The government has prepared a secret blueprint to wind up the North Eastern Coalfields Limited which was once the pride of Upper Assam. The NECL management has said on record to the Planning

Divisional Commissioner Satya Prakash has issued instructions to the Vidisha Collector in Madhya Pradesh that poor members of Scheduled castes and Tribes community should be provided with mining

The recent Supreme Court judgement limiting mining operations by the public sector Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Ltd.(KIOCL) in the Western Ghats till 2005 has once again brought into focus the debate

A directional change in domestic chrome ore mining has been suggested by the committee that studied its demand during the Tenth Plan period. According to the committee, there is substantial scope for

Purification of sand in some parts of Kumar (Karnataka) is draining away different forms of natural resources. Though the State Government has identified 741 sites, sand is found in Kumar district

The much-awaited river protection squad to prevent illegal mining of sand from Periyar, Kerala, was launched by District Collector Gyanesh Kumar by flagging off a patrolling boat in Periyar, at a

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