Dehradun: Uttarakhand high court on Wednesday extended the ban on soapstone mining in Bageshwar district and constituted a high-powered expert committee, headed by district mining officer Nazia Hasan, ...

Soapstone mines once supplied material used in homes, industry, and everyday tools, but many were abandoned and sealed away ...

Dehradun: Uttarakhand high court has taken suo motu cognisance of news reports regarding cracks that have appeared at many places in several villages of Kanda tehsil in Bageshwar district due to ...

Cracks similar to those in Joshimath have appeared on the walls and ceilings of houses in more than two dozen villages of Bageshwar district in Uttarakhand's Kumaon region, sending residents in a ...

Mining work is suspended during the rainy season and owners of the mines have to fill the pits after mining soapstone by the end of June. This year, some pits have been left unfilled after digging ...

The exploration projects of coal and soapstone mining have been hit by another snag as the office of the Accountant General of Pakistan Revenue (AGPR) raised objections over the operation of the ...

VD Satheesan slams Kerala govt over CPI(M) leader Padmakumar's 14-day judicial custody in Sabarimala gold theft case ...

The government with the collaboration of Pakistan Mineral Development Corporation (PMDC) will launch Soapstone Mining Project (SMP) in Fata to fully exploit the rich minerals potential in tribal areas ...

NAINITAL: (Jan 1) A committee that will look into cracks that have developed in villages of Bageshwar district, allegedly due to illegal soapstone mining, has been formed on the directions of the ...

India's Himalayan Uttarakhand state is a main source for this globally in-demand commodity. But its extraction is exerting a heavy toll on local communities and the environment. Disputed Philippines ...

Many people have been employed in Tabaka as soapstone miners. This economic activity has greatly transformed the lives of the residents of Kisii County.

"Regions of Kapkot and Kanda blocks have the maximum number of mines and, due to mining activities nearby, the villages suffer from sliding and cracks in houses almost every monsoon," said Chandra ...