With the powerful mining mafia opposing mandatory environment clearance, Punjab too is dithering on its implementation.

Minister for Environment and Forests Jayanthi Natarajan has rejected the steel ministry's charge that her department was delaying mining clearances that could potentially lead to law and order issu

Steel minister Beni Prasad Verma has cautioned environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan against delaying green clearances for SAIL’s iron ore mines in Orissa and Jharkhand. Delays have led to the discontinuation of mining in the predominantly tribal areas, said Verma, cautioning this could trigger law and order problems and stoke naxal activities in these areas.

Verma’s November 30 letter follows SAIL’s top brass cautioning that delays at two SAIL mines — Gua in Jharkhand and Bolani in Orissa — could trigger serious raw material scarcity at its Bokaro plant in Jharkhand and Integrated Steel Plant in West Bengal.

Sending a stern message that it will not take lapses in environmental issues lightly, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has, for the first time, sought action against a senior bureaucrat.

Under fire from the Ministry of Mines for the inordinate delay in clearing applications for renewal of mining lease, the State Government on Monday reportedly told the Supreme Court-appointed Centr

Steel minister Beni Prasad Verma has cautioned environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan against holding up clearances for SAIL’s iron ore mines in Orissa and Jharkhand, saying this would force the s

Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today sought the intervention of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to allow approval of mining projects in Punjab, saying the alarming scarcity of construction

In what is an indication of the lack of big projects being initiated in the city, the three-year tenure of the two regulatory bodies that were constituted to check environmental degradation have en

The Union Ministry for Environment on Thursday filed a reply to the questions posed by a division bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court pertaining to surface mining and how many inches and fee