The Kudremukh Iron Ore Project, a joint venture sewed up during the reign of the Shah of Iran and a test case for environment activism in India, looks headed for a quiet burial. The project is

The High Court today admitted a public interest writ petition challenging the action of Karnataka State government which had denotified an area of 3,703.55 hectare of the Kudremukh National Park

More than anything, it is the unequivocal support of voluntary organisations and almost all political parties to the anti-mining campaign in the Kudremukh hills that has cheered the "Tunga Bhadra

The Karnataka State cabinet today discussed the issue of extending the mining lease to the public sector Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Limited at length, and asked the Mines and Geology Department to

Chile's state-owned copper company Codelco and global miner BHP Billiton Plc plan to build a $50 million bioleaching plant in Chile with a capacity to treat 20,000 tonnes of copper annually starting

With exactly a week's time left for the Kudremukh Iron Ore Co's mining lease, environmentalists here have said any extension of the lease would be illegal. According to Mr Leo F. Saldanha and Ms

Opposition members in the Legislative Assembly today took the government to task for denotifying large areas of Kudremukh National Park and leasing it out to the Kudremukh Iron Ore Company (KIOCL)

Madhya Pradesh forest minister Harvansh Singh threatened to close down the coal mines of South Eastern Coalfields (SECL) if it failed to complete the work of filling and leveling of mines in Shahdol

The Philippines said yesterday it had permitted Australian firm, Lafayette Mining Ltd , to excavate copper, zinc, silver and gold from Rapu Rapu island near Legazpi in Albay province. The Department

V D Satheesan, MLA, today informed that the Revenue Minister has assured in the Assembly that the mining of sand from rivers, including the Periyar, will be regulated, in order to make sand