River sand seized
A special squad of the police department seized huge quantities of sand which were stocked at various places in the Varapuzha police station limits in Kerala. The police team, led by Probationary
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Sand quarrying system is transparent: court
The validity of the present system of appointing loading contractors for handling sand quarried by the Public Works Department has been upheld by the Madras High Court, which ruled "the system is
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Greens up in arms against Koorumala project
The Koorumala in Elanji panchayat in Kerala, where a project for manufacturing sand from granite is coming up, has become a symbol of resistance for the Geens who have been agitating against the
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Unauthorised lifting of sand from Sitalakkya at Kapasia
A group of sand traders has been running unhindered business by stealing sand worth lakhs of Taka from 'Sitalakkya' river flowing through Kapasia upazila of Gazipur district (Bangladesh) and the
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Eco-balance crumbling like sand structure
The sand on Hemavathi riverbed in Holenarasipura in hassan district of Karnataka, is being systematically stripped by persons who do not care that they are disturbing the ecological balance by
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Arable lands vanish fast over people's greed
Without caring at all for the government permission or maintaining environment codes, people are lifting rocks from vast patches of cultivable land in Panchagarh and some parts of Lalmonirhat and Nilphamari. Once arable, the pieces of land in the neighbourhoods of Tentulia turn uncultivable as the rock-lifters, who don't pay the government any revenue, abandon those. After extracting every available piece of rock, the lifters find it too expensive to fill up the pits, which contain only sand and oozing water and lie unused for years.
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Locals allege illegal sand extraction in Pernem
Residents of Haldankarwada-Porascadem have voiced concern over sand extraction in Parascodem-Pernem, Goa, which has resulted in rapid soil extraction. At a recent meeting, the villagers expressed
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Stop mining at Gundaru river, says Jayalalithaa
AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday demanded that the sand quarry across Gundaru river in Tiruchuzhi taluk in Virudhunagar district should be closed down immediately as all norms for quarrying had been violated there affecting the ground water table in the area, besides causing serious and horrible drinking water scarcity. AIADMK cadre will stage a demonstration in front of Tiruchuzhi taluk office on May 29 protesting the mindless sand quarrying which had been going on across Gundaru, Jayalalithaa said in a statement here.
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Sand mafia digs, civic body covers up!
Dumping of hundreds of tonnes of garbage in the Bhangi choe by the civic body authorities and alleged illegal mining of sand from the choe bed and even from adjoining fields for years together has
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Beach minerals to be scrapped from prescribed substance list
The government is preparing to remove some beach sand minerals from the list of prescribed substances to help create an indigenous titanium industry. The minerals that would be delisted are ilmenite,
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Illegal sand-stone mining curbed
The Madhya Pradesh government has informed the Centre that no illegal sand-stone mining activities were going on in the forest areas of Shivpuri and other districts of the state.It was stated in the
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Sand merchants choking Kerala's river of life
The "river of life" Periyar is dying a slow death. With over 437,000 tonnes of its sand being mined and sold every day, Periyar has sunk by 12 feet during the last seven years. Today, the river bed
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Plea to prevent sand quarrying at Nambiar
PWD Minister O Pannerselvam promised to take action to prevent sand quarrying in Nambiar in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. Responding to independent member C Appavu, who said the sand quarrying
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With the southwestern monsoon arriving in full force, reports from coastal towns along the 160-km stretch from Colombo to Matara indicate that sea erosion has begun taking its seasonal heavy
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Mining within 1 km of major bridges banned
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court today imposed a total prohibition on the mining of sand within one kilometre upstream and downstream of all the bridges across the Muvattupuzha, Pamba,
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Court upholds present system of sand quarrying
The Madras High Court has upheld the present system of quarrying sand from riverbeds and loading them to lorry owners by the private contractors appointed by the government."The present system had
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Sand accumulation to make Madaveli harbor unusable by next year
Though the harbour of Gaafu Dhaalu atoll's Madaveli island was deepened seven years before, sand accumulation on the sea floor has made the lagoon shallow and the harbour will be unusable by the end
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To rob Yamuna of sand, its course changed
With sand mafia having free run and taking shelter on the UP side, cops are failing to prevent ecological damage
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Make GPS mandatory for sand trucks: Action Committee
Sand Contractors, Sand Boat Owner-Workers and Building Materials Transporters Joint Action Committee is completely in favour of installation of GPS to sand transporting lorries and as a matter of fact, 570 lorry owners have registered themselves in the committee, out of which 500 owners have already paid the advance money to install GPS, informed Joint Action Committee President Mayur Ullal. Sp
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State may face shortage of sand, stones
Yamunanagar: People of the state are likely to face a shortage of sand, grit and stones for the next two months as the district administration has ordered the closure of mining in Yamuna and seasonal rivulets and work at 250 stone crushers has also come to a halt in the district.