Colonies coming up near the southern border of Delhi and just south of it can now look forward to a steady supply of pure drinking water as a major exercise is currently under way involving the

In a bid to ensure restoration of mining areas-sans ecological degradation, mines ministry has proposed a new mines closure scheme which will make it mandatory for mining companies to give a

Situated at a few kilometers from Shimla is the Kasumpti Assembly segment where the mining quarrying and timber mafia is active. The mafia virtually has stranglehold on the Junga-Chalanda area.

A second committee which was set up on the orders of the Supreme Court to ascertain whether the ban on mining was being enforced within a 5 km radius of the border of the national Capital has

CPM district secretary M A Baby yesterday came down heavily on the Government move to allow mineral sand mining at the coastal region in Alappuzha district of Kerala stretching from Kayamkulam to

Expressing serious concern over the threat posed to the Tamil Nadu State's water bodies by incessant sand mining, the jury, formed for a public hearing held in February this year, asked the State

At least 25 illegal miners were feared killed when an abandoned mine of the Central Coalfields Limited caved in Bokaro district of Jharkhand on Thursday. Sources said that nearly 40 to 45 illegal

The Kochi district expert-committee meeting, presided over by District Collector Gyanesh Kumar, has decided to sanction sand mining from the river banks in the city. The sanction was given after the

The Kerala State cabinet has cleared the minerals policy, paving the ay for private participation in establishing minerals-based industries in the State. The policy stipulates that land will not be

The Panjim Bench of the Bombay High Court has directed five mining companies, who have dumped mine rejects on the banks of the Advoi nullah, Sattari to deposit an amount of Rs 1,79,552 with the Court