The Bicholim police have issued a show cause notice to a mining company for diverting ore pit water into the Madai river. According to the information provided by Bicholim Police Inspector, Shamba

The Bush administration went to court today to defend Clinton-era regulations intended to make it easier for coal miners and their survivors to get black lung benefits. The National Mining

The Centre is proposing to withdraw the coal mining policy of 1979 and replace it with a more liberal mining policy. Coal mining would be freed to state government undertakings and companies. A

The Supreme Court (SC) is said to have issued notices to the Centre, the Government of Karnataka and Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Ltd (KIOCL) on May 10 in response to an interlocutory application

The Supreme Court has sought an explanation from the Centre fro giving permission to the Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Limited (KIOCL) for mining activity in Kudremukh National Park and file an

The Dominican Republic government will impose strict environmental standards on the company it selects to invest about $750m in reopening and working the country's main gold mine which was closed

"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