Serious differences have emerged between the Centre and Telangana Government over uranium explorations in the Amrabad Tiger Reserve, spread across Mahbubnagar and Nalgonda districts in southern part of the state. The state Forest Department has said it will not allow any exploration that interferes with the natural habitat of the …
SHILLONG, Oct 8: Amidst the growing tension and protest on the contentious issue of uranium mining and the pre-project development activities, Meghalaya Governor RS Mooshahary sought to set at rest speculations and apprehensions in the minds of some sections of the people and NGOs regarding mining of the radio-active mineral. …
Deploring anti-uranium mining groups in the State, Meghalaya Governor RS Mooshahary today said there were sections opposing the mining project due to misunderstanding and spreading misinformation on the issue.
The Khasi Students Union (KSU) president, Samuel Jyrwa, along with a 15-member delegation of the Union reached New Delhi on Friday for their meeting with the National Alliance of Anti-nuclear Movement (NAAM). The assistant Education secretary of the Union, Lambor Starwell Marngar, while speaking to NNN on Friday evening from …
Iran agreed in talks with the United States and other major powers to open its newly revealed uranium enrichment plant near Qom to international inspection in the next two weeks and to send most of its openly declared enriched uranium to Russia to be turned into fuel for a small …
Unknown to the people of Meghalaya, the 130-day old Congress-led Meghalaya United Alliance (MUA) government was, at its inception, given a clear direction by the Congress High Command and the UPA government at the Centre that the contentious issue of uranium mining has to be sorted out sooner than later. …
ON AUGUST 24, the Meghalaya government decided to hand over a large parcel of land in West Khasi Hills to the Uranium Corporation of India Limited. Citizens
Venezuela has yet to develop a plan to explore or exploit its uranium deposits despite comments by a government official saying it was working with Iran to locate them, Venezuela's energy minister told Reuters. On Friday, Mining Minister Rodolfo Sanz said Iran and Venezuela were working together to find uranium, …
SHILLONG, Sept 23: After getting first-hand information on the condition of the people living in and around villages of the uranium mining areas of Jaduguda, Nongkrem MLA Ardent Basaiawmoit today said mining of the ore is a national interest but it has adverse effects on the life of the people. …
How Canada's mining industry has changed since 1997's big scandal There was a time when the annual convention of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada drew a crowd of rough characters from Canada's northern bush intent on whooping it up in the big city and telling tall tales to …
Leasing of land to UCIL SHILLONG: Protesting the leasing of land to the Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL), KSU staged a sit-in demonstration in front in city on Tuesday. Last month the Congress-led MUA government approved to lease out 422 hectare of land for 30 years to UCIL for …
Despite Protests, Meghalaya Says People In Favour Of Extraction As protests gather pitch against uranium mining in Khasi Hills, with a students body taking the lead, Meghalaya government has assured the Centre that people were in favour of the project and the state would be able to clinch pre-mining development …
Uranium mining By Lamphrang Nongspung JADUGODA: Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) started uranium mining operations in Jadugoda in the early 60s, but what is distressing to note is the stark poverty surrounding the area and the lack of basic infrastructure, leave alone modern amenities. This indicates that UCIL has …
By Lamphrang Nongspung Jadugoda: The Adivasi tribals living close to the uranium mining sites in Jadugoda, Jharkhand are facing a serious threat of being wiped out as a large number afflicted with various kinds of strange ailments and abnormal health conditions. This shocking fact was unearthed by a team of …
