<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) regarding illegal sand mining being done at the Balod Pod sand mine located in Balod district, Chhattisgarh.</p> <p>A report was called
The green hills in Himachal Pradesh have been indiscriminately stripped of its forest cover in the past 10 years, resulting in flash floods, devastating landslides and complete change in the pattern
The Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests, Mr. Babu Lal Marandi, today declared the intention of the Government to put a stop to the environmental problems being caused by the use of
Despite the report of a miner death in a Ukranian coal mine, deaths are down significantly this year over last year's total of 360 fatalities.The death today of a Ukrainian miner who was electrocuted
The caving in of an illegal mine in which five tribals were buried alive at Junagarh on 21 December has exposed the rampant gem-smuggling that takes place in the district. Meanwhile the toll in the
More than 16 years after the Supreme Court set free bonded labourers of Surajkund stone quarries and directed the government to ensure minimum wages and housing for them as well, they are still
Around 50,000 Kol tribals of Shankargarh, engaged in quarrying of Silica sand and stones, have threatened to capture the land of the erstwhile Raja of Shankargarh and start working from January 1,
Although coal-mining fatalities have decreased in India this year, government officials are still concerned that more should be done to curb mining accidents. Some 76 fatalities occurred between
The Haryana Government has turned a blind eye to the plundering of its mineral wealth on a massive scale, ostensibly under political patronage, in Faridabad and Gurgaon districts. The illegal mining
Kirthar-one of the first parks in Pakistan designated mainly for ecosystem preservation by United Nations, appears to be facing extinction itself owing to proposed mining exploration in the area.
Parliament on Monday decentralised authority on mining of minerals, devolving to state governments some powers in this regard. The Rajya Sabha approved, as a sequel to the Lok Sabha doing so last
