Nearly one thousand hectares of forest land in Chhattisgarh's Raigarh may be diverted for two coal mining projects. The Pelma ...

On a moonless night in central India, Pannelal Rajak braces an axe on his shoulder and sweeps a high beam torch across the still, inky water of a lake. Rajak points in the distance to where the light ...

Fast-track panel members are expected to make a decision on a proposed open-cast mine near Cromwell by late October, while Kā Rūnaka has signalled that granting approvals could be in breach of Treaty ...

The reclamation, rehabilitation and restoration work of a mined area involves returning the mined-out land to a useful form but it is not always a single-phase work.

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Shylla argued that the standard open-cast mining methods mandated by central guidelines are geologically unfeasible for the district, where coal seams are only three to six feet deep. She stated that ...