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

South Africa's minerals minister is beginning a campaign this week to calm market fears over legislation aimed at giving black people a significant share of South Africa's mining industry. The

Though Orissa is rich in natural resources, the exploitation of minerals in the state languishes at a very low level compared to the potential. Statistics say that the rate of exploitation of

Jyotsna Tirkely, a member of the Adivasi Mahilla Manch, lives near Jaddugara, a town in Jharkhand which has acquired notoriety for being the home of India's largest uranium mine. Cases of cancer here