Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akhilesh Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. The matter related to illegal mining activites carried out by Jai Maa Chandrika Enterprises, Rajendra Nagar, village Kabari, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The applicant also alleged about illegal sale …
Prospecting licence was approved by the Ministry of Mines in favour of M/s. Phelps Dodge of the U.S., one of the largest global players in copper exploration, mining and processing, for copper and associated minerals in Bihar over an area of 2,472 sq. km.With the grant of prospecting licence yesterday, …
social and economic upheaval in Russia, along with the influx of heroin and other illegal drugs, have led to a rapid increase in the number of drug addicts. This rise is shadowed by a steep increase in the incidence of hiv
The Bombay High Court has stayed Indian Aluminium Company Ltd (Indal) from continuing its bauxite mining operations in the Iderganj reserved forest area near Kolhapur. The company has also been ordered to stop cutting and building a six kilometres feeder road in the mining area. The order has come in …
Scientists at Fraunhofer Safety and Energy Technology, Germany, have devised a method to convert unwanted fuel into gas. The gas can be used to generate electricity and heat. The process uses "fluidised bed gasification' to convert the wood into gas that is cooled and used as engine fuel. Its overall …
The Union ministry of mines is taking stock of the policy on aerial prospecting and so, procedural glitches in the way of investment in mining and mineral related industries.
In utter defiance of the December 1996 Supreme Court order banning all mining activities in forest areas, contractors are continuing limestone mining in the Doon valley in Uttar Pradesh even though their lease-hold period had expired as long back as 1984, the apex court has been told by the Ministry …
The Pakistan government has decided to go ahead with the construction of a controversial 34-year-old dam project despite opposition from two provinces. The World Bank has told the government that funds for the Kalabagh dam would be available if Pakistan resumes construction, which was started way back in 1964 but …
A strip-mining operation is under way in Blair, West Virginia, in which mountain tops are blasted off and the rock and earth are dumped into the valleys. Mountaintop removal is hardly new to the area. Recently however, the debate over strip mining has been reinvigorated by a measure signed into …
The two-month-old United Parliamentary Forum (UPF) Government of Meghalaya is yet to take a stand on the controversial issue of commercial mining of uranium by the Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) at Domasiat in the West Khasi Hill district of the state. Four years of survey and explortation by …
a stretch of barren hilly land is called changar in Himachal Pradesh. Since it lacks irrigation, agriculture on changar is difficult. About 427 sq km land in the basin of the river Beas in Kangra district is changar . It is spread over 99 pancha yats and 570 villages where, …
hard rock mining has resulted in metal contamination and sedimentation of waterways, posing serious health and environmental risks. It has been precipitated by relaxation of laws and regulations by governments hungry for foreign investments. Philip Hocker, president of the Mineral Policy Center ( mpc ), usa , says, "The lust …
bailing out: Reliance Petroproducts (RP), a Reliance Group company, will help fish out Indian Polyfibres Ltd. (IPL), from troubled waters, according to an alliance between the two companies. IPL has already given the nod for the proposal, which will now be referred to the Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction, …
thousands of robotic pikes may soon help reveal why fish are so much more efficient at swimming than they should be. The first free-swimming robotic fish is nearing completion at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( mit ), usa . John Kumph and his colleagues at the department of ocean …
For seven years, dispossessed farmers have been fighting the Mexican government and the biggest mininig company in Mexico for a treasure nestling in the foot hills of the Sierra Madre. Now the farmers say the long battle will have come to an end. Mexicana de Cobre, a subsidiary of the …
The Madhya Pradesh government's rejection of the conditional offers made by De Beers and RTZ-CRA for undertaking exploitation and exploitation of diamond reserves in the state has brought the National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) , which seemed to have lost the race even before it began, back in the fray. …
The Bombay High Court has passed an interim stay order preventing Indal, a prominent aluminium manufacturing company, from carrying out bauxite mining in the Inderganj area of Kolhapur district, which forms part of the Radhanagari wildlife sanctuary.
The Madhya Pradesh government on Monday announced its new granite policy, allowing the mine lease holders to sell more raw granite every year. Making a suo moto statement in the assembly state mineral resources minister Satya Narayan Sharma said now the lease holders could sell 1500 cubic metre raw granite …
