Residents from Lamgao in Goa have urged Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar to take action against a mining company, which is slowly entering the village limits and posing a serious threat to human life

The Uranium Corporation of India Limited has proposed a uranium mining and processing plant in Nalgonda district in Andhra Pradesh, which has raised alarm. The opposition to the project is

The Jharkhand Government will soon start acquiring land for the Rs 5,000-crore Central scheme to find a permanent solution to the Jharia coal mine fires that have been raging for the last 90 years.

"It is just like meddling with the natural cycle of creation and playing with the lives of millions of people." This is the gist of opposition voiced by Greenpeace, the environmental watchdog group,

Krishi Ekta Sangh, a NGO spearheading the environment protection campaign in the remote Rivona village, of Sanguem district of Goa, has complained of the indirect discharge of water into Vargothi vod

Madhya Pradesh has transferred a total of 5000 mines to the panchayats, fetching a revenue of about Rs 16 crore. The entire amount of royalty from these mines is being deposited in the accounts of

Mining activities in Rajasthan have resumed after the Supreme Court on Monday modified its earlier order banning mining in the Aravalli hill ranges. The apex court has permitted mining if prior

Environmentalists and social activists who have strongly opposing the move to take up mining of uranium by Uranium Corporation of India Ltd, had to beat a hasty retreat at the environmental public

Two workers died and as many sustained grave injuries when the mine where they were working caved in a village Uradi, falling under Sivni-Malwa region, in Hoshangabad district of Madhya Pradesh.

The Supreme Court which had earlier banned all mining activities in the Aravalli hill range stretching from Rajasthan to Haryana, has modified the order and permitted them if prior permission has