The Jayashrikrishna Parisara Premi Samiti, Mumbai announced that it would organize an agitation to extend the mining at Kudremukh till 20 more years, including filing a review application with the

It has been decided to hold a severe protest under the leadership of Bhartiya Kisan Sangha, against illegal sand mining in Udyavar river flowing in Manipur, Kurkalu and Enagudde villages, in

The Kerala Government will grant leases for mining mineral sands in the state only for manufacture of value-added products by companies in the joint sector. The order issued by the state government

The permission accorded by the Supreme Court of India to the Kudremukh Iron Ore Company, a public sector undertaking, to continue its mining operations around the national park covering 56,328,798

Barely a few kilometers from Delhi are valleys with lakes. But they are not a sight of nature's bounty as one would imagine. Instead, they serve as a warning that the Aravalis, Delhi's only hope

Varied opinions are being expressed to the Supreme Court verdict which states that Kudremukh in Karnataka must wind up its mining operations by July 2004. Wild life First, a voluntary association

The Madhya Pradesh Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Reliance Group for a two-phase investment of Rs 4,500 crore in a coal-bed methane project in Shahdol district.

The $19 billion BHP Billiton, the world's second largest mining and minerals conglomerate, is in advanced stages of talks with the Sajjan Jindal group to develop a 5 million tonne mining venture in

Just beyond the Delhi-Gurgaon-Faridabad border, gigantic scars mark the Aravallis: pits 100 feet deep and a staggering 400 hectares wide. Now filled with water pumped out of the ground, these fake

The Supreme Court permitted the Kudremukh Iron Ore Company in Karnataka to continue mining operations till 2005, by which time the weathered secondary ore available in the already broken area should