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 …
China, one of the world's largest coal producers, is to close some 22,000 mines by 2000 in a bold move to restructure an industry hit by chronic oversupply nad weakening demand. The plan, reported by the official media yesterday, provides a disturbing insight into the extent of China's economic slowdown.Coal …
Aboriginal groups and environmentalists are planning protests across Australia after failing to block the development of auranium mine on traditional Aboriginal land in the Northern Territory. Australia's federal court ruled last week that the territory's government had the right to grant a mining lease at Jabiluka, which lies inside a …
China, one of the world's largest coal producers, is to close some 22,000 mines by 2000 in a bold move to restructure an industry hit by chornic oversupply and weakening demand.
Aboriginal groups and environmentalists are planning protests across Australia after failing to block the development of a uranium mine on traditional Aboriginal land in the Northern territory.
The Delhi High Court today upheld the transfer of a portion of the Bailadila mines (11-B) to a private party -- the Bailadila Mineral Development Company Limited in which the Mittal group holds 89% stake -- for development and dismissed a public interest litigation challenging the transfer.
The decks have been cleared for a collaboration between a Chinese outfit and the Kerala State Electricity Board for the setting up of small hydro power stations in this state. The Hangzhou International Centre on Small Hydro Power of China will collaborate with KSEB in setting up 18 small hydro …
Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd. (MCL), one of the beneficiary subsidiaries of Coal India Ltd. of the World Bank loan, has to take up an environment and social mitigation plan (ESMP) in right earnest for the affected villages, as also the villages lying within one km of periphery of the mines which …
After a delay of over a year, the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MEF) has given its nod to five mining projects in Rajasthan involving diversion of a total of 1503.42 hectares of forest land. The largest of the projects is promoted by ACC Cement Works and involves diversion of …
The Minister of State for Home, Mr. R. Roshan Baig, ruled out the opening of quarries in the Kollegal and adjoining areas in Karnataka as gelatine sticks and other explosives, likely to be used, might go to Veerappan, the forest brigand. Mr. Baig told presspersons that the Director General and …
The Tarun Bharat Sangh was formed in Jaipur in 1975. The members came to Bheekampura in 1985 and surveyed the region for two years. It was then that they decided to undertake watershed development in the nearby villages. The organisation has since come a long way, involving itself in many …
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) offices in South Korea have extended their helping hands in transfer of agricultural equipment from to North Korea. Severe drought and tidal waves have destroyed a major part of the country's crops this year, including 70 per cent of the maize crop. The equipment …
listening to climate change talk in the us and in Europe, I wonder whether we all are living on the same planet. Several European governments have detailed plans for cutting down their use of fossil fuels (hence emissions of the greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide) by 15 to 20 per cent …
The Kullu valley faces serious ecological degradation because of large-scale, unscientific and illegal mining and quarrying. Despite the deployment of field guards to check this by the Department of Industries, illegal quarrying is on the rise. This had resulted in devastating flash floods in the valley.
Encouraged by the successful application of geotextiles in rehabilitation of mine-spoil areas of Dehra Dun, the Himachal Pollution Control Board has launched a pilot project for the treatment of hill slopes degraded by unscientific limestone mining in Sirmaur district.
Commercial vehicle owners have called a strike tomorrow against the ban on vehicles older than 15 years. The ban is applicable from 2 October and the strike call is for the owners of such vehicles.
The cabinet in Thailand approved an Agriculture Ministry proposal yesterday to allow mining on seven plots in a national park and forest reserves for 10 years. In granting its approval, the cabinet pointed out that the approval was not for new mining concessions. It said the companies and individuals who …
Significant gold deposits have been discovered in the Singhbhum region of Bihar by the Geological Survey of India (GSI), according to the Deputy Director General (operations), eastern region, Mr. R. N. Ghosh.
Tensions are rising in Venezuela's Amazon rain forests, where Indians and environmentalists are clashing with mining companies and government officials who want to exploit some of the richest gold deposits in Latin America and build towns and tourist hotels in the wilderness.
The government is on the verge of a further dose of the liberalisation in the mining sector, with Union Minister for Mines Naveen Patnaik clearing a reform package, which includes deletion of limestone from Part C of Schedule 1 of the Mines and Minerals (Regulation and Development) Act (MMRD), and …
