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 …
The Kerala High Court has vacated its stay on sand mining on the banks of river Bharatapuzha and directed District Collectors concerned to ensure implementation of an expert committee's recommendations, which had been accepted by the Government.
The Supreme Court appointed the District Magistrate of Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh as Commissioner of the Court and Receiver for 500 illegal mining sites. These sites are operated by retired IAS officer Manavender Bahadur Singh on the state's border with Madhya Pradesh.
concerns that burning of fossil fuels could increase levels of co 2 in the atmosphere leading to climate change has caused wrangling among the world's politicians, scientists and environmentalists for years. But it has seldom been regarded as a business opportunity. Now, three enterprises in the uk are promoting "carbon …
How do squirrels know where they buried their nuts, and bees successfully return to their hives? Alan Kamil and Juli Jones at the University of Nebraska, USA, say that some animals possess internal representations of the geometric relationships between geographical features
According to a report of the UN, the HIV epidemic is far worse than previously thought. The report released by the joint UN programme on HIV/AIDS paints a grim picture of the spread of the HIV epidemic, particularly in such hard-hit developing regions as sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America …
The Kerala High Court vacated its interim order staying the orders of the District Collectors of Palakkad, Thrissur and Malappuram allowing the contractors to mine sand from the Bharathapuzha.
In a significant breakthrough, the Geological Survey of India (GSI) has discovered two kimberlite bodies, primary source rocks for diamond, at Pillalapalle, about 10 km from Kayandurg town in Ananthapur district of Andhra Pradesh.
The committee on delegating powers to state governments to grant mining licences today sunmitted its report to Union steel minister Birendra Prasad Baishya.
Today environmental pollution has assumed serious proportions and become a big problem because the built-in balance has been disturbed by the industrialization and the philosophy of conquest of nature through exploration and exploitation of natural resources by man to the advantage of mankind. This report contains the Environmental status of …
Environmentalists have protested against any prospecting operation to be carried on by the public sector Kudramukh Iron Ore Company in the Karnataka National Park area. They have petitioned Karnataka high court and are taking up the matter with the Union environment and forests ministry urging them to issue directions to …
Delhi becomes the first city in the country to exclusively run its vehicles on unleaded petrol from Tuesday. But almost all of the city's 289 petrol pumps have started vending unleaded petrol, even before the September 1 deadline.Petrol with a lead content has been completely wiped out from the market …
The findings of a study team, comprising zoologists led by Takeo Kawamachi of Osaka City University and commissioned by Japan's Mammalogical Society, say that half of Japan's mammals face the threat of extinction. The results also say that the government's official assessment has underestimated the country's wildlife crisis. The team …
technologies used for digital watches and alarm clocks could be further developed to reduce the cost and power consumption of computer displays and to fabricate flat televisions. These televisions can be hung on a wall. A new type of light-emitting diode ( led ) being developed in the us could …
The United Nations Development Prog-ramme (UNDP) has allocated US $100,000 to Vietnam to support the relief efforts for the typhoon-stricken areas in that country. Typhoon Linda which hit the southern tip of Vietnam has so far claimed 86 lives and has destroyed nearly 6,000 houses and flooded around 450,000 hectares …
Leader of the opposition in the state (Gujarat) assembly Amarsingh Chaudhary has opposed a World Bank-sponsored water commission which is to visit Delhi and Bhopal in the third week of September apparently to assess the viability of big dams like the one on the Narmada.
Boliden, the Canadian-Swedish mining company, said 95 per cent of the material that escaped from a waste dam at its Los Frailes lead-zinc mine near Seville in Spain had been cleaned up and mining would restart next month.
The Union ministries of mines and coal are collaborating with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) to host the fifth International Mining and Machinery Exhibition (IMME'98) which will be held in New Delhi and which will be 50 percent larger than the last event in 1996 . The exhibition will …
The mineral projects proposed to come up in Kutch district of Gujarat are stuck as they are yet to get wildlife sanctuary clearances. The lignite, bauxite, bentonite and china clay deposits prospected by the department have not been acquired for mineral concession due to this constraint, according to Gujarat's additional …
India and South Africa have identified six projects relating to geology and mining technology for mutual cooperation.A protocol in this regard was signed during the visit of the Steel and Mines Minister, Mr Naveen Patnaik, to that country.
With very little fanfare, the White House recently released a three-paragraph statement announcing the formal transfer of the New World Mine Site to the United States Forest Service. Thus ended, officially and happily, a four-year struggle to prevent a Canadian mining company and its American subsidiary from building an environmentally …
