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

Five thousand mines fetching a revenue of about Rs 16 crore have been transferred to Panchayats by the Mineral Resources department in Madhya Pradesh. Entire amounts of royalty from these mines are

The Kerala chapter of the Hind Keth Mazdoor Sabha, an organisation of the farmers/fishermen and forest employees under the aegis of Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS), had decided to to step up its protest

The Andhra Pradesh state BJP president N Indrasena Reddy today said that a three-member committee was formed to study the controvesy raging over the proposed uranium project of the Uranium

With barely a few hours left for the public hearing on the proposed Uranium mining and processing a Peddagattu and Pedda Adiserlapalli villages in Nalgonda district, environmental groups have

The world's largest diversified miner, BHP-Billiton Plc (BLT.L) (BHP.AX), obtained environmental approval to begin production at its Spence copper project in Chile, said Chilean financial daily El

In a major decision aimed at giving a fillip to mining activities involving minor minerals, Karnataka has decided to dereserve as much as 11620 sq kms out of a total of 26464 sq kms reserved of

Opposition is mounting against the uranium mining project in Nalgonda district, with fears that radiactive elements would contaminate the Nagarjunasagar dam and the Akkampalli reservoir which are

Political parties in Andhra Pradesh have thrown their weight behind the movement against the proposed Uranium mining and processing plant in the Nalgonda district. They have urged the government to

The controversy over the uranium mining and processing project in Nalgonda district is snowballing inot a major environmental and political issue in Andhra Pradesh, even as AP Pollution Control Board