The Meghalaya cabinet on Tuesday approved the guidelines of the Meghalaya Environment Protection and Restoration Fund (MEPRF) to use it for land reclamation in areas affected by coal mining.“The gui...

The coal ministry has streamlined the process of preparing a mining plan and its approval for faster clearances. Efforts are also on to make the application process online.The rejig, which will cut th...

The government has set a minimum 4 per cent revenue share as the floor price for the commercial coal mining auction process. The first round of the auction will be held in the current fiscal.A company...

The Assam forest department has for the first time detected encroachment using drones.The drones, which were put into use in Cachar forest division, had detected encroachment across five hectares of f...

Congress MP Pradyut Bordoloi demanded in Parliament on Tuesday that the Centre send an inter-ministerial fact-finding team to probe “largescale illegal coal mining” in Upper Assam.Bordoloi, who ha...

The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) officials on Wednesday arrested a clerk at Dumka district education office (DEO), Iftekar, for taking a bribe of Rs 1 lakh from Ajay Kumar Dubey, the director of Weste...

The Supreme Court on Friday allowed transportation of 75,050 metric tonnes of coal from Meghalaya for 15 days beginning May 17 but asked the state government to ensure that no other coal should be tra...

The mining industry must be sensitive to damage to the environment and communities, specially tribals, that live in mining zones, governor Droupadi Murmu said on Friday. She was speaking as the chief ...

The government will end its monopoly in mining and open a range of other sectors including aerospace, defence, power and atomic energy to private players as part of its Rs 20-lakh-crore effort to give...

Gauhati High Court on Thursday issued notices to Coal India Ltd and the Assam government to respond by July 14 on the protection of the Dehing Patkai biodiversity hotspot from alleged illegal mining, ...