Some 50 miners feared dead at three coal mines in China after accidents that a top government watchdog blamed on "evil" enterprises that keep the mines open, state media said on Monday. Two miners

The ground work to explore the sea-bed up to an extent of 23 times of the total extent of the country, for mineral and other resources which we can claim rights under the UN Convention of Law of the

The death toll in a hill collapse during stone quarrying at Pantha Chowk in Srinagar, Kashmir has risen to eight, official sources said. A portion of the hill gave way on Saturday when stone

For sand miners in Kerala, who won't get permission to mine sand from the rivers following a Government ban from July 1 for three months, the availability of sand deposits in certain low-lying areas

To offset part of the loss caused to the state exchequer by the closure of mining activities within a radius of 5 km of Delhi under s Supreme Court order, the Haryana Mining and Geology Department

Chief Minister S M Krishna has assured Opposition leader in the Parliament Sonia Gandhi that mining at Kudremukh in Chikmagalur district of Karnataka will be allowed only for the next five years. In

The reported statement of Opposition Leader V S Achuthanandan on the agitation against the privatisation of mineral sand-mining has surprised many in the LDF. Achuthanandan told at Alapuzha that he

Down with mining. This is the

At least 46 people were killed in China's northern province of Shanxi when an electrical fire ignited explosives in a gold mine, a newspaper said on Friday. The accident took place last Saturday at

Issuing notice of motion for August 12 on a petition filed by a Faridabad resident seeking the quashing of a notice issued for the auction of Alipur sand mines in Gurgaon district, a Division Bench