Several hundred Shuar Indians wearing black war paint and toting wooden spears on Thursday reinforced a highway blockade that police failed to break up earlier in a...

Teresita Lopez is in hiding. “Somewhere in the Amazon” is as much as she is willing to reveal about her current location now she has been placed on the...

As I stand inside, helmet on head, shoulder to shoulder with a group of slightly nervous strangers, the refrain of a Merle Travis song keeps running through my head:...

Australia’s trade minister said the Philippines could take advantage of the newly minted ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement, which promises seamless...

Climate change and irresponsible mining in the country could prove to be a deadly combination in coming years, members of a legal policy research and advocacy...

The luminescent marble of the Taj Mahal is said to have come from Makhrana, a quaint mining town in the state of Rajasthan. But though Makhrana marble can compete with...

Despite the April 2005 Supreme Court order to close the illegal mining in Aravali Hills in Rajashthan, as many as 52 mines are continuously functioning in the region....

The World Bank has offered to engage itself in the development endeavour of Jharkhand. A recent World Bank report ‘Jharkhand Addressing the Challenges of...