The tribal land mining issue seems to be getting murkier, with the Andhra Pradesh government caught in the wrong foot over a major decision.In a blatant violation of the Supereme Court ruling, the

India will play host to the 19th world ming Congress to be held in November 2003 in the capital. India's turn to host the triennial jamboree of 50 countries has come after US which hosted it in Las

With the Maghalaya government apparently having dropped its opposition to the mining of uranium at Domiasiat in the West Khasi Hills, the stage is now set for the Uranium Corporation of India

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The Nyungwe forest of Rwanda is being destroyed due to human activities. The forest along Rwanda's southeastern dis

Chairman-cum-managing director of Uranium Corporation of Indian Limited, R. Gupta today claimed that the Meghalaya government has given them the long-awaited "green-signal" to go ahead with uranium

An explosion in a coal mine in Southwest China which killed 162 people happened because of inadequate safety measures and poor management, according to a report in the China Youth Daily. The paper

A gas explosion has killed at least 13 coal miners and left another 18 missing in the latest disaster to strike China's accident-plagued mines, state media reported

Despite the cancellation of the tender for sand mining from the rivers of Kathmandu, the smuggling of san continues. Officials at the Kathmandu and Bhaktapur District Development Committee (DDC) say

Deep in the heart of a grassy valley, thousands of labourers are helping build India's nuclear dreams at the country's only uranium mining complex. Three kilometres away from Jaduguda, deformed