Decoding the Niyamgiri verdict

EV battery recycling can give wings to India’s decarbonisation dreams but faces stiff challenges

Recyclers face double jeopardy of having to depend on global market for buying feedstock as well as for selling final products

CHARGES DENIED

Using waste ore

World Environment Day : How trees can purify wastewater and provide economic benefits

The pollutants in wastewater act as nutrients for the trees and plants and also help yield higher fuel wood biomass

DMF best practices: Keonjhar and Dantewada strengthen livelihoods

From growing fruit, rearing tasar, encouraging millet production to rearing Kadaknath chicken, the two districts are trying to enhance income …

DMF best practices: How Bijapur started a new healthcare model

Mining-affected districts have hired doctors, upgraded hospitals and improved last-mile healthcare access to communities with mining-related …

DMF best practices: These two mining districts ensured drinking water through DMF funds

In Jharkhand’s Ramgarh and UP’s Sonbhadra, drinking water supply has either started  or is about to start

Mining in Jharkhand threatens locals in their own land

Residents of the state’s mining areas are unemployed and are threatened of being jailed when they ask for work

Give priority to those directly affected by mining: Parliamentary Standing Committee

Committee recommends amending PMKKKY guidelines to prioritise directly affected people and strengthening audits of District Mineral Foundation

River flowing through the most polluted Russian city turns red

Russian authorities assume that water has reddened due to chemical waste discharged from the nearby Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant

NGT retains ban on mining in Meghalaya

The state has lost Rs 600 crore in revenues as a result of the ban, says the chief minister

PepsiCo to shell out more for water in Maharashtra

Supreme Court upholds high court decision on higher water charges

Environment ministry stops clearance to mining of beach sand minerals

Move comes after request from mines ministry

Follow Up

Planning Commission set captive mines free for use by steel plants

Captive mines get green light

Minerals Security Partnership: India joins the critical minerals club. Here’s why this is important

India’s inclusion in the partnership will help its transition to clean energy & pave way for other countries to be part of the critical …

DMF best practices: These mining districts have opened creches through DMF funds

Keonjhar and Anuppur seek to address a nutrition gap before children go to the anganwadi centre through the creches

Chhattisgarh may have stopped Bailadila mining, but for how long?

Tribal protestors may have had the first round, but mining giants are sure to put pressure

Centre asks mining companies to contribute to Swachh Bharat Mission projects

With CSR investments likely to boost funding for SBM projects, the DMF must now be used only to address other pressing issues in mining-affected areas

A decade of loot

At more than Rs 65,000 crore, the mining scam in Odisha has surpassed that in Goa and Karnataka. The penalties, however, came too late

Spark in the soot

Conflict kindles among states of India's iron ore belt

Mine owners, loosen purse strings

New mining bill proposes sharing 26 per cent profits with affected people

Digital dispensaries: How district mineral foundations help healthcare in Odisha

Patients in mining-affected districts can connect to far-away doctors via Internet

Chhattisgarh govt revises District Mineral Foundation Trust composition

Despite changes, still no representation of mining-affected people in the body; state needs to consider this