In 2019, the illegal wildlife trade reached staggering levels. Pangolin scales and ivory were being trafficked in massive quantities from Africa to Asia, exposing a network of crime syndicates operating at an industrial scale. The sheer volume of these shipments marked a disturbing milestone, one that revealed the global reach …
A Bangalore court Friday remanded former Karnataka minister G Janardhan Reddy in CBI custody for 10 days, instead of the 15 days the agency had asked for, in connection with an illegal mining case in Karnataka. Hours before the court was to decide on Reddy’s remand, his key aide Mahfouz …
The Supreme Court has ruled that the States/Union Territories can grant and renewal of leases for mining of minor minerals for an area of less than five hectares only after getting environmental clearance from the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF). The court took note of the MoEF report which …
The police has registered a case against former chief of Bihar BJP Gopal Narayan Singh for illegal mining in the forest areas of Rohtas district. Singh has been charged with illegitimate quarrying and under various sections of the Explosives Act as the police recovered a large quantity of explosives and …
Repeated court orders fail to save part of the primitive mountain range in Alwar from mining Call it sheer callousness of the Rajasthan government or connivance between administrative officials and mining mafia, two hills of the primitive Aravalli mountain range have been literally razed to the ground and beyond within …
With India’s apex court set to announce its final verdict anytime on the fate of illegal iron ore mines in Karnataka, the country’s largest iron ore producer NMDC is eying a major opportunity in the ‘illegal’ mines. The Supreme Court’s panel for forest issues, The Central Empowered Committee, submitted its …
Public sector miner NMDC Limited has got an unforeseen domestic opportunity, especially in Karnataka, in the light of the final report on illegal iron ore mining submitted by the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) to the Supreme Court early this month. The CEC has classified the over 150 mines in Karnataka, …
The State government has constituted a committee to look into illegal mining activities in Ramanagara district, Forest Minister C P Yogeeshwara said on Tuesday. Anil Kumble, vice chairperson of State Wildlife Board and Minister C P Yogeeshwara release the poster on forest fires in Bangalore on Monday. After releasing the …
On many occasions, district officials could not act on these illegal activities Exploitation of natural resources like granite, blue metal and sand from the rivers, has been going on in the district during the last decade. On many occasions, district officials could not act on these illegal activities due to …
The Sri Lankan government has taken steps to auction a land that has recently caught attention due to a massive gem deposit found in it. The land situated in Thammennawa in Kataragama Pradeshiya Sabha area of the Uva Province became a sudden hot spot as gems were found from soil …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has been urged to lift the ban on road transport of minerals. Antarastriya Manavadhikar Association, a Keonjhar-based organisation fighting for the common cause of the people, has made the plea. ‘’The Government decision has created a great deal of discontent among the public, particularly those families …
Poachers have killed more than 200 elephants in Cameroon in just six weeks, in a "massacre" fuelled by Asian demand for ivory. A local government official said heavily armed poachers from Chad and Sudan had decimated the elephant population of Bouba Ndjida National Park in Cameroon's far north in a …
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Environment, Wajid Ali Khan, said that the provincial government has constituted a ministerial committee for compiling recommendations regarding forests. He was replying to a question regarding illegal cuttings of forests and registration of cases in provincial assembly. The question was asked by Mufti Kifayatullah of JUI-F. The …
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa environment minister Wajid Ali Khan on Friday said 32,450 people had been booked in the province over the last five years for illegally cutting trees. In reply to a query of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl member Mufti Kifayatullah, the environment minister told the provincial assembly that the forest department had …
The Bokaro deputy commissioner has ordered the heads of mining companies and the district administrative and police brass to fill up abandoned and illegal mines in the coal belt following two incidents of cave-ins that killed seven women last week. In a letter sent on Tuesday from his confidential section …
New Delhi India is weighing plans to route sales of iron ore through a firm, the latest of several steps aimed at curbing illegal mining as the country struggles to shape a lasting policy balancing exports against the conservation of resources. At stake is how the world’s third-biggest supplier will …
As coal shortage remains a persistent issue for industry, a Working Group headed by then Steel Secretary PK Misra says that Government should deregulate coal sector and allow commercial mining to bring in competition and thereby improve efficiency. The Group, which has other 46 members from ministries including Coal and …
Bangladesh and other South Asian countries will jointly implement a project for endangered wildlife conservation by preventing illegal trade of wild animals and ensuring better management. The five-year “Strengthening Regional Cooperation for Wildlife Protection in Asia Project” was launched at Hotel Sonargaon in Dhaka yesterday. Bangladesh is the first to …
They say national parks are national treasures. However, that seems to be forgotten in Islamabad, where tree cutting has become unprecedented, uncontrolled and free for all in the Margalla Hills National Park. “First, it was the residents in the villages but now all of Islamabad is helping themselves to woods,” …
The Punjab and Haryana High Court today slammed the police and others for their failure to stop illegal mining in Haryana. The court asked the Home Secretary to step in to stop rampant exploitation of mineral wealth. The directions by Justice Ranjit Singh came on a bunch of related petitions …
State food and supplies minister Jyotipriya Mullick today said the substandard iron-ore supplied in the Rs 139-crore scam in the state-owned Essential Commodities Supply Corporation in connection with which two of the state's top IAS officials have been arrested had been kept in godowns owned by the former Haldia strongman …
