The Supreme Court on Friday rejected the plea of private miners to lift its ban on mining in Bellary district of Karnataka saying the ‘profit was not important but the balancing of the right of clean

The Supreme Court today suspended with immediate effect the mining of iron ore in 10,868 hectares in Bellary district of Karnataka.

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On a regular school day, four-year-old Kush Bhattacharya can leave his mathematics class to run barefoot on grass, hide from his friends in a cave made of cow dung and return to recite nursery rhymes

On a regular school day, four-year-old Kush Bhattacharya can leave his mathematics class to run barefoot on grass, hide from his friends in a cave made of cow dung and return to recite nursery rhymes

Here's a note of caution for all those tourists who head to Goa annually for a bit of sun and a splash in the sea - marine scientists have said the waters off the state's coast contain alarmingly high

Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh has more than once declared his resolve to have 30% forest cover in the country but the big question is whether he is fighting a losing battle against the prop

A female leopard rescued two of her cubs from a forest department cage in Sinnar taluka of the district even as the third one was left injured in the attempt, official sources said today.

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New Delhi: Eighteen per cent of water supplied by the Delhi Jal Board is unfit for drinking and every fifth person in the city is consuming contaminated water, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi's Pub

Thiruvananthapuram: Union Minister Jairam Ramesh today expressed reservations over the proposal to construct a cricket stadium at Edakochi, a mangrove-rich area near Kochi.

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The BJP on Tuesday slammed the UPA government at the Centre for according conditional clearance to Posco project in Orissa and demanded that a CBI probe should be ordered into the matter.