Coal India Ltd (CIL) may have to defer a number of new projects proposed for the period 2002-07 because of delays in getting environmental and forest clearances. With around 34 agencies involved in

A panch member of Sancoale village panchayat Simon Carvolho in Goa in a press note circulated here today alleged that the area where alleged large scale excavation of hills along Cortalim-Vasco road

A division bench of the Kerala High Court today directed the District Collector, Ernakulam, to inquire into media reports regarding unauthorised sand collection in Eloor panchayat, leading to the

Coal companies should not be allowed to collapse the surface of the land over their mines, an U.S.district court has ruled. The decision overturns an Interior Department regulation that citizen

If the present impasse between the Kancheepuram district administration and Sankarapuram villagers persists, one may not be able to hear the sonorous chiseling sound on stone as one walks through the

The Centre is seriously considering the privatisation of coal mining going back on the nationalisation decree of 1973. The Group of Ministers, headed by Mr Yashwant Sinha will meet to discuss the

While efforts are being made to bring the Ganga back to its original course along the ghats of Kanpur, uncontrolled sand mining has threatened the existence of the river in another 5-km stretch in

Time was, when the Saranda forest cover was so dense that even the sun s rays couldn t penetrate it. Ironically, denudation has driven the region from darkness unto light. And tribal communities are being made the scapegoats

A recent study of foodstuff from an ex-tin mining area in Bidor, Malaysia, has revealed high levels of potentially toxic

The mining controversy in Kataldi, Tehri Garhwal, has taken a new turn now. Even as the villagers