Uranium Corporation of India Ltd (UCIL) is expecting to start commercial production from the first phase of the Rs 1,100-crore uranium mining and processing facility at Cuddapah district of Andhra

Iran has claimed it is installing new high-tech uranium enrichment centrifuges to hasten progress in its nuclear programme, a move that France has condemned as a

Tummalapalle in Andhra Pradesh could have one of the largest uranium reserves in the world.

Few Hyderabadis know that they consume 0.14 to 9.50 micrograms per litre of uranium when they drink water from the River Krishna.

While the amount is within the permissible limits set by the World Health Organisation, environmentalists warn that the dissolved uranium levels in water will go up once the Uranium Corporation of India Limited takes up mining in Nagarjunasagar.

A high-level panel chaired by Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa on Thursday cleared a project by the Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) to mine uranium at village Gogi in Shahapur taluka.

Cost of development: Many suffer from serious health hazards
centre of controversy: The area where uranium mining was conducted at Gogi in Shahpur village of Yadgir district.

SHILLONG, The South West Khasi Hills Unit of the Khasi Students

Chinese mining companies make inroads into mineral-rich region, aided and abetted by the ruling dispensation, even as locals continue to resist neighbour

In a bid to strengthen bilateral ties, Australian government could review and lift the long standing ban on uranium export to India later this year, a media report said on Thursday.

Canada today said it was hopeful of ratifying the India-Canada civil-nuclear treaty soon and signing a bilateral Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) by 2013 to give an impetus to trade and economic ties.

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