'We are facing a crackdown for more than a year. Our permission to collect funds was cancelled. Our bank accounts were frozen.' 'We believe that our work in India is very important. We want to be......
'How can protecting our forests be described as anti-national and promoting the economic interests of a company like Essar Energy with its head office registered in London be called as having......
'No private citizen can be prevented from holding or propagating in India or abroad, a view contrary to that of the government of the day.' 'The government, it seems is misreading the mandate in......
A Greenpeace India member was barred from boarding a flight to London on Sunday. Senior campaigner Priya Pillai has claimed she had a valid business visa to travel to the United Kingdom, but Delhi......
'The villagers had travelled all the way to Mumbai to reach out to the high and mighty in Essar. These people stand to lose their livelihoods and homes to a coal mine allocated to Mahan Coal Ltd --......
All the energy is spent on blocking projects - so once they are cleared, the mission is lost, notes Sunita Narain. Image: A man swims in the polluted waters of river Yamuna in New Delhi.......
In the ongoing coal auction, Hindalco has aggressively bid for mines and has already bagged 4 in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh Aditya Birla group’s metals major, Hindalco is one of the accused......
Former Union environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan tells Nitin Sethi that she had an unpopular job but she never did anything wrong. Excerpts: Image: Villagers walk towards the Mahan forest......
The government will now auction 23 mines, instead of 24 The coal ministry will not put on offer Mahan coal block in Madhya Pradesh in the upcoming coal mine auction as the project is yet to get......
The speed with which the government announced the draft guidelines on coal allocations has been impressive. By introducing the end-use clause for applicants for Schedule II (42 operational coal......