New Delhi, Aug. 5 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday held that no mining activity will be permitted within a 10-kilometre radius of a wetland conservation reserve in Himachal Pradesh without prior permission of the Union government. The court further directed the Ministry of Environment Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) or the Standing Committee of National Board of Wildlife (SC-NBWL) to inform it within a month about the existence of wetland conservation reserves in the state. In February 2024, the top court imposed the 10-kilometre radius ban on mining in the context of Asan wetland, a Ramsar site, situated in Uttarakhand. P6...