The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre has held that radiation fears among those living around mines and dumping sites for waste radioactive material of the Uranium Corporation of India in Jaduguda (East

The Papua New Guinea government said it wanted to keep the troubled Ok Tedi copper mine open and said it did not expect BHP to pull out of its majority ownership of the mine. Asked

HC : In a significant ruling , the Mumbai High court on Thursday prohibited all kinds of mining activities in the proximity of ordnance factories to protect all vital and sensitive defence

High Court upholds Collector's action : A District Collector's action cancelling the licence for a granite quarry which threatened a 1300-year old monument has been upheld by the Madras High Court.

Strong representations made by the villagers of Patan, city-based Centre for Social Justice and several government departments have helped in saving 1,344 hectares of virgin undulating land in

The Dakshina Kannada Prisarasaktha Okkoota (DKPO), Dakshina Kannada Prisarasaktha Krishikara Vedike (DKPKV) and the Nagarika Seva Trust(NST) have strongly opposed the 'temporary work permit' isued by

Despite the Supreme Court order banning mining in forest areas, illegal

The country's only uranium source in Jaduguda is now under attack from the anti-nuclear activists who promote scary stories of spreading radiation, while the available longterm data fail to sustain

For years, Daulat Ram has toiled on rusty bargers in Goa, loading iron ore for export to countries he had never seen or heard of. Five years after fleeing his poverty-strucken village in India's