PUNE: The district administration has appointed 13 squads, one for each taluka, to keep a check on illegal extraction of sand from rivers and its transportation following a rise in the number of ca

BHUBANESWAR: Governor S C Jamir on Wednesday took stock of the steps the state government has taken since the April 18 Supreme Court order on proposed mining in Niyamgiri hills, official sources sa

PANJIM: Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has said that the State had sought a compensation package as well as directions to banks to waive off interest and a moratorium on repayments in a letter to

The Supreme Court-appointed Central Empowered Committee (CEC) on Tuesday ruled out allowing export of iron ore pellets from Karnataka-based miners.

The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) made a scathing attack against the Supreme Court's Centrally Empowered Committee (CEC) for letting off the most corrupt without any or little punishment

In a bid to track its wildlife and hunt down poachers, Russia is all set to test unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) at a nature reserve on the country's Pacific coast this summer.

JOWAI: With an aim of spreading the message to the younger generation and to the people residing in the mineral rich, East Jaintia Hills District that water is a finite source, a day long mass awa

Following the Supreme Court judgment over bauxite mining in Niyamgiri hills in Orissa last month, Union tribal affairs minister V Kishore Chandra Deo has written to Governor SC Jamir to invoke his

Padayatra will cover many villages in Kalahandi and Rayagada districts before culminating at Muniguda on May 22.

Allows Mining In Country’s Best Sal Forest, Elephant Reserve In Jharkhand

New Delhi: The environment ministry’s statutory expert panel, the Forest Advisory Committee (FAC), has bypassed its rules and earlier orders to clear iron mining projects by three private firms in the country’s best sal forest and the core zone of the elephant reserve in the Saranda forest division of Jharkhand.