urged commerce and industry minister Arun Shourie that the uniform mining

The Haryana government told the Supreme Court that only legal mining was going on in certain areas of the state, senior lawyer Shanti Bhushan pleaded that the apex court could not stop an activity

Strict vigil by the Forest department has temporarily curbed illegal mining of diamonds being carried out since the last few years at Suttatmale Hills situated on the borders of South Kanara and

The Kerala Government can pick up a few valuable lessons on sea-sand mining from various other coastal countries in the world that rely on sea-sand to tide over acute shortage of the commodity. Most