Thailand's Industry Ministry's planned request at today's cabinet meeting to allow ore exploration does not say how it will affect watershed areas environmentally. An official at the Office of

The Kerala High Court today directed the Kozhikode District Collector to conduct an inquiry through the Revenue Divisional Officer(RDO) concerned with regard to sand mining on the bank of Mahe river

Thailand's Industry Ministry will seek cabinet approval on Tuesday to undertake industrial ore exploration in protected and watershed areas despite reservations from the Agriculture and Co-operatives

Four mega aluminium projects by the MNCs in Orissa, with an estimated cost of over Rs 25,000 crore, may face trouble ahead with Banka Behary Das, a green leader urging the President to cancel the

Famous for its scenic splendour, innumerable water falls and fountains oozing out of mineral-rich hill slopes, Sahastradhara, near Dehradun, would have vanished from the tourist map had the

What is going on at Jaduguda> On the face of it, the 30,000 strong community looks like any cluster of Indian villages. But this is no pastoral idyll. In environmental circles, Jadugoda is known as

Geologists have spotted for the first time 'gold mineral' in carbonate rocks at Newania near Udaipur in southeastern part of Rajasthan, which has been known till now as Aravalli limestone area,

A state government committee on Monday proposed a mining policy for Maharashtra, which aims at whipping up private investment in the sector. The state cabinet is expected to decide on whether to

For the conservation of forest, the Union Government constituted Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 but the STate Government has, without seeking the Centre's permission, carried its projects on forest

the traditional owners of the Jabiluka uranium mine site in Australia won a reprieve in their battle to halt the project when the company, Energy Resources Australia ( era ), "temporarily'