"Why does Buddha have to weep in his own land/" Tribals falling victimss to radioactivity-related ailments from the mines, mills and tailing ponds of the Uranium Corporation of India Ltd (UCIL) in

Officialdom has struck at the illegal sand quarrying menace after being forced into silence for long. Though no arrests have been made, the quantum of quarrying in Chennai outskirts has come down,

Goa's iron ore mining companies propose to contribute Rs 2 per ton of iron ore produced towards the corpus of Mineral Foundation of Goa (MFG), an autonomous foundation set up by the industry to

A dose of five to six deafening explosions. Splinters and pieces of rocks that scatter around sends the earth beneath you quivering. Stone crushers roar and below dust late into night. That's an

Coming under pressure on grounds of environment, the mining industry in the State has been discussing ideas with other experts to see how the situation here could be improved. Some suggestions that

The environment minister has said mining is taking place in a 500 metre disputed land. He has urged the Archaelogical Survey of India to demarcate the disputed

Illegal mining of Coltan is threatening the protected areas of Congo Kinshasa ( drc ) town. Coltan is a hardening agent for metal used by a number of industries. According to the World

The Mineral Foundation of Goa, registered under the Societies Act on December 12, 2000, is set up with a vision of a collective approach by the mining industry to the promotion of environmental and

Rio Tinto Orissa Mining Limited (RTOML) is a British company named RTZ that has been involved in the 'exploration' of Koenjhar district for mining metals. That this 'exploration' of Koenjhar district

The fate of the Tambogrande mining concession in northern Peru will rest in the hands of local residents, if the project passes an initial environmental study, the energy and mines minister said this