The proposed Deocha-Pachami coal mine in West Bengal’s Birbhum could be the world’s second-largest coal mine but the local indigenous and lower caste population is protesting the mine for the impact it will have on the environment and on their rights over land.
The Ministry of Heritage and Tourism (MHT), in cooperation with a Japanese mission from the Institute of Human Sciences in Kyoto, has documented an ancient city dating back 5,000 years in the wilayat of Nizwa in Dakliyah governorate.