New Delhi: The Supreme Court-appointed Central Empowered Committee (CEC) has stated in its additional report filed last week that it will treat the entire Aravalli range area as a prohibited zone for mining, barring specific locations, to ensure their environmental sustainability.

R. Sedhuraman
Legal Correspondent
New Delhi, January 16

Rejecting the plea of miners in the Aravalli ranges for immediate relief, the Supreme Court today asked the Haryana and Rajasthan governments and the mine owners to file their response to the Central Empowered Committee's (CEC) report recommending a blanket ban on mining in the hills.

Karnataka gets ready to divert river water while petitions pile KARNATAKA has finished digging a canal for diverting water from a tributary of Goa

ALAPPUZHA: A get-together of environmentalists, representatives of various science and technology institutions and non-governmental organisations here on Monday has passed a resolution demanding the government to appoint a credible national agency to prepare a study report on the Pampa-Achencoil-Vaipar Link Project.

Asifa Amin Koul
SRINAGAR, Jan 8: In order to protect the highly endangered spirally horned,
Markhor, a bearded goat found in Jammu and Kashmir, the state government is awaiting nod from the Supreme Court to utilize the funds for the Markhor conservation plan.
An amount of Rs 17.3 crores to be used for the proposed project is the