People’s BRICS Delhi Declaration

As India hosts the BRICS Summit in 2026, we, the people of one of BRICS’s founding countries, call on BRICS members to forge a development model based on solidarity, dignity, participatory democracy, and respect...

Read more August 28, 2026 at 7:16 pm CFA

As India Chases Energy Growth, Korba’s Residents Are Left to Bear the Cost

In January 2026, Lakhan Patel, a rural labourer from Raki village in Korba District of Chhattisgarh, was walking along the Hardi Bazaar–Raki road when a stone fragment from blasting inside the Dipka mine struck...

Read more August 18, 2026 at 7:04 pm Hari Raghunath

Midnight raids and mining rights: Odisha tribes take on Vedanta again

Tribal communities in Odisha’s Rayagada district are locked in an intensifying confrontation with mining giant Vedanta Limited over a proposed bauxite extraction project in the Sijimali hills — a conflict that erupted into violence...

Read more May 13, 2026 at 11:42 am Deepmala Patel

Mining without limits: Why removing mining lease ‘area limits’ is a bad idea

The removal of area limits risks further entrenching a model of extraction that prioritises profits over people and accelerated extraction over ecological sustainability. A revision in India’s mining law is on the cards, with...

Read more March 9, 2026 at 1:34 pm Rohit Patwardhan

संविधान बनाम खनन: पचामा दादर में पर्यावरणीय न्याय की परीक्षा

संविधान बनाम खनन: पचामा दादर में पर्यावरणीय न्याय की परीक्षा मध्यप्रदेश के जिला बालाघाट स्थित पचामा दादर बॉक्साइट ब्लॉक की नीलामी प्रक्रिया वर्ष 2023 में प्रारंभ की गई थी। प्रस्तावित बाॅक्साइट खनन परियोजना हेतु...

Read more February 23, 2026 at 4:55 pm Raj Kumar Sinha

Undoing Conservation: India’s National Parks Giving Way for Infra Projects – A Compendium of 3 Case Studies on National Parks

India’s burgeoning economic growth in the last two decades, especially in the infrastructure sector, has heavily impacted its forests and protected areas. Not only has there been a diversion of large tracts of forest...

Read more September 14, 2022 at 1:02 pm Nishank

New Mineral Amendment Bill (2020)- Who Bears the Cost of Development?

The mining industry in India has constantly been in the spotlight for violations of many kinds, ranging from environmental degradation to labour violations and cases of child labour.

Read more April 20, 2022 at 4:39 pm Nikita Chatterjee

हवा या हीरा | भाग 4

भौतिकवादी विकास करते - करते आज हम उस मुहाने पर आ गए हैं जहां हमें यह तय करना ही होगा, कि हमें क्या चाहिए? प्रकृति के साथ सहअस्तित्व या पर्यावरण नष्ट करके मानव सभ्यता...

Read more February 24, 2022 at 4:44 pm Ankit Mishra

बक्सवाहा हीरा खनन परियोजना की हकीकत और संभावनाएं | भाग 3

राष्ट्रीय खनिज विकास निगम द्वारा पन्ना में पिछले 60 वर्षों से खनन के बावजूद पन्ना जिले का बेहतर बुनियादी सुविधाओं से दूर होना तथा बक्सवाहा बंदर डायमंड प्रोजेक्ट से ऑस्ट्रेलियाई बहुराष्ट्रीय कंपनी रियो टिंटो...

Read more February 24, 2022 at 4:38 pm Ankit Mishra

रियो टिंटो के समय और उसके पहले का बक्सवाहा क्षेत्र | भाग 2

हीरा खनन के पहले या हम कह सकते कि जब ऑस्ट्रेलिया की बहुराष्ट्रीय कंपनी रियो टिंटो द्वारा बक्सवाहा जंगल परिक्षेत्र में शोध कार्य किया गया तब स्थानीय लोग, जिसमें बहुसंख्यक शोर, कुर्रा व बड़ेला...

Read more February 24, 2022 at 4:31 pm Ankit Mishra

हीरा खनन परियोजना से पन्ना जिले का विकास कहां पहुंचा | भाग 1

बक्सवाहा के जंगल के नीचे हीरे पाए जाने की खोज जबसे रियो टिंटो कंपनी ने की है, तब से बक्सवाहा क्षेत्र के भौतिकवादी विकास और रोजगार के अवसरों की चर्चा जोरों पर है, स्थानीय...

Read more February 24, 2022 at 4:22 pm Ankit Mishra

Forest Act amendment proposes ease of mining, experts cry foul

Six weeks before the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change released a Consultation Paper with several proposals to amendment in the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980, it had sent a letter to Principal Secretaries,...

Read more October 12, 2021 at 1:15 pm CFA

Forest Act amendment proposes ease of mining, experts cry foul

Read more October 12, 2021 at 1:15 pm CFA

Forest Act amendment proposes ease of mining, experts cry foul

Read more October 12, 2021 at 1:14 pm CFA

Warehousing Assets of FCI and DFPB to Realise Rs 28,900 crore

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a pipeline of assets the government is looking to monetise to collect about Rs 6 trillion to partly fund its ambitious infrastructure projects over four years ending 2024-25. The...

Read more September 23, 2021 at 12:06 pm Shivani Dwivedi