Two SDRF teams, three NDRF teams, a special rescue team, along with BSF, Army and IAF personnel are on standby to airlift workers from the site where an explosion occurred Thursday.
Court rulings, inspections and bans have come and gone. In Rajasthan’s Aravallis, villagers say illegal mining continues unchecked and emboldened. They have one hope – Kailash Meena.
Aravalli Hills exhibit ecological fragility & include significant biodiversity, act as green barrier against degradation of land in Indo-Gangetic plains, Haryana & UP, notes court.
Bench bans grant of minor mineral mining licenses on learning that instead of implementing HC's 2024 order to notify PESA rules, the state was in a hurry to auction the mines.
The country must explore and extract more copper, as large resources and reserves lie unexplored and hence not mined, says Centre for Social and Economic Progress
India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.
Mines ministry is fine-tuning modalities to auction nine tailing dumps at Karnataka’s Kolar Gold Fields. Worth of minerals in dumps estimated at Rs 25,000-30,000 crore.
For residents of the tribal belt, the issue isn’t just legal—it’s existential. 'KP risks becoming a resource colony—stripped, polluted, and excluded,' a KP resident told ThePrint.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
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