The Narmada Bacchao Andolan has lodged a strong protest against the wrongful arrest of 29 adivasis in the Limbi village of Badwani district in western Madhya Pradesh. The adivasis were campaigning

CAPEXIL has urged the West Bengal Government, which is now in the process of finalising a State export policy, to undertake a detailed feasibility study for setting up a mineral park in the State.

The decks are being cleared for the proposed Rs 480 crore uranium mining and processing project at Domiasiat in the West Khasi Hills of Meghalaya with the landowners settling for negotiations with

After hogging the national limelight recently in the wake of biggest deep water gas strike in the country in the last three decades by Reliance Industries Ltd. in the Krishna-Godavari basin, Andhra

The Union Minister of Coal, Mr Kariya Munda, has asked coal companies to change their production priorities from opencast to underground mines. The change in priority was essential to achieve the

The Pampa Parirakshana Samithi has sought a one year ban on sand-mining in Pampa river in Kerala from October 1 in view of the grave environment problems being faced by the river following

The Panjim Bench of Bombay High Court headed by Justice RJ Kochar and Justice PV Hardas has admitted the writ petition
filed by the Krishi Vikas Ekta Sangh, an NGO based in Mushcavrem ward of Rivona

The high court framed guidelines for the functioning of stone crushers in the state. A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice V.K. Gupta and Mr Justice R.L. Khurana directed te crusher owners to

Shamshad Banoo, 53, has been suffering from a respiratory ailment since the past several years. She says that it is a common disease for those living in the shanties of Suratmidh block in the

Neyvali Lignite Corporation (NLC) has decided to resume the work on its lignite mining and power generation project in Rajasthan very soon. Announcing this Coal and Mines Minister Uma Bharti said